The clip of Beyoncé and Jay-Z in the Louvre is therefore so much more than just a clip

While you are calmly celebrating your Saturday, Beyoncé and Jay-Z launch an album. Suddenly, Everything Is Love appeared on Tidal, our Jay's streaming service. And on YouTube, there was the single Apeshit, including a music video filmed in the Louvre. Epic, so much more than just a clip, and very much Beyoncé and Jay-Z, the power couple of showbiz.

In the clip, eighteen artworks form the backdrop. Of course, the Mona Lisa, Jacques-Louis David's The Rape of the Sabine Women, but also the statue Nike of Samothrace, known as ‘the winged victory’. And all art was, but perhaps becomes even more beautiful through the contrast with Beyoncé and the dancers on the stairs. A work of art that you keep looking at, that you want to put on repeat.

De Volkskrant beautifully points it out: Beyoncé and Jay-Z bring two things in art that have long been seen as inferior: women and the black presence. They look at the Mona Lisa instead of seeing her through a screen. The clip of Apeshit is rounded off with the portrait of a black woman by Marie-Guillemine Benoist, which symbolizes the abolition of slavery.

Queen B as a rapper, mwah, but further? An empty Louvre, art, culture, history, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z in the foreground. They just gave the whole world a reason to go to the Louvre, to see art. I predict long lines this summer in Paris.