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

I'm Cole Kushna, and I'm Titi Shodia. Jodya. Today we

dissected the visualized analysis of Lemonade by Beyonce.

On our last episode, we dissected the visual album's opening chapter

Intuition, which features the song,

Pray You Catch Me.

While the song centered around Beyonce's suspicion of her partner's infidelity, numerous

visual elements work to frame her struggle within the historic centuries-long struggle of the

black female experience in America.

Throughout the chapter, Beyonce is seen tepidly walking among the ruins of Fort McComb,

an actual relic of the American Civil War, and a visual allusion to the West African castles of the slave trade.

Fort McComb seemed to represent the history that Beyoncé must eventually confront in order

to heal.

Midway through the chapter, Beyonce recited a poem adapted from the work of

Warsaw Shire. The final lines of this poem are in many ways the thesis statement of the

visual album.

The past and the future merge to meet us here.

What luck? What a fucking

fucking curse.

Beyonce finds herself at a crossroads waited with history, with ancestry.

The infidelity in her marriage has forced her to confront much more

than her partner. It marks the beginning of a spiritual journey of self-discovery and

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