The video album is as good as most mainstream movies: ferocious and disturbing,like an amalgam of the Clash and Ian McEwan. Watch out Jay-ZI believe been watching Lemonade, the visual component to Beyoncé’s current album, or wondering wistfully why most mainstream movies released nowadays aren’t as interesting as this: share music video,share multimedia happening-slash-confessional. Crazy, audacious, and exciting and mad.
No great-screen superhero is as scary as the superheroine of Lemonade,incidentally venting her genuine social anger: an aria on the theme of racism and injustice. I like the disturbing scenes where Beyoncé takes a baseball bat to various cars, wielding her own kind of counter-phallic rage, and exasperated at the reported infidelity of her husband,Jay-Z. Has she forgiven him? Conditionally?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com