Released as a single on August 4th, 2014 by Numbers, LEMONADE is arguably one of SOPHIE’s most popular songs. Flanked by industrial samples contrasted with Nabihah Iqbal’s voice pitched cartoonishly high, LEMONADE found itself at the end of many polarized reviews- apt for a song with such polarized...
[Chorus]
Lemonade, l-l-lemonade, lemonade, l-l-lemonade
Lemonade, l-l-lemonade (Lemonade, l-l-lemonade)
Lemonade, l-l-lemonade, lemonade, l-l-lemonade
Lemonade, l-l-lemonade (Lemonade, l-l-lemonade)
[Verse]
I've got something to tell you, I hope you'll understand
I never meant to hurt you it wasn't in my plans
It's just that when I'm with you and everything's okay
I get that fizzy feeling and I want lemonade
[Chorus]
Lemonade, l-l-lemonade, lemonade, l-l-lemonade
Lemonade, l-l-lemonade (Lemonade, l-l-lemonade)
Candy boys, c-c-candy boys, candy boys, c-c-candy boys
Candy boys, c-c-candy boys (Lemonade, l-l-lemonade)
[Bridge]
Candy boys, c-c-candy boys (Lemonade, l-l-lemonade)
Candy boys, c-c-candy boys (Ah)
Candy boys, c-c-candy boys (Lemonade, l-l-lemonade)
Candy boys, c-c-candy boys
[Verse]
I've got something to tell you, I hope you'll understand
I never meant to hurt you it wasn't in my plans
It's just that when I'm with you and everything's okay
I get that fizzy feeling and I want lemonade
LEMONADE was written by SOPHIE.
LEMONADE was produced by SOPHIE.
In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #98 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:
In her early work, SOPHIE shirked the expectation that women (especially trans women) use lyrics as a vehicle for self-exposition. Like her breakthrough single ‘Bipp,’ ‘Lemonade’ told its...