That’s also my mentality: let’s get it right now while it’s fresh, while we are all excited about the track, and while everybody is in the room. It’s how old-school guys used to work: they would get the right sounds there and then, and mixing was an afterthought. “Mixing as I go has always been my process, and I think it’s the best way to work. There was no ego, and sessions were at times passed back and forth all the time with everyone trying to get the best results. As a general rule, I took the sessions to a certain place and then everybody helped finish them. Leslie is Pharrell’s regular mixer, and Pharrell wanted Leslie to mix his two tracks, but Leslie refused to mix ‘Apeshit’, as he considered my mix finished. I brought in Chris as a tracking engineer in Paris, and we mixed ‘713’ together and he mixed ‘Salud!’ alone. “Tony was mixing at The Church, and I spent a lot of time at RAK, which has become my favourite studio. “I was the main tracking engineer,” reports White. Pulling TogetherĮverything Is Love was recorded and mixed in a large number of places around the world, including the U Arena stadium complex and Philippe Zdar’s Motorbass Studio, both in Paris the Church and RAK in London and, in LA, the Carters’ home studio Kingslanding West, as well as Record Plant and White’s own studio, Avenue A Studios West DTLA. Stylistically, the big break with the past is that Beyoncé raps more than she sings, and, in a nod to Atlanta rap, with a very obviously Auto-Tuned voice.īehind the scenes, the production involved renowned names like Tony Maserati, Leslie Brathwaite, Young Guru and Chris Godbey, all of whom have featured in the Inside Track series but the main unsung studio hero was Beyoncé’s regular engineer and mixer Stuart White, who recorded large parts of the album, and has a mix credit on all but two of the album’s 10 songs. Beats were supplied by the distinguished likes of Pharrell Williams, Cool & Dre, Boi-1da, Mike Dean, Nav and David Sitek, as well as many lesser well-known writers and beatmakers. The Carters: Beyoncé and Jay-Z.The album is sonically and stylistically an extension of these solo albums, particularly Beyoncé’s experimental and widely lauded Lemonade. It comes on the heels of the pair’s most recent solo albums, Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016) and Jay-Z’s 4:44 (2017), which in part trace their well-publicised marital discord. Beyoncé and Jay-Z participated equally in its making, and it’s released under the married couple’s shared last name. There are many celebrated break-up albums, but the Carters’ Everything Is Love is perhaps the first great make-up album. Stu White was the engineer who made it possible. The growth of visitors also earned the museum an upgrade to their ticket office, due to sales and separate funding. Hoping to attract even more visitors, the Louvre Museum will feature free nighttime visits every first Saturday this year.Beyoncé and Jay-Z topped charts worldwide with their album Everything Is Love. Beyonce connected with the painting and Josephine, also being of Creole heritage. His reign was built on the exploitation of Black and indigenous bodies. Napoleon crowned himself and his wife Josephine as Emperor and Empress. Beyonce performed alongside seven other black women in a linked together showcasing strength in front of the Crowning of the Empress Joséphine in Notre-Dame Cathedral by Jacques-Louis David. Most of the pieces shown projected race, power, colonialism and the concept of female beauty and strength. “The Beyoncé video, like the opening of the Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, ensured that the Louvre was talked about across the world, and one of the consequences of that is the spectacular rise in visitor numbers last year,” he said.īeyonce and JAY-Z have been intentional about infusing cultural arts and history into their music, using their art as a “therapy session.” The video was seen as a marker on the race and power in art.
Museum director Jean-Luc Martin called it a remarkable year for the museum’s worldwide reputation.
The museum also designed a visitor tour based on the artists and each artwork in the video, after it was released.
“Apesh*t” is the lead single from the Carter’s joint album Everything is Love. The video has almost 150 million views and featured some of the most distinguished pieces of art spanning back 300 years, such as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting, Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Negressand Rosso Fiorentino’s Pietà from the 1500s. This figure marks a new record for the Louvre Museum, higher than New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thanks to the Carter’s “ Apesh*t” videos, the world’s most visited museum had over 10 million people in 2018.