After releasing her worldwide hit “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus has yet another single — effectively, a whole album, actually — for us to play repeatedly. The bop known as “River,” and Cyrus launched a recent new music video for it at midnight to coincide with the debut of her extremely anticipated album. Limitless summer time trip.
Cyrus teased what “River” is all about in a clip for her upcoming live performance particular on Disney+.
“It was a time in my life the place I used to be going by so much emotionally and personally, and I believe all my songs evolve,” she says. “They will begin off as one thing that was an issue, prefer it feels prefer it’s an April storm. It by no means stops raining. After which it began to rain like love.”
She additionally joked about how the tune’s upbeat really feel and Nineteen Eighties vibe can masks its express content material at first. “’River’: typically we simply want a dance ground banger, aka they do not need me to speak concerning the tune being over [redacted]’ she explains earlier than squeaking out.
“It is fucking imply,” Cyrus repeats. “It’s soiled.” Contemplating that, it is a shock that Disney will air the tune. (Her live performance particular, Miley Cyrus – Limitless Summer time Trip (Yard Periods) debuts on Disney+ Fridays at 1 p.m. EST / 10 a.m. PST.) However with traces like “You are similar to a river / You go on ceaselessly” and “You would be the one, have my child’s honor,” one can most likely guess what she alludes to.
Directed by Jacob Bixenman, the accompanying black-and-white visuals are smooth and horny, with Cyrus dancing in a minidress in a crowd of shirtless our bodies within the rain.
Learn the total lyrics to “River” under, courtesy of Genius. The tune was written by Cyrus, Justin Tranter, Thomas Hull and Tyler Johnson and produced by Johnson and Child Harpoon.
[Verse 1]
I purchased a brand new costume to fulfill you on the town
Are you able to stroll me by the park to point out it off?
I can pull my hair again as tight as you need
While you wrap me in your arms and by no means cease[Pre-Chorus]
Coronary heart beats so laborious it drowns me out
Dwelling in an April storm
You crash, child, drown me out (Ooh, ooh, ooh)[Chorus]
You are similar to a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
You are similar to a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
You go on ceaselessly
You might be like a river[Verse 2]
Blowing bubbles within the bathtub, I have been occupied with it currently
You would be the one, have the honour of my infants
I hope they obtained your eyes and that crooked smile
Was a desert earlier than I met you, I used to be in a drought[Pre-Chorus]
Coronary heart beats so laborious it drowns me out
Dwelling in an April storm
You crash, child, drown me out (Ooh, ooh, ooh)[Chorus]
You are similar to a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
You are similar to a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
You go on ceaselessly
You might be like a river[Post-Chorus]
You by no means run dry (Oh)[Bridge]
I really feel you in all places
Your face is all in my hair
Lined in your sweat
It turns me on that you just care, honey
Your love, it flows similar to a river[Chorus]
You are similar to a river (that is what you’re)
You are similar to a river (that is what you’re)
You are similar to a river (that is what you’re)
You might be like a river
You are similar to a river (coronary heart beats so laborious it drowns me)
You might be like a river
You go on ceaselessly (you collapse, child, drown me out)
You might be like a river
Erica Gonzales is the Senior Tradition Editor at ELLE.com, the place she oversees protection throughout TV, motion pictures, music, books and extra. She was beforehand an editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. There is a 75 % likelihood she’s listening to Lorde proper now.