Raindrops

Album: Messy Little Raindrops (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • This Free School-produced ballad finds Cheryl looking "forlornly for love." It was written by the Free School collective (Jean Baptiste, Mike McHenry and Ryan Buendia) along with the songwriters Priscilla Hamilton, Alain Whyte and Nick Marsh. Hamilton is better known as Muni Long, a singer who at the time was focused on songwriting. She had a hit of her own in 2022 with "Hrs And Hrs."
  • The album's title, Messy Little Raindrops, is taken from a lyric in this song:

    And now love can grow without tiny little raindrops
    Tiny little tiny little messy little raindrops


    Cole said in a video interview, "When it rains, everything she's washed... it feels hopeful."
  • Messy Little Raindrops was Cheryl Cole's second solo album, released when her group Girls Aloud was taking a break. The big hit from the album was "Promise This," the second of her five UK chart toppers.

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