Thank you so very much! There have been nothing but cool and positive comments so far from yous all. We've had several other fanbases be... less than kind because we don't immediately know every detail of the artist which is new to us. Thanks again and especially thanks for watching us watch this!
@H.E.R. yeah everyone knows of her, but not everyone knows her as intimately as the hive does. i remember when formation came out i had to explain to people that beyonce has always been pro-black bc they didnt know her like that
Beyoncé is depicting the African Goddess "Oshun" in this video (the yellow dress). Oshun was known for having pleasure in getting revenge and that is shown thru the playfulness of the music/instrumentals yet aggressive lyrics and the way Beyoncé is smiling and seems to enjoy "leaving a path of destruction". This entire album has so many layers and hidden "tid-bits", it's quite interesting and in order to fully understand it, you'd have to see it from beginning to end.
Lemonade is basically her going through the stages of grief and then ultimately reaching acceptance. Think people want you to react to the entire album bc she crosses so many genres and the mv intros are just beautiful.
I wish we'd have known that before we started out of order. Probably get people mad now if we went backwards and even more out of order. The first recommendation off of this Lemonade album came from someone on our Megan Thee Stallion / Beyonce reaction. Have no idea why they suggested it out of sequence. Now, we're stuck. Thank you for watching us!
Yo, Sporto... If only people would submit such, and certain, requests more relevantly. However... I believe it'd be fine if you and Bowser do one song a week from the album. I'm not familiar with the album so I don't know how many songs there are, but as for album reaction requests I believe this would be the best way to do it. When you get to this song on the album, maybe you and Bowser could do a simple 'conversation' video as a reaction to the song. You and Bowser could mention whether you have any change to what you previously said. Then in the description of the video, Bowser can include the link to the actual reaction video, and mention it's in the description on the video, so people can easily watch it again or if they haven't yet.
We have seen a lot of men (women too) in power, who have families and good spouses, but are so big headed, blinded by the lifestyle, and have money and fame hungry people throwing themselves at them all the time, they have affairs and entanglements all the time. Since the beginning of time it has happened. People who have so much always tend to give into a greed to have more. It must be a pattern in human psychology of people who just lose humbleness. Only think of how they feel, not how they affect those around them.
I don't think y'all are giving yourselves enough credit. Your analysis is spot on and you're picking up on themes and motifs. You may not know what they're defined as, but you see it! Keep going!!
The yellow clothes she's wearing is a homage to "Oxum/Oshun", the goddes of the river, of the emotions, in African cultures. This godness is also known for the jealously and for the revenge. The whole album is about a very painful momento to Beyoncé, but it's also a moment where she recover herself and her blackness. It is a masterpiece.
The best way to understand how they mended their issues is to go through 3 albums 1. Lemonade 2. 4:44 3. Everything is Love Also, yeah, they're still back together. Three kids, Blue, Sir, and Rumi.
I see that. He must've been half asleep when posting it. He works a lot and has a family. And wouldn't you know it that I don't have access to the channel right now to change it! sorry about that
I simply LOVE your reactions. They are sooooo authentic. Coming from a black woman you are sooo right! We need to change up the game! Listen to other genres of MUSIC and grow!!! Love you guys!!!!!!!!!
The songs are good but it really hits different if you run through them in order. Hold up is #2 and Don't hurt yourself was #3. But it's a good album either way!
Okay!! Love how ya'll take the time to read the lyrics and analyse the purpose of the visuals. The album is split into chapters--one for each song--so after 'denial' came 'Anger,' which is 'Don't Hurt Yourself' and following that is 'Apathy,' which is the song 'Sorry'. You guys should check it out.
One thing I love in this album's every video is the connection its art makes with Orixás (african entities from the yoruba mitology, found in the african based religions Umbanda and Candomblé). In this one we see Yemanjá and Oxum. In the beginning of this video in particular, Beyonce's in calming, blue waters, listing everything she's done to calm herself down and try to heal and save her marriage. She turned to herself in order to find a light in the darkness she was living in. It's really a denial moment, a "this too shall pass"/"you'll be okay" moment. There's a scene when Beyonce's watching herself sleep. In this part she can be seen as Yemanjá, who's represented by the color blue, she's queen of the salt waters and the sea. Yemanjá is a loving, serene mother who washes our pain away. Once Beyonce's out of this hibernation wearing the yellow dress, she's ready to fight, ready to confront whatever and whoever is in her way because she's done denying the fact she got cheated on. Here she's Oxum, queen of the sweet waters and the rivers (seen in the waters running with her when she opens the door), who really takes care of herself and is represented by the color yellow. Just like Yemanjá, she's a loving mother but she's also a jealous wife who doesn't accept being betrayed in her feelings. The duplicity in the video can represent these two Orixás so perfectly...
Yea the whole album is very eclectic. She experiments with different sounds. Fun fact. There is leaked elevator footage of Beyonce’s sister Solange trying to beat his ass in the elevator when they were leaving a party cause she allegedly saw him flirting with the woman at the party. This is what kicked off the whole rumor and later this album eventually came to address it.
lol, guys! "who the hell would cheat on her?" "I don't know man" "Jay-Z. smh. smh." Ya'll should watch the lemonade movie, I think that would make the whole concept of the album and individual songs easier to unterstand. Btw, not sure if someone already mentioned it: The Intro you see in the music video is part of a poem by the author Warsan Shire. Beyonce adapted it for the Lemonade Film. These poems serve as interludes and tie the songs together throughout the film, to help depict the process she is going through.
this is soo cute, i love how you guys are venturing out and learning about Beyonce even though she's not necessarily the type of artist you guys listen to on the daily. People can get soo caught in genres, lines and borders and i love how you guys are transcending that, keep going! yours sincerely, a member of the beyhive x
I had it pulled up next to me on my chromebook and that's what I was looking at. But, whenver I click on the highlighted sections, nothing happens. Maybe the website isn't chrome-compatible. *shrug* Thank though!
