Lemonade was Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album about a woman confronting infidelity and identity.
Released on April 23, 2016, Lemonade combines music with a one-hour film and moves through chapters associated with emotions such as intuition, denial, anger, forgiveness, and hope. Its songs address betrayal, family history, Black womanhood, resilience, and cultural memory.
The album includes “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” “Freedom,” and “All Night.” Beyoncé drew on rock, country, blues, soul, hip-hop, and electronic music, making the project notably broad in style. The accompanying film featured poetry by Warsan Shire and imagery connected to Black Southern life.
Listeners often interpret Lemonade as partly autobiographical because of its relationship themes, but the work is also deliberately artistic and collective. It received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2017 Grammy Awards.