The artists that resonate with us most powerfully are those who successfully channel the hurt, joy, betrayal, love, and accompanying epiphanies inside their own lives in a way that becomes a melodic muse to our own life experience. It’s what bonds us to them. That is the essence of music’s real power. Feelings.
To say Beyoncé is deep in the feels with Lemonade, A Visual Album (Columbia), is an understatement. She purges her story in ten raw steps that chronicle the stages of grief and resurrection inside the fractured, fragile relationships with the men in her life, and shares the strength and knowing, support and wisdom she absorbs from the women in her world to survive it all and more importantly, hold **** together.
There’s not a female on the planet who won’t be able to relate to this album; how life serves up those bitter lemons and the instinctual determination we all have to make Lemonade out of it. She’s pouring out her truth, and it will connect big time.
But what this particular artist has also consistently demonstrated is the boldness of invention. First, with how albums are set up (zero) and released (surprise!). Now with this project, challenging convention on how albums are presented: with visual context.
Does HDD even review albums. Very positive.
The acclaim.
