Aside perhaps from Adele, few musicians have mastered the balance between the public and the private, between familiarity and mystery, quite like Beyoncé. Interviews with the press are as rare as gold dust these days: she even declined to answer questions for the article accompanying her most recent US Vogue cover, in September 2015.

And yet this year’s visual album, Lemonade, was in many ways more exposing than any interview could ever hope to be. All those songs about adoring and despising a cheating partner prompted an international media scramble, as people tried to figure out whether she was actually referring to Jay-Z.

And in her latest music video, Queen B’s adoring public have been granted more intimate insights into her life behind the scenes.

Beyoncé’s evocative new video reveals more glimpses of her life behind the scenes