Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album about infidelity, family, and Black identity was Lemonade.
Lemonade was released on April 23, 2016, alongside a one-hour film broadcast on HBO. The project combines music with poetry, imagery, and chapters that explore grief, anger, apathy, emptiness, accountability, reform, forgiveness, hope, and redemption.
Its themes led to extensive discussion about marriage, betrayal, Black womanhood, Southern culture, and inherited history. Beyoncé’s lyrics and visuals encouraged interpretation, but the project remains an artistic work rather than a straightforward autobiography.
Lemonade became Beyoncé’s sixth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard 200. It includes “Formation,” “Sorry,” and “Hold Up,” and received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. It is distinct from Black Is King, the 2020 visual album connected to The Lion King: The Gift.