Celebrating 10 Years of Lemonade

For the pop fans, The Lemonade Visual album was the first time they saw Beyonce as Black. If you think I’m joking, let me remind you of this SNL skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ociMBfkDG1w

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People were NOT used to seeing Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter with braids and they were and still do have a mini heart attack when they see her with such. Clearly they were not early Destiny Child’s fans.

I mean, I get it. Beyonce has been blonde for the majority of her career. She’s only given us glimpses of Dark Yonce with the majority of us praying that Act III will be the re-emergence of Dark Yonce for more than just a video or photo-shoot.

In other words, Beyonce has always been safe. She’s never ruffled the feathers of middle America even though she’s been shaking ass in 6 inch heels for nearly two decades by the time Lemonade came out. Even with a name like Beyonce, she was extremely marketable. Always smiling with the southern accent and slow drawl that always makes foreigners think we are stupid and/or unassuming. Clearly there was no depth there and nothing to be afraid of and of course, I’m sure her light skin helped with her marketability and feelings of safety.

Lemonade ruffled feathers, though. She had the audacity of showing Black pain without it being exploitative and feeling like trauma porn for them to get off to. She made it beautiful.

Mainstream media has always attempted to place Beyonce in the Black trauma porn category and it never worked. She would always gently remind them that she grew up upper middle class and went to private school.

She wasn’t the rags to riches story that white people love to get behind when it comes to Black people. All she was selling was talent and hard work and she had A LOT of that. So, there she was finally sharing some pain that she endured and she still found a way to turn it into…lemonade.

This was also Beyonce’s first blatant reference to ATRs and Osun, many of us always peeped the references. However, this time she left nothing to question and now that meant the Black Christians and Black conservatives were upset too.

Beyonce had become Black to white people and an evil, Illuminati witch to Black conservatives over night.

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