Beyonce really shocked me with this album. We all know Beyonce was very private, or as private as she and Jay could be in the beginning. But she eventually shown off her true colors and put Jay ass on blast. Jay did a few songs addressing his marriage and cheating but still tried to be pretty private.
Hold Up wasn’t a super deep song, but it was my first favorite when watching the album/movie. 6 Inch was second lol. My favorite Beyoncé album is 4. That album is one you can play through.
W V I wasn’t talking about poems. I don’t think the poems are an extension to the songs. To me they’re their own thing. I was talking more so about the layerings. Lyrically... deep, not really, I understand why you’d think so, but the point is really simple.
Ummm it’s Beyonce...the people would love to watch you do the whole album. And Lemonade has so many different genres on it you’d get a different vibe from each song. Oh and she didn’t do Disney for awhile. She only worked on the live action version of Lion King and just recently signed a deal and has a visual album for her album The Gift being released on 7/31 on Disney+. To date that’s all she has done with Disney
There is a podcast on spotify called Disect and it breaks down lyrics. They have a whole segment dedicated to lemonade if you want to do a deep dive behind her lyrics
So if you notice the guy on the 4 wheeler was in all black, he’s a symbol of her past self and when she used to care about what people thought etc. He’s shirt says “In Memory of When I Gave A F*ck”
I knew the answer would come in the form of a comment reply! This is why I dig the comments so much! what best way to learn than from the people who know best, the fans. Thanks! and that makes sense now why he was cruising by at certain moments and sort of always just passing through.
As someone who wasnt a fan of Beyonce after she left Destiny's Child, my girlfriend actually broke this album down for me to explain it's significance. I guess this album is her going through the grieving process of her relationship. I was actually surprised how deep it was.
@@BlaydeAlabama I thought she was over hyped after them, and Kelly never really got the recognition she deserved because she was always in Beyonce's shadow... it was messed up
You said, "why would you cheat on her" honestly... the album addresses that. When beyonce says "I'm not too perfect to ever feel this worthless. How did it come down to this" she's acknowledging the fact that Yes, I'm Beyoncé but my pride didn't protect me. We can all be effected by our significant others mistreatment. But I'll be damned if I sit here and cry and just be jealous.
Hey guys, first let me say, thank you for the shout out. Nobody knows everything, that what’s so great about this platform. Beyoncé is an amazing artist. I was as surprised as you that she sampled Led Zeppelin, and to choose that song to express her discontent with her husband was fire. I love all music. My very first concert was Rolling Stones , my mom took me I was 9. Best day ever. I think Beyoncé is telling her husband that the side chick wouldn’t want him if he was an average guy. But her love is for him is real. Oh and guys btw you are reacting to lemonade. Hold up, Don’t Hurt Yourself, are from the lemonade album..
I think you guys should react to her VISUAL album you guys will have a lot more ”ah ha” moments if you do. Each song except for Formation is a stage of her getting over his betrayal. Then Jay-Z’s album 4:44 is kinda like the reaction to lemonade. Then they came together and made Everything is Love which is like them saying they are good and everything is ok.
It's great to see people still discovering and trying to understand and dissect this album 4 years after its release. People have literally written dissertations on it, there is so much depth and meaning behind it. Not to mention Beyoncé is a notoriously private celebrity so this album and her honesty was a massive deal. Even if you don't review the entire album/film, you should definitely watch it because it is a masterpiece.
You have to experience the album Lemonade from start to finish. Besides the album, I you could react to Beyoncé live. She's a beast live. For a start, I'd suggest Beyoncé tribute to Stevie Wonder and Beautiful Ones/Sex on Fire live at Glastonbury.
Oh dammit! We mislabeled the posting!! Everyone, I'm sorry about that. I don't have access right now to fix the title, or pin this comment. And Bowzer is asleep!
If you want to understand how they worked through the infidelity issues. You have to watch, not just listen to, but WATCH because it's a visual album. Meaning that she made a film for her album and each song has a video to accompany it. Watch Lemonade, to get the full picture of the journey she went on emotionally, to process the infidelity and how she reached the final decision that she did in deciding to stay with him.
Both Jay Z and Bey made albums about the infidelity. Jay's album is "4:44". Their most recent album together is called "Everything Is Love" underneath the name "The Carters". The album is about how they rose above their marital issues and are stronger.
I enjoyed this. Glad I stumbled upon it. love videos like these where people keep an open mind to new experiences. And it's hilarious to see that there are people who barely know Beyonce is a huge thing lol!
If y’all love podcasts, the Dissect podcast just finished analyzing Lemonade track by track and I highly recommend listening if you’re interested, of course after ya’ll possibly finish reacting to the Lemonade visuals😗
I love that you took the time to understand her feelings through it, that album was a product of some really difficult emotions and labour. I was hesitant, but I'm glad I clicked on this video.
To better understand LEMONADE, they would have to go song by song in order. The videos are not all uploaded on TH-cam, but they are found on other platforms. Incidentally, there are videos that shorten the song as is the case of "All night". I think it would be nice if I reacted to the video and then to the audio that is complete.
