To get you over this mid-week hump, Beyoncé just released a new music video for “All Night,” part of the Lemonade visual album that went up and set the world on fire back in June. Ah, times were simpler back then. Things… just a little more hopeful. Now you can find strength in the music, the absolutely gorgeous visuals, and the powerful poetry and lyrics that make up this song.
If you saw Lemonade when it came out (or if you watched it elsewhere since), then the visuals will be familiar to you. The entire album’s slowly coming out piecemeal onto YouTube since then. If you have Tidal, though, then you’ve likely seen Lemonade over and over and over again. Lucky you. For the rest of us plebes, we’ll revel in each slow release and savor the videos a little bit longer.
The poem or spoken words that come before “All Night” are especially resonant, given the world in which we now find ourselves living.
Grandmother, the alchemist
You spun gold out of this hard life
Conjured beauty from the things left behind
Found healing where it did not live
Discovered the antidote in your own kitchen
Broke the curse with your own two hands
Whereas before, we attributed much of the album’s “lemons out of lemonade” context to a conflict between herself and Jay-Z, now, we can find a much wider universality to her lyrics. Sure, a lot of them resonated with people (myself included) back then, but just… now, they’re all the more appropriate, I think.
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