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The whole of the human race is still recovering from Beyonce’s mammoth release of her newest visual album ‘Lemonade’. Impress the rest of your Hive friends at your next party by dropping these facts and stories about the key creatives in the ‘Lemonade’ project team.
Laolu Senbanjo, the Nigerian artist behind the body art:
Throughout the film, Beyoncé’s dancers can be seen painted in geometric, swirling white patterns. Bey dons some of the paint herself along the curve of her eyebrows and below her lower eyelid to her cheeks. These aren’t random doodles – this is art. And the man behind it is Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-native Laolu Senbanjo who, for the sake of his art, goes simply as Laolu. He sees his models as muses and can work on them for hours in order to get the perfect print.
He’s giving his body art the name “Sacred Art of Ori” in honour of the Yoruba ritual origin of the practice. "In my language, Yoruba 'Ori' literally means your essence, your soul, your destiny," Laolu reveals in his artist statement. "When I work with a muse, the muse, their Ori, and I become one. It's the deepest, most spiritual experience I've ever had with my art as an artist." More of his work can be found on his website.
Back in 2013, Beyoncé introduced her fans to acclaimed Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie through a segue in the song “Flawless”. For her newest visual album three years on, she’s enlisting Somali-British poet Warsan Shire.
Original and adapted poetry of Shire’s is interspersed throughout Bey’s ‘Lemonade’ film stringing the songs into one big idea. Some adaptations include "For Women Who Are Difficult To Love," "The unbearable weight of staying (the end of the relationship)," and "Nail Technician As Palm Reader".
If you didn’t get enough of Warsan Shire on ‘Lemonade’, you’ll be happy to know that her album of poetry and spoken word is available online.
1. "Pray You Catch Me", produced by Beyoncé and Kevin Garrett; Written By James Blake, Beyoncé, and Kevin Garrett.
2. "Hold Up", produced by Ezra Koenig, Beyoncé, and Diplo; written by Nick Zinner, Karen O, Brian Chase, Soulja Boy, Kevin McConnell, Antonio Randolph, Mort Schuman, Emile Haynie, Doc Pomus, MeLo-X, MNEK, Ezra Koenig, Beyoncé, Father John Misty, and Diplo
3. "Don't Hurt Yourself" f. Jack White, produced by Beyoncé and Jack White; Written by John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, James Page, Wynter Gordon, Beyoncé, and Jack White
4. "Sorry", produced by Wynter Gordon, Beyoncé, and MeLo-X; Written by Wynter Gordon, Beyoncé, and MeLo-X
5. 6 Inch f. The Weeknd, produced by boots, Beyoncé, Ben Billions, and Danny Boy Styles; Written By Hal David, Burt Bacharach, Brian Weitz, Noah Lennox, Dave Portner, boots, Belly, The-Dream, Ben Diehl, Danny SchofIeld, Beyoncé, The Weeknd
6. "Daddy Lessons", produced by Beyoncé; Written by Wynter Gordon, Beyoncé, Kevin Cossom, Alex Delicata
7. "Love Drought", produced by Mike Dean and Beyoncé; Written by Mike Dean, Ingrid Burley, Beyoncé
8. "Sandcastles", produced by Beyoncé and Vincent L. Berry II; Written by Vincent L. Berry II, Beyoncé, Malik Yusef, Midian Mathers
9. Forward f. James Blake, produced by Beyoncé and James Blake; Written by Beyoncé and James Blake
10. Freedom f. Kendrick Lamar, produced by Jonny Coffer, Beyoncé and Just Blaze; Written by Jonathan Coffer, Beyoncé, Carla Williams, Dean Mcintosh, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Tirado, Alan Lomax, and John Lomax Sr.
11. "All Night", produced by Diplo, Beyoncé, and Henry Allen; Written by Diplo, Beyoncé, Rock City, Ilsey Juber, Akil King, Jaramye Daniels, André 3000, Sleepy Brown, Big Boi
12. "Formation", produced by Mike WiLL Made It; Written by Swae Lee and Beyoncé
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