Critical Reception
"Cry for You" received positive reviews from music critics. Nick Levine from Digital Spy award the song with four stars out of five, giving it a positive review. He stated " it's a surprisingly affecting Eurodance number, a record that's both relentlessly danceable and desperately sad" and said its "actually a pretty decent record." However, he felt the song was not "original" enough to outbet releases by fellow Swedish singer Robyn. Allmusic had rated the song three-and-a-half-stars out of five stars. K. Ross Hoffman from Allmusic had highlighted the song as an album standout, and said ""Cry " is the obvious standout, managing to conjure both sophistication and a surprising degree of emotion from its fairly pedestrian frothy electro-pop arrangement and polished but powerful vocal turn." However, he also added ""Cry for You" is a strong enough track (though fairly faceless too, in its way) ." PopBytes.com gave it a positive review, saying its "total pop dance fluff but highly enjoyable." Popjustice said the song is a "massive balls-out club anthem and we think it works rather well." Ben Norman from About.com called the song the Best Dance Crossover Track while saying "Robbins has since made peace with me by backing and promoting Swedish singer September and this europop confection. Good job guys!."
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