“I see God when you eat it,” Tinashe says to the guy, or girl, she’s in sinful lust with. She carelessly refers to that feeling as love, but it’s because she’s caught up in the moment of getting her pussy sucked in the back of a lavish vehicle with tinted windows. Perhaps that’s what’s giving the night sky a “sapphire” tinge.

The music, intergalactic erotica produced by a rock-hard Stephen Spencer, sets the mood, but it’s Tinashe’s songcraft that soars. Some of her lyrics are juvenile, almost to the point of cringeyness, but the chorus is indeed quite lovely. “Lost a little piece of my mind,” it goes, “floating somewhere off in spacetime.”

my rating : 4 of 5

2016