Yes, Beyoncé and JAY-Z actually shut down a massively famous and popular museum on a random day in May in order to film their music video. The song's artists are simply called "The Carters", but what's really notable about the video is that it's set in France's The Louvre. You can check out the "Apesh*t" video on Youtube, where it was uploaded onto Beyoncé's Youtube account on Saturday night. If you want to watch the music video for that song, however, you don't even need to go on TIDAL. Thomas suggests that Beyoncé and Jay Z’s choice to feature the Great Sphinx in the video is an reminder that ancient Egypt and its history are part of a larger African history. So even if you don't have a regular TIDAL subscription, you can listen to Everything is Love for free and enjoy all of its songs - including "Apesh*t". The Great Sphinx of Tanis is one of the largest sphinxes housed outside of Egyptand is believed to date back to the Old Kingdom. Video offers critical commentary about inclusivity in art, researchers say. That's not totally bad news, though, as although the streaming service normally costs $9.99/month, right now users can get six months of TIDAL for free. Beyoncé and Jay-Zs latest video has been described as a brilliant reinterpretation of Western paintings and sculptures celebrating African-American identity.
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Right now, Everything is Love is currently only available to stream on TIDAL, which is sadly pretty typical for a release by Beyoncé and JAY-Z.
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Already, people are figuring out how to watch the "Apesh*t" music video in order to fully appreciate the album's, um, interestingly titled second song. Harper is picking out Stewart’s hair, an intimate scene that Drew believes references photographer Deana Lawson and Carrie Mae Weems.If, like many other people, you were totally shocked that Beyoncé and JAY-Z dropped a joint album called Everything is Love on Saturday night, you shouldn't have been - after all, when have the celebrity couple ever done anything as expected? It's completely in character for the superstars to release an album totally out of nowhere, and of course, it's also completely in character for fans to freak out over the release and start obsessing over every song. One of the closing scenes in the “Apesh-t” music video doubles as the Everything is Love album cover the scene shows two of the ensemble dancers, Jasmine Harper and Nicholas “Slick” Stewart in front of the Mona Lisa. Beyoncé and these other artists aren’t assimilating, but instead, staging this embodied intervention that disrupts more than it conforms to the logistics of Western art and Western museums.” The Album Cover YouTube I think what really stuck with me was the juxtaposition of subject portraits of white womanhood…the Mona Lisa with the Negress painting and then we have Beyoncé intervening in this narrative and also being so unapologetically black about it too. She continued: “Black women and black women artists are excluded from the history of Western art, but their bodies, particularly sexualized or desexualized in domestic labor or sexual labor, are there. It’s meant to symbolize what it means for a black person to not see their culture reflected in the history of Western art, but still seeing their bodies in it, which makes me think of the Negress portrait, where her breast is exposed and she’s hyper-sexualized,” Thomas says. “Carrie Mae Weems has a series called Museums 2006, where she’s standing in front of Western museums and she has one where she’s standing outside of the Louvre. Beyoncé’s nude bodysuit and her pose in the “S curve” of the statue draw an obvious parallel to the statue, but Thomas said it wasn’t a surprise since Bey’s birth announcement drew many an Aphrodite comparison. In 2014, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and their first daughter, Blue Ivy, went to the Louvre. The Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue of the goddess Aphrodite, has long been held up as a standard of awe-inducing beauty. Beyoncé is a part of a tradition of not only black artists and performers, but activists too who find power in imagery like that because it connects them to an African past where there is a narrative of innovation and power.” Venus de Milo YouTube Museums are very deliberate about not considering Ancient Egypt within the history of African and black art instead, it’s often put together with ancient Greece and Rome, even though ancient Egypt is part of Africa. “I think one way that black artists and performers try to re-narrativize that is with imagery that we associate with ancient Egypt. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright.
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“Part of the way the museum represents white supremacy in Western art and Western dominance is through a tracing of the past that sees ancient Greece and ancient Rome as the birthplace of civilization and democracy,” Thomas said.