The Lemonade visual album is about her going through the 7 stages of grief dealing with what her husband's infidelity did to her. It's a visual journey through it, which is why you saw "Denial " flash on the screen. I believe this is the second stage because this is the second video of that video album. She says poetry in between the videos to carry the mood on to the next song so you get what stage she's in. Hopefully that helped, since you're going in random order, but I think the snippet of poetry before the song really helps you stay on track anyways. She discussed with her husband that she wanted to make this album. Of course this is after they worked on their marriage. He helped with some of the production, I believe. The Lemonade album was her story. His album "4:44" is the name of his album where he talks about the situation, things happening in the black community and other things. The next album was both of them. It is respectfully called "The Carters" sing this is their album together as husband and wife. It's called "Everything is Love". They go on a journey telling about how they first met, dated, feelings about it. They talk about friends and family that hold them down and have been there for them. They talk about achievements made and that need to be made for the black community. They talk about their love and how it's stronger than ever. They came out the other side and now everything is love. Beyonce has been getting into her African ancestry habits and religion. She is learning and teaching the diaspora at the same time. The dress color she is wearing is symbolic of an African Goddess named Oshun. She is the Goddess of fertility, love and etc. She can go off if she thinks she's being played with. She's the type that would laugh and smile in your face while giving you just desserts, which is why Beyonce is delivering a menacing message with a happy carefree spirit. The Goddess' color is gold yellow. Beyonce is channeling her here.
I've been listening to the Dissect podcast on Spotify; it breaks all of this down and to how Beyoncé links her own process to the legacy of Black women before her...the entire album is a genius at work 💜
Yessss this was one of my favourites off the album, but almost all the songs grew on me after a few listens. Hope you guys react to some more of her work! I feel like it gets overshadowed sometimes by her huge public image and a lot of people seem to judge her off of her more popular singles rather than her albums. She’s got a lot of hidden gems that the general public just doesn’t know about. Anyways, loved the vid as always!
Fellas, it would be great to do her tribute to Stevie Wonder. It has a performance with Gary Clarke Jr so it may expose you to a newer artist and the dude is a beast on the bass guitar so you might love him. Plus you're more likely to know the words to those songs. Sidenote this is just for me personally cause you guys are self professed metal heads (and I know I'm not using the right terminology lol) but have you heard of Tremonti, Alter Bridge and Slash and the Conspirators? Or that less metal and more hard rock?
I have an advice. For any song you do from lemonade - you should check out the corresponding episode on the highly acclaimed podcast "Dissect" It'll make a lot of sense. Also yes. The album is about how they worked it out. It follows the classical stages of grief (this was the denial chapter). But the album follows multiple arcs. Including society "cheating" black women. The album is lemonade (from lemons) - its about generational healing for black women -
You guys so need to watch this as a whole. It's so much better. I'd also recommend watching more of her live performances as well. She's complete fire as a whole 🔥
This is the order in which it is arranged in the film, all the music videos are all on TH-cam, you’ve already reacted to 2&3 you can start from 1 and go straight to 4 1 Pray You Catch Me 2 Hold Up 3 Don’t Hurt Yourself 4 Sorry 5 6 Inch heels 6 Daddy Lessons 7 Love Drought 8 Sandcastles 9 Forward 10 Freedom 11 All Night 12 Formation
She doesn’t necessarily make instrument-like sounds (which she definitely can) but she has the ability to sing in sync with an instrument, it’s an amazing talent. Please please please look up and react to “Beyoncé - I care (live at roseland)” and listen to the guitar solo. It’s amazing, she kills it every performance
The album is basically tells the story of her revelation that JayZ was cheating....but it's so much deeper. It was therapeutic for her and so many who've dealt with infidelity. The coolest thing is that JayZ actually released a critically acclaimed RESPONSE ALBUM titled "4:44" which basically took accountability for his cheating. I think his song "4:44" would give you more answers than another Beyonce song right now. His direct approach is more insightful and the as he makes major confessions. Please react to his "4:44" track by JayZ He is considered a top 5 rapper of all time by most authentic OG hip hop heads. At 50 he's still rapping....he's a business mogul with top shelf liquor lines, he was co-owner of both Rocawear apparel line and Rocafella Records since the 1990s. He introduced TIDAL an alternative streaming service where artists are fairly compensated for their work....many artist have since left the service. But he's found alot of success with Rocnation his management firm that has signed major artists and celebrity athletes. He was hired by NFL commissioner as a diversity development liason following the Kaepernick's knee protests that resulted in scandal. His hiring was after he'd turned down Super bowl halftime performance and advise other AA entertainers to turn it down also. He's complicated....hated by some loved by others. He recently became a Black Billionaire according Forbes magazine. Beyonce is extremely successful her net worth is almost $500 million...she is rguably the most popular artist in music Industry. AFTER THEY EACH RELEASED SOLO PROJECTS. THEY GAVE US a joint reconciliation album "The Carters" so they are very much still married.
i don't think she's "in the 70s" like maybe the late 90s if we're going to the past at all, but like that's legit just an urban black neighbourhood and could be seen as a modern one especially since the video was released in 2017. it's where i grew up and where my cousins live like it really just be like that with people living their life and chilling and having fun (the kids running to play under a broken fire hydrant with their water guns and the guy riding around on a four wheeler) and there are areas in the us (idk where you guys are) where the original architecture is still standing and the style of homes and businesses are like that where the buildings look like those built in the 70s/80s/90s simply because the buildings are still standing and the architecture survived (what comes to my immediate mind is new orleans, houston, some parts of dallas; places like that)
These are only pieces of her visual album, which is AMAZING btw, and it tells the story of how she dealt with it. The whole visual album is on Tidal though but its so worth the watch.
