You may have heard that Beyonce put out an album about her husband, Jay Z.
You heard wrong:Lemonadeis about one person, and that persons name is Beyonce Knowles-Carter.
What happens when one of the worlds most powerful women feels invisible?
Enter the baseball bat!
Whats worse, lookin jealous or crazy?
she asks, pointing to the limited options women have.
Then she answers herself: Id rather be crazy.
And in case Jay Z didnt get the message: This is your final warning….
If you try this s again, you gon lose your wife.
Job well done, right?
Dont even think it.
Beyonce isnt one to work on a small scale.
Like her Formation video, the visual albums imagerya mostly female and nonwhite affairmakes the point with haunting clarity.
Her body belongs to herselfno small thing in the context of African-American history.
Did he bend your reflection?
Did he make you forget your own name?
Lemons into lemonade, personal into universal.
And then theres the albums fiercest banger, Freedom.
Could an anthemic Black Lives Matter jam become mainstream Americas song of the summer?
If anyone can make it happen, its Beyonce.
But inevitably, a lot of you are still wondering: What does all this mean for her husband?
Fortunately for Jay Z, things look like they might be all right.
Our love was stronger than your pride, she sings, and it sounds like she believes it.
Of course, many will still obsess over what it was Jay Z did and with whom.
If you want to spend your time speculating, coolthats your deal.
But Beyonces not thinking about that.
Shes too busy putting out her boldest, most ambitious, best album to date.
