page_title: Mine (Beyoncé song)
section_title: Critical reception
hierarchical_section_title: Mine (Beyoncé song) / Reception / Critical reception
caption_attribution_description: English: Drake at the Sound Academy, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
context_page_description: "Mine" is a song by American recording artist Beyoncé featuring Canadian rapper Drake. The song was written by Noah "40" Shebib, Drake, Beyoncé, Majid Jordan, Sidney "Omen" Brown and Key Wane, with production by Shebib, Jordan, Brown and Beyoncé for the latter's self-titled fifth studio album Beyoncé. "Mine" is a futuristic R&B song, that contains trap elements, African beats with muted modern hip hop. Lyrically, Beyoncé reveals her everyday doubts regarding marriage and motherhood.
  "Mine" received acclaim from music critics, who praised the song's production, Beyoncé's vocal performance and the song's breakdown. However, Drake's contributions were generally panned by critics. Following the release of the album, "Mine" charted in multiple regions, making appearances on the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK charts.
context_section_description: "Mine" was met with positive reviews by critics, who described it as one of the highlights on the entire album, described as "excellent" and "utterly thrilling" despite "largely chorus-free", being mostly praised for how it reflected Beyoncé's determination to keep pushing creatively — a trait Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times described as "rare among superstars".
  However, Drake's contributions were universally panned by critics, with Ludovic Hunter-Tilney of Financial Times criticizing Drake's vocals as "monotonous" and "grat[ing] against Beyoncé's more expressive singing", making the song "the album's least singalong moment", and Philip Cosores of Paste describing Drake's appearance as "detract[ing] from the multitude of things that Beyoncé does right." Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune was similarly unimpressed, writing that Drake "hijacks" the song with his closing rap verses, "turn[ing] it into a six-minute slog"; slating it as a "high profile cameo" that "fall[s] short". Kitty Empire of The Guardian attributed this to a lack of "chemistry that fires in Drake and Rihanna's collaborations".
caption: The song features vocals by Canadian rapper Drake (pictured), whose contributions were met with negative reviews from critics.
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