A Summary Of Beyonce's Film Lemonade

Beyoncé Knowles’s Lemonade video album brings the words of Beyoncé into a visual media and shows the viewer a deeper meaning behind the album. After this video came out many articles came forward analyzing Lemonade. One article, in particular, that was intriguing is Bell Hooks “Moving Beyond Pain.” Hooks starts her article saying that the Lemonade video was created as a money-making, business strategy, but as the text continues the reader can conclude that “Moving Beyond Pain” is actually about African American women, and women in general, standing up for themselves.

The show presented itself in a very women empowering way. She spoke with wisdom and honesty telling the truth about what women in our county go through on a day-to-day basis. Beyoncé spoke about the double standards that women face and the despicable way some men treat women. She sent out a message that all women in today’s society need to hear. “At the end of the day, it is not about equal rights, it is how we think. We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead,” ~ Beyoncé Knowles.

Media is everywhere. Television, newspaper, cell phones, movies, as well as numerous other sources. Today, just about everyone depends on information and communication to keep their lives moving through daily activities. We need to be aware that the values we hold, the beliefs we harbor and the decisions we make are based on our assumptions, our experiences, our education and what we know for a fact. Mass media is relied on for the current news and facts about what is important and what we should be aware of. Media is considered a trustworthy source for news, information, education and entertainment. Though someone has to have thought behind an issue to write it.

For nearly twenty years, Beyoncé has lived her life in the public eye yet she has always kept her cool, been submissive, and rather quiet when it came to her personal endeavors however after releasing the film “Lemonade”, we are able to see her in a vulnerable light. In Jeremy Helliger’s article: “Dear Beyhive: Stop Whining. Beyoncé Still Hasn’t Earned Her Album Of The Year Grammy” he addresses the idea that although Beyoncé was able to encourage black women to be proud and free, she also she missed the mark by adding raunchy, over the top content to her vulnerability.

Women during the 19th century, according to Historian Barbara Welters were “hostage of the home”. (Brown, 2012) Women were considered what we know now as home wives, without really the option of doing anything outside of the home. When the Civil War began, that meant that men left home

She dances in a colonial house’s hallway; while drawing reference to several southern states, while displays that she loves herself and her origin. She illustrates to the audience they should be proud of their ethnicities and celebrate their origins and draws focus on the many people devastated in New Orleans. Sometimes, throughout society there is pressure to alter ones skin tone, nose, or hair to conform to the while Anglo-Saxon expectations of beauty. In this video, Beyoncé makes it clear that she’s not interested in this from embracing her ethnicities and Southern

Beyonce is an African American female artist making incorporating empowering messages for women around the world. She is creating work that speaks to an audience that might not receive authentic mainstream. Beyonce ultimate goal is to visually and sonically entice wisdom through her music. Recently in a shocking video release, Beyonce debuted a new song “Formation” as well as a politically charged music video. This song was an uproar in the music industry worldwide. Millions of people around the world negatively viewed this song as a controversy. The music video and song caused many people to debate and cause a worldwide conflict.

It is a perfect culminating moment for how we make, distribute, and consume popular music.Examination of how Black cultural values and artistic traditions across the African diaspora inform Beyoncé’s artistic work.Articles on Beyoncé and her work might pursue the following, the role of intersectional feminism, especially Black feminism, in evaluating Beyoncé’s musical, audiovisual, and cultural work. The relation of late capitalism and neoliberalism to the reception and mediation of Beyoncé’s public persona. Theoretically informed thick descriptions of Beyoncé’s music recordings, videos, attached to the spectacle of the female body in pop

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Women’s rights and racism have been two of the most controversial issues in the world. With all of the corruption occurring in the world, this should not be a main worry. Beyonce Knowles Carter recently released her sixth studio visual-album; this album, “Lemonade”, is her most emotional work yet. With this album, Beyonce has cemented her status as an artist who must be taken seriously. She has the influence to spark controversy across the nation and establish new trends. Beyonce’s newest album fought strongly for African American women’s rights. Some viewers felt as if this visual album was offensive to people of other ethnic backgrounds or genders.

Beyoncé is the singer and songwriter of her song "Flawless. " She's speaking as a confident, ambitious, and empowered woman. This text reveals her fearlessness and self-assurance that is widely recognized by her audience. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, an awarded Nigerian writer, is also a speaker in this text. Various parts of her TEDx talk "We should all be feminists" appear in "Flawless."

“Where do you go when you go quiet?” Beyoncé asks as the camera cuts to a shot of a black woman wearing a big dress with black bodice, and a “Dream Big” tattoo across her left shoulder. “The past and future, merge to meet us here.” Through spoken word and a beautiful opening sequence, Beyoncé is opening herself to vulnerability, as she lays in a metal bathtub in an open room with still water, she has never felt so naked before. Through the opening chapter to her Visual Album, Lemonade, we can sense that this is going to be an emotionally driven story, and what it means to be an independent black woman in today’s society.

Lemonade is presented as the creation of one woman, but why is this so important? This is a ruling class ideal of being a “self-made man”. The ideals that go with a self-made person is that all of the arrangements in society are natural. You have to accept the social order and not seeing the background she came up from and presenting herself as a representative of the working class is a false image. She travels in a private jet now and is one of the most successful African American women and not acknowledging any sort of struggle with making the American dream during the video makes her image seem natural and easy. Media according to Marxists is supposed to act as an “apologist for the ruling class in an effort to avert class conflict and to prevent changes to political order”. Her anger in the video is against the men in her life which also happen to be black. Rather than the white society that put herself in a position that made her accession society so difficult. Blaming African American males is something that white culture has done for years. Spouting hateful ideas like thinking it was a choice for the African American male to go to jail and not be supportive to their families. In this video the African American males are stereotypes of racist ideals that the white racists would agree with. The African American women is safer so she is allowed a role in society. Not

The author of the album LEMONADE is R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. Her background sort of does create bias, because she is mostly known for writing love/breakup songs. The authority that I can attribute to her is power. She is a very well known in music and entertainment. I believe the purpose of this album was to tell a story of how you can take all of your obstacles in life and turn them into something great. The title and message says when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. It also has other messages that coincide with each song along with the visuals. Current and past events most definitely could have inspired this work. Such as, her marriage, her parent’s marriage and life in general. The intended audience is obviously her fans but it can also be for people who has had similar dilemmas. She displays her tone by the melody of the music along with the lyrics. The visuals also send the tone of the message.

Media plays a big role in society these days. Whether it be letting society know what is going on the in the world today or something as simple as updates on current life on social media. The media's role in society not only delivers information of the world but also brings people together through common interests or general talks. In Brian Knappenberger's documentary: Nobody Speak: Trials of Free Press it is seen how media effect lives and how there is a much stronger meaning to what media stands for in society and why media needs to take its stand when it comes to people who want to devour them.