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Beyonce jay z video louvre3/31/2024 Over time, Beyoncé has become more openly political, starting with the surprise release of her self-titled album in 2013. Swagger has always been the soundtrack to their relationship-save for that one time Beyoncé dragged him for cheating-and pride has always been embedded in Beyoncé’s brand. The video is drowned in gold, featuring shots in which she drapes herself across a floor of indiscriminate gold or poses in the back of a limo. 2006’s “Upgrade U,” for example, has Beyoncé bragging about the wealth and status she can bring to Jay-Z, and Jay-Z responding with what he can bring Beyoncé. The Carters have been bragging about their lucrative relationship since its inception. Nevertheless, the word “radical” floats through discussion of her work so often that it begs the question: What do we want from Beyoncé? And save for the clumsy Black Panther homage, she’s never publicly expressed any critiques of power and wealth-let alone questioned the means through which she’s amassed and maintained her own. She remains as far left now as the day in 2014 she proclaimed herself a feminist before a world stage. Now that she’s framed more often as an activist producing political work, it’s dissected as such: Rolling Stone declared that the “Apeshit” video “interject blackness into a space that has never placed much value on it, claiming one of the centerpieces of European culture with gleeful defiance” Vice’s Garage questions whether the video could be considered “a glam, historical correction of the Western assumption that houses of European culture contain the highest achievements of man-and womynkind.” Art historians across Twitter are dissecting the video through threads pointing out the works centered in each shot and the meaning Beyoncé may have intended by them one proclaimed that placing black dancers throughout the historically-white institution is “radical.” And it is a clever, challenging visual metaphor, the kind that Beyoncé excels in. However, discussion around the video’s meaning captures just how much commentary surrounding Beyoncé’s work has changed.
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