The Great Sphinx meets the Great Carters.Ĭaravaggio would’ve been honored. This the happiest the Venus de Milo has looked in centuries. It’s in the heart of the Musée du Louvre that Beyoncé and Jay-Z filmed Apeshit, their latest video, which they released under their surname The Carters. Not now, Jacques-Louis David and your so-called virtuosic “neoclassical style.” Napoleon can be crowned later.
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(Suck it, d’Orsay.) Watch the video in all of its glory, and then come back here for the most iconic GIFs. Is it good? We can’t dictate your musical preferences! Listen here for yourself! But the video they released for one of their tracks, “Apeshit,” is a visual feast for the eyes, mostly because they were given private access to the Louvre for some art historical shenanigans. The dance choreography in Apeshit intuitively privileges this form of learning and this mode of connecting with art. Beyoncé and Jay-Z, sensing your desperation for a Song of the Summer - er, Song of the Year, okay, Album of the Year - winner, released a surprise joint album, Everything Is Love, on Saturday evening. The dancers are the chorus in a Greek sense, the beating writhing real down on the floor people, while Kings and Queens stare us down from the walls, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z do the same from their fence in front of the Mona Lisa. A moment of silence for other musicians releasing new music for the remainder of the summer, please.