Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album about marital infidelity and healing was Lemonade. It was released on April 23, 2016, after the premiere of an hour-long film of the same name on HBO.
The project moves through chapters named for emotional and spiritual states, including intuition, denial, anger, apathy, accountability, hope, and redemption. Its songs draw on pop, rock, country, blues, and hip-hop, while the film combines poetry, imagery, and music videos.
Lemonade was widely discussed in relation to marriage, betrayal, race, family, and Black womanhood. The album’s narrative is artistic rather than a straightforward documentary confession, and Beyoncé did not identify every real-life event represented by its imagery. The project earned the Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album.