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Discussion: Lemonade the most acclaimed album since Thriller?
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It was the #2 acclaimed album this year so obviously not. It's acclaim is very impressive though.
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The delusion.... 
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A Bey fan didn't even start this thread, but you are really the last person that needs to be commenting on backfiring threads and posts.
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Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ is the Greatest Pop Moment of the 21st Century
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Beyoncé’s Lemonade arrived tonight via HBO, and now, in its immediate aftermath, there is no other way to say it: we have all witnessed the greatest pop moment thus far of the 21st century.
There is an inherent barrier in pop music at large. It says: No, you cannot come in. With Lemonade, Beyoncé has let us in— with personal songs, artistic visuals, incredible music and deeply intimate lyrics. What Beyoncé has done is “Thriller” times 20.
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Lemonade is Beyoncé’s Career-Defining Album
She’s delivered an extraordinary album worthy of being spoken in the same breath as Thriller, Purple Rain, and Like a Prayer
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Beyoncé has officially pivoted into an album artist of the top order, one who happens to be a ridiculously famous pop star, more so than Madonna at her early-90s peak. It’s not that she downplays the importance of expertly crafted songs—Lemonade contains twelve of them, and they’re as tuneful as Destiny’s Child’s biggest hits—but they’re mere components in her larger vision. The album is Beyoncé’s preferred canvas, tracks are her brushstrokes.
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Beyoncé’s new visual album is a spectacle to rival “Thriller.” But how is it as strictly music?
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As a gather ’round! moment of living-room excitement, the premiere of Beyoncé’s Lemonade on HBO on Saturday evening was reminiscent of the 1980s debuts of the extended Michael Jackson video mini-dramas for “Thriller” and “Bad.” And as pop-music visual culture, Lemonade is of their rank—a beautiful and often disturbing kaleidoscope of poetry, feminism, racial politics, history, mythology, emotional upheaval, family, and romance that can be watched again and again and will be for years to come. The question now is whether Lemonade the album, which appeared on Tidal the same night, is equally remarkable as strictly music. It’s a difficult call.
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Why Beyoncé's Lemonade is having such a powerful impact
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It has attracted so much attention is extraordinary in itself. But the fact that so much of that attention is positive – many pundits are already claiming to be one of the albums of the year – is even more telling about the album's strength.
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How Beyoncé's Lemonade became a pop culture phenomenon
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It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no other living musical artist who could ignite such a broad and unavoidable conversation just by releasing a new album – even a visual one, and it’s her second visual album – or who could turn an hour-long, visually narrative film for that album into a Saturday night watch-with-your-friends event on subscription cable channel, or who could parlay that event into new customers for a streaming-and-downloadable musical service (Tidal) in which she has a familial, if not financial interest, and which has struggled to gain market traction against mega-competitors such as iTunes, Spotify and Amazon.
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BEYONCE’S LEMONADE AS A PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE
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There’s a certain perfection in seeing the imperfections in celebrities’ lives – and it’s that basis on which celebrity culture ultimately operates. Beyoncé invited us all to contemplate that her life could be imperfect and understandable, filled with unimaginable highs and all-too-recognizable lows, and that being imperfect didn’t make her less of a person worthy of respect. It’s not a surprise that it’s become a cultural phenomenon; it’s just surprising that it’s taken so many people so long to recognize that she’s always been one.
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I Think it's pretty obvious...
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Thriller was successful, but nowhere near as acclaimed as Lemonade and many other albums.
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Beyoncé Is the Rightful Heir to Michael Jackson and Prince on ‘Lemonade’
Like all things Beyoncé, Lemonade is a triumph of marketing and musicality, spectacle and song, vision and collaboration, Borg-like assimilation, and — as of 2013 — the element of surprise. And lest we forget, Bey’s one half of the only celebrity-artist marriage bond that matters to media and civilization today.
This one sum up Lemonade in a paragraph ...
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It is definitely very acclaimed but the way acclaim is measured now vs then is not the same and for now lemonade only has short term acclaim let's see how well it ages and how it's remembered and referenced!
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Thriller isn't even the most acclaimed album of the 80s.
And according to the biggest acclaim aggregate there is, currently the most acclaimed albums of 2016:
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1 David Bowie / Blackstar
2 Radiohead / A Moon Shaped Pool
3 Frank Ocean / Blonde
4 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds / Skeleton Tree
5 Beyonce / Lemonade
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Originally posted by Revolution
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Denying facts how edgy of you
the brain lie,the mouth lie, the media do not 
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Not since MJ have we gotten to witness a former teen star evolve into a grown-ass one with so much state-of-the-art pop currency, pantheonic ambition, and craft of song. In the absence of our dearly departed and grievously beloved Prince, “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” her poundingly guitarlicious collab with Jack White, stomps onto Betty Davis turf — check “He Was a Big Freak” — with ferocity and sexual mockery.
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No. It's an overhyped album and I already feel like it'll be second to ST in this era of Beyonce.
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Thriller isn't even the most acclaimed album of the 80s.
And according to the biggest acclaim aggregate there is, currently the most acclaimed albums of 2016:
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But we are comparing acclaim + cultural impact tho
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it's not even the most acclaimed album of April
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Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (2012)
1st place - 28 lists
To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar (2015)
1st place - 51 lists
Like, Lemonade (14) won't come close lmao
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Nah, it's not even the most acclaimed of 2016.
Don't let the media's Beyoncé bias re:year-end lists fool you, people won't say bad things about Lemonade because it's easy to deem someone a racist for "failing to understand the black female struggle", even though a lot of Lemonade came from white men.
Beyoncé is good bait for hits on websites, and we already know people won't give her low scores because no one wants to take heat from the fans (already confirmed, but we knew it regardless http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1073624P).
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Nope 21 exists
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NO, and your jeapordizing me stanning for both Bey and MJ
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Yes she just needs her album of the year win.
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So many banned members in here.
OT: Lemonade is more acclaimed than Thriller.
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