NAME:Angeline Brown DATE:05/16/2016 PERIOD:2
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Prompt #10 - Beyonce’s Lemonade Album Review
Lemonade is an entire album of emotional turmoil and marital meltdown, from one of the world's most famous celebrity, Beyonce. It's also a major personal statement from the most respected and creative artist in the pop game. Throughout this album, she transitions from heartbreak, betrayal, and infidelity. Yet despite all the intense rage and pain in the music, she makes it all seem affirming, just another chapter in the gospel according to Beyoncé.
You may have heard that Beyoncé put out an album about her husband, Jay Z. You heard wrong: Lemonade is about Beyoncé. The famously guarded pop queen pours all of herself …show more content…
Beyoncé’s sixth solo album touches on a lot of potent topics. Aside from the presence of controversial single Formation, there are references to slavery, rioting, and Malcolm X; also a guest appearance by Kendrick Lamar that jabs at Fox News and police brutality. The visual album’s imagery, mostly African-American females, makes the point with haunting clarity. Black women in antebellum dresses populate abandoned plantations; home videos of kids playing shift into coffins with the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner holding portraits of their dead sons. In an era when pop doesn’t tend to say a great deal, there’s something refreshing about an artist of Beyonce’s stature doing this. She seems to view her success and celebrity as a means to an end rather than something to be maintained at all costs.
Lemonade is her most emotionally extreme music, but also her most diverse album to date. She mixes in a spoken-word snippet from Jay-Z's grandmother, audio from the band Kaleidoscope, Father John Misty, Animal Collective and Ezra Koenig. Her guests range from James Blake to the
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Prompt #10 - Beyonce’s Lemonade Album Review
Lemonade is an entire album of emotional turmoil and marital meltdown, from one of the world's most famous celebrity, Beyonce. It's also a major personal statement from the most respected and creative artist in the pop game. Throughout this album, she transitions from heartbreak, betrayal, and infidelity. Yet despite all the intense rage and pain in the music, she makes it all seem affirming, just another chapter in the gospel according to Beyoncé.
You may have heard that Beyoncé put out an album about her husband, Jay Z. You heard wrong: Lemonade is about Beyoncé. The famously guarded pop queen pours all of herself …show more content…
Beyoncé’s sixth solo album touches on a lot of potent topics. Aside from the presence of controversial single Formation, there are references to slavery, rioting, and Malcolm X; also a guest appearance by Kendrick Lamar that jabs at Fox News and police brutality. The visual album’s imagery, mostly African-American females, makes the point with haunting clarity. Black women in antebellum dresses populate abandoned plantations; home videos of kids playing shift into coffins with the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner holding portraits of their dead sons. In an era when pop doesn’t tend to say a great deal, there’s something refreshing about an artist of Beyonce’s stature doing this. She seems to view her success and celebrity as a means to an end rather than something to be maintained at all costs.
Lemonade is her most emotionally extreme music, but also her most diverse album to date. She mixes in a spoken-word snippet from Jay-Z's grandmother, audio from the band Kaleidoscope, Father John Misty, Animal Collective and Ezra Koenig. Her guests range from James Blake to the