Lemonade is the Beyoncé album structured around themes of marriage, infidelity and reconciliation.
Released in 2016, Lemonade is both an album and a visual project. Its songs move through emotional stages that include intuition, denial, anger, apathy, hope and redemption, creating a deliberately connected narrative.
The album blends R&B with rock, country, blues, pop and hip-hop. It includes “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up” and “Daddy Lessons,” and its visual film was broadcast on HBO before the album became widely available digitally.
Lemonade generated extensive discussion about privacy, relationships, race and Black womanhood. Public interpretations often connected its themes to Beyoncé's marriage, but the project also draws on broader historical and cultural experiences rather than functioning as a literal diary.