The museum even created a special tour based on the video, which guides visitors through all of the works featured. Impressively, nearly 50% of visitors were under 30 years-old, indicating how contemporary popular culture and a fresh perspective can generate interest even among the hard to reach millennial generation. Beyoncé didn’t need to go to the Met Gala this year she and JAY-Z own the Louvre Along with a new nine-track album Everything Is Love, the couple. 'Beyonce and Jay-Z visited the Louvre four times in the last ten years. The video has been described as a commentary about the relationship between race and our culture’s standards of art, as indicated by a close-up of a portrait of a black woman painted shortly before the end of slavery, as well as a shot featuring several young-men “ taking a knee” in a reference to Colin Kaepernick's NFL protests. The video itself is gorgeously shot, and does show a continued interest in art on behalf of the artists, JAY-Z and Beyonc, to engage with art (notable precursors being JAY-Z's 'Picasso Baby. Beyoncé and Jay-Z filmed a video at the Louvre for the first single off a surprise joint album, Everything is Love. The couple were given private access to the Louvre and all the masterpieces they wanted. The video features numerous close-up shots of artwork, beginning and ending with the two hip-hop icons standing in front of the “ Mona Lisa”, mirroring the paintings outward look toward the viewers. Beyoncé and Jay-Zs Everything Is Love may have come as a surprise on Saturday afternoon, but its clearly been in the works for a while.Look no further than the couples video for the albums. The lyrics of the song are a celebration of the kind of wealth it requires to rent out the world’s largest art museum for an entire day, a type of unapologetic egoism that actually pairs well with the opulent pomp of the museum’s massive neoclassical art collection. Read more Beyonce, Hillary Clinton among guests as daughter of India’s richest man marries in $100mn wedding Beyonc and Jay-Z on vacation at the Louvre, and in their new music video Apeshit, posing both times with the Mona Lisa.
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