It’s summer and we’re clearly pining for another “Umbrella”…

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Will Adams: This hideous amalgam of Ace of Base and the world’s most anemic dubstep breakdown actually makes me pine for the trifling Eurocheese of “Mr. Saxobeat”, which is an achievement in and of itself. Points for that, I guess. Oh, and an extra one for that accordion hook.
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Colin Small: The sunshine in the video for “Lemonade” only makes sense if an all-nighter has preceded it. Whether that night was spent dancing or crying is unclear. It’s hard to be carefree when things are this sexy, lonesome, or stark. And as hard as it may be to believe, the symbolism of lemonade here is not at all clear. In “Umbrella” that was a good thing. Here, it isn’t.
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Alfred Soto: We’re not ready to disinter No Doubt’s “Underneath it All.”
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Anthony Easton: Summer is unpleasant. It is like being boiled alive very slowly, in a swampy disaster of dirty steam. This is not unpleasant, but it lacks the refreshing delight of fresh lemonade. (Actually I prefer limeade, but point still stands.)
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Katherine St Asaph: Reconstituted lemon product, more like, made with Splenda and best consumed with Miracle Fruit tablets. Even the dubstep sounds sickly; even “I really wanna make you come (along)” is delivered innuendo-free. 
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Iain Mew: “Sipping yellow lemonade” is a crucial detail, since it means it’s the Italian/American stuff made with actual lemons rather than the clear and gassy stuff you get if you ask for lemonade most places in the UK. That’s not a xenophilic metaphor; I just like lemonade enough for it to make me like the song more. However, I do love how the atypically subtle bass wobbles in “Lemonade” are like just a few bubbles to set off the cool refreshment of the rest of the song.
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Brad Shoup: Romanian Reggae! Let’s do this. There are about a dozen awesome things going on here, the eleventh of which is Stan’s occasional upward vocal drifts, with the twelfth being the rest of her vocals.
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