Beyoncé’s visual album about infidelity, grief, and Black womanhood is Lemonade.
Released on April 23, 2016, Lemonade is Beyoncé’s sixth studio album. It combines R&B, pop, rock, soul, hip-hop, blues, and country influences. The album was accompanied by a one-hour film broadcast on HBO, which connected its songs through poetry, imagery, and a sequence of emotional chapters.
The project explores betrayal, anger, forgiveness, family history, and cultural identity. Listeners often connect its relationship narrative with Beyoncé’s marriage, although the album also reaches beyond private biography into broader themes of Black history and women’s resilience.
Lemonade received widespread acclaim and became Beyoncé’s sixth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard 200. Its songs include “Formation,” “Sorry,” and “Hold Up.” The visual presentation is central to the work, not merely an extra promotional video collection.