If you didn’t already know, Miguel wrote Beyoncé’s sexual new song “Rocket,” from her self-titled fifth album. Recently speaking with Vibe, the R&B singer/songwriter says he was challenged by Mrs. Carter to push the envelope with some of her most risqué lyrics yet.
“I’ll never forget the conversation I had with Beyoncé and her insisting that nothing was off-limits,” Miguel says. “And me being like, ‘Oh yeah, you sure? Because I can really take it there.'”
And take it there he did. Once Miguel got the OK from Yoncé, he came up with the song’s definitive opening line: “Let me sit this ass… on you.”
“What’s the first thing I’d want Beyoncé to say to me, as a man? What have I not heard her say?” Miguel recalls thinking. “That’s where the song came from. And essentially it’s what all of us would want Beyoncé to say to us—no disrespect, obviously, to Jay.”
“She’s confident and [“Rocket”] showcases that part of her that we haven’t seen—her confidence and her sexuality—which can be liberating to a certain degree,” says Miguel, who is working on his third album. “I hope that’s why she loves the record—that’s why I love the record.”
Watch the interview clip below:
