Lemonade
by Beyoncé
  • Record Label: Parkwood
  • Release Date: Apr 23, 2016
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8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 3877 Ratings

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  1. BeyBoy
    Aug 22, 2021
    10
    The best piece of music ever to be produced. A complete and utter testimony of Beyoncé’s mastery when it comes to storytelling, vocal production and instrumental versatility.
  2. beylegendd23
    Apr 21, 2017
    10
    one word: EMPOWERING.
    A stunning album with stunning visuals, stunning vocals and stunning production. A legendary album. Sooooo grateful. Thank you Beyoncé for releasing one of the best albums ever
  3. Vsantos
    Jun 17, 2017
    10
    what i can say about this album... The visual album it is the most beautiful movie i ever seen.. And the album it is so touching and beautiful that i don't have words to explain.. it is my favorite about of the earth... Beyoncé touch my soul i cry every time i listen to this.
  4. metachaticti
    Jun 9, 2017
    10
    beyonce, a perfectionist. yes, this album is just perfect as all of the others she ever released. she is so fierce and strong and it can be clearly notice through her work
  5. Chris_51501
    Jun 9, 2017
    10
    It is perhaps one of the greatest albums of all time. Every song weaves together to form an intricate yet beautiful web about love. There is not a single bad song. Definitely recommend it.
  6. Touchking
    Sep 8, 2019
    10
    um dos melhores álbuns do mundo, sem sombra de dúvidas. perfeito do início ao fim.
  7. adam_harris
    Jun 17, 2017
    10
    When you talk about impact, the first thing that comes to mind in Beyoncé. This album is pure art and genius to the highest degree! The visuals, the songwriting, the message behind the entire album deserves all the acclaim it gets. The album is for women, but specifically black women, storytelling to the highest level. How she will top this I will never know, but it's Beyoncé, so we allWhen you talk about impact, the first thing that comes to mind in Beyoncé. This album is pure art and genius to the highest degree! The visuals, the songwriting, the message behind the entire album deserves all the acclaim it gets. The album is for women, but specifically black women, storytelling to the highest level. How she will top this I will never know, but it's Beyoncé, so we all know she will.… Expand
  8. HectorPonceSkel
    Jun 24, 2017
    10
    It is the most powerful and sentimental music about love and the special relationship towards another person, which is unhappiness and deceit are things that the human being can not continue to support, this album is very real about each love relationship.
    The composition of each sound was a perfection.
  9. samuele1997
    Jun 26, 2017
    10
    Lemonade is an incredibly sophisticated piece of art and certainly one of the greatest and most influential albums of our time. The incredible power of the lyrics and breathtaking visuals make this the Beyoncé's best work to date and confirm her among gods of black music.
  10. cakefaria
    Jun 30, 2017
    10
    Lemonade is an incredible album, it's so powerful, intimate, beautiful. Her videography is simply impeccable, all the care and perfection of portraying what Beyoncé was feeling is simply incredible and agree with Adele, the album of the year 2016 is Lemonade and Grammys what should Beyoncé do to win an AOTY? Maybe be white...
  11. RealOpinions
    Jul 21, 2017
    10
    Un gran trabajo de Beyoncé, ella se reinventa en cada álbum y es tan fabuloso escucharlo, debo decir que es una Joya esté álbum, un álbum que muchas personas lo tomaron como escudo ante los tiempos en el que mundo vive.
  12. cristhianjoel30
    Jul 21, 2017
    10
    It's a masterpiece. An empowering album with great lyrics and a variety of music genres. Beyoncé is showing her talent again.My favorites are: "6 Inch", "All Night", "Sandcastles", "Freedom" and "Don't Hurt Yourself"
  13. ANTILEMONADE
    Jul 23, 2017
    10
    Masterpiece! This is the best album of 2016, in my opinion, and obviously he deserved win the album of the year at the Grammy. If you do not like it, I think it's wrong with you.
  14. PretentiousGeek
    Apr 24, 2019
    10
    I can't believe I never wrote a review for this. A masterpiece both in audio and visuals, showing Beyoncé at her most experimental, grand, political and most visibly human. If that sounds contradictory, it's a testament to how perfectly every element hangs in the balance. If Beyoncé was the curator of her image on her self-titled table-shaker of a record, here she plays auteur.

    She    I can't believe I never wrote a review for this. A masterpiece both in audio and visuals, showing Beyoncé at her most experimental, grand, political and most visibly human. If that sounds contradictory, it's a testament to how perfectly every element hangs in the balance. If Beyoncé was the curator of her image on her self-titled table-shaker of a record, here she plays auteur.

    She paves a path of surface-level-enjoyable music of all influences, effortlessly lines it with weight of message and cultural depth, stands on it and is proud to say "This is me, these are my experiences and the experiences of many others, and this is how we can best inform and uplift others", never seeming conceited or overdone. The balancing act is perfect, everything is in its right place. As a package drenched in symbolism and cultural references, it's consumable and humble. She effortlessly toys with the personal and shines a light on the political, plays on scopes micro and macro and rounds it up so flawlessly that they become one unified body.

    As a film, Lemonade artfully, linearly documents one woman's healing process, and the healing process of all women, all a collective people. It deconstructs emotions that don't conform to linearity and plays with connection, always highlighting the past in reference to how it impacts the future. This is heard in songs also, such as in Daddy Lessons where Beyoncé connects her father's infidelity to her husband's by detailing how it impacted her and what she learned. By the end, there's a tangible sense of catharsis and understanding of Beyoncé as a human being, while also illuminating the struggles of black women in particular detail. It's flawless in it's cathartic conjuring of raw feeling without sacrificing nuance, never overstays it's welcome or oversteps. It truly is a perfect album.    … Expand
  15. Manuel_E
    Jul 29, 2017
    10
    An amazing and empowering album. Lemonade allows the listeners to travel with Beyonce through the journey she experiences comprised of lust, love, infidelity, and strength.
  16. JLukkas
    Sep 23, 2017
    10
    Lemonade is an incredible album that passes exactly the message that Beyonce wants and the world needs
    This message is passed with lyrics, rhythms, visuals and sounds that make you understand and get interested
  17. Recon97
    Oct 9, 2017
    10
    HOLY **** I thought her last album was great! With a mix of a bunch of different genres, she manages to make every single track work somehow. And with her most soulful performance with her vocals and her most honest lyrics to date, this is my favorite R&B album of all time. Hot damn, nothing is wrong with the entire album.
  18. RAUL13
    Oct 13, 2017
    10
    Grandioso álbum, el mejor que he escuchado en toda mi vida, lleno de calidad y mas calidad.
    PRAY YOU CATCH ME: 10/10
    HOLD UP: 10/10
    DON'T HURT YOURSELF: 10/10
    SORRY: 10/10
    6 INCH: 10/10
    DADDY LESSONS: 10/10
    LOVE DROUGHT: 10/10
    SANDCASTLES: 10/10
    FORWARD: 10/10
    FREEDOM: 10/10
    ALL NIGHT: 10/10
    FORMATION: 10/10
  19. vhluna
    Oct 20, 2017
    10
    The best album of Beyoncé. Incredible. Political. Empowering.
    From R&B and Urban to rock and roll, passing by country. Well done Queen B. The best tracks are: "Don't hurt yourself", "Sorry", "Daddy Lessons", "Freedom" and "All night".
  20. marioarmasglez
    Nov 11, 2017
    10
    This is a masterpiece. Different sounds, the songs tell you a story (INCREDIBLE), the visuals are breathtaking, lyrics are intimate, original and completely awesome. Beyoncé is the best musician of our times, she's the Queen B, this says everything.
  21. MRayOfLight
    Nov 15, 2017
    10
    A great album from the beginning to the end, no doubt a masterpiece, Queen B slay it again. My favorites songs are Pray You Catch Me, Sandcastles, 6inch and Freedom :)
  22. PedroH5523
    Aug 8, 2018
    10
    Lemonade is a masterpiece, really good worked, really good lyrics, beats and playlist, it's almost impossible to listen "Pray You Catch Me" and try not to listen "Hold Up" "Don't Hurt Yourself" and "Sorry", and it's very very hard to not listen every songs in the album, despite the fact that exist other albums that are so good and even better than Lemonade, Beyoncé worked hard and made anLemonade is a masterpiece, really good worked, really good lyrics, beats and playlist, it's almost impossible to listen "Pray You Catch Me" and try not to listen "Hold Up" "Don't Hurt Yourself" and "Sorry", and it's very very hard to not listen every songs in the album, despite the fact that exist other albums that are so good and even better than Lemonade, Beyoncé worked hard and made an amazing album with amazing songs and a really, really remark-ble music that will live for a long, very long time if it don't live forever, Beyoncé still the Queen B and still The Best Female Singer and Artist of This Decade or even the 21 Century and Lemonade still a real piece of art among a big amount of musical trash.… Expand
  23. Victor_2017B
    Jul 20, 2019
    10
    Álbum mais lindo dela. Sem palavras. Grandioso, aclamado e gigantesco. Uma obra de arte.
  24. xoxo88Diego
    Apr 7, 2018
    10
    The work done by Beyoncé on this album is perfect and impeccél, is great with a luscious sonority to hear, beautiful and hopeful lyrics.
  25. benaminoooooooo
    Feb 1, 2018
    10
    MARAVILHOSOOOOOOOOOO
    Claramente o álbum mais completo da Beyoncé, acho que podemos dizer que com esse trabalho ela realmente se tornou uma artista completa.
  26. santos00
    Feb 2, 2018
    10
    Beyoncé transforma suas dores, angústias e incertezas em uma bíblia maravilhosa com músicas e letras impecáveis. Rainha da indústria musical e do milênio!
  27. Lucas-carvalho
    Feb 16, 2018
    10
    Puta que pariu que album do caralho! Beyonce mostrou que nao so tem uma puta voz como tambem é muito versatil
  28. leostarboy
    Sep 9, 2020
    10
    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. Even stranger, it doesn’t double as an album-length ode to breaking up. Cynics will cry foul, that Beyoncé remains an entitled superstar, raging at a paper tiger. Those cynics will be ignoring one of this year’s finest albums.
  29. KristianT13
    Apr 10, 2018
    10
    never in my life had I seen and heard an album as excellent and as varied as this one, without a doubt beyonce every day more demonstrates the great artist that he is, while still giving great messages to the culture through his music
  30. THELUCASSY
    Jun 15, 2018
    10
    O melhor álbum da carreira da Queen B. Um álbum com tom político, pessoal e poderoso.
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#2 Best Album of 2016
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#2 Most Discussed Album of 2016
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#9 Most Shared Album of 2016

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Universal acclaim - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 33
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  1. Q Magazine
    May 31, 2016
    80
    Lemonade hits hard. Beyonce has chosen to portray herself like this, and those choices are bold, powerful and at times, properly shocking. [#361, p.110]
  2. Uncut
    May 24, 2016
    90
    Never short on vocal confidence, here, she trades divadom for arresting, unconventional shapes. [Jul 2016, p.69]
  3. Austin Chronicle
    May 12, 2016
    89
    By effortlessly topping her own best work. Lemonade now sets a new standard for cross-genre collaboration.
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