What Parts of Lemonade Help Prove Beyoncé Used it to Provide Her Stance For Equality?

        (This picture is of Beyoncé and fellow African American women who support her) https://mashable.com/2016/04/24/beyonce-lemonade-cameos/

 

       Beyoncé uses the lyrics of the songs and the visuals in the albums to connect to black women. She includes other famous African American women figures throughout the album. The lyrics that Beyoncé sings proves she is standing up for equality for black women. A good example of those lyrics is, ” I see it, I want it, I stunt, yellow-bone it / I dream it, I work hard, I grind ’til I own it / I twirl on them haters.” Beyoncé is saying this as a black woman and is saying she is going to get what she wants no matter her race or gender.

      She is encouraging black females to go after what they believe in and do whatever it takes to make it happen. Beyoncé talks about how black females have been mistreated throughout history. In the article,” Lemons Out of Lemonade” it says that, “Lemonade as a starting place for collectively unpacking our trauma and articulating new black feminist politics” (Tinsley 4). The quote is saying that Lemonade is starting a path for black females to be able to stand up for themselves and expressing new interests about black female inequality.

     In the article, ” Beyoncé’s Overwhelming Opus; or, the Past and Future of Music Video.” the author says that, ” For while music envelops us, visual features more often momentarily focus our attention, especially if they’re working in the service of the song” (Vernallis 2). This quote helps show the importance of the visuals Beyoncé uses to show inequality for black women in Lemonade. People pay attention to the visuals and Beyoncé used visuals very well to represent the importance of her stance on equality.

 

 

 

Tinsley, Omise’eke. Women’s Review of Books, Nov/Dec2018, Vol. 35 Issue 6, p4-5, 2p, 1 Black and White Photograph, 2 Diagrams. 

Vernallis, Carol. Film Criticism. Mar2017, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p1-31. 31p. 22 Color Photographs. DOI: 10.3998/fc.13761232.0041.105.