I can only hope that more music videos as inspiring as 'Apesh*t' will be released soon, but if the Carters are involved I have no doubt that'll be the case. I'm still not over the roller coaster ride that was Beyoncé's Lemonade album. Of course it's hip-hop's first family to bring a smile to our faces. This year might be a complete disaster in the political sphere, but at least this album coming out is one sliver of good news we can enjoy. And we started making music together,' Jay Z told The New York Times. 'We were using our art almost like a therapy session. According to the couple, Everything Is Love was inspired by their separate, confessional releases, Lemonade and 4:44, which they were working on prior to their joint project. The couple may have hinted to The New York Times in November 2017 that a joint album was in the works, but I never expected this dream would actually become a reality. I hope I'm not the only one whose heart completely stopped when news broke that Beyoncé and JAY-Z dropped a surprise album. I'm no art historian, nor am I a music critic, but I think it's safe to say that the Everything Is Love cover art, and 'Apesh*t' music video, directly addresses the often overlooked communities in these circles, and hopes to highlight them. The music video for Apeshit, a song from Everything Is Love, their new joint album, finds Jay-Z and Beyonc back in the Louvre, but much has changed since their visit in 2014. It doesn't take an art critic to realize that while walking through a museum of 'classic' art, more often times than not can you count on one hand the number of people of color represented in historic artwork. It's no secret that Beyoncé and JAY-Z are proud of their cultures, and their past work have shown that time and time again.īeyoncé and JAY-Z's centering of Black artistry and bodies within a space like the Louvre can't be discounted. Representation on behalf of African-American communities is so important, and placing an image of Black culture in the middle of a celebrated, but historically white space, is so meaningful. According to Vulture, the image represents 'black intimacy and domesticity,' not unlike other visuals shown throughout the music video. A still of the album's only music video so far, 'Apesh*t,' adorns of the cover of the album, which shows Jasmine Harper picking out Nicholas 'Slick' Stewart's hair in front of the Mona Lisa inside the Louvre. The album is currently only available on streaming service Tidal, and naturally we've all been listening to the album on repeat since it dropped, and have analyzed every aspect from the lyrics to the cover art. This is the couple's first project together, and it's a nine-track album accompanied by one visual component. Beyoncé, when they dropped their latest album Everything Is Love to everyone's surprise. On June 16, Beyoncé and JAY-Z pulled a total. Well, the meaning of the Everything Is Love album cover is so powerful, and it'll make you love this project even more. No one was expecting the two powerhouses to drop a surprise, joint album on June 16, but it actually happened. 'The deadlines were very tight, but the Louvre was quickly convinced because the synopsis showed a real attachment to the museum and its beloved artworks.Leave it to Beyoncé and JAY-Z to completely throw our weekend plans in disarray. 'During their last visit in May 2018, they explained their idea of filming,' the Louvre added. In a statement, the museum said Beyoncé and Jay Z had visited the Louvre four times in the last 10 years.

'And they're recognizing their history and how far they've been able to come despite all the oppression that they've faced historically and currently, which I think they speak a lot to in the video.' 'They're relating it back to art history, back to those pieces, and showing that 'Look, we are here, this is our presence, this is our history,' and they're recognizing the facts that this is how black individuals have often been portrayed in the history of art,' Herrera continued. 'So to retake that space, they're presenting black bodies and black art and they're bringing popular culture which is often looked down on by academics and showing them this is real art, this is the current art,' she said. Herrera said that the music video is especially powerful because 'most representations of people of color has been portraying them as exotic or as less than human.'

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