JoJo describes “Clovers.” as one of the most important songs on “Mad Love.” The song explores the depression she fell into during the years she was unable to break free of her infamous record contract with Blackground Records.

I became really depressed. I didn’t feel like I could see a future that I believed in. I felt like if I made the decision to go to college and try to do something different with my life that I would always wonder, “What if I really fought and tried to pursue the dream that I started when I was a little girl?” I was also going through a lot of family stuff. Addiction really runs deeply in my family, so I was struggling with my own feelings of, “What am I doing with my life?” and “What am I going to do?” Sometimes I would drink too much just because I wanted to get out of my mind. There have been so many incarnations of a third album, but the process of making this album was different; I knew that people were going to hear this, and I wasn’t fatigued coming into it. I was actually really exhilarated, and things that had weighed me down before didn’t anymore because I finally saw my future and I believed in it.

“Clovers.” also explains her decision to punctuate each song title with a period. The period represents that closure she has finally achieved.