Lemonade was the Beyoncé visual album released in 2016 and inspired by the stages of grief.
Released on April 23, 2016, Lemonade combined a studio album with an hour-long film broadcast on HBO. The project moves through chapters named for emotional states, including intuition, denial, anger, apathy, emptiness, accountability, reformation, forgiveness, hope, and redemption.
Its music draws on R&B, soul, rock, blues, country, and hip-hop. The album includes “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” and “Freedom,” and it features contributions from artists such as Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, and The Weeknd.
Lemonade was widely discussed for its treatment of Black womanhood, family history, cultural memory, and marital strain. Its visual structure is sometimes mistaken for the 2013 album Beyoncé, but Lemonade is the 2016 project with the chapter-based film.