Visual Analysis Of Beyonce

This exercise gives you the opportunity to examine the audio industry in-depth with a look at the making and release of Beyoncé’s fifth and sixth albums, Beyoncé, in 2013, and Lemonade in 2016.

Beyoncé Knowles explores various subject matters in her 2016 visual album Lemonade that are relevant to the current state of affairs in society today. Lyrically, the first forty-five minutes’ address personal topics including her husband’s infidelity and her relationship with her father. The “Freedom” scene, however, is where the lyrics turn from personal to more political. This scene consists of shots that include but are not limited to Beyoncé singing to a crowd of black women while on stage, she and the women who comprised the audience dining under a tree and a closing shot of everyone either sitting on a branch of the aforementioned tree or standing in front of it. The uses of dark settings and black and white lighting and clothing in combination

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

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" this is an old phrase used to inspire hopefulness and an encouraging, positive can-do attitude in the wake of hardship or disaster. Lemons symbolize the inevitable sourness or difficulties in life, while lemonade is the sweet drink that is the product of the lemons. Often life offers trivial disappointments with almost no explanation and sometimes it seems almost impossible to break the misfortunate spell. However, for some people, each mishap in their lives leave them not only perplexed but eager to see the glass half full rather than empty. Beyoncé is a prime example of making the best out of a bitter situation. On April 23, 2016, Beyonce released her groundbreaking fully visual album “Lemonade”. Lemonade debuted as number one album on the billboard charts and allowed Beyoncé to have the biggest first-week sales count. Nevertheless, with greatness comes a few flaws and “Lemonade” was no stranger to faults. To some, “Lemonade” was the cultural awakening that they needed but for many it was the conversation starter that would strike both emotionally and politically which is why it is such a powerful album but an even more important conversational piece.

Beyoncé recently released her music video on Saturday February 6, 2016. Beyoncé 's "Formation" video forms messages in text and visuals that fits today 's social issues. They call attention to the audience mainly for women and Black America. This piece of rhetoric creates meaning in society by giving us events and visuals to help the

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.

After four years of musical silence, Solange gracefully gifted her fans with her new album, "A Seat at the Table." Her songs set the internet buzzing with appreciation and pure positivity as she attained her first number one album. The New York Daily News reported that Solange and Beyoncé Knowles are “the first sisters to both earn a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as solo artists. Per the Huffington Post, “Solange’s new album is a bold, pro-black masterpiece.” The album spoke about the journey of an African American in this world and how hard it is to be proud and celebrate life as a black person. It goes beyond police brutality to highlight black experiences from different angles. Her album addressed self-preservation, racism, identity, inequality, healing and the politics that comes with

This includes standards of beauty, empowerment, culture, and the shared parts of our history. The message that Beyonce is trying to convey to us is that there are real issues going on that are constantly being ignored. She is also stating that if no one else will voice their opinions on these issues then she will. As I analyzed the position that I received was discrimination to African American culuture, police brutality, tragedy, and cultural pride. I agree with the message behind this video/song. For many years cultural issues have been ignored and failed to be solved due to political

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

The song “Freedom” by Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar provides the central idea of redemption through the use repetition. The singer repeats the word “Freedom” to express that the black community needs to be freed from oppression. This is illustrated by Beyonce singing “Won’t let my freedom rot in hell.” This connects to the central idea because Beyoncé encourages her audience members around freedom, however specifically the freedom of Black ladies. African-American ladies are frequently at the bleeding edge of social equality yet their necessities are more than once pushed to the side for the requirements of Black men, as though their needs are the requirements of the entire, or take point of reference. This is important by Beyonce singing “...

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 started er solo career in 2003.In the album lemonade Beyonce have 12 songs on there. The 13 songs that’s on the album lemonade is pray you catch me, hold up, don't hurt yourself, sorry, 6 inch, daddy lessons, love drought, sand castles, forward, freedom, all night, and formation.When beyonce made the song freedom she made it for girls all over the world so they can keep chasing their dreams and not giving up.Beyoncé elevates the prevalence of hip-hop culture and black vernacular into her pop songs and effortlessly proves that commercial bangers and true art do not have to be exclusive.

The majority of the “Formation” video is a compilation of Beyoncé’s basic beginnings in New Orleans. She shows the damage done after Katrina and shows the graffiti on worn down buildings. These images are meant to convey the message to young black women that they may have simple beginnings, but any and all of their aspirations are in fact achievable. She shows several events and locations that are important to her childhood, including shots of her church and Mardi Gras parades. The display of the simplicity of her former home, a small house, drowning in the flood, juxtaposed with her current home, a massive

Lemonade has become Beyonce’s sixth million- selling album. This album is about the pain and triumph of black women. “ I can’t possibly accept this award,” Adele said during her album of the year acceptance speech on Feb. 12. “ My artist of life is Beyonce… the Lemonade album was just so monumental, Beyonce, so monumental and so well thought-out and so beautiful and soul-baring. … All of us artist here… adore you.