#visualalbum

Wow! It's been a Whole DECADE (April 23, 2016) since @beyonce dropped her groundbreaking "Lemonade" visual album, giving us a musical glimpse inside her very personal world and a bold, beautiful love letter to Black womenhood. Thank you, Bey!

🖼✍️🏾 reposted from @essence We all remember where we were on April 23, 2016.

Glued to our phones and television sets, thumbs still warm from downloading the HBO app, just to see what #Beyoncé had cooking. Pressing play on #Lemonade became a collective inhale, the kind you take before your life shifts a little.

We were gagged. Jay-Z did what? The group chat was in shambles and the timelines were spinning with questions and think pieces. Something wasn’t right in that household, but neither were we, watching our own stories flicker across the screen.

What Beyoncé offered was not simply revelation, but range. She gave us anger without apology in “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” a kind of freedom in “Sorry,” and a declaration of identity in “Formation” that felt both personal and collective. But she also gave us “All Night,” a song that does not ignore the damage but chooses, deliberately, to imagine what healing might look like on the other side of it.

The album went on to earn a Grammy Award and became one of the most critically celebrated works of its time, consistently named among the greatest albums of the decade. Still, its true weight cannot be measured in awards alone.

Because Lemonade did something quieter and more lasting. It made space. For Black women to be angry, to be soft, to be unsure, to be forgiving, to be whole. It reminded us that love is not always gentle, but it can be honest. And sometimes, honesty is the beginning of everything.

ESSIES, which songs got you through?

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1. "Pray You Catch Me" (Intuition/Denial)

2. "Hold Up" (Denial/Anger)

3. "Don't Hurt Yourself" (Anger)

4. "Sorry" (Apathy)

5. "6 Inch" (Emptiness)

6. "Daddy Lessons"

(Accountability)

7. "Love Drought" (Reformation)

8. "Sandcastles" (Forgiveness)

9. "Forward" (Resurrection)

10. "Freedom" (Hope)

11. "All Night" (Redemption)

A Brand Art Emotion Remix Edition | August–September 2025 | Nexth iTV

This season, When Love Fades isn’t just an album — it’s an emotional journey where music and art become one.

Princess Laurinda iArt Gallery transforms DJ Laurinda’s latest XShows into a living exhibition of fragile love and memory. Each episode is a visual sonata — a dance of light, shadow, and color that echoes every lyric, every beat.

The centerpiece, “You, Me, Always,” captures the raw tenderness of love slipping away — moments of warmth, silence, and unspoken goodbyes rendered in haunting beauty.

This collaboration elevates sound to emotion and vision, reminding us that love’s fragility can be immortalized beyond words.

Step into the gallery. Feel the music. Let love fade — but never disappear.

This August–September 2025, step inside a world where music and art become one. When Love Fades is not just an album or a show — it’s a living, breathing gallery of heartbreak and beauty. Princess Laurinda iArt Gallery lends its ethereal vision to DJ Laurinda’s evocative XShows, creating a Brand Art Emotion Remix Edition that captures love’s delicate unraveling in every frame and note.

Through 16 haunting tracks, DJ Laurinda sculpts sound into feeling — a mix of Pop, Dance Pop, Minimal, and Dark textures that echo the silent spaces between words and the tender shadows of memory. Paired with Princess Laurinda’s dreamlike visuals — soft silhouettes, twilight hues, and surreal textures — this visual album is a poetic journey into the heart’s most fragile moments.

From fleeting kisses to quiet goodbyes, When Love Fades invites you to wander through the gallery of your own emotions, where every image and sound is a whisper, a sigh, a memory remixed.

Tune in to Nexth iTV this August and September. Feel the music. See the emotion. Live the art.