Why Beyonce Had Album Of The Year

Beyonce has recently released her new album called "lemonade". Rumors have been spread and I can't tell anyone if this is for sure yet, but the fans are saying that Jay Z cheated on Beyonce and that is what her album is all about. It's all over the world and people are saying it is true. Beyonce's album was a big hit and as soon as some of her songs came out, people started questioning. We won't find out until either one of Beyonce or Jay Z says something. They waiting begins for the truth. All of this has not gotten in Beyonce's way. She has stayed strong and kept going. That is why I love her. Instead of letting it get to her she just decided to take it out with what she loves and writing songs about it. Other people can relate to her or just listen to it because they just love her music. Either way it is great for her because she let it out, but also her fans loved the album. I chose Beyonce for this paragraph because she is an inspiration to me and all other people around the world. She is truly Queen Bee and definitely runs

Beyonce said Whitney had inspired her to sing R&B and continue her legacy. An important decision she made was starting her solo career. She didn’t know if she’d continue to grow fame. That could have been one of the best decisions of her life. She released her first solo album, “Dangerously in Love” in 2003. That recording became a huge success, selling millions of copies and winning 5 Grammy Awards. She continued to grow more fame, make more albums, and get many more offers from several brands such as L’oreal and Tommy Hilfiger. In January of 2013, Beyonce got a lot of negative comments for her performance at President Obama’s second inauguration in Washington D.C. She was criticized for reportedly pre-recording a version of The Star Spangled Banner and lip syncing it. She got a lot of hate but was very mature about it. She didn’t publically address the problem and redeemed herself in the public eye at the Super Bowl’s halftime show on February 3,

"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.

The hit song on the album was “On & On” which striked no. 1 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart and played apart in earning her grammy ( https://youtu.be/-CPCs7vVz6s ). In Rolling Stone magazine’s “100 Best Albums of the Nineties” they said “ Her music was up-to-the-minute jazzy hip-hop R&B, but her voice sounded ancient, with a splash of Northern hipness and a twist of Southern comfort. It was Erykah Badu, from Brooklyn via Dallas, her head wrap tall and tight, singing of knowledge and philosophy and fulfilling unrequited love in the next lifetime. She was the sister-in-music of D'Angelo and Lauryn Hill, the Earth Mother of Nineties boho soul”. She was the definition of a soul singer and everyone loved the vibes and tone you received playing her music. She was also known for her style headwraps and big afros. The success from the album was so big it created a new movement called neo-soul, Erykah Badu was seen as the leading artist of this genre of music.

One of Aaliyah’s contributions to her genres of music would be that she brought back the teen girl's voice for R&B. Due to the fact that when she first started her career she was fifteen years old. Her career started when she did a cover for the song “At your best.” By the Isley Brothers. When Aaliyah dropped her first single “Back & Forth.” It was a hit because Aaliyah was a young talented solo artist. Since she was a solo artist she was appealed more by a younger audience. Due to the fact that she wasn’t like the older singers such as Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.

Blake, E. (2016). The 11 extremely emotional chapters of Beyonce's 'Lemonade'. [online] Mashable. Available at: http://mashable.com/2016/04/24/chapters-beyonce-lemonade/#8XEhAPOIZZqb [Accessed 18 Jul. 2017].

During this time she released her very own album. Her first album won five grammy’s and plenty of the album were sold. Beyonce performed at the super bowl along with Bruno Mars and Chris Martin the February of 2016 (Biography.com). In 2010 she won six grammy’s on her own album I am… Sasha Fierce.

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles is a powerful voice not only when she is singing, but also for political matters such as feminism and racial equality. She is also known as an actress and titled as one of the most famous R&B and soul singers of all time, getting her first hit song at only sixteen years old.

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.

On the biggest music award ceremony “The Grammy’s” Lauryn Hill made a powerful impact for hip-hop. Her debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill won five Grammy awards. The most important award was Album of the Year because it represented that someone made beautiful art with meaning behind it. This album empowered women not only in hip-hop, but also around the world.

The main criteria Cowie bases his judgement of the album on is the details Lamar used. He gives an example of Lamar’s descriptive skills by explaining the song “The Art of Peer Pressure” where Lamar gives you a glimpse of his world describing the street corners and his state of mind at the time. Cowie explains how “Poetic Justice” begins seductive but the underlying message is the confrontation Lamar faces. Lamar expresses inner moral conflict towards his battle with peer pressure and alcoholism. Cowie also base his judgement on skits. He says Lamar’s storytelling is with voicemails and cassette

Continuing tonight, adele broke her grammy in half, saying that the grammy instead belonged to Beyonce for her album ‘lemonade’. She claimed that “Beyonce was her inspiration and got her this far,

Beyoncé’s Lemonade deep expression of her artistic talents. In my opinion, this is best work to date due to the depth of the project. It only made sense to premiere the visual album on HBO, the king of prestige television. Lemonade on the surface sheds light into the life of Beyoncé, allowing fans to be exposed into her life more than ever. Beyoncé highlights her feeling on the highly-published infidelity of her father and former manager, Matthew Knowles as well as sharing that her husband Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter was allegedly doing the same thing as her father. This exposure of Beyoncé captivates the viewer, However, this purely a metaphor for what Lemonade is about. Lemonade is regarding the relationship between the World and the Black woman.

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.

In the album, Beyoncé simply tried to establish black African American women to be just like any other normal women. People often classify black women in a different slot. They think all black women are same. The society thinks that all black women have big messy hairs, braids to hide their afros, they talk in a filthy accent, and often people tend to