Hey! I'm enjoying the hell outta watching you two watch her genius, sexy "badassery." Now, WATCH THE LEMONADE VISUAL ALBUM. :) In its entirety. (At least after you get through your reactions to her Lemonade youtube cuts.) There's lots of missing bits if you're just watching the youtube stuff. And perhaps you'll discover a dual intent hidden within the whole "Jay-Z cheats on Beyonce" line of thought. But anyhow, the dialogue and just everything throughout the visual album is beautifully captured. Very moving. And then fucking Formation at the end. Rawr!! Love how soft the flow is just before she whips it at the very end. Alright lastly, couple of my favorite moments of dialogue in the visual album - "I DON'T KNOW WHEN LOVE BECAME ELUSIVE. WHAT I KNOW IS, NO ONE I KNOW HAS IT." And especially, "YOUR MOTHER IS A WOMAN. AND WOMEN LIKE HER CANNOT BE CONTAINED." Cheers to all - Em
She was harmonizing in don't hurt yourself, if you pay attention to the song you can hear that she is singing "aaah" in the chorus and in other moments of the song, they take her vocals and change the pitch, chop everything and make that effect that you guys heard in don't hurt yourself
I would comment, but I didn’t get the notifications, and my fellow BeyHive members have answered the questions. I look forward to these videos! I love it when people take the time to indulge in Beyoncé’s career and artistry.
Thank you so much for reacting to Beyoncé!!! It was great to see a different perspective other than the typical beyhive fan. Yes, like everyone else is saying you should do the full album. Do one episode a week it’ll be easier that way instead of doing it all at once.
Watch Beyoncé’s live performances like her Coachella performance. She brings her songs and the associated videos and themes to life and truly shines then!
Hey guys, I never comment, but I really wanted to let you guys know how great this reaction was! Especially with pulling up the lyrics, and trying to decipher any symbolism in the video, awesome job!! Also a reaction to the visual album would be great but if it's too time-consuming, I understand :)
You DEFINITELY need the whole thing!!! It is one of the greatest pieces of art, the flow is just sick...I can’t tell u how many times I’ve watched and still watch to this day! Also... if you watch the entire movie (because it truly is one) you will have your answer (are they still together and how it came to be)
I think your analysis of this video was great! I agree with others who have commented that if you all listen to and watch the videos that go along with the album it would make more sense. Also, you guys are hilarious, I'm totally subscribing!
we’re not mad at you! the beyhive is crazy about bey and we’re just excited to see new people learn about her 😂
Thank you so very much! There have been nothing but cool and positive comments so far from yous all. We've had several other fanbases be... less than kind because we don't immediately know every detail of the artist which is new to us. Thanks again and especially thanks for watching us watch this!
True!
@H.E.R. yeah everyone knows of her, but not everyone knows her as intimately as the hive does. i remember when formation came out i had to explain to people that beyonce has always been pro-black bc they didnt know her like that
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@@sportosp-0158 sporto we miss you!!!!.....greetings from Argentina!
Beyoncé is depicting the African Goddess "Oshun" in this video (the yellow dress). Oshun was known for having pleasure in getting revenge and that is shown thru the playfulness of the music/instrumentals yet aggressive lyrics and the way Beyoncé is smiling and seems to enjoy "leaving a path of destruction". This entire album has so many layers and hidden "tid-bits", it's quite interesting and in order to fully understand it, you'd have to see it from beginning to end.
I never knew that! That's amazing, thanks for that piece of information!
Oooooooo didn’t know that 🥰🥰🥰
Yea Oshun is pagan godess.
@@lucialu833 no. she is an AFRICAN DEITY!!!!!!!!
Lucia Lu she’s a WHAT? Please leave the paganism for the white folks, Oshun is an AFRICAN Orisha.
Lemonade is basically her going through the stages of grief and then ultimately reaching acceptance. Think people want you to react to the entire album bc she crosses so many genres and the mv intros are just beautiful.
I wish we'd have known that before we started out of order. Probably get people mad now if we went backwards and even more out of order. The first recommendation off of this Lemonade album came from someone on our Megan Thee Stallion / Beyonce reaction. Have no idea why they suggested it out of sequence. Now, we're stuck.
Thank you for watching us!
Yo, Sporto...
If only people would submit such, and certain, requests more relevantly.
However...
I believe it'd be fine if you and Bowser do one song a week from the album. I'm not familiar with the album so I don't know how many songs there are, but as for album reaction requests I believe this would be the best way to do it. When you get to this song on the album, maybe you and Bowser could do a simple 'conversation' video as a reaction to the song. You and Bowser could mention whether you have any change to what you previously said. Then in the description of the video, Bowser can include the link to the actual reaction video, and mention it's in the description on the video, so people can easily watch it again or if they haven't yet.
Sporto SP-01 just take your time and start from the beginning with “Pray You Catch Me”
Hahaha "who the hell would cheat on her?" Our thoughts too!
I don't know about her but I still haven't forgiven him.
A Sagittarius ♐️
@@silmsadie i refer to him as "beyonce's camel" and "that dude solange beat down in the elevator that one time." I don't know him.
We have seen a lot of men (women too) in power, who have families and good spouses, but are so big headed, blinded by the lifestyle, and have money and fame hungry people throwing themselves at them all the time, they have affairs and entanglements all the time. Since the beginning of time it has happened. People who have so much always tend to give into a greed to have more. It must be a pattern in human psychology of people who just lose humbleness. Only think of how they feel, not how they affect those around them.
@@leticiavarga1009 omg xd no, a cheater, those r the ones that cheat no matter what :P
The song sounds light because it's the embodiment of that feeling you get when you're so angry, you laugh, and what follows is scorched earth rage.
which leads us into the next song on the album, "dont hurt yourself"
She’s still working with Disney since her newest project “Black is king”, a visual album, is going to be released on Disney+ on July 31st
I. Can. Not. Wait.
I'm a Beyonce fan but there is no way on hell I'm giving my money to Disney so, I will wait.
Ha !O u can start a free trial then cancel it after u watch it
Marcus Kirkland a free trial is unfortunately not available anymore on Disney+. So if you want to watch it you’ll have to pay :(
Lauren McVicar Same!
You really should watch her live performances, that`s where she really shines!
