Beyonce released Lemonade without warning on a Saturday night in 2016 -- a visual album about infidelity, Black womanhood, and Southern gothic mythology. She dropped it on HBO and the world rearranged its schedule. Destiny's Child was the warm-up. Beyonce's solo career has been an escalating exercise in ambition that nobody else in pop music can match.

Crazy in Love. Single Ladies. Formation. She married Jay-Z, became the first couple of music, and then made Lemonade -- part confessional about his infidelity, part celebration of Black Southern womanhood, part avant-garde film. She won everything. Then Homecoming -- her Coachella performance as a historically Black college halftime show, with a marching band, step dancers, and a scholarship program.

Renaissance in 2022 was a love letter to Black queer dance music. She doesn't just release albums. She releases cultural events. The work ethic is superhuman. The results speak for themselves. Nobody works harder. Nobody has had to.

Beyonce -- Destiny's Child, then Lemonade, then the culture. Nobody works harder. Renaissance. The blueprint keeps changing.