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Lemonade is the sixth studio album by American singer and songwriter Beyoncé. It was released on April 23, 2016, by Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records, accompanied by a 65-minute film of the same name. It is a concept album with a song cycle that relates Beyoncé's emotional journey after her husband Jay-Z's infidelity in a generational and racial context. Primarily a pop, art pop, hip hop and R&B album, Lemonade encompasses a variety of genres, including reggae, blues, rock, soul, funk, Americana, country, gospel, electronic, and trap. It features guest vocals from Jack White, the Weeknd, James Blake and Kendrick Lamar, and contains samples and interpolations of a number of hip hop and rock songs. Lemonade was released to universal acclaim and has since been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time. Critics commended the genre experimentation, production, Beyoncé’s vocals, and the political subject matter reflecting Beyoncé’s personal life. It was music critics' top album of 2016, and was named the greatest album of the 2010s by publications such as the Associated Press. The album topped Rolling Stone's Greatest Albums of the 21st Century list, and was placed at number 10 on the Apple Music 100 Best Albums list and number 32 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. The album was nominated for nine Grammy Awards at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards (2017), including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. It won Best Urban Contemporary Album and Best Music Video. The album's visuals received 11 nominations at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, of which it won eight including Breakthrough Long Form Video and Video of the Year. The film also won a Peabody Award in Entertainment, and received four nominations at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards. Lemonade topped the charts in various countries worldwide, including the US Billboard 200, where it earned 653,000 with additional album-equivalent units, including 485,000 copies in its first week of sales. It has since been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). By the end of 2016, Lemonade had sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States, making it the third-best-selling album of the year in the US, and it was the best-selling album of 2016, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), with 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. The album was supported by five singles: "Formation", which was a top-ten hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, "Sorry", "Hold Up", "Freedom", and "All Night". Four days after the release, Beyoncé embarked on The Formation World Tour, an all-stadium tour visiting North America and Europe.
I het why this is one of the most popular pop/R&B artists in the world. Her singing is phenomenal. Also a lot of variety in the songs.
There is a reason why I heard so much about this - and I really should have listened to this sooner. Talk about an artist at the height of her power. Intense, interesting, engaging… thank you for prompting me to listen to this!
Epic concept album!
It's got diss tracks, songs about heartbreak, and just absolute jams.
This is the magnum opus of Beyoncé. I don't know why the eponymous album of her is on the 1001 list as that is a decent album, but this one is much, much better. Great vocals, fantastic songs like "Daddy Lessons", "Don't Hurt Yourself" (featuring Jack White), "Freedom" (featuring Kendrick Lamar) and a lot of variation in styles and tempo.
This one surprised me a bit given my feelings on previous Beyonce LPs. There's finally some decent songwriting and lyricism for Knowles' to lend her impressive vocals to as opposed to the repetitive chants of previous albums. Couple that with some solid production and mostly interesting instrumentals (+1 for the Jack White feature since I'm a guitar guy), and there's a solid musical statement here that stands much stronger than some in her past. Still not my cup of tea taste-wise, but music is meant to convey strong artistic statements and there's no denying this LP is one of them.
Technically excellent but strangely soulless. It's just not my thing and I just don't know why.
How in the bloody hell is this not on the original list??? It’s ranked by many publications as THE best disc of the 2010s. Its absence is criminal. I am personally so grateful for this album. Thank you, Beyoncé.
I certainly recall the media buzz around this when it came out but while listening realized I hadn't ended up consuming much of it. I tend to consign Beyoncé to a certain strata of extremely competent but ultra processed pop but there is a very real raw edge on this that takes it well above that. It's really very good.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Pray you catch me, Don’t hurt yourself, Sorry, Freedom, Forward, Formation
Never heard of Beyoncè thank you for sharing
I listened a lot to this whilst building a mountain bike trail up a mountain in the middle east. Loved it at the time so much that I nicknamed my Scouse mistress that I had at the time Beyonce (I then named the trail after her) Time has slowed my love for it (and the mistress), but it still has highs such as hold up and forward. I also remembered that I deleted sandcastles off my copy of the album. Never did like ballady Beyonce.
Got to agree this is Beyoncé’s best album. Not sure it’s a full 5 start masterpiece due to my personal music tastes, but it’s close.
Yeah, the original list has the eponymous 2013 album, but not its follow-up *Lemonade*, a more "intimate" affair inspired by Queen Bey's marital difficulties with husband Jay Z. Of course "intimate" for someone like Beyoncé involves dozens of collaborators, producers, session musicians and guest features (Jack White, The Weeknd, James Blake....). Pop stars will be pop stars, I guess. I'm not gonna lie, this is a pretty cool album, and for once Mrs. Knowles-Carter keeps it short. The first side is especially strong (magnificent opener, and lots of interesting dynamics in and between the cuts that follow). Some one-liners uttered by Bey throughout the record are also pretty memorable. For the second side, "Freedom", featuring a very sharp Kendrick Lamar, obviously steals the show. I question the decision to end the whole thing (on the original tracklist) with the Mike-Will-Made-It-produced "Formation", which sounds like an afterthought that sticks out like a sore thumb at the last minute (plus, I don't think that track aged particularly well -- there's been far more memorable stuff in that vein since). But otherwise, yeah, that's cool stuff. I checked out the highest and lowest-rated selections of the person who submitted this LP. Wish said person could be as open-minded as Beyoncé herself when it comes to genres -- her inspirations as an writer / executive producer go deeper than what happens on a surface level, believe me (that's obvious from the list of samples, interpolations and borrowings that helped her give birth to this record). Whereas the listener who chose her album is pretty close-minded. Almost everything with a punk electric guitar is left in the gutter here. Too bad for that individual that they can't see that good art can take on many forms. 3.5/5 for the artistry and purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 4. 8.5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3.5). Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ----- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 33 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 43 (including this one) Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 86 ---- Émile, quelques récentes réponses au dessus...
Art pop, R&B. Ni fu ni fa.
Queen
As far as modern R&B/Hip-Hop goes this is one of the better albums. Beyoncé has always been creatively one of the best artists of the 21st century. This album is very solid with mixing so many singers i to this while containing the concept of her personal life while having songs for every type of moment. Beyoncé is kind of like the female 21st as she can curate an album that spans from ballad type songs to smooth R&B to fierce Hiphop songs that are bangers. This album is a bit long and probably could be a couple songs shorter but overall it’s a good listen. Much better than most of her other work. 7.0/10
A complaint I had with Beyoncé's self-titled album that made the original list was that although it was polished and well produced, it also felt a bit emotionally inauthentic to me. But the growth Beyoncé has undergone in three years between the two albums is actually pretty impressive. The emotions expressed on Lemonade are sometimes startlingly genuine, the songwriting pointed and frequently seething with anger. Musically, the songs are as carefully crafted as I would expect from an artist of Beyoncé's caliber, and her vocals are excellent. A few weaker tracks on the mid/back half, but overall really well done. Fave Songs: Freedom, Don't Hurt Yourself, Pray You Catch Me, Sorry
I reviewed this...that's strange. Kendrick and Jack White remain the highlights.
Second time with this one. Grew on me a little. Still a ways to go to get to the greatness others see.
Na
Was ready to hate on this as the talk over it was so overblown and it is 100% overrated. However Beyonce has always been a good singer and a good "star" The C&W songs are hideous but there are a few good ones with samples from better songs to keep you engaged. Highlight: Hold Up. Overall 2.3
Nah
It should have been one star, but I gave it two as a couple of songs had nice music. Otherwise, rubbish.
lol piss off. 1/5.