Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album about infidelity, identity, and personal and collective history is Lemonade. It was released on April 23, 2016, alongside an hour-long film broadcast on HBO.
The project combines music with poetry, imagery, and themes involving betrayal, reconciliation, Black womanhood, family, ancestry, and resilience. Its songs draw from R&B, rock, country, blues, reggae, and hip-hop rather than following one narrow genre.
Lemonade was accompanied by a film divided into chapters such as “Intuition,” “Denial,” “Anger,” and “Hope.” The project also featured contributions from artists including Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, and James Blake.
Listeners sometimes use “Lemonade” to mean only the album or only the film, but Beyoncé presented them as closely connected parts of one artistic project. The album received widespread critical acclaim and won the Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album.