![]() Albeit, since this is the Carters (note the consolidated surname), not so much to destroy that heritage as to merge with and overtake it-as Beyoncé sings on “Lovehappy,” the album closer, “We came, and we saw, and we conquered it all.” Veni, vidi, vici, or however that’s conjugated in the plural and pluralistic. They frame their radiant presences and their dancers’ beautiful black bodies as the equals and betters of centuries of Western art masterpieces, by extension reclaiming and revenging themselves on a whole history of cultural exclusion and imperialism. ![]() In this case, it’s an eye-inebriating video for one of the album’s best, most invigorating songs, “Apeshit,” with its surefire tagline to generate stadium shrieks, “Have you ever seen a crowd going apeshit?” In the video, directed by Ricky Saiz (who last worked with Bey on 2013’s “ Yoncé” video), the couple stages an occupation of the Louvre like a postcolonial Napoleon and Josephine. And of course the release came with a visual component, like Beyoncé’s past two surprise albums.
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