Truth
The Beyoncé Experience changed me from a fan to a stan
@@BG-kn3nt The Beyoncé Experience was the stan point for me too
@@MsHalo789 her mtv lemonade performance was legendary
I love the way they don’t understand why jay-z cheated on beyoncé 😂
@Momo ye a man.😂🤣🧑🏿
I know a man thing
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They Beyhive don't know either tbh😂
No one knows. He is an iiiiidiot!
No one, how the actual fuck are you going to cheat on BEYONCÉ????????
I don't think y'all are giving yourselves enough credit. Your analysis is spot on and you're picking up on themes and motifs. You may not know what they're defined as, but you see it! Keep going!!
Thank you ashley
The yellow clothes she's wearing is a homage to "Oxum/Oshun", the goddes of the river, of the emotions, in African cultures. This godness is also known for the jealously and for the revenge.
The whole album is about a very painful momento to Beyoncé, but it's also a moment where she recover herself and her blackness. It is a masterpiece.
The best way to understand how they mended their issues is to go through 3 albums
1. Lemonade
2. 4:44
3. Everything is Love
Also, yeah, they're still back together. Three kids, Blue, Sir, and Rumi.
Lol I actually would love to see a whole lemonade reaction, it’s really a movie tbh the process from suspicion to forgiveness
You guys actually reacted to Hold Up hahaha loved how you guys try to understand the lyrics and the concept
I see that. He must've been half asleep when posting it. He works a lot and has a family. And wouldn't you know it that I don't have access to the channel right now to change it! sorry about that
@@sportosp-0158 That's alright!! I hope you guys can react to the rest of the album and visuals
She never was like a disney artist
The biggest thing she did with disney was recently with the lion king and now a visual album with disney +
They played the hell out of Say My Name when it came out for some reason too
I simply LOVE your reactions. They are sooooo authentic. Coming from a black woman you are sooo right! We need to change up the game! Listen to other genres of MUSIC and grow!!! Love you guys!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for your support
Lemonade really is meant to be consumed as an entire body of work, To understand conceptually this album.
I enjoy how excited the guy on the left is the whole time.
I love Lemonade so much. Just a primal scream of an album
The songs are good but it really hits different if you run through them in order. Hold up is #2 and Don't hurt yourself was #3. But it's a good album either way!
Okay!! Love how ya'll take the time to read the lyrics and analyse the purpose of the visuals. The album is split into chapters--one for each song--so after 'denial' came 'Anger,' which is 'Don't Hurt Yourself' and following that is 'Apathy,' which is the song 'Sorry'. You guys should check it out.
One thing I love in this album's every video is the connection its art makes with Orixás (african entities from the yoruba mitology, found in the african based religions Umbanda and Candomblé). In this one we see Yemanjá and Oxum. In the beginning of this video in particular, Beyonce's in calming, blue waters, listing everything she's done to calm herself down and try to heal and save her marriage. She turned to herself in order to find a light in the darkness she was living in. It's really a denial moment, a "this too shall pass"/"you'll be okay" moment. There's a scene when Beyonce's watching herself sleep. In this part she can be seen as Yemanjá, who's represented by the color blue, she's queen of the salt waters and the sea. Yemanjá is a loving, serene mother who washes our pain away. Once Beyonce's out of this hibernation wearing the yellow dress, she's ready to fight, ready to confront whatever and whoever is in her way because she's done denying the fact she got cheated on. Here she's Oxum, queen of the sweet waters and the rivers (seen in the waters running with her when she opens the door), who really takes care of herself and is represented by the color yellow. Just like Yemanjá, she's a loving mother but she's also a jealous wife who doesn't accept being betrayed in her feelings. The duplicity in the video can represent these two Orixás so perfectly...
the way her smile and her acting crazy is making them smile so much lmaoo honestly same
I love how you guys are reacting to this and reading the lyrics and trying to analyze it!!
Jay’s album 4:44 is a response to Lemonade. They also talk about their marriage on their joint album Everything is Love.
fiasco18 oooooh them reacting to EIL 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Everything is Love is such a wonderful and healing album.
Yea the whole album is very eclectic. She experiments with different sounds. Fun fact. There is leaked elevator footage of Beyonce’s sister Solange trying to beat his ass in the elevator when they were leaving a party cause she allegedly saw him flirting with the woman at the party. This is what kicked off the whole rumor and later this album eventually came to address it.
Markal D I mean she did address it on self titled first though
Which particular track is it in?
The only track I believe that alludes to infidelity I think is “Jealous”.علي
@@markalusss thanks, I probably miss that, I'm on it now hehe
Him: I don’t know how they got to that point. Maybe she’ll tell us.
Me: Not right now she won’t. 😅
im actually pleasantly surprised you guys are even bothering i tip my hat for that alone most guys dont give beyonce a chance.
Best selling album of 2016, Beyoncé really is a queen
They had a joint album everything is love; Friends and lovehappy explains more of what happened
lol, guys!
"who the hell would cheat on her?"
"I don't know man"
"Jay-Z. smh. smh."
Ya'll should watch the lemonade movie, I think that would make the whole concept of the album and individual songs easier to unterstand.
Btw, not sure if someone already mentioned it:
The Intro you see in the music video is part of a poem by the author Warsan Shire.
Beyonce adapted it for the Lemonade Film. These poems serve as interludes and tie the songs together throughout the film, to help depict the process she is going through.
this is soo cute, i love how you guys are venturing out and learning about Beyonce even though she's not necessarily the type of artist you guys listen to on the daily. People can get soo caught in genres, lines and borders and i love how you guys are transcending that, keep going!
yours sincerely, a member of the beyhive x
And guys, use Genius lyrics! They will help you understand a lot more 😂!!! They give so much context to each phrase of the song.
