Not only does "Clouds" boast a sick body-poppin' bassline, it also features the honeyed, ever-so-English tones of Lianne La Havas, a songwriter who Prince has had a musical crush on for quite some time. Earlier this year he live streamed a press conference from her tiny living room in east London. As you do.Lyrically "Clouds" imparts some unusual (rhyming) seduction techniques like: "Every time you hear her singing in the shower/You should go and get a flower/No matter what the hour/And rub it on her back/Rub it on her back/Rub it on her back."
Getting taken by a flower in the shower sounds a tad disconcerting to me, but hey, Prince is the master so there must be some power to his wet foliage seduction techniques. Or is this just a thinly veiled euphemism for his dong? You decide.
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