Coughing Up Flowers is based on the fictional Japanese manga and anime concept called ‘Hanahaki Disease’ where one’s lungs fill up with flowers when love is not returned. A teen girl (Trinity Rose from NBC The Voice) has a crush on the school idol (Bryce Xavier from Brat’s Total Eclipse) and tries to talk to him at the library. They seem to like the same books. She tries to get his attention to no avail. She opens with lilac flower images that represent ‘love at first sight’. Eventually the two hang out together and she writes a note asking if he loves her. His answer is a yellow rose – that means ‘friendship’. She is devastated and her lungs keep filling up with flowers throughout the video where she has to cough them up. In the end the heart-breaker feels bad and tries to come back for her. We hope that will stop the flowers from growing inside her. But does she take him? It’s up to the viewer to decide that.

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