The album, as genre, is currently undergoing a remolding. New York Magazine's Craig Jenkins encapsulated the album's all-embracing sentiment perfectly: "It's the sweetest possible ending to the trauma of the last two records, husband and wife united in shade and shit-talk," he wrote, concluding: "The message isn't 'Y'all could never do this.' It's that against all odds, two of us just did."
To lacerating effect, the Carters-as they are officially billed on Tidal, the streaming platform the couple has a stake in, where the album was exclusively housed for 24 hours before coming to Spotify and Apple Music-chart the passageways of how they got to where they are, all while having fun along the way.
"I apologize to all the women whom I toyed with your emotions/'Cause I was emotionless," he rapped to his wife on the title track. It is a fitting finale to the couple's unofficial musical trilogy, which began in 2016 with Beyoncé's Lemonade, an album of sheer grace and fury-which was also televised through an hour-long broadcast on HBO-and continued on 4:44, Jay-Z's 2017 apology record, where he, at last, owned to his infidelity. The days since have augured all manner of revelations: the project, titled Everything Is Love, is a measured exegesis on themes hauntingly mundane to the Carters-family and success, love and betrayal of the flesh.
On Saturday night under the shield of London Stadium, just as Beyoncé and Jay-Z brought their most recent "On The Run II" tour date to a close, a large sign announced itself with a playful wink: "ALBUM OUT NOW." It was the latest message from two artists whose careers have been marked by public dramas both cryptic and blunt-they had again summoned their congregation the long-anticipated joint album was finally, startlingly, here.
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