Beyoncé’s feelings about Jay-Z in “JOLENE” are a switch-up from her album “Lemonade.” Several songs off “Lemonade,” including “Pray You Catch Me” and “Hold Up,” talk about deceit and unfaithfulness in a relationship. For the Beyhive, it wasn’t hard to connect the dots that Beyoncé was referring to her hubby, Jay-Z. Rumors had been circulating for years that Jay-Z had cheated on Beyoncé, and “Lemonade” seemed to reveal the truth about the infidelity. The track “Sorry” even features the famous lyric, “He only want me when I’m not there / He better call Becky with the good hair,” which many believe is the musician referring to Jay-Z’s other women. Jay-Z later admitted to cheating on Beyoncé not long after “Lemonade” was released.
In 2017, a year after “Lemonade” dropped, Jay-Z told the New York Times Style Magazine he had cheated on the musician. He explained, “You have to survive. So you go into survival mode, and when you go into survival mode what happen? You shut down all emotions. So even with women, you gonna shut down emotionally, so you can’t connect.” He continued, “Yes. In my case, like it’s, it’s deep. And then all the things happen from there: infidelity.” But we supposed that time heals all wounds, because instead of singing about her disgust for Jay-Z and his infidelity, Beyoncé is standing behind her man on “JOLENE.”
