Beyoncé’s 2016 album released with a film of the same name was Lemonade.
Lemonade premiered on HBO on April 23, 2016, as a 65-minute visual album film, and the audio album was released the same day. Its structure follows chapters associated with emotional and cultural themes, including intuition, anger, apathy, hope, and redemption.
The project combines R&B, pop, hip-hop, rock, blues, and country influences. Its guest performers include Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, James Blake, and The Weeknd. The visual film also incorporates poetry by Warsan Shire and imagery connected to Black womanhood, family, history, and the American South.
Lemonade is sometimes described simply as a music video collection, but its film and album were designed as a unified work. It received widespread critical acclaim and won the Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album, while “Formation” became one of its defining songs.