Queen Bey has released yet another incredibly out of this world album.  Launched via HBO on Saturday night, the mere hour long visual album had internet audiences in awe, a little teary eyed and wanting to know more. 

The album is broken into 11 narrative acts: intuition, denial, anger, apathy, emptiness, accountability, reformation, forgiveness, resurrection, hope, and redemption.

The poetic film begins with a woman struggling in the first hours of finding out her significant other has cheated.  Beyonce is clothed in a couture gown that fits to her slimming body elegantly.  

Within a few minutes, Beyonce is surrounded by her “Beyhive,” better known as her best friends; ready for revenge.  Wandering the streets of New Orleans in a Roberto Cavalli mustard yellow dress, Beyonce is smashing car windows, swinging bats and destroying everything in sight in the most classy way possible.

The euphoric stage of denial soon passes and a strong angry reality sets in.  In a graffiti filled parking garage, Beyonce struts in her fur coat and corn-rowed hair.  She growls “The most disrespected woman in America is the black woman.”  The music is instrument filled and upbeat.  

But, with rage soon comes relief and apathy.  “So what are you gonna say at my funeral now that you’ve killed me?” she asks.  The black and white scene includes close friend Serena Williams strutting around a mansion while Beyonce moves on to the following song, “Sorry.”  Uninterested, regret filled and unbothered, the trap-pop song is the ultimate break-up song.  In this section, a leather coat, jewelry filled Beyonce even mentions the woman he cheated on her with, “Better call Becky with the good hair.” Silently and abruptly ending, the audience is obviously confused at this point. 

Indifference soon turns in emptiness.  She is now sitting in a fiery red gown surrounded by a ring of fire.  Swirling rhythms and hypnotic lights, Beyonce whispers a few words before the next song, “6 Inch.”  A “trip-hop” jam samples the isolation and feels that Beyonce now has. 

“Daddy Lessons” follows. The song depicts the theme of accountability as she returns to a victorian mansion of the 1800s in the South. VHS footage from her childhood plays as Beyonce reminisces to her younger days as her father “made a soldier out of her.”  

And just when the internet thought it couldn’t get better, the singer went all southern country on us.  She sings of the strength she has gained from her childhood while in an antique, puffy-sleeved gown.  Switching from her silhouette singing to family videos, the track brings us all back to the advice our fathers have given us about boys.  

Soon, a familiar event: Beyonce looks over an empty football stadium. The lush grass surrounds her and tears run down her face as she is reminded of redemption.  A dark, mid-tempo track, the artist is singing  “Love Drought” in an eerie and spiritual manner.  

Beyonce soon enters the stage of forgiveness in a deeply personal clip named “Sandcastles”.  The piano ballad is heartfelt, raw and awe-inspiring.  As the song continues, husband Jay-Z enters to make an emotional cameo.  The intimate song gives viewers goosebumps as she sings of walking away.

Absolution achieved, she is reborn.  The mood transforms to be uplifting and joyful for the song “Forward”. A group of black women come together in celebration singing a soulful power anthem about being free.  

Lastly, there is redemption, the eventual healing.  It is here we are finally able to understand the entire album,  “When life knocks you down, you get back up again’ with the darkness comes the light..”  As the credits role, we are inspired and empowered.  

From a couture gown, to athletic get-up and vintage clothing, it didn’t matter.  Beyonce has shocked the music world once again and empowered women ubiquitously through her enthralling and gripping album.