10 Legendary Concept Records Of The 2010's

For as long as pop music has been a thing, every artist has gone through their fair share of love songs. As much as we might like to celebrate that one emotion though, there are just as many songs that focus on the sour side of love, as we come to the end of the relationship. When you touch on infidelity though, that's when the real fangs start to come out.

After the news came out of Jay Z cheating on Beyonce, Queen Bey put together Lemonade with Hova in her sights, going after him with all guns blazing throughout this record. Any artist can just write a bunch of diss tracks though. When Yonce stepped up to the plate, this album reads more like a dissection of her and Jay's relationship, starting with the anger until finally making peace with the whole thing and trying to find some way to become closer with her husband after all the emotional stress.

This isn't just a couple of R&B songs thrown together with one theme. Throughout the album, you can hear the sound of the record change from anger to acceptance by the different genres it flirts with, using rock to get her anger out on Don't Hurt Yourself, dense hip hop production for resentment on 6 Inch until finally bringing it back to R&B when finding that inner peace on All Night. Jay may have atoned for his sins on 4:44 a little bit later, but this is the kind of emotional record that captures what it's like to go through the emotional ringer and come out on the other side.