Lemonade is the 2016 Beyoncé album presented as a concept project about Black womanhood and infidelity.
Released on April 23, 2016, Lemonade is Beyoncé’s sixth studio album. It was accompanied by an hour-long film broadcast on HBO, making the project both a musical release and a visual narrative.
The album moves through themes including betrayal, grief, anger, forgiveness, identity, family, and resilience. Its songs draw from pop, R&B, rock, country, blues, and other traditions, while its imagery centers Black women and Southern cultural history.
Listeners sometimes treat Lemonade only as a celebrity relationship story. Its themes are broader: the project connects intimate experience with ancestry, community, race, gender, and healing. The album received widespread critical acclaim and earned a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.