Thematic Analysis
Beyoncé Knowles released her album Lemonade in 2017. There were many songs in the album but “Sandcastles” spoke to me unlike the others. The song is a mediation of pain and struggles through the lens of black womanhood. The song is the albums emotional centerpiece. To fully grasp the feelings, Beyoncé sings in a scratchy raw voice. To visually understand the piece, Jay-Z is portrayed to be embracing his tearful wife, lying at her feet. The song was thought to be about Jay-Z’s infidelities and was later proved true. “Sandcastles” is a about a failed relationship and reveals that love and desire can make a person refuse to let go of something that may be harmful.
Although Beyoncé and Jay-Z appear to be the world’s perfect power couple, the song reveals the truth. It depicts the harder part of their relationship including the emotional “Sandcastles”. Beyoncé repeatedly promises to walk away but doesn’t. Not only are the lyrics saying that people in the relationship did something wrong, but although someone did something to make someone leave, promises are never kept. Why doesn’t she just leave? Here’s the answer. When people are far along into a relationship, things that once were deal breakers no longer are. For example, at the beginning of a couple’s relationship you
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“Dishes smashed on the counter, from our last encounter. Pictures snatched out the frame, ____ I scratched out your name,” Beyoncé sings painfully. This phrase from the song could be seen metaphorically or in a realistic way. This could have happened in their relationship and she’s telling the true story. Not only could it be a metaphor but a tool to display both imagery and scenery. The song gets more intense when she is portraying the gory details of the relationship. As she sings the audience receives a mental picture of what’s going on and could almost place themselves in the
In this piece, Beyoncé is telling her man that she is so much better than him that she can get any man she w...
These three girls described in this song relate to sociological characteristics of poverty, education, healthcare, marriage, and family. The biggest sociological aspect seen throughout all three girl’s stories, is poverty. Poverty is a big part of the song and shows some cases in which it is like to live in poverty. At the end of the song Ludacris is talking about how he has no idea what these girls have been through. He tells the girls to close their eyes and pretend that they are running away from their lives, when they open their eyes their problems will be gone and everything will be ok.
In this touching, non-fiction memoir by Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle recounts the story of her vagabond upbringing in the 1960‘s. Walls notes her parents lack of conformity while also showing their unconditional love, in rather unconventional ways. While touching the bases of alcoholism, poverty and child neglect, the author still maintains the point of a passionate determination to preserve the alliance with her siblings through it all.
This song talks a lot about the baggage of the past that people hold onto instead of letting it go. All that baggage is only going to end up hurting you more and more instead of helping you in any way possible. An example is the opening
bell hooks is trying to convince her readers that the display of black female bodies in Beyonce’s Lemonade does not aid in shifting or masking the sexist narratives and construction of black female identity (page 3).
As it opens with imagery reminiscent of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, an event that devastated the black communities in the areas affected. The delayed assistance in New Orleans by the U.S. government stirred some controversy that led many to question how much America really cares about its black communities. Nonetheless, Beyoncé’s video is full of imagery that is associated with black culture, including historical references to black communities in the south. But what is really important about “Formation” are the lyrics. With lyrics like “My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana, You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas Bama” and “I like my baby hair with baby hair and afros, I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils,” Beyoncé is undoubtedly declaring her pride for her blackness as well as defending her child Blue Ivy who has always been scrutinized for the way her hair looked. Thus, this song is obviously geared toward the Black community which is obvious due to the lyrics and the imagery in the music video. To put it plainly, this song is a proclamation of Black pride and shouldn’t be thought of in any other way. However, after performing it at the Super Bowl people of other ethnicities became aware of the song and became offended by her performance as well as the lyrics. Controversy arose as people pointed out her backup dancers were dressed similarly to the Black Panther
The use of this text helps pull focus to the topic that Beyoncé’s Lemonade focuses on. The section of the speech she chooses for this part of the film, match the themes in the song from when the speech was being performed. The song starts out with the lyrics, “who the fuck do you think I is?”, this lyric connects to the topics Malcom X spoke about in his speech, they both question why they feel like people are treated like this and what gave others the right to treat others like that. By borrowing this specific text Beyoncé also shows the viewers how this has been an issue for a great amount of time and that these are not recent issues. Without this other text Beyoncé’s work might not have the same effect on people, as she would have
The lyrics say ”You can taste the dishonesty, it's all over your breath As you pass it off so cavalier, but even that's a test Constantly aware of it all, my lonely ear Pressed against the walls of your world.” beyonce used the word “dishonesty”, which means she didn’t trust him and he was doing something that he thought she didn’t know about, but it turns out she already knew. At this point she was just waiting for him to tell her what was really going on; she wanted him to catch her catching him in the act, that’s what she meant by “I pray you catch me
In 2013, the self-titled visual album BEYONCÉ sold almost eight hundred thirty thousand digitally in the first three days, while her sixth number one and second visual album, Lemonade, only sold four hundred ninety thousand digitally in the first week. Although Beyoncé’s second visual album wasn’t numerically successful, both show a vulnerable, an artistic, and a controversial side of Beyoncé. Both albums have surprising visuals and stunning lyrical content with either an obvious meaning or a meaning we have yet to figure out, such as the famous line, “You better call Becky with the good hair.” (Beyoncé, “Sorry”). BEYONCÉ and Lemonade show that Beyoncé tries to better herself as an artist and make herself more vulnerable.
Beyoncé's Lemonade and Formation World Tour is ultimately about black empowerment, with its visuals and lyrics all adding to its theme. During her acceptance speech for Lemonade winning Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 2017 GRAMMYs, Beyoncé stated that the intent of her album was to “create a body of work that would give a voice to our pain, our struggles, our darkness and our history. To confront issues that make us uncomfortable.” The album represents all of the sexism, racism, injustice, and history that the black community has gone through. Beyoncé also talks about how she wanted to create Lemonade to show her children a reflection of beauty in different perspectives, aside from just media coverage and magazine covers (Beyoncé, “Beyoncé
In the opening verse of the song, the speaker discusses the need to see her childhood home at least once more before moving on with her life. She shares with the current homeowner some of her experiences while growing up in the house. For instance, she says, “I know they say you can’t go home again, but I just had to come back one last time.” This shows that the speaker realizes that returning “home” is going to be a different experience than it was when she lived there, but she cannot resist the temptation of a final visit to the “house”. The speaker says that “Up those stairs in that little back bedroom, is where I did my homework and learned to play guitar. And I bet you didn’t know, under that live oak, my favorite dog is buried in the yard.” This indicates some of the significant memories the speaker has of her time in the house, such as honing her...
...ng been reminded of past heartache and pain through the music, one now is able to relate with Elvira's situation and sympathize with her on a new and deeper level than before.
The more you get to know someone, the more you are able to make better decisions and judgments for not just yourself, but for your partner as well. How a couple handles issues while
As the chorus comes along the mood changes from gloomy to happy and the minor harmonic centre changes to the major harmonic centre. This is evidently seen even in the lyrics when she says, “don’t let them in, don’t let them see…” then it later culminates with, “let it go, let it go.” The music really fits with the transformation because at this point she is telling her feelings through the song and this would be phrasing the