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'Lemonade' In Review

Beyonce's best album yet

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The Bey-hive is a buzz as Beyonce’s second visual album, "Lemonade," has finally released! Famous in recent years of her star dazzling career, Beyonce quite suddenly dropped the beautiful one hour visual album to mark her sixth solo studio album. Included in the visual album are 12 tracks featuring pop and R&B singer The Weeknd, electronic music producer James Blake, the White Stripes lead singer Jack White, and rapper Kendrick Lamar. Infused throughout the visual album includes haunting slam poetry from the highly acclaimed poet Warsan Shire. A personal history montage that also explores a core theme of family, black empowerment, and overcoming the treachery of a cheating husband makes this Beyonce’s best album yet!

Of course, Beyonce has evolved incredibly throughout her time since being involved with the R&B girl group, Destiny’s Child. In her journey to become more than a pop artist, "Lemonade" has accomplished that in full circle. The album is varied in musical taste, from acoustic ballads to grungy pop and to rap; there is nothing on this album viewers cannot love! In addition, Beyonce is using her powerful platform to speak about important and heartfelt topics, which is more than most artists can say. She continuously exposes her private life, thoughts, and emotions in every single song. "Lemonade" is the cherry on top of Beyonce’s successful career.

However, like any artist Beyonce faced some opposition. Talk Show host Wendy Williams fired off at Beyonce that she should have released her album until after music icon Prince’s death that same week. One of a few famous and witty lyrics in the album, “Becky with the good hair” caused quite a stir when the Bey-hive swarmed around designer Rachel Roy, the accused Becky. Being ignorant of their own spite, the Bey hive attacked cooking personality Rachael Ray as well who was mistaken as the accused “Becky with the good hair” or Rachel Roy. Finally, certain white communities rose in an uproar over a certain song on the album titled, "Formation," that Beyonce performed at the 2016 Super Bowl. These white communities rose in opposition due to the fact that Beyonce was highlighting a fact of Southern culture, and the media of the United States of America did not enjoy being highlighted in that negative light.



Despite the unnecessary hate and drama behind this hauntingly beautiful album, it is still one of the more enchanting and telling pieces of her career. In the famous words of Beyonce: "Hey! I'ma keep running, Cause a winner don't quit on themselves."

Sip on that nice cold glass of lemonade!
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