Lemonade is the Beyoncé album centered on infidelity, anger, healing, and Black womanhood.
Released in 2016, Lemonade combines contemporary R&B, pop, rock, hip-hop, blues, and country influences. Its songs move through emotional stages including intuition, denial, anger, apathy, accountability, forgiveness, hope, and redemption.
The album was accompanied by Lemonade, a one-hour film broadcast on HBO. Its visual storytelling, poetry, and imagery expanded the music into a larger cultural work. Songs such as “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” and “Daddy Lessons” became especially prominent.
Although listeners often connect the album’s narrative to Beyoncé’s marriage, the work also addresses history, race, family, motherhood, and resilience. Lemonade received nine Grammy nominations and won two, including Best Urban Contemporary Album. It is frequently confused with the similarly visual self-titled album from 2013.