#Jay z beyonce video series#

The visual narrative moves on to reveal the empty halls at the Louvre and the pair posing in front of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece the Mona Lisa. It opens with a man who has wings, seen crouching as bells and sirens are prominent in the background, and features visual imagery suggesting comparisons and linkages between wealth, status, and royalty in the Renaissance-era artwork and the eventual evolution of these characteristics into the Carters. The video premiered on the second night of the London show during their On the Run II Tour at the London Stadium. The music video for the song was directed by Ricky Saiz, produced by Iconoclast, and filmed in the Louvre in Paris and Los Angeles, California in May 2018. The museum has created a guided tour centered around the works of art seen in the 'Apeshit' video. The Louvre said there was a more than 50% increase in under-30 visitors in 2018 thanks to the video shot by the couple in the museum, marking a record number of visitors with over 10 million. The video was as over-the-top and luxurious as one would hope, taking over the Louvre and filling it with a sea of black and brown dancers and models amongst the world’s most iconic art pieces.' The Guardian listed 'Apeshit' at number 21 on their year end ranking, while Q at number 19, and The Village Voice at number 14. For Pitchfork, it was the 85th, while Rolling Stone named the song as the 24th best one of 2018, writing: 'Rumors swirled for years that one day the biggest music power couple of all time would release a collaborative album together. In December 2018, Billboard ranked 'Apeshit' as the 27th best song of the year. Simon Reynolds cited 'Apeshit' as an example for the continuing 'triumph' of Auto-Tune in contemporary music, with Beyoncé 'jump on the trap bandwagon a transparent attempt to compete on urban radio by adopting the prevailing template of commercial-yet-street rap'. Kory Grow writing for the Rolling Stone described the beat as 'hard-hitting'.

Otis Hart of NPR dubbed the song one of the catchiest to be released in 2018, adding that it 'lives up to the grandeur on first listen'. The video received eight nominations at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, including for Video of the Year, and a nomination for Best Music Video at the 61st Grammy Awards. The song was released on June 16, 2018, as the only single from the duo's collaborative studio album Everything Is Love, along with a music video filmed at the Louvre in Paris. The song was written by the duo, Pharrell Williams, and Quavo & Offset from the hip hop trio Migos, with the former three producing the song alongside Stuart White and the latter two providing ad-libs on the song. ' Apeshit' (stylized in all caps) is a song by American musical duo The Carters, composed of Beyoncé and Jay-Z. There was never a point where it was like, ‘I’m making this album.’ I was right there the entire time.” (He did not elaborate on the identity of “Becky,” the woman alluded to by Beyoncé on Lemonade’s “Sorry.For a definition of the term 'apeshit', see the Wiktionary entry apeshit. So her album came out as opposed to the joint album that we were working on. And then the music she was making at that time was further along. And then all the things happen from there: infidelity.” Asked about how their separate projects processed the tumult of their marriage in recent years, after the infamous 2014 “elevatorgate” tape with Beyoncé and her sister, Solange, he said they came about organically: “It happened-we were using our art almost like a therapy session. “So even with women, you gonna shut down emotionally, so you can’t connect. So you go into survival mode, and when you go into survival mode, what happens? You shut down all emotions,” Jay-Z told Baquet, citing a difficult childhood that resulted in a tendency to isolate himself. We also learned that there might have been a joint Beyoncé and Jay-Z record had Lemonade not been farther along. It was the first time that Jay-Z explicitly said he had been unfaithful.

#Jay z beyonce video series#

After making a series of thinly veiled apologies to wife Beyoncé on his most recent album (which came out after the queen of pop’s beloved album Lemonade, which took on empowerment and revenge), the music mogul finally spelled it out in an interview with New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet posted on Wednesday. Jay-Z finally admitted that rumors of his infidelity were true.