Beyonce lemonade visual album hbo. Visual album review beyonces musical film is a colorful reminder of the glory of black lives. The film follows beyonces venerated 2016 visual album lemonade which emphasized black womanhood against the backdrop of americas heritage of slavery and culture of oppression. Visually its a painting depicting a singular experience.
Lyrically its an unparalleled ode to black female complexity pain and empowerment. Beyonces black is king. It is beyonces second visual album following her self titled fifth studio album 2013 and a concept album with a song cycle that relates beyonces emotional journey after her husbands infidelity in a generational and racial context.
Lemonade on hbo and her album lemonade but this. The singer has long a history of producing full on visual productions in tandem with her albums including 2013s beyonce and 2016s lemonade. Yes all of those things are worthy of note but above all else lemonade is a love letter to black women.
This upcoming visual album release will follow up. It was premiered on hbo on april 23 2016. It was released on april 23 2016 by parkwood entertainment and columbia records accompanied by a sixty five minute film of the same title on hbo.
Her second visual album lemonade released to hbo in 2016 was a dreamy and powerful mix of visuals spoken word confessions and lyrics with themes of love betrayal empowerment tribalism and family. The film serves as a visual companion to the 2016 album lemonade.