Beyoncé - Lemonade
Critic Score
Based on 38 reviews
2016 Ratings: #2 / 1004
Year End Rank: #2
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2016 Rank: #21
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Tiny Mix Tapes

For all the scorn and fireworks, LEMONADE is maybe most remarkable for its capacity for healing ... It’s a work that relishes in the movement of emotionality, the contradictory wrecking-ball feelings that spring from disappointed love, that could turn you to drought if turned from. And it never loses its focus.

100
The Independent

Lemonade is fiery, insurgent, fiercely proud, sprawling and sharply focused in its dissatisfaction.

100
The Observer

The songs, though, are not just prurient catnip, but actual dynamite – a dazzling series of edgy, but tuneful collaborations with a diverse array of guests.

100
Rolling Stone

Lemonade is an entire album of emotional discord and marital meltdown, from the world's most famous celebrity; it's also a major personal statement from the most respected and creative artist in the pop game.

100
Consequence of Sound

Lemonade marks Beyoncé’s most accomplished work yet. It is the perfect combination of the sharp songwriting of 4 with the visual storytelling acumen of her self-titled record. Here, we see Beyoncé fully coming into her own: wise, accomplished, and in defense of herself.

100
Time Out London
Despite the many, many cooks in this kitchen, ‘Lemonade’ feels like an album only Beyoncé could make.
100
Pretty Much Amazing

From its brilliant rollout to its dazzling artistic statement, Lemonade arrives not still-in-progress, but utterly flawless.

100
Entertainment Weekly
If you want to spend your time speculating, cool—that’s your deal. But Beyoncé’s not thinking about that. She’s too busy putting out her boldest, most ambitious, best album to date. Middle fingers up.
95
Spectrum Culture

This is Beyoncé’s best album yet and one of the most compelling cases ever made for the pop album as confessional art form.

94
HipHopDX
It is both album and manifesto, and illustrates the true power of art. The power to conjure back from the dark the voice of people the world has chosen to ignore.
91
A.V. Club

All over Lemonade, Beyoncé is describing her own personal reality, on her terms and informed by her worldview. That the album simultaneously pushes mainstream music into smarter, deeper places is simply a reminder of why she remains pop’s queen.

90
Uncut
Even the staunchest agnostic can find something to love here.
90
Clash
‘Lemonade’ is Beyoncé at her most benevolent, and her most unadulterated. Treating her blackness not as an affliction but a celebratory beacon, ‘Lemonade’ is a long overdue, cathartic retribution.
90
FasterLouder
Only days after Prince’s death, Beyoncé gives us a thousand reasons to be optimistic.
90
Exclaim!

The result is an album in which millions will find their own struggles reflected back to them, as therapeutic as it is utterly dazzling. If you've ever been handed lemons, you need Lemonade.

90
SPIN
Not since MJ have we gotten to witness a former teen star evolve into a grown-ass one with so much state-of-the-art pop currency, pantheonic ambition, and craft of song.
90
AllMusic

Romantic conflict is nothing new for her, but there is a degree of concentration and specificity, and an apparent disregard for appealing to commercial radio that makes Lemonade a distinct addition to her catalog.

90
musicOMH

With all matters of the heart explored in extremely intimate detail it sees Beyoncé back on top of the pop world ready to slay like only she can.

90
Crack Magazine

Lemonade is so much more than an album; it’s a deep immersion in black art ... Here, Beyoncé is laser-focused on delivering her potent message of empowerment, and she is unafraid.

85
The Young Folks

Lemonade keeps you in an ambiance that is sensed in the room of silence. It’s not awkward, it’s emotionally empowering.

85
Pitchfork

Lemonade is a stunning album, one that sees her exploring sounds she never has before. It also voices a rarely seen concept, that of the album-length ode to infidelity.

80
The Needle Drop
Beyoncé drops her most conceptual and mature album yet--as well as what's likely to be the best pop record of the year.
80
The Irish Times

Lemonade is an unusual album and only Beyoncé could serve us something so refreshing.

80
The Arts Desk

Lemonade feels like a spiritual project and one that Beyoncé is firmly at the helm of, telling her truths and those of black women she represents in a way that is both perceptive and proficient, all while holding her husband firmly by the cahunas.

80
Q Magazine

Lemonade hits hard. Beyonce has chosen to portray herself like this, and those choices are bold, powerful and at times, properly shocking.

80
God Is in the TV
Instead of shying away from the toughest questions in her personal life, she channels them into a record that’s powerful, evocative and laced with a fine smattering of political commentary.
80
NOW Magazine

Lemonade is her most out-there album yet – both in the nakedness with which the notoriously private star is seemingly describing marital strife with husband Jay-Z, and in the huge scope of musical influences it encompasses, from wild and raw gospel and blues rock to precisely calibrated R&B.

