Beyoncé
Lemonade
In her most subtle (musically, not thematically) turn, Queen Bey weaves a beautiful tapestry of a tale about...okay, it's been everywhere so there's no need to go on about it here.
To say Beyoncé might be upset at...someone...is so obvious it's a "does a bear sh** in the woods"/"is the pope catholic" situation. But that doesn't mean she can't construct a musical world that is intriguing and so easily listenable it becomes addictive.
Lemonade has way too much hype around it for me to talk about its subject matter, but if there's anyone that can take a sensitive situation--whether that's infidelity, police brutality, or race relations--it's Beyoncé. Her deftness and talent are kept so low-key, it's astonishing for the exact opposite reason her music normally is; here Beyoncé blends into the beautiful background while still providing that pop her fans have come to expect.
This is also her most experimental album, using sounds from genres as disparate as Nashville-country and dub-electronic, and none of them seem to clash. Lemonade flows superbly from one song to the next without ever losing sight of the goal: to construct a concept album that highlights the intimate problems the even a very public person has to deal with.
Without getting to repetitive, we can easily say that, with all her talent and her ear for that same talent in others (Jack White, The Weeknd, and James Blake all make appearances here), when life gives Beyoncé lemons, she makes...well, you get the idea.
Beyoncé's Lemonade is only available for streaming on Tidal. You can find it here.
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