Beyoncé - Lemonade: EXPLAINED

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For the "why she is gettin all this praize, she just write an album about JayZee's inffidelytee!!! XDDD meow :3" types out there, here is an AMAZING analysis, to help y'all understand why Beyoncé is TAKING OVER the charts, TAKING OVER the album reviews. 

your welcome for serving you a few extra IQ points 

 

 

EDIT: and no, it's not me.

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Yes, this is site is being taken over by some actual talent and im here for it. Welcome to BeyDaily.com 😝

[Duella Dvil 10,492]

I was really nervous that someone was about to whitesplain the **** out of Lemonade.

[Sizzily 14,543]

You seem defensive 

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Just now, Uncle ARTPOP said:

I was really nervous that someone was about to whitesplain the **** out of Lemonade.

lmao delete before your shade turns people off from watching the video…

in fact, why did they even scroll down. Scroll up, gurl!

 

[Duella Dvil 10,492]

And he's cute as ****. Like. Yes. Sexxx Dreams inbound

[Higher 2,406]

[Ziggy 11,746]

What needed explaining? She made the message pretty crystal clear while still weaving tons of nuance. What are people saying/are confused about? Jay cheated on her and she is using this album as a means of coping and empowering herself drawing on her intimate experiences as a black woman. It's black and, wait for it, feminist at the SAME TIME. Yes, it can be done and she did it incredibly well. Granted, the album without the video is so-so, but it's obvious her intention was for this to be a visual experience first and foremost whereas BEYONCE could be taken for either value. You literally don't get layers of meaning just by hearing the music. This is a multimedia project that makes itself insanely clear with what it's talking about. Idk how people could be confused lol

[DrewStevens 5,249]

It isn't even that hard to understand. The praise is well deserved. Beyonce always has great writers for her albums so I don't know why everyone is so confused.

[lego 44,165]

I found this, thought it's interesting.

 

The Moment We Missed in Lemonade

Was the moment in Freedom when a Black girl performed classical dance, en pointe, on a stage for an audience.

I know Lemonade was full of imagery of Black women and I am not one so I will not step for even a second into that analysis, because it’s been done so well elsewhere and it isn’t mine to analyse.

But I haven’t seen anyone mention this, and I can’t help but think that if you’re not part of the ballet world, you might not know how excluded Black women are from classical dance.

The truth is, they are still almost entirely excluded. They are told, here perhaps more than anywhere, that their bodies are not welcome, that they don’t fit the right shape, that they’re unfeminine and too muscular and any of a hundred other pieces of racist garbage.

Misty Copeland has spoken about this more eloquently than I ever could, and so have many other Black women who dance. Precious Adams went to the Bolshoi and faced this racism at its most unapologetic heart. Michaela DePrince has fought it in the US and Europe.

So when Beyonce featured a Black girl, withnatural hair, en pointe and in shoes dyed for her skin? ****ing extraordinary. Amazing. I cried.

See, in ballet, hair is a force to be controlled. Ballerina hair is straight, all one length, gelled and pinned into a bun. Mild waves can be hard to regiment to a teacher’s satisfaction. Kinky hair? No way.

And pointe shoes? They come in one colour, ‘flesh pink’, too pale even for many white girls, let alone Women of Colour. I dye my pointe shoes, and I am mixed to hell with all kinds of Eurotrash. For years, though, I wasn’t allowed. I had to wear anemic tights that made my body look like it had been photoshopped onto one pair in a parade of identical ballerina legs. For dark-skinned women, this was an even more uncomfortable sign that they did not belong.

This dancer had both her hair and her real skin tone. And she was beautiful. She had a flower crown, she was graceful and elegant, not relegated to a “passionate” role or a villain, but a beacon of femininity. She dressed in traditional white, with a skirt reminiscent of the swan in Swan Lake that is regarded as TheWhitest Role in All of Ballet.

This was one of many giant **** Yous to the traditional Establishment Beyonce embedded in Lemonade. I know it’s a small one. I know there were many more important ones that much more qualified people have talked about.

But for me it was exhilirating and powerful to imagine the Artistic Directors of all the major companies who have told Misty Copeland she’s worthless choking on their own bile, with this very special middle finger, embedded just for them.

 

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9 minutes ago, YourSweet666 said:

I found this, thought it's interesting.

 

The Moment We Missed in Lemonade

Was the moment in Freedom when a Black girl performed classical dance, en pointe, on a stage for an audience.

I know Lemonade was full of imagery of Black women and I am not one so I will not step for even a second into that analysis, because it’s been done so well elsewhere and it isn’t mine to analyse.

But I haven’t seen anyone mention this, and I can’t help but think that if you’re not part of the ballet world, you might not know how excluded Black women are from classical dance.

The truth is, they are still almost entirely excluded. They are told, here perhaps more than anywhere, that their bodies are not welcome, that they don’t fit the right shape, that they’re unfeminine and too muscular and any of a hundred other pieces of racist garbage.

Misty Copeland has spoken about this more eloquently than I ever could, and so have many other Black women who dance. Precious Adams went to the Bolshoi and faced this racism at its most unapologetic heart. Michaela DePrince has fought it in the US and Europe.

So when Beyonce featured a Black girl, withnatural hair, en pointe and in shoes dyed for her skin? ****ing extraordinary. Amazing. I cried.

See, in ballet, hair is a force to be controlled. Ballerina hair is straight, all one length, gelled and pinned into a bun. Mild waves can be hard to regiment to a teacher’s satisfaction. Kinky hair? No way.

And pointe shoes? They come in one colour, ‘flesh pink’, too pale even for many white girls, let alone Women of Colour. I dye my pointe shoes, and I am mixed to hell with all kinds of Eurotrash. For years, though, I wasn’t allowed. I had to wear anemic tights that made my body look like it had been photoshopped onto one pair in a parade of identical ballerina legs. For dark-skinned women, this was an even more uncomfortable sign that they did not belong.

This dancer had both her hair and her real skin tone. And she was beautiful. She had a flower crown, she was graceful and elegant, not relegated to a “passionate” role or a villain, but a beacon of femininity. She dressed in traditional white, with a skirt reminiscent of the swan in Swan Lake that is regarded as TheWhitest Role in All of Ballet.

This was one of many giant **** Yous to the traditional Establishment Beyonce embedded in Lemonade. I know it’s a small one. I know there were many more important ones that much more qualified people have talked about.

But for me it was exhilirating and powerful to imagine the Artistic Directors of all the major companies who have told Misty Copeland she’s worthless choking on their own bile, with this very special middle finger, embedded just for them.

 

Wow. I even learned something, that that pink isn't just gurlie, it's meant to be nude coloured 😳 I know delusional rats here will seethe, but Gaga has, and never will, ever. That's it.

 

I Stan Bey now