Analysis Of Lemonade

A powerful part in the Lemonade video that Hooks touches on is a Malcolm X quote "The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman." This quote is from a speech Malcolm X gave in 1962 but these words are still very relevant. Throughout Lemonade Beyoncé illustrates, with her words and with the video, the emotional pain an African American female must endure during their lifetimes. Hooks says that voicing this pain is a “vital

Beyoncé Knowles, a well-known singer, songwriter uses two of her songs: “Freedom” and “Formation” to tell the story of herself. “Freedom” is the beginning of her story where she is searching for freedom and equality showing that there is still much inequality and injustice for African Americans in America today. The song slowly transitions to a more positive tone when she seems to have made something beneficial out of her difficult situation. “Formation,” however, has a completely different tone. While she does address negative situations from the past at the beginning of the song, she quickly transitions to a more positive tone full of pride in where she came from, who she has become, and what she has overcome. Together, the two songs

One of the most prominent visuals in Lemonade is the setting of New Orleans, Louisiana. In current times, New Orleans is most closely associated with the Hurricane Katrina disaster of 2004, in which a strong hurricane devastated the city and left many killed, injured, or homeless. There was national criticism of the government’s handling of Katrina, stating that the government took too long to respond to the crisis due to the city being mostly populated by blacks. However, this is not the only aspect of New Orleans that is central to Lemonade’s narrative. The video also shows staples of the old American South during the time of slavery, such as plantation homes and slave quarters. In this setting, Beyoncé indulges a fantasy of an all-black utopia dominated by women, who dress up, take photographs, and

When it comes to what she did right, Beyoncé’s LEMONADE is purely visual and it has allowed the world to take a deeper glance into the day to day life that she lives and includes titles such as "Intuition," "Denial," "Apathy," "Emptiness" and, eventually, "Resurrection", allowing us to see the chapters of her life broken down into separate sections. She touches about sexuality, police brutality, infidelity—that both she and her mother experienced,

When people think about education, they often think about being in a school. A school is a place where education is above all, and is set to high standards of learning. However, people can have a great education and learn in different settings other than a school, such as in a home. In Virginia Euwer Wolff’s Make Lemonade, the narrator, LaVaughn, finds ways to be educated in school and to educate others out of school. Most readers notice LaVaughn’s education through school, but more observational readers notice that other characters are being educated in settings like their home. Through education, LaVaughn learns many new things about herself and about others. In Make Lemonade readers notice how education, both in school and at home, improves the lives and transforms the identities of LaVaughn, Jolly, and Jeremy.

In 1982, Michael Jackson released one of the most iconic songs/music videos the world has ever seen. “Thriller” is a Halloween classic, and has been a hit since the day it was released. The Thriller Music video is roughly 13 minutes long, and is classified as a “short film”. 34 years later, the iconic Beyoncé released her album “Lemonade.” Lemonade is made up of 12 songs, and each song has its own separate video, but all the videos somehow connect and the videos were turned into an hour-long film. For this blog, I will compare/contrast the two videos.

In the book Make Lemonade, the environment influences the character's and their actions. The main character LaVaughn is influenced by multiple other characters's and the physical environment around her. Jolly influences LaVaughn in many ways. For example, “I go to meet this Jolly like she says/ at her place. The building was broken-down looking,/ it was even a worse place than where we live” (6 Wolff).

Although the critically acclaimed album titled Lemonade received positive feedback for the way its visuals captured the struggles of black Americans, specifically black women, there is one song off the album that obviously emphasizes the adversities they are facing. In the beginning of the first verse of Freedom (featuring Kendrick Lamar), she uses the imagery of storm to reference her struggle towards being free. This is a reoccurring theme throughout the song, she continues to use words that are synonymous to disaster and generally negative.

In lemonade beyonce touches on different issues. like, racism, women oppression and police brutality. At the same time she is also telling a story about how She dealt with Jay Z’s infidelity and how all those problems are connected to her problem. This is shown in “Sandcastles” when she is shown with Jay Z and says, “Show me your scars and won’t walk away.” that is meaning that after reflecting she understands that this is an issue that has been happening for a while and that it's an issue like racism, that happens over and over in history because culture is not changing with time. Do to the fact she does not blame Jay Z anymore but she blame his past and culture.

Beyonce Giselle Knowles is a African American lady that is very known in the music world in pop. Her music is great in society in many ways. The music Beyonce’ makes is for women and speaks to them to speak up for your rights and fight for them. Her song ‘Lemonade’, is also known to be a song for our society because of what she's talking about; slavery and

Released in 2016 Lemonade is the sixth album recorded by American singer and songwriter Beyoncé Knowles. The famous artist was born in Houston, Texas to parents of African-American and Louisiana Creole descent. This has shaped a lot of her music in today’s industry, especially in this most recent album. Beyoncé is known as one of the most influential voices of popular culture since her rise to fame as a part of former R&B girl-group Destiny’s Child in the 1990s. The album covers countless of today’s world issues, but most importantly racial discrimination against African American women. The artist speaks up about this prejudice and attempts to empower listeners of the same background through her lyrics as well as her music videos.

She uses the identity politics of recognition to uplift black womanhood. Beyoncé’s sixth studio album, Lemonade, released April 23, 2016, is a “56-minute narrative movie mixing music, documentary and experimental elements” (Bale, 2016) incorporated into a visual album. In Lemonade, Beyoncé uses her artistry to acknowledge the duality of how Black womanhood is positioned between the oppression of race and gender. Beyoncé’s Lemonade album showcases the racism, sexism, and socio-cultural politics that black women experience. Throughout the whole visual album, black women appear representing the past, present, and future.

Beyonce uses pathos, the first of the three appeals in her song by using very descriptive phrases. When she states, “I’d listen to her, `cause I know how it hurts,” Beyonce is telling her audience that she understands what it is like to be hurt, and that if she were a boy, she would treat her women better because she could understand where she was coming from. This tugs at the listener’s heart because you can see that she has been emotionally hurt from a past relationship. Also, many people can relate to what she is disclosing. It is human nature for people to get emotionally damaged in a relationship and therefore her feelings are empathized. She also uses syntax by the way she orders her words by telling a story. If the song was not in story form, it would not produce the great impact that it does.

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.

Sorry is about black female empowerment, and Beyoncé is not sorry. Beyoncé and director, Kahlil Joseph, made sure that this was unquestionable by featuring only black females in the video. The video explores black history using the visual iconography of the South, reflecting “the ‘double bind’ of racist and sexist oppression experienced by women of colour throughout America’s history” (1). The whole Lemonade album presents black female excellence, refuting the white male hero narrative that dominates our society, especially in the film and music industry. World-class black tennis champion Serena Williams stars in the music video alongside Beyoncé.