Listen to Beyoncé’s lemonade for the first time

On Monday, I went for a walk from a popular girl. I poured the water into the bottle and started daydreaming, looking at the clouds. I listened to an album on this walk. When I chose the album of the week, I realized lemonade Beyoncé is still in my download. I’ll go!

lemonadeReleased in 2016, it reflects Beyoncé’s emotions, and in addition, her husband and father, Jay-Z, who was the only child at the time, cheated on her. Although the tabloids constantly manipulate the details of Beyoncé’s personal life, she herself accepts her favorite medium (music) to tell the true story: her story. What causes lemonadeThis is an angry, love and bold gene-free album.

Hearing all one album reminds me of the construction of one album…how each song improves the intention and stakes of the entire work. The correctly finished album is a solid building with unintended exterior walls and multiple stories. Eternal and lasting thing. lemonade Nothing different. As I walked, I browsed the track list. I saw the “Dad Class”, which was conducted at the 2016 CMA Awards with Chicken. This performance, along with the audience’s sulfuric acid and racism, ultimately led to Beyoncé’s Denim Carter, This is the album of the year titled at the 2025 Grammy Awards (also understand Beyoncé has always been country). “Formation”, the first single lemonadewas one of the last songs on the album, which surprised me. I think this will be the first one. This song alone might keep the Red Lobster in business.

Another element lemonade It’s a visual album. The yellow dress of the “Hold Up” music video has been simulated several times, and the song itself (along with Beyoncé and her baseball bat) is a homage to shared anger. “Sorry,” Meanwhile, the black and white video twists of her and Serena Williams didn’t make the whole damn.

I even recognized some of the songs from the moment I watched the legend of Beyoncé Returning home Performance on Coachella in real time. ((Homecoming: Movie It is her 2019 documentary about her performance at the 2018 Music Festival. ) Beyoncé was the first black woman to become the title of the festival, but she named her performance using a word defined as “returning home.” It further solidifies their meaning when she incorporates these emotional songs into the fun of the performance. Listen to those songs again, and they continue to have so much meaning from the first notes.

From track one to 12, lemonade It is a forward-looking blueprint. Its content laid the foundation for subsequent albums, and the album’s work is also a continuation of personal stories told through music.

I can’t help but think it’s time to listen to an influential album for the first time after nearly a decade of release. After an album or song is released, and when the attention economy is booming, I think music needs to be pickled. I think of people who listen or watch groundbreaking works for the first time. When Toni Morrison passed away, many people first became familiar with her job. At the time, cultural commentator Aminatou Sow encouraged us to celebrate those who first experienced Morrison’s work, rather than scolding them.

I have several albums in my downloads, spanning decades. I may have listened to them for several years. I do know that when I do, these albums still evoke the emotions and intentions since the first note in the recording. Until the end of time.