Lemonade was the Beyoncé album accompanied by a film-length visual project in 2016.
The album was released on April 23, 2016, after the premiere of an hour-long film on HBO. The film combines music, poetry, spoken-word passages, and imagery, creating a continuous work rather than a collection of unrelated promotional videos.
Lemonade moves through themes commonly described as intuition, denial, anger, apathy, emptiness, accountability, hope, and redemption. Its songs include “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” “Freedom,” and “All Night.”
The title is associated with a quotation attributed to Jay-Z’s grandmother, Hattie White, about making lemonade from lemons. Lemonade is often confused with Beyoncé, her 2013 self-titled visual album; both use visual storytelling, but they are separate releases from different periods.