{"id":5758,"date":"2020-07-21T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2020-07-21T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:02:08","slug":"france-stunned-after-beyonce-and-jay-z-storm-worlds-biggest-museum-in-surprise-louvre-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5758","title":{"rendered":"France stunned after Beyonce and Jay-Z storm world&#8217;s biggest museum in surprise Louvre shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France has been stunned after\u00a0discovering that music&#8217;s most famous couple managed to shoot a video for their latest album in the world\u2019s most famous museum in total secret in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Beyonce and Jay-Z are the world\u2019s music power couple, with the pop diva alone selling around 120 million albums and her hip-hop husband now worth $810 million (\u00a3610m), according to Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>The Louvre museum in Paris, meanwhile, received 8.1 million visitors last year, making it the world\u2019s most frequented as tourists from around the globe flock to see iconic works from the Mona Lisa to Jacques Louis David\u2019s The Coronation of Napoleon.<\/p>\n<p>Beyonce and Jay-Z took fans and the world by surprise on Saturday by announcing the release of their joint new album, Everything is Love, from the stage in London as they kicked off a global tour.\u00a0 Available only on Jay-Z&#8217;s newly-created Tidal streaming service, the album swiftly racked up ten million sales.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nThe Apeshit video was shot at the Louvre outside opening hours in secretCredit:<br \/>\nTelegraph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Among the tracks, the second, called Apeshit, and which the French translated as \u201cexcitation sauvage\u201d, comes with an elaborately choreographed video shot in total discretion in the galleries and the exterior plaza of the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre.<\/p>\n<p>The six-minute clip starts with the Carters, as they are also known, standing in front of the Mona Lisa &#8211; Jay-Z in a light green double-breasted suit, Beyonce in a lavender pantsuit. A troupe of scantily clad dancers is then seen swaying sensually in front of\u00a0The Coronation of Napoleon.<\/p>\n<p>It quickly becomes apparent that the two most prominent African Americans in pop culture are also making a deliberate statement on the marginalisation of black figures in predominantly white Western art.<\/p>\n<p>Close-ups single out black figures in Veronese\u2019s Wedding at Cana, as well as G\u00e9ricaults The Raft of the Medusa and Marie-Guillemine Benoist\u2019s Portrait of a Negress painted between French revolutionaries\u2019 abolition of slavery in 1794 and Napoleon\u2019s restoration of it in 1802.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nThe Louvre said it was happy to hire out the museum to the music megastars Beyonce and Jay-Z as they were genuine fans of the museumCredit:<br \/>\nTelegraph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The clip features scenes of a woman combing a man\u2019s hair with an afro pick in front of the Mona Lisa, while Beyonc\u00e9 sings \u201ccan\u2019t believe we made it\u201d, serenely seated in a long cream dress before the Winged Victory.<\/p>\n<p>As critic Jason Farago put it: \u201cAs so often, the couple here present themselves as both outsiders in an elite institution and as heirs to it; as people excluded from its narratives but now possessors of it by virtue of their talent, their taste and, well, their money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a political clip,\u201d Gert Van Overloop, manager of the video\u2019s choreographer, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. \u201cAll the dancers are black, most of the Louvre works are seen through this prism. It\u2019s not a clip against, in the sense of revenge, but a clip to affirm the equality between Afro-American culture and more generally black, with white culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most French critics were wowed. \u201cBreathtaking,\u201d wrote Le Parisien, the capital\u2019s daily, even if it questioned whether the video verged on \u201cmegalomania\u201d. \u201cGrandiose,\u201d wrote conservative Le Figaro. &quot;Totally sublime,&quot; said Europe 1 radio. Lib\u00e9ration suggested the pair had even outdone in hutspah other famous pop couples John Lennon and Yoko Ono or June Carter and Johnny Cash.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nThe Louvre has been the scene of many music clips and films, including The Smurfs 2Credit:<br \/>\nTelegraph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Quizzed on its decision to hire out the museum for the clip, Louvre management said the singers were real art fans. \u201cBeyonce and Jay-Z have visited the Louvre four times in the past ten years. During their last visit in May, they raised this idea of a shoot,&quot; it wrote.\u00a0&quot;The timing was tight, but the project quickly won us over, because the synopsis showed a real attachment to the museum and its works, which made a mark on them.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Even the normally stuffy La Tribune de L\u2019Art saw nothing wrong with the Carters taking over the Louvre, as long, it said, as the museum wasn\u2019t specifically shut for the occasion or the works \u201cplaced under threat\u201d &#8211; neither the case.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nBeyonce and Jay-Z&#39;s video Apeshit homes in on black figures in the Louvre&#39;s art worksCredit:<br \/>\nTelegraph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The art blog pointed out that the Louvre has long been open to music and film shoots, such as the Da Vinci Code, Wonder Woman, and even The Smurfs 2. Rates are relatively low, with the top fee only \u20ac15,000 (\u00a313,150) for a full day\u2019s shoot in the galleries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only disconcerting thing here is the hopelessness of the music and the vulgarity of the singers,\u201d it wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Far more \u201cshameful\u201d, it argued, was the Louvre&#8217;s sale of \u201cmugs and Mona Lisa Rubik&#8217;s cubes\u201d in close proximity to the world\u2019s greatest masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.shopskm.com\/rugby-Jerseys\/NRL-Telstra-Premiership\/Roosters' title='cheap sydney roosters jersey'>cheap sydney roosters jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has been stunned after\u00a0discovering that music&#8217;s most famous couple managed to shoot a video for their latest album in the world\u2019s most famous museum in total secret in Paris. 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