Beyoncé and Jay-Z - or The Carters, technically. Beyoncé posted the album cover and a short clip from the music video for APESHIT on. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. "I can't believe we made it," Beyoncé raps on "APESH*T," the second song off the new album. Beyoncé & JAY-Z Give New Context To Classic European Art In Their APESHT Video. Over Father’s Day weekend, Beyoncé and Jay-Z released a music video for their new track Apeshit from their collaborative album Everything is Love. breakdown and read all the lyrics to Beyoncé and JAY-Z’s APESHIT on. It includes five densely-packed minutes of art, fashion, and performance filmed on an epic scale at the Louvre. When Beyoncé and Jay-Z dropped their music video for Apeshit, shot on location at the Louvre Museum, the world went, well. The couple took over the Louvre in Paris last month to shoot the stunning visuals for the bouncy track. Ape shrieks, Migos ad-libs and joint vocals from husband and wife JAY-Z and Beyoncé marry in 'Apeshit,' the second track from the couples surprise project Everything Is Love. If anyone knows how to turn pain into art, it's these two. Dans cette vidéo tournée dans le célèbre Musée du Louvre, Jay Z et Beyoncé ont souhaité faire passer un message fort à la culture afro-américaine.
Right before Jay-Z’s rap verse, where the song has a natural offset, Beyonc takes off her hat. After facing their marital strife head on, it appears the Carters have found healing and are moving forward. She is about to throw it before the video cuts to two Black women, both wearing long white head scarfs, sitting below Jacques-Louis David’s Portrait of Madame Recamier. This isn't the first time the couple posed together in front of the Mona Lisa, but it is a little more polished than the selfies they shared during their 2014 visit.Watch their new music video above, then catch Beyoncé and JAY-Z live when they come to your city on their On the Run II tour this Summer. Vulture notes that the Louvre wouldn't comment on how much the couple paid to rent out the museum for the shoot. As The New York Times points out, around 500 shoots take place at the Louvre every year, with Wonder Woman and Fifty Shades Freed among recent notable examples.
It's not all that surprising that the Louvre would agree to the super-famous couple wanting to shoot there, but it is pretty shocking that the museum reportedly costs about $17,500 for people to get the privilege to film there. “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.”
During their last visit in May 2018, they explained their idea of filming,” a spokesperson explained to Vulture. “Beyoncé and JAY-Z visited the Louvre four times in the last ten years.
The album, which was released by the duo under the name The Carters, was accompanied by a lavish video for the Quavo-featuring single "Apeshit." Filmed on location in the Louvre in Paris, the Ricky Saiz-directed video also acts as a very effective commercial for the iconic museum, so it makes sense that the Louvre agreed to it. Over the weekend, Beyoncé and JAY-Z surprised the world with the sudden drop of their first collaborative album, Everything Is Love.