From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible

episodes.

I'm Cole Kushna.

And I'm TT Shodia. So, Today we continue our serialized analysis of lemonade by Beyonce.

On our last episode, we dissected the chapter Resurrection, which included the song forward.

There we witnessed the mothers of the movement displaying the wounds they've endured from losing

their sons to racial violence. Though their pain cannot be erased, they created a way out of

no way and resurrected their sons by using their life and memory as a catalyst for social change.

In the words of Errik Gardner's mother, Gwen Carr, they transformed their mourning into movement

and pain into purpose.

It's with this shared sense of purpose that Beyonce will gather her own community

of women together in the album's next chapter, the subject of our episode today,

Hope. The last image we saw in Lemonade's previous chapter was the Mardi Gras Indian

circling an empty dining room table. She shakes a tambourine over the table to heal the space.

We then cut to a black and white image of Beyoncé and a group of black women inside a

Jim Crow era school bus.

This is the same bus scene in Sari, and women are painted in the same Euroba inspired body art.

They all look straight into the camera, straight into our eyes.

It's at this moment we hear,

Magic. It's at this moment we hear magic.

The word magic heard over the image of the stoic black women is undoubtedly nodding to the idea of black girl magic.

Black girl magic was a phrase created by Kishon Thompson in 2013.

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