{"id":45667,"date":"2018-06-17T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/17\/the-carters-everything-is-love-review-beyonce-and-jay-z-celebrate-their-marriage-and-magnificence\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T13:34:12","slug":"the-carters-everything-is-love-review-beyonce-and-jay-z-celebrate-their-marriage-and-magnificence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=45667","title":{"rendered":"The Carters: Everything Is Love review \u2013 Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z celebrate their marriage and magnificence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The duo\u2019s surprise release, rooted far more in hip-hop than R&amp;B, embraces their romantic bliss and phenomenal wealth as well as highlighting racism in the USIt may seem an odd thing to say about a record that\u2019s a guaranteed smash hit, but there\u2019s a sense in which Everything Is Love represents a rather dicey undertaking, and not merely because it features Beyonc\u00e9 rapping more heavily than it features Beyonc\u00e9 singing. It\u2019s clearly intended as the third part of a trilogy. After Lemonade, her album packed with hell-hath-no-fury revelations of infidelity and emotional ruin, and 4:44, his album of agonised mea-culpa guilt, comes the joint album affirming Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z\u2019s renewed romantic bliss. \u201cWe broke up and got back together,\u201d raps the latter on the closing Lovehappy. \u201cNow we\u2019re happy in love,\u201d adds his wife.Its very existence runs the risk of making the two releases that preceded it seem less like urgent, brave exorcisms of pent-up emotions \u2013 the duo\u2019s equivalent of Blood on the Tracks or Here, My Dear, albums their authors felt they had to make \u201calmost like a therapy session\u201d as Jay-Z put it last year \u2013 than stages in a carefully premeditated plan to wring as much capital out of the couple\u2019s nuptial discord as possible. It doesn\u2019t take away from the musical contents of those preceding records, both artistic highlights in their respective makers\u2019 oeuvres. But it does make them look a little more obviously calculated, very clearly underlining that the whole business is as much an exercise in brand management as soul-baring artistry. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/jun\/17\/the-carters-everything-is-love-review-beyonce-jay-z\" target=\"_blank\">The Carters: Everything Is Love review \u2013 Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z celebrate their marriage and magnificence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duo\u2019s surprise release, rooted far more in hip-hop than R&amp;B, embraces their romantic bliss and phenomenal wealth as well as highlighting racism in the USIt may seem an odd thing to say about a record that\u2019s a guaranteed smash hit, but there\u2019s a sense in which Everything Is Love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}