#LEMONADE

After hearing Beyoncé’s new album #LEMONADE on Saturday I could not help myself but to run to the computer and write this blog post right away on it. #LEMONADE is causing a media frenzy. Let me back up a bit and discuss why that is. So Beyoncé drops her new album but not with only tracks, but with a VISUAL ALBUM. Let me just say it is AMAZING, but not everyone is thinking that. In Beyoncé’s one hour and 5 minute visual album she insinuates that her also famous husband Jay-Z has been cheating on her and in one of her songs "Sorry" she mentions a line saying "He better call Becky with the good hair." When Beyoncé’s "Beyhive" (name for her followers) heard this they went crazy assuming "Becky" was the girl he had cheated on Beyoncé with.  People did a little digging and started attacking another famous female Rachel Roy because they were sure she was “Becky with the good hair.” Now there are two reasons this is stirring up the popular culture world. 1) Because Beyoncé aired her husband’s dirty laundry out in her entire album plus dragged his mistress down too, and 2) People are not happy with Beyoncé’s strict focus on race in her visual album. Becky for one is a racist term for a white woman, which many people heaved Beyoncé for. In Beyoncé’s visual album she represents “the African American women in the American psyche” (Carpentier) but not just African America women she’s representing feminism. Beyoncé strictly uses African American woman, and southern locations to make her point. Many celebrities have given their input on Beyoncé’s new album so head over to twitter for some more opinions. Also if you haven’t heard it yet, I encourage everyone to go watch/listen to it and even give your opinions in the comments section. If you want to read more up on it below is a link to a website discussing how Beyoncé's Lemonade became a pop culture phenomenon.



http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/26/beyonce-lemonade-jay-z-becky-pop-culture