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I'm Cole Kushna and I'm TT Shodia. Oh, Today we continue our serialized analysis of Lemonade by Beyonce.

On our last episode, we dissected the visual album's fourth chapter, Apathy, which features

the song Sorry.

There we heard Beyonce feign apathy as she and her girlfriend's

drank and danced at a nightclub all while proclaiming I ain't thinking about you.

Meanwhile on screen we saw Beyonce find solidarity in the black women she surrounded herself

with. From Serena Williams in the Maidwood Plantation to the women painted with

Yerba inspired body art who occupied a Jim Crow era bus.

Beyonce and these women reclaimed these impossible black spaces

to reestablish the power and agency she lost

not only in her damaged relationship,

but also in a society shaped by slavery and racism.

Sari ended with Beyoncé coming home from the club,

writing her husband a note to say she's leaving him and suggests he now call his side chick Becky.

Just as Beyoncé has gone far away from her husband

for a new unknown life,

the final shot of apathy shows a group of five women walking out into the wilderness naked.

It's here we meet the album's next chapter, the subject of our episode today.

Emptiness.

She sleeps all day.

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