Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album about marriage, betrayal, and resilience is Lemonade.
Released on April 23, 2016, Lemonade combined a studio album with a one-hour film broadcast on HBO. Its music moves through multiple styles, including R&B, rock, country, blues, soul, hip-hop, and gospel, while its visual chapters draw on themes of Black womanhood, family history, grief, and healing.
The project became the subject of extensive discussion because several songs address infidelity and emotional rupture. Beyoncé and Jay-Z did not present the work as a simple factual autobiography, so interpretations of its narrative should not be treated as a literal transcript of their private lives.
Lemonade received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2017 Grammy Awards. It is distinct from Beyoncé’s later albums Renaissance and Cowboy Carter.