![]() She performed shortened versions of the four songs that open the album, singing about betrayal, jealousy and revenge, then concluded with “Formation,” calling for pride and sisterhood. “Lemonade” is an album of bitter marital strife followed by reconciliation Beyoncé’s set concentrated on the strife. ![]() Videos from the album were showered with awards, but they were just a sideshow to Beyoncé’s vivid live performance. The songs came from her 2016 album “ Lemonade,” punctuated (as on the “visual album” version of “Lemonade”) with excerpts from poetry by Warsan Shire that framed and deepened them. Coldplay learned that at the Super Bowl, and so it was at the MTV Video Music Awards, where Beyoncé made her 16 minutes a blast of wrath, strength, righteousness and female solidarity. There’s a new law of show business: A Beyoncé segment will obliterate whatever surrounds it.
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