LibGuides: Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' and Information Resources: Analysis Project Resources

Purchase Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' on Amazon

Lemonade, Performed by Beyoncé ; with featured performers and accompanying musicians. Explicit lyrics.

Purchase Lemonade on Amazon
Amazon product page for Lemonade (Explicit Lyrics) by Beyoncé and other artists; 1 audio CD (46 minutes) and 1 DVD (66 minutes).

Contains: 1 CD audio, digital (46 minutes) and 1 DVD (66 minutes).

Album:

Pray you catch me / written by Kevin Garrick, Beyoncé, James Blake (3:16)

Hold up / written by Thomas Wesley Pentz, Ezra Koenig, Beyoncé, [and 12 others] (3:41)

Don't hurt yourself / written by Jack White, Beyoncé, Diana "Wynter" Gordon, [and 4 others] (featuring Jack White) (3:54)

Sorry / written by Diana "Wynter" Gordon, Sean Rhoden P/K/A MeLo-X, Beyoncé (3:53)

6 inch / written by Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, Beyoncé, Danny Schofield [and 9 others] (featuring the Weeknd) (4:20)

Daddy lessons / written by Diana "Wynter" Gordon, Beyoncé, Kevin Cossum, Alex Delicata (4:48)

Love drought / written by Mike Dean, Ingrid Burley, Beyoncé (3:57)

Sandcastles / written by Vincent Berry II, Beyoncé, Malik Yusef, Midian Mathers (3:03)

Forward / written by James Blake and Beyoncé (featuring James Blake) (1:19)

Freedom / written by Jonathan Coffer, Beyoncé, Carla Williams [and 5 others] (featuring Kendrick Lamar) (4:50)

All night / written by Thomas Wesley Pentz, Beyoncé, Henry Allen [and 8 others] (5:22)

Formation / written by Michael L. Williams II, Khalif Brown, Asheton Hogan, Beyoncé (3:26).

DVD includes music videos from this and other Beyoncé albums.

Beyoncé’s Lemonade – An Analysis Project
Overview and instructions for 11th IB Language and Literature students who will be reading Beyonce’s Lemonade (Explicit) Visual Album as a Non-Literary Text. Students will read, listen to and view the visual album while learning the necessary elements to analyze the non-literary text through cultural/literary/media analysis. They will practice the SIFT Analysis method to analyze the lyrics and Cultural Media Analysis for the video portion of the song. Author: Gretchen Nordleaf-Nelson.
Lemonade Album Lyrics
Complete lyrics for the twelve songs in the Lemonade album: Pray you catch me; Hold up; Don't hurt yourself; Sorry; 6 inch; Daddy lessons; Love drought; Sandcastles; Forward; Freedom All night; Formation.
Cultural/Media Analysis
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Explanation of the music-video-specific questions to be answered for the Lemonade Analysis Project, covering the five key questions of media literacy (authorship, format, audience, content and purpose).
SIFT Method of Literary Analysis
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Instructions for using the SIFT method (analyzing Symbol, Images, Figures of Speech, and Tone and Theme) for the Lemonade Analysis Project. Students choose one song from the Lemonade album (any song except Formation), perform a SIFT analysis of the lyrics, write out their analysis in their journals.

Sound, Vision, and Embodied Performativity in Beyoncé Knowles’ Visual Album Lemonade
Article by Johanna Hartman in the European Journal of American Studies in their special issue - Sound and Vision: Intermediality and American Music.