It’s about six minutes into Lemonade, the stunning new visual album from Beyoncé, that we see massive double doors open up. Water rushes out and there stands the Queen, draped in a yellow gown ...

So much for that. With Lemonade—an album, an Emmy-nominated film and, as America looked on, an experience—Beyoncé publicly embraced explicitly feminist blackness at a politically risky moment.

Who won? Adele for "25." Beyoncé's "Lemonade" is hailed as one of her best studio albums to date. Seemingly discussing the ups and downs in her marriage, the album showed a more vulnerable side.