"On this record, I wanted to express the absolute craziness I feel around me right now," said Gordon in a press statement. The album is a follow-up to her 2019 debut No Home Record, and furthers her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen, as well as additional producing from Anthony Paul Lopez. Have A Google Home Device? "Talk To GRAMMYs"įormer Sonic Youth vocalist Kim Gordon will release her sophomore LP, The Collective, on March 8. Tickets are available now via Ticketmaster.Ĭatching Up On Music News Powered By The Recording Academy Just Got Easier. The On The Run II tour kicked off June 6 in Cardiff, Wales and continues through Europe through July 17 before heading back to North America where it will run through Oct.
According to Billboard, the new album was announced at the couple's London concert on Saturday night with a big "Album Out Now" message onscreen followed by a Beyoncé-led countdown to the premiere of the new video. The "Apes**t" video itself shows Beyoncé and Jay-Z, along with a troop of dancers, taking over the Louvre in Paris and posing in front of some of its most famous works, including the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo.īeyoncé and Jay-Z are currently in the middle of their On The Run II tour. The nine-song, approximately 40-minute album is credited to the Carters and features writing contributions from Pharrell Williams, Offset, Quavo, Ty Dolla $ign, and TV On The Radio's David Andrew Sitek. On June 16, the duo delivered with the surprise drop of their new album, Everything Is Love, and a video for the lead single, "Apes**t." And there are dance sequences inside and outside the building, staged by the avant-garde Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, in which performers kneel like protesting football players and do synchronized abdominal exercises on the Daru stairs.Rumors of a joint album between superstar couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z have been swirling for some time. The couple and their dancers also perform in front of the large-scale paintings of revolutionary and early imperial France in the long Grande Galerie: David’s “Oath of the Horatii” and portrait of Madame Récamier Théodore Géricault’s “Charging Chasseur” and “Raft of the Medusa.” (Longtime Louvre watchers will know that Jay-Z is not the first black artist to rap there: In 2006, Toni Morrison invited slam poets from Paris’s banlieues to freestyle in front of Géricault’s shipwreck.)Ī hand-held camera pans across the ornate walls of the Apollo Gallery, built for Louis XIV, and zooms in on its gold-framed ceiling murals. In the video, directed by Ricky Saiz, Bey and Jay follow the well-trod tourist route past the Louvre’s three most famous works - the Venus de Milo on the ground floor, the Winged Victory of Samothrace atop the broad Daru staircase and the Mona Lisa in the Denon wing. Pei’s entrance pyramid and squirm in formation in front of Jacques-Louis David’s gigantic “Coronation of Napoleon.” It’s a firecracker of a song - and, from an art critic’s perspective, more sophisticated and more genuine than their earlier forays into museums and galleries, such as Jay-Z’s dreary Marina Abramovic parody “Picasso Baby.” The video for the single “Apes**t” sees Beyoncé, Jay-Z and their dancers vamp on Pierre Paulin’s circular gray banquettes, drop verses in front of I.M.
Not only did the first couple of American pop music impose their standard omertà on the songwriters, musicians, producers and technicians who helped them complete their new album “Everything Is Love” they also got the mandarins of Paris’s largest museum to keep mum about their first single, whose video was shot in the galleries and the exterior plaza of the Musée du Louvre. So full credit to Beyoncé and Jay-Z - known, in tandem, as the Carters - for extending their cone of silence all the way to the City of Light. PARIS - More than art, more than music, what the cultural eminences of this city really love is gossip.