Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album about love, betrayal, and resilience was Lemonade.
Released on April 23, 2016, Lemonade combined a spoken-word film with a sequence of songs. Its themes move through emotional stages including intuition, denial, anger, apathy, accountability, hope, and redemption.
The project drew on R&B, rock, country, blues, soul, hip-hop, and electronic music. Songs such as “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” and “Daddy Lessons” helped make the album both a major pop event and a wide-ranging cultural statement.
Lemonade was Beyoncé’s sixth solo studio album and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. It received nine Grammy nominations and won Best Urban Contemporary Album. People sometimes use “Lemonade” to mean only the film or only the record, but Beyoncé presented them as a unified visual-album project.