Beyonce Drops Surprise New Visual Album 'Lemonade'

Beyonce has surprised her fans again, by dropping her sixth studio album Lemonade, on Saturday evening (April 23rd). The ‘visual album’ made its debut on HBO, with a series of music videos, before becoming available on husband Jay-Z’s streaming service, Tidal.

The album features 12 tracks including ‘Formation’, which she released as a single back in February and performed during Coldplay’s Superbowl half-time show. While Beyonce had not announced she would be releasing a new album, she had been teasing that something big would happen on Saturday.

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Lemonade features a number of high-profile guests stars, including Jack White, The Weeknd, James Blake and Kendrick Lamar and is described as 'a conceptual project based on every woman’s journey of self-knowledge and healing’.

Tracing a story of infidelity and eventual reconciliation, the album’s videos are split up into chapter headings, with titles such as "Intuition," "Denial," "Apathy," "Emptiness" and "Resurrection”, which are all connected by a voiceover from Beyoncé reading poetry by Warsan Shire.

But undoubtedly, the album’s themes have caused many to believe that it confirms long-running rumours of husband Jay-Z’s infidelity. In ‘Hold Up’ she sings "Can't you see there's no other man above you? What a wicked way to treat the girl that loves you.”

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The release of Lemonade tops off a busy month for Bey, who last week launched a range of fashion sportswear, Ivy Park, in Topshop’s UK stores. She’s also set to begin her world tour on April 27th in Miami.