I had it pulled up next to me on my chromebook and that's what I was looking at. But, whenver I click on the highlighted sections, nothing happens. Maybe the website isn't chrome-compatible. *shrug* Thank though!
Sporto SP-01 Awh, that sucks. Sorry it didn’t work for you
That one part was not her, but most of the effects are her voice turned into instruments if that makes sense
Definitely. They’d have to listen to songs like I Care or Bow Down (Flawless) where she actually harmonizes with herself lol.
@@DaniellesDanielle yeah
That specific one is a reggae air horn but she does use her voice like an instrument alot!
Damn I love yall!!!!!! Watching y’all figure this out is perfect!!!
I absoluuuuuuuutely love your beyonce reactions, you guys analyze it so well. Please keep doing it.
Thank you for the support 🤘
Beyonce really shocked me with this album. We all know Beyonce was very private, or as private as she and Jay could be in the beginning. But she eventually shown off her true colors and put Jay ass on blast. Jay did a few songs addressing his marriage and cheating but still tried to be pretty private.
She lost her mind!!! That's why the music is so light and happy 🤓🥳🤕🤣🤣
Hold Up wasn’t a super deep song, but it was my first favorite when watching the album/movie. 6 Inch was second lol. My favorite Beyoncé album is 4. That album is one you can play through.
I can only stand the live performance of Hold Up.
And yes 4 was a bop. So many classics. I Care, Start Over and Schooling Life
Hold Up is definitely deep if you actually sit and listen to the poems and the lyrics lol
W V I wasn’t talking about poems. I don’t think the poems are an extension to the songs. To me they’re their own thing. I was talking more so about the layerings. Lyrically... deep, not really, I understand why you’d think so, but the point is really simple.
TCt83067695 I instantly loved hold up lol. 🤷🏾♀️
Ummm it’s Beyonce...the people would love to watch you do the whole album. And Lemonade has so many different genres on it you’d get a different vibe from each song. Oh and she didn’t do Disney for awhile. She only worked on the live action version of Lion King and just recently signed a deal and has a visual album for her album The Gift being released on 7/31 on Disney+. To date that’s all she has done with Disney
She's also releasing a film called black is king
karenate that’s the visual album that he was talking about
she also did proud family with Disney in the early 2000s
There is a podcast on spotify called Disect and it breaks down lyrics. They have a whole segment dedicated to lemonade if you want to do a deep dive behind her lyrics
So if you notice the guy on the 4 wheeler was in all black, he’s a symbol of her past self and when she used to care about what people thought etc. He’s shirt says “In Memory of When I Gave A F*ck”
I knew the answer would come in the form of a comment reply! This is why I dig the comments so much! what best way to learn than from the people who know best, the fans. Thanks! and that makes sense now why he was cruising by at certain moments and sort of always just passing through.
As someone who wasnt a fan of Beyonce after she left Destiny's Child, my girlfriend actually broke this album down for me to explain it's significance. I guess this album is her going through the grieving process of her relationship. I was actually surprised how deep it was.
Yeah I was a DC only
@@BlaydeAlabama I thought she was over hyped after them, and Kelly never really got the recognition she deserved because she was always in Beyonce's shadow... it was messed up
You said, "why would you cheat on her" honestly... the album addresses that. When beyonce says "I'm not too perfect to ever feel this worthless. How did it come down to this" she's acknowledging the fact that Yes, I'm Beyoncé but my pride didn't protect me. We can all be effected by our significant others mistreatment. But I'll be damned if I sit here and cry and just be jealous.
Reminds me of Flaws and All
Hey guys, first let me say, thank you for the shout out. Nobody knows everything, that what’s so great about this platform. Beyoncé is an amazing artist. I was as surprised as you that she sampled Led Zeppelin, and to choose that song to express her discontent with her husband was fire. I love all music. My very first concert was Rolling Stones , my mom took me I was 9. Best day ever. I think Beyoncé is telling her husband that the side chick wouldn’t want him if he was an average guy. But her love is for him is real. Oh and guys btw you are reacting to lemonade. Hold up, Don’t Hurt Yourself, are from the lemonade album..
I think you guys should react to her VISUAL album you guys will have a lot more ”ah ha” moments if you do. Each song except for Formation is a stage of her getting over his betrayal. Then Jay-Z’s album 4:44 is kinda like the reaction to lemonade. Then they came together and made Everything is Love which is like them saying they are good and everything is ok.
It's cool seeing you two wondering things, hahah. Great job, guys. React to more Beyoncé content, I'm sure you won't regret. 😉
Loved this video and their honest reaction. Keep 'em coming, guys!
Thanks very much for watching us =]
It's great to see people still discovering and trying to understand and dissect this album 4 years after its release. People have literally written dissertations on it, there is so much depth and meaning behind it. Not to mention Beyoncé is a notoriously private celebrity so this album and her honesty was a massive deal. Even if you don't review the entire album/film, you should definitely watch it because it is a masterpiece.
"money does not make everything go away, it can make you comfortable. but it can't make you happy"
-sporto
It’s so amazing to see how some people still don’t know Beyonce. Refreshing point of view
You have to experience the album Lemonade from start to finish. Besides the album, I you could react to Beyoncé live. She's a beast live. For a start, I'd suggest Beyoncé tribute to Stevie Wonder and Beautiful Ones/Sex on Fire live at Glastonbury.
I second this! Sex on Fire covered by Beyonce at Glastonbury is EPIC!
"How did they work it out? (on Jay-Z cheating)"
well the good sis solange took care of jay z on the elevator
Excuse me??😳 Jay Z really cheated on her with her sister?!
Khady Goudiamy not with her sister. The sister confronted jay z about him cheating on Beyoncé
@@NwaLioness Thank GOD. Thank youu
Of course sometimes shit goes down when it's a billion dollars on an elevator😜
😂😂😂
You MUST do her LIVE performances. She’s better performing live than anyone living right now.
