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After 31 years, it feels just as exciting as it did when I was nine years old. "Still, there's nothing like the amount of love, passion, and healing that I feel in the recording studio. She reveals that recording music always brings her joy-the next album being no exception.įor fans who've found joy from re-watching Homecoming or Black Is King in the past year, know that Beyoncé feels similar joy in recording new music. One chorus can have up to 200 stacked harmonies," she says. Sometimes it takes a year for me to personally search through thousands of sounds to find just the right kick or snare. "I've been in the studio for a year and a half. The superstar tells BAZAAR that she has spent the pandemic in the studio, applying her well-known dedication and music expertise to her upcoming project. 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.A post shared by Beyoncé She's been recording steadily throughout the pandemic. 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. 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. Leave it to Beyoncé and JAY-Z to completely throw our weekend plans in disarray.