page_title: Dance (Alexandra Stan song)
section_title: Critical response
hierarchical_section_title: Dance (Alexandra Stan song) / Critical response
caption_attribution_description: David Guetta Headlines Creamfields, Sydney Australia
context_page_description: "Dance" is a song recorded by Romanian recording artist Alexandra Stan for her sophomore studio album, Unlocked. The track was made available for digital download on 16 July 2014, as the album's third single. "Dance" was written by Stan, Cosmin Basasteanu, Alexandru Cotoi, Lee Anna McCollum, Mika Moupondo and Erik Lidbom, while production was handled by both Cazan and Lidbom. A music video for the song was directed by Khaled Mokhtar and debuted on Stan's YouTube channel on 18 July 2014, where it has since amassed over ten million views. The clip was shot during three days in Bucharest, Romania and sees Stan and her backup dancers performing choreographed dances, which were choreographed by Romanian performer Emil Rengle.
  The recording was met with positive reviews. Digital Journal praised the song for being "catchy", and Stan for providing "honey-rich" vocals. In an interview, Alexandra Stan explained that "Dance" is a "very sexy club song and club image". The track was performed during Stan's Unlocked Tour. The song became a success in Japan, where it ranked at number 25 on the Japan Hot 100.
context_section_description: Markos Papadatos from Digital Journal compared "Dance" to Stan's 2010 song "Mr. Saxobeat", confessing that the song "has a catchy melody". He went on praising Stan's "honey-rich" voice on the verses "Why don't you dance dance dance / and fall in love with friends / let's start a new romance". Furthermore, Papadatos said that the track deserves to top the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs charts. Concerning the music video of "Dance", he praised Khaled Mokhtar for doing a "brilliant job directing [the clip]", and Emil Rengle for choreographing "the dancers and Stan in the video exceptionally well". He went on saying that Stan "looks breathtakingly beautiful in this video". Papadatos gave the music video and the song itself an A rating. Everything Express writer Robin Catling described the track as a "summery David Guetta-inspired Euro-dance number that rattles along". He criticised the song's quality, saying that "even S-Club 7 had better material than this". Direct Lyrics praised "Dance" for having "enough summer flavour to do well this upcoming hot season" and confessed that they like the track better than its predecessor, "Cherry Pop". Los 40 Principales cited the video for "Dance" as one of Stan's best clips ever.
caption: "Dance" was compared to the work of David Guetta (pictured).[10]
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