Album
Lemonade
2016 · Funk / Soul
54 collectors on Gatefold own this
Lemonade is a Soul & Funk album by Beyoncé, originally released in 2016. On Gatefold: 35 pressings tracked, owned by 54 collectors.
About
<b>100 Best Albums</b> There’s one moment critical to understanding the emotional and cultural heft of <i>Lemonade</i>, Beyoncé’s genre-obliterating blockbuster sixth album—and it arrives at the end of “Freedom,” a storming empowerment anthem that samples a civil-rights-era prison song and features Kendrick Lamar. An elderly woman’s voice cuts in: “I had my ups and downs, but I always find the inner strength to pull myself up,” she says. “I was served lemons, but I made lemonade.” The speech—made by her husband JAŸ-Z’s grandmother Hattie White on her 90th birthday in 2015—reportedly inspired the concept behind this radical project, which arrived with an accompanying film as well as words by Somali British poet Warsan Shire. Both the album and its visual companion are deeply tied to Beyoncé’s identity and narrative (her womanhood, her Blackness, her marriage) and make for her most outwardly revealing work to date. The details, of course, are what make it so relatable, what make each song sting. The project is furious, defiant, anguished, vulnerable, experimental, muscular, triumphant, humorous, and brave—a vivid personal statement, released without warning in a time of public scrutiny and private suffering. It is also astonishingly tough. Through tears, even Beyoncé has to summon her inner Beyoncé, roaring, “I’ma keep running ’cause a winner don’t quit on themselves.” This panoramic strength—lyrical, vocal, instrumental, and personal—nudged her public image from mere legend to something closer to real-life superhero. Every second of <i>Lemonade</i> deserves to be studied and celebrated (the self-punishment in “Sorry,” the politics in “Formation,” the creative enhancements from collaborators like James Blake and Karen O), but the song that aims the highest musically may be “Don’t Hurt Yourself”—a Zeppelin-sampling psych-rock duet with Jack White. “This is your final warning,” she says in a moment of unnerving calm. “If you try this shit again/You gon’ lose your wife.” In support, White offers a word to the wise: “Love God herself.”
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
- 1Pray You Catch Me3:16
- 2Hold Up3:41
- 3Don't Hurt Yourself3:54
- 4Sorry3:53
- 56 Inch4:20
- 6Daddy Lessons4:48
- 7Love Drought3:57
- 8Sandcastles3:03
- 9Forward1:19
- 10Freedom4:50
- 11All Night5:22
- 12Formation3:26
Side VIDEO
- VideoLemonade65:32
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Contemporary R&B
- layered
- defiant
- southern
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Available in Clean and Explicit versions. This is the Explicit.
1. Pray You Catch Me
ProTools editing and keyboards Recorded at Henson Studios, Los Angeles, CA and the Apex Studio in Burbank, CA / Recorded at Conway Studios in Los Angeles, CA / Mixed at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
2. Hold Up
Recorded at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles, CA and Mad Decent Studios in Burbank, CA / Mixed at Pacifique Recording Studios in North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
3. Don’t Hurt Yourself
ProTools editing/recording by Eric Caudieux at Henson Studios in Los Angeles, CA and Joshua V. Smith / Additional instrumentation recording at Skip Saylor Recording Studio in Northridge, CA / Recorded at Jungle Studios in New York City / Mixed at Pacifique Recording Studios in North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
4. Sorry
Co-Produced by Hit-Boy For Hits Since ’87 / Recorded in The Beehive, Los Angeles, CA / Mixed at Pacifique Recording Studios in North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
5. 6 Inch
Recorded at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles, CA / Mixed at Mirrorball Studios in North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios in North Hollywood, CA.
The Weeknd appears courtesy of The Weeknd Xo, Inc./Republic Records
6. Daddy Lessons
Co-produced by Derek Dixie and Alex Delicata For Delicata Music Productions / Band recording engineering at Skip Saylor Recording Studio in Northridge, CA / Recorded in The Beehive in Los Angeles, CA / Mixed at Pacifique Recording Studios in North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
7. Love Drought
Produced by Mike Dean #MWA For Dean’s List Productions and Beyoncé / Recorded at Jungle Studios in New York City / Mixed at Pacifique Recording Studios in North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
8. Sandcastles
Recorded in The Beehive, Los Angeles, CA / Mixed at Mirrorball Studios in North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
9. Forward
Recorded at Conway Studios in Los Angeles, CA / Mixed at Pacifique Recording Studios in North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
James Blake appears courtesy of Polydor Limited
10. Freedom
Recorded in The Beehive, Los Angeles, CA / Mixed at Pacifique Recording Studios in North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
Contains a sample of “Let Me Try,” written by Frank Tirado and performed by Kaleidoscope. Used courtesy of Now-Again Records, with thanks to Thomas Hartlage and Shadoks Music.
Kendrick Lamar appears courtesy of Top Dawg Ent./Aftermath Records/Interscope Records.
11. All Night
Horns recorded at Skip Saylor Recording Studio in Northridge, CA / ProTools editing and keyboards recorded at Henson Studios in Los Angeles, CA and The Apex Studio in Burbank, CA / Recorded at Jungle City Studios in New York City, Conway Studios in Los Angeles, CA and Mad Decent Studios in Burbank, CA / Mixed at Mirrorball Studios in North Hollywood, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch of The Mastering Palace NYC at Pacifique Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
12. Formation
Co-produced by Pluss for Eardrummers Entertainment LLC / Adlibs by Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd / Recorded in The Beehive in Los Angeles, CA / Mixed by Jaycen Joshua for The Penua Project/Innersound Mgmt at Larrabee Sound Studios, North Hollywood CA and Stuart White at Pacifique Studio in Los Angeles, CA / Mastered by Dave Kutch at The Mastering Palace in New York City.
All information taken from the Tidal release page.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Adrienne WoodsSTRINGS
- Alma FernandezSTRINGS
- Amy WickmanSTRINGS
- Anna BulbrookSTRINGS
- Arrow BenjaminBACKING VOCALS
- B. CarrPROGRAMMED BY
- BellyVOCALS
- Big FreediaBACKING VOCALS
- BootsARRANGED BY PROGRAMMED BY
- Briana BandySTRINGS
- Canei FinchPIANO
- Charlie BisharatSTRINGS
- Chrissy CollinsBACKING VOCALS
- Christopher GrayHORNS
- Courtney LeonardBASS
- Crystal AlforqueSTRINGS
- Daphne ChenSTRINGS
- Denise BrieseSTRINGS
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