The Dream is saying that ‘Umbrella’ is a total metaphor for something a little dirtier than you might think.
Well duh! I always thought it was about golden showers myself. Isn’t that the first thing you thought of? Maybe I’m just a sick bastard. Heh.
Anyhow, The Dream says he wrote the song in twelve minutes.
“That’s right, (Umbrella took) 12 of them nice lil’ minutes. I’ve gotten to the point where songwriting is like freestyling – you enter the booth and let it come out. I’ll use certain things for metaphors, like ‘Umbrella’.. Once I get the thing I’m attaching the song with, then I’m running all the other tricks through the song to create that element.”
What’s a methapor? To keep cows in.
OOOH, Ouch! METAPHOR! Damn, Ri, see what you made me do? This is what happens when you get under that ‘umbrella-ella-eh-eh”.