Much More Than Cheating

Beyonce's Lemonade speaks on the various topics that most people go through in a lifetime. In the visual album Beyonce starts with the topic of infidelity in the song "Pray You Catch Me". In the song she expresses that she can already feel him being dishonest to her about his whereabouts and that she prays he he will find her listening on conversations that he is having. In this song Beyonce is very vulnerable and shows that the person you love actions can really hurt you. But in her next song she regains this confidence where she confronts her man by saying,"Hold up, they don't love you like I love you. Slow down, they don't love you like I love you. .. Can't you see there's no other man above you?" Here she is telling him that these side girls do not love him as much as she does and that he is the only man in her life. These two songs show the various emotions someone can go through with one major event that rocks a relationship. First it's the sadness of your spouse cheating on you to the revenge that you seek when exposing him.

The best article on Beyonce's Lemonade is Ijeoma Oluo's Beyonce's Lemonade is about much more than Infidelity and Jay Z. In the article Oluo speaks about the struggles that black women have gone through the past centuries in History. "We are the women left behind. We are the women who have cared for other women’s children while ours were taken away. We are the women who march in the streets and are never marched for. We are the women expected to never air our grievances in public. We are the women expected to stay loyal to our men by staying silent through abuse and infidelity. We are the women who clean the blood of our men and boys from the streets. We are the women who gather their belongings from the police station." Here Oulo is stating that black women are silent not only in the world but in our own communities and homes. We are to stand behind our husbands and watch them and our children be killed. Black women never have time to think or take care of themselves because they are focus on their families more.