80
Mojo

With its wealth of sonic adventure, its thoughtful merger of the personal and the political, and its four choice guest spots (Jack White; Kendrick Lamar; James Blake; Abel Makkonen Tesfaye AKA The Weeknd), Lemonade is a dazzling example of pooled talent coalescing around an iconic doyenne. There can be little doubt on whose head Prince’s crown should now sit.

80
The Guardian

Lemonade ... feels like a success, made by someone very much in control ... Beyonce sounds very much like a woman not to be messed with. 

80
The Line of Best Fit

With Lemonade, Beyoncé has caused as much conversation as any single artist possibly could, and provided a one-of-a-kind look into her personal life without sacrificing any of her regality, something only she could do.

80
DIY
In a year when the world’s biggest artists have put their necks on the line - Rihanna’s leave-me-alone, independent streak of ‘Anti’, Kanye West’s scatterbrained ever-changing doodle ‘The Life of Pablo’ - Beyoncé can count herself as a risk-taker breaking new ground, up there with the bravest.
80
The 405

Pain is claimed, womanhood is nurtured, blackness is celebrated and family is prioritized and used as weaponry within the textured, often times profane and deeply contextual offering.

80
NME

‘Lemonade’'s first four tracks are a thrillingly honest sucker-punch from a famously guarded pop star.

80
PopMatters

You can argue about whether you’ll hear better pop albums this year and you may very well win that dispute, but Lemonade is that rare work where you will remember exactly where you were and exactly who you were with the first time you heard it. Few albums can lift themselves up to the level of “experiences”, but few albums could ever be considered as bold, complex, or resolute as Lemonade.

80
Drowned in Sound

Whatever the degree of fictionality of the plot ... Lemonade arrives as a cohesive, masterfully crafted project that resists the ephemerality and disposability of the pop song format.

70
Slant Magazine

Lemonade, is her most lyrically and thematically coherent effort to date, taking a concept—the breakup album—as old as the LP itself, and reinventing it in both presentation and narrative.

sucker
90

I bet that if this album wasn't made by Beyoncé, everyone would be praising. But it is, so some people keep saying it's "overrated". C'mon, just take a listen to Pray You Catch Me, Don't Hurt Yourself, 6 Inch, Freedom... It deserves the acclaim. Amazing concept too, the (amazing) film made it clearer. I've never heard something like this from Beyoncé; it's so raw and personal you can feel how she suffered with all that happened.

NR

the most fucking user in AOTY : exception

PipePanic
77

Took them long enough to put this album on Spotify. 3 years i've been waiting to listen to this album after the hype it got in 2017! 3 long years!

This is my first venture with Beyonce's records. Yeah, i've heard the singles (then again, who hasn't?), but i've never listened to Beyone's albums because the image of Beyonce has always been stronger for me then the music on display. However, as soon as I play on this thing, I was taken aback by some of the most beautiful production i've heard in ... read more

TheSoundOfMuzak
70

Beyonce has always been a force in the music industry not to be reckoned with, with most of this strength having come from using and creating trends to adequate her music to the current timeline.

Lemonade's popularity comes largely, in my opinion, from her branching out to the Indie-head demographic that didn't usually listened to her music before this project. With collaborations from people like Kendrick Lamar, James Blake, Jack White, and even writing credits from artists like Father John ... read more

revirmai
88

WHEN HE FUCK ME GOOD I TAKE HIS ASS TO RED LOBSTER !!!

Dare I say Bey's best album.

yoyokversion
92

- Pray You Catch Me: 9.5
- Hold Up: 8.0
- Don’t Hurt Yourself: 9.0
- Sorry: 7.5
- 6 Inch: 8.5
- Daddy Lessons: 9.0
- Love Drought: 9.5
- Sandcastles: 10
- Forward: 7.5
- Freedom: 10
- All Night: 9.0
- Formation: 9.5

Média: 89

Pontos adicionais: +3
Pontos retirados: —

Nota final: 92

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Track List

1Pray You Catch Me
3:15
89
2Hold Up
3:41
86
3Don't Hurt Yourself
3:53
91
4Sorry
3:52
88
56 Inch
4:20
88
6Daddy Lessons
4:47
88
7Love Drought
3:57
88
8Sandcastles
3:02
88
9Forward
1:19
81
10Freedom
4:49
94
11All Night
5:22
91
12Formation
3:26
91
Total Length: 45 minutes
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Added on: April 23, 2016