Oh dammit! We mislabeled the posting!! Everyone, I'm sorry about that. I don't have access right now to fix the title, or pin this comment. And Bowzer is asleep!
Taken care of💪 no clue how i messed that up
If you want to understand how they worked through the infidelity issues. You have to watch, not just listen to, but WATCH because it's a visual album. Meaning that she made a film for her album and each song has a video to accompany it. Watch Lemonade, to get the full picture of the journey she went on emotionally, to process the infidelity and how she reached the final decision that she did in deciding to stay with him.
You are the best commentator ever.
Both Jay Z and Bey made albums about the infidelity. Jay's album is "4:44". Their most recent album together is called "Everything Is Love" underneath the name "The Carters". The album is about how they rose above their marital issues and are stronger.
I enjoyed this. Glad I stumbled upon it. love videos like these where people keep an open mind to new experiences. And it's hilarious to see that there are people who barely know Beyonce is a huge thing lol!
If y’all love podcasts, the Dissect podcast just finished analyzing Lemonade track by track and I highly recommend listening if you’re interested, of course after ya’ll possibly finish reacting to the Lemonade visuals😗
YESSSSS 🙌
I second this! Dissect did really great at not only the meaning of the songs, but the background of the culture involved too!
I love that you took the time to understand her feelings through it, that album was a product of some really difficult emotions and labour. I was hesitant, but I'm glad I clicked on this video.
To better understand LEMONADE, they would have to go song by song in order. The videos are not all uploaded on TH-cam, but they are found on other platforms. Incidentally, there are videos that shorten the song as is the case of "All night". I think it would be nice if I reacted to the video and then to the audio that is complete.
The guy on the left really loves this song
I’m telling y’all man dig deep I want y’all to explore how crazy her voice is
i love how when she said "abstained from sex" your face went different hahahaha
The Lemonade visual album is about her going through the 7 stages of grief dealing with what her husband's infidelity did to her. It's a visual journey through it, which is why you saw "Denial " flash on the screen. I believe this is the second stage because this is the second video of that video album. She says poetry in between the videos to carry the mood on to the next song so you get what stage she's in. Hopefully that helped, since you're going in random order, but I think the snippet of poetry before the song really helps you stay on track anyways.
She discussed with her husband that she wanted to make this album. Of course this is after they worked on their marriage. He helped with some of the production, I believe. The Lemonade album was her story. His album "4:44" is the name of his album where he talks about the situation, things happening in the black community and other things. The next album was both of them. It is respectfully called "The Carters" sing this is their album together as husband and wife. It's called "Everything is Love". They go on a journey telling about how they first met, dated, feelings about it. They talk about friends and family that hold them down and have been there for them. They talk about achievements made and that need to be made for the black community. They talk about their love and how it's stronger than ever. They came out the other side and now everything is love.
Beyonce has been getting into her African ancestry habits and religion. She is learning and teaching the diaspora at the same time. The dress color she is wearing is symbolic of an African Goddess named Oshun. She is the Goddess of fertility, love and etc. She can go off if she thinks she's being played with. She's the type that would laugh and smile in your face while giving you just desserts, which is why Beyonce is delivering a menacing message with a happy carefree spirit. The Goddess' color is gold yellow. Beyonce is channeling her here.
I've been listening to the Dissect podcast on Spotify; it breaks all of this down and to how Beyoncé links her own process to the legacy of Black women before her...the entire album is a genius at work 💜
Yessss this was one of my favourites off the album, but almost all the songs grew on me after a few listens. Hope you guys react to some more of her work! I feel like it gets overshadowed sometimes by her huge public image and a lot of people seem to judge her off of her more popular singles rather than her albums. She’s got a lot of hidden gems that the general public just doesn’t know about. Anyways, loved the vid as always!
Would love for you to react to LEMONADE VISUALS!!!!
Fellas, it would be great to do her tribute to Stevie Wonder. It has a performance with Gary Clarke Jr so it may expose you to a newer artist and the dude is a beast on the bass guitar so you might love him.
Plus you're more likely to know the words to those songs.
Sidenote this is just for me personally cause you guys are self professed metal heads (and I know I'm not using the right terminology lol) but have you heard of Tremonti, Alter Bridge and Slash and the Conspirators? Or that less metal and more hard rock?
Very introspective of Beyoncé this was actually refreshing to see some people not familiar with her work reviewing her.
Great reaction and perspective.
I have an advice. For any song you do from lemonade - you should check out the corresponding episode on the highly acclaimed podcast "Dissect"
It'll make a lot of sense.
Also yes. The album is about how they worked it out. It follows the classical stages of grief (this was the denial chapter). But the album follows multiple arcs. Including society "cheating" black women. The album is lemonade (from lemons) - its about generational healing for black women -
that sound is an airhorn, very popular in Caribbean music and the song has a very Caribbean vibe to it.
You guys so need to watch this as a whole. It's so much better. I'd also recommend watching more of her live performances as well. She's complete fire as a whole 🔥
This is the order in which it is arranged in the film, all the music videos are all on TH-cam, you’ve already reacted to 2&3 you can start from 1 and go straight to 4
1 Pray You Catch Me
2 Hold Up
3 Don’t Hurt Yourself
4 Sorry
5 6 Inch heels
6 Daddy Lessons
7 Love Drought
8 Sandcastles
9 Forward
10 Freedom
11 All Night
12 Formation
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She doesn’t necessarily make instrument-like sounds (which she definitely can) but she has the ability to sing in sync with an instrument, it’s an amazing talent. Please please please look up and react to “Beyoncé - I care (live at roseland)” and listen to the guitar solo. It’s amazing, she kills it every performance
that’s a classic dancehall siren, but she does do all of her adlibs
You guys! You came back to Bey! I anticipate new beyhive members(jk!) but at least two more people that will respect her art.
