Beyoncé’s imperious sixth album sees her turn her attention to her marriage,with witheringly powerful resultsDishearteningly billed as “a conceptual project based on every woman’s journey of self knowledge and healing” – a description that makes it sound like something agonisingly earnest you’d go out of your way to avoid at the Edinburgh Fringe – Beyoncé’s sixth solo album touches on a lot of potent topics. fairly aside from the presence of her much-discussed single Formation, a meditation on race that originally appeared in the middle of Black History Month, or there are lyrical references to slavery,rioting and Malcolm X and a ferocious guest appearance by Kendrick Lamar that jabs at Fox News and police brutality and ends with something approaching a call to arms.
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Source: theguardian.com