After releasing her global hit “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus has one other single—well, an entire album, really—for us to play on repeat. The bop known as “River,” and Cyrus dropped a fresh latest music video for it at midnight, coinciding with the debut of her long-awaited album Limitless Summer Vacation.
Cyrus teased what “River” is about in a clip for her upcoming concert special on Disney+.
“It was a time in my life where I used to be going through just so much emotionally and personally, and I assume all my songs form of evolve,” she says. “They’ll start as something that was a trouble, like, it just seems like it’s an April shower. It never stops raining. After which it began raining down like love.”
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She also joked about how the song’s upbeat feel and ’80s vibe may mask its explicit content at first. “‘River’: sometimes we just need a dance floor banger, a.k.a. they don’t desire me to speak in regards to the indisputable fact that the song is about [redacted],” she explains before getting bleeped out.
“It’s fucking nasty,” Cyrus reiterates. “It’s nasty.” That considered, it is a surprise Disney shall be broadcasting the song. (Her concert special, Miley Cyrus – Limitless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions) debuts on Disney+ Friday at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST.) But with lines like “You are identical to a river / You go on endlessly” and “You could possibly be the one, have the glory of my babies,” one could probably guess what she’s alluding to.
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Directed by Jacob Bixenman, the accompanying black-and-white visuals are sleek and sexy, featuring Cyrus dancing in a mini dress in a crowd of shirtless bodies within the rain.
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Miley Cyrus – River (Official Video)
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Read the complete “River” lyrics below, courtesy of Genius. The song was written by Cyrus, Justin Tranter, Thomas Hull, and Tyler Johnson, and produced by Johnson and Kid Harpoon.
[Verse 1]
I got a latest dress just to fulfill you downtown
Are you able to walk me through the park just to point out it off?
I can pull my hair back in that tight way that you simply like
In case you wrap me in your arms and never stop
[Pre-Chorus]
Heart beats so loud that it’s drownin’ me out
Livin’ in an April shower
You are pourin’ down, baby, 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 in the bathtub, I can not stop from pondering currently
You could possibly be the one, have the glory of my babies
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]
Heart bеats so loud that it’s drownin’ me out
Livin’ in an April shower
You’re pourin’ down, baby, drown me out (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
[Chorus]
You’re 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 never runnin’ dry (Oh)
[Bridge]
I feel you all over the place
Your face is all in my hair (Hair)
Covered up in your sweat
It turns me on that you simply care, baby
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 (Heart beats so loud that it’s drownin’ me out)
You are identical to a river (Livin’ in an April shower)
You go on endlessly (You are pourin’ down, baby, drown me out)
You are identical to a river
Erica Gonzales is the Senior Culture Editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage on TV, movies, music, books, and more. She was previously an editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. There’s a 75 percent probability she’s listening to Lorde at once.
