Track #1: “SUMMERTIME” The album starts on a chill note, with some summery reggae hints and beach-focused metaphors in the lyrics. Here’s a deeper look into the album we didn’t know we needed until now. What a way to grow up! The album, titled EVERYTHING IS LOVE, is the perfect hybrid of the sounds Beyonce and Jay-Z have created for themselves, and fans couldn't have asked for more. The couple will even be traveling the world with their children. Well, our questions have been answered: Beyonce and Jay-Z will combine their careers, having released an album and planning to tour together. Prior to this newest release, I wondered when the whole family would ever find the time to be together if both parents were to pursue their own music careers. I imagine the Carter family dynamic to be pretty intense-the mother and father both being at the top of the music scene while raising three children, two of whom are still infants. 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.Beyonce Knowles-Carter, Shawn Carter, Blue Ivy, Rumi, and Sir. 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.

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