The album is basically tells the story of her revelation that JayZ was cheating....but it's so much deeper. It was therapeutic for her and so many who've dealt with infidelity. The coolest thing is that JayZ actually released a critically acclaimed RESPONSE ALBUM titled "4:44" which basically took accountability for his cheating. I think his song "4:44" would give you more answers than another Beyonce song right now. His direct approach is more insightful and the as he makes major confessions. Please react to his "4:44" track by JayZ He is considered a top 5 rapper of all time by most authentic OG hip hop heads. At 50 he's still rapping....he's a business mogul with top shelf liquor lines, he was co-owner of both Rocawear apparel line and Rocafella Records since the 1990s. He introduced TIDAL an alternative streaming service where artists are fairly compensated for their work....many artist have since left the service. But he's found alot of success with Rocnation his management firm that has signed major artists and celebrity athletes. He was hired by NFL commissioner as a diversity development liason following the Kaepernick's knee protests that resulted in scandal. His hiring was after he'd turned down Super bowl halftime performance and advise other AA entertainers to turn it down also. He's complicated....hated by some loved by others. He recently became a Black Billionaire according Forbes magazine. Beyonce is extremely successful her net worth is almost $500 million...she is rguably the most popular artist in music Industry. AFTER THEY EACH RELEASED SOLO PROJECTS. THEY GAVE US a joint reconciliation album "The Carters" so they are very much still married.
Please do the whole album!!! I’m truly enjoying this 😍
Loving y’alls Beyoncé’s Lemonade reactions! Keep them coming! Just subscribed 🥳
Literally spending my day off going through these lol keep them coming
i don't think she's "in the 70s" like maybe the late 90s if we're going to the past at all, but like that's legit just an urban black neighbourhood and could be seen as a modern one especially since the video was released in 2017. it's where i grew up and where my cousins live like it really just be like that with people living their life and chilling and having fun (the kids running to play under a broken fire hydrant with their water guns and the guy riding around on a four wheeler) and there are areas in the us (idk where you guys are) where the original architecture is still standing and the style of homes and businesses are like that where the buildings look like those built in the 70s/80s/90s simply because the buildings are still standing and the architecture survived (what comes to my immediate mind is new orleans, houston, some parts of dallas; places like that)
These are only pieces of her visual album, which is AMAZING btw, and it tells the story of how she dealt with it. The whole visual album is on Tidal though but its so worth the watch.
Y’all she’s doing disney *now*! She’s releasing a film on Disney+ at the end of the month! :)
i love and appreciate the fact that yall are trying to understand the message in the music even if it isnt really yall preferred genre
This has to be the most entertaining and interesting analysis that I've seen about this video.
Thank you very much =]
Hey! I'm enjoying the hell outta watching you two watch her genius, sexy "badassery." Now, WATCH THE LEMONADE VISUAL ALBUM. :) In its entirety. (At least after you get through your reactions to her Lemonade youtube cuts.) There's lots of missing bits if you're just watching the youtube stuff. And perhaps you'll discover a dual intent hidden within the whole "Jay-Z cheats on Beyonce" line of thought. But anyhow, the dialogue and just everything throughout the visual album is beautifully captured. Very moving. And then fucking Formation at the end. Rawr!! Love how soft the flow is just before she whips it at the very end. Alright lastly, couple of my favorite moments of dialogue in the visual album - "I DON'T KNOW WHEN LOVE BECAME ELUSIVE. WHAT I KNOW IS, NO ONE I KNOW HAS IT." And especially, "YOUR MOTHER IS A WOMAN. AND WOMEN LIKE HER CANNOT BE CONTAINED." Cheers to all - Em
Please react to" Love Drought" honestly just do the entire rest of the album. You won't regret it.
This album is a journey
Yes! We DO want to see you do the whole album! 😁
She was harmonizing in don't hurt yourself, if you pay attention to the song you can hear that she is singing "aaah" in the chorus and in other moments of the song, they take her vocals and change the pitch, chop everything and make that effect that you guys heard in don't hurt yourself
Six inch heels and Don't hurt yourself are tracks that are right up the alley of metalheads...
I would comment, but I didn’t get the notifications, and my fellow BeyHive members have answered the questions. I look forward to these videos! I love it when people take the time to indulge in Beyoncé’s career and artistry.
The beyhive welcomes y’all 😊😊😂
Thank you so much for reacting to Beyoncé!!! It was great to see a different perspective other than the typical beyhive fan. Yes, like everyone else is saying you should do the full album. Do one episode a week it’ll be easier that way instead of doing it all at once.
Watch Beyoncé’s live performances like her Coachella performance. She brings her songs and the associated videos and themes to life and truly shines then!
Hey guys, I never comment, but I really wanted to let you guys know how great this reaction was! Especially with pulling up the lyrics, and trying to decipher any symbolism in the video, awesome job!! Also a reaction to the visual album would be great but if it's too time-consuming, I understand :)
You DEFINITELY need the whole thing!!! It is one of the greatest pieces of art, the flow is just sick...I can’t tell u how many times I’ve watched and still watch to this day! Also... if you watch the entire movie (because it truly is one) you will have your answer (are they still together and how it came to be)
Aw yess THANK YOU FOR DOING MORE BEYONCE!!!!
I really love these Beyonce reaction videos! Y'all are so earnest.
Awesome video guys! You should react to Beyoncé - Dont hurt yourself which is rock influenced and where she expresses her rage.
I think your analysis of this video was great! I agree with others who have commented that if you all listen to and watch the videos that go along with the album it would make more sense. Also, you guys are hilarious, I'm totally subscribing!
Thank you very much for the support =]