Lemonade isn’t fizzy. It isn’t sweet. And it isn’t champagne. In contrast to perhaps her most famous song so far, this one is maybe about taking a ring off rather than putting one on. You don’t have to read between the lines. You just have to read the lines. All is not well in the most powerful entertainment business marriage.

After months of rumour about her husband  Jay Z’s alleged infidelities, Beyoncé has released an album that joins Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear, and most famously Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks in the genre of break-up records, but with a sharply accusatory edge and feminist self-confidence that is unique and at times quite startling. All the single ladies, and particularly the recently single ladies, love it, while “Becky with the Good Hair”, the unnamed hussy who has stolen her man, is currently the most hated woman in America.