Lemonade is Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album exploring themes of infidelity, race, and Black womanhood.
The project combines a twelve-track audio album with a one-hour film that premiered on HBO. Its songs and imagery move through emotional stages including intuition, denial, anger, apathy, emptiness, accountability, reform, forgiveness, hope, and redemption.
Lemonade drew on multiple musical styles, including R&B, rock, country, blues, and hip-hop. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and received nine Grammy nominations. Beyoncé’s later album Renaissance continued her album trilogy but has a distinct club-music focus.