After releasing her world hit “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus has one other single—properly, a complete album, actually—for us to play on repeat. The bop is named “River,” and Cyrus dropped a contemporary new music video for it at midnight, coinciding with the debut of her long-awaited album Limitless Summer season Trip.
Cyrus teased what “River” is 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 means of only a lot emotionally and personally, and I suppose all my songs form of evolve,” she says. “They’ll begin as one thing that was a hassle, like, it simply feels prefer it’s an April bathe. It by no means stops raining. After which it began raining down like love.”
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She additionally joked about how the track’s upbeat really feel and ’80s vibe might masks its express content material at first. “’River’: generally we simply want a dance flooring banger, aka they do not need me to speak about the truth that the track is about [redacted],” she explains earlier than getting bleeped out.
“It is fucking nasty,” Cyrus reiterates. “It is nasty.” That thought of, it is a shock Disney can be broadcasting the track. (Her live performance particular, Miley Cyrus – Limitless Summer season Trip (Yard Periods) debuts on Disney+ Friday at 1 pm EST/10 am PST.) However with strains like “You are identical to a river / You go on endlessly” and “You could possibly be the one, have the dignity of my infants,” one might in all probability guess what she’s alluding to.
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Directed by Jacob Bixenman, the accompanying black-and-white visuals are modern and horny, that includes Cyrus dancing in a mini costume in a crowd of shirtless our bodies within the rain.
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Miley Cyrus – River (Official Video)
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Learn the total “River” lyrics under, courtesy of Genius. The track was written by Cyrus, Justin Tranter, Thomas Hull, and Tyler Johnson, and produced by Johnson and Child Harpoon.
[Verse 1]
I received a brand new costume simply to fulfill you downtown
Are you able to stroll me by means of the park simply to indicate it off?
I can pull my hair again in that tight method that you simply like
If you happen to wrap me in your arms and by no means cease
[Pre-Chorus]
Coronary heart beats so loud that it is drownin’ me out
Livin’ in an April bathe
You are pourin’ down, child, drown me out (ooh, ooh, ooh)
[Chorus]
You are identical to a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
You are identical to a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
You go on endlessly
You are identical to a river
[Verse 2]
Blowing bubbles within the tub, I am unable to cease from pondering these days
You could possibly be the one, have the dignity of my infants
Hope they’ve your eyes and that crooked smile
Was a desеrt ‘fore I met you, I used to be in a drought
[Pre-Chorus]
Coronary heart beats so loud that it is drownin’ me out
Livin’ in an April bathe
You are pourin’ down, child, drown me out (ooh, ooh, ooh)
[Chorus]
You are identical to a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
You are identical to a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
You go on endlessly
You are identical to a river
[Post-Chorus]
You are by no means runnin’ dry (Oh)
[Bridge]
I really feel you all over the place
Your face is all in my hair (Hair)
Coated up in your sweat
It turns me on that you simply care, child
Your love, it flows identical to a river
[Chorus]
You are identical to a river (That is what you’re)
You are identical to a river (That is what you’re)
You are identical to a river (That is what you’re)
You are identical to a river
You are identical to a river (Coronary heart beats so loud that it is drownin’ me out)
You are identical to a river (Livin’ in an April bathe)
You go on endlessly (You are pourin’ down, child, drown me out)
You are identical to a river
Erica Gonzales is the Senior Tradition Editor at ELLE.com, the place she oversees protection on TV, motion pictures, music, books, and extra. She was beforehand an editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. There’s a 75 % likelihood she’s listening to Lorde proper now.
