Everything Is Love Explained

Everything Is Love
Type:studio
Artist:the Carters
Cover:The Carters - Everything Is Love (Official Album Cover).png
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Alt:A black woman with short hair giving a shirtless black man a haircut in the Louvre art museum. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa can be seen hanging in the background.
Released:June 16, 2018
Recorded:2017–2018
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Everything Is Love (stylized in all caps) is the debut studio album by American musical supergroup the Carters, consisting of spouses Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. It was released on June 16, 2018, by Parkwood Entertainment, Sony Music and Roc Nation. Beyoncé and Jay-Z produced the album alongside a variety of collaborators, including Cool & Dre, Boi-1da, and Pharrell Williams. Additional vocalists recorded for the album include Williams, Quavo, Offset (both from Migos), and Ty Dolla Sign, among others. The hip hop and R&B album explores themes of romantic love, fame, wealth, and black pride.

The album was not made public until its release was announced by Beyoncé and Jay-Z while onstage at a London concert for their On the Run II Tour and later through their social media accounts. It was originally exclusive to the music distribution service Tidal, before given a wider release on June 18, 2018. In its first week, Everything Is Love debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, earning 123,000 album-equivalent units.[1] At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, the album won for Best Urban Contemporary Album, and was nominated Best Music Video for "Apeshit" and Best R&B Performance for "Summer".

Recording

Plans about a joint album by the couple were announced by Jay-Z during an interview with The New York Times in 2017 when he said that they used "art almost like a therapy session" to create new music. However, since they also worked on their respective albums 4:44 and Lemonade, and Beyoncé's music progressed more rapidly, the project was temporarily stopped. Rumors about the collaborative project began emerging in March 2018 when the couple announced their On the Run II Tour.[2]

The majority of the album was recorded at U Arena in Paris; "Friends", "Black Effect" and "Salud!" were recorded at Kingslanding Studios West in Los Angeles, while further recording for "Summer" and "Nice" was done at The Church Studios in London. Beyoncé and Jay-Z co-produced all of the songs on the album themselves, with further producers including Pharrell, Cool & Dre, Boi-1da, Jahaan Sweet, David Andrew Sitek, D'Mile, El Michels, Fred Ball, Illmind, MeLo-X, Mike Dean and Nav. The album was predominantly recorded by Stuart White and Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton.[3]

Music and lyrics

According to Exclaim! journalist Riley Wallace, Everything Is Love is a hip hop album.[4] Mike Wass from Idolator observed a "trap sound and flashy bravado" on the record,[5] while Respect magazine's Jasmine Johnson said it "involves trap with a hint of love".[6] Alexis Petridis found the music more rooted in hip hop than R&B, as did Jogai Bhatt of The Spinoff, who viewed it as a departure from "the sort of contemporary R&B traditionally associated with Beyoncé."[7] Craig Jenkins from Vulture said the singer played the role of an "R&B heavyweight" doubling as a "formidable rapper" throughout the album, showcasing her talents for vocal belting and complex rap cadences.[8]

The album contains lyrics about the couple's romantic love, lavish lifestyle, media worship, wealth, black pride and fame; themes that were found to be characteristic of the whole record. Other songs feature the pair singing about their family affairs as well as maintaining their relationship following hardships (i.e. infidelity).[9] Time magazine's Maura Johnston regarded the album as another "blockbuster duet in R&B and hip-hop"; comparable to Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's soul songs from the 1960s and the 1995 Method Man and Mary J. Blige recording "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By"; while incorporating contemporary elements in the form of trap beats, critical references to the National Football League and the Grammy Awards, and playing with "public perceptions of the duo's relationship".[10] Jenkins said it extolled African-American entrepreneurship while presenting Jay-Z as "a doting father and husband, an entrepreneur and altruist with ideas about how everyone else should handle their businesses, a king-tier braggart, and a rap legend".

Artwork

The artwork for the album is a still frame from the music video for "Apeshit". It features two of Beyoncé's background dancers, Jasmine Harper and Nicholas "Slick" Stewart, at the Louvre—Harper is seen picking the hair of Stewart while standing in front of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.[11]

Release and promotion

On June 6, 2018, Beyoncé and Jay-Z embarked on the joint On the Run II Tour, a sequel to their 2014 On the Run Tour. At the end of their second show at London Stadium in London on June 16, 2018, Beyoncé announced to the crowd that the duo had a surprise before leaving the stage. Then, the music video for "Apeshit" played on the LED video screen onstage. Following the conclusion of the video, the words "ALBUM OUT NOW" came across the screen. Everything Is Love was subsequently released exclusively via Jay-Z's streaming service Tidal and all audience members received a free six-month trial subscription in order to be able to stream the album.[12] The album was also made available for purchase on Tidal's online music store. The release was announced worldwide on Beyoncé and Jay-Z's respective social media accounts with the artist of the album being monikered as the Carters.[13] On the same day, the music video for the album's second track and lead single, "Apeshit", was released on Beyoncé's official YouTube channel. It was directed by Ricky Saiz and filmed at the Louvre in Paris.[14] [15]

On June 18, the album was made available across numerous other platforms, including iTunes Store, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon Music, Napster, Google Play Music and Spotify.[16]

Critical reception

Everything is Love was met with critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 22 reviews.

Reviewing the album for The New York Times, Joe Coscarelli said it "completes the Knowles-Carter conceptual trilogy"—referring to the previous releases of Lemonade and 4:44—"in an expert, tactical showing of family brand management". Music critic Nicholas Hautman of Us Weekly wrote: "It's clear from the very first listen that Beyoncé outshines her husband on much of the record, which really should have been marketed as 'Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z' rather than 'Beyoncé and Jay-Z' (or 'the Carters', in this case). His verses are few and far between in comparison to hers, but it still somehow feels like a balanced body of work from two of the greatest artists of our time."[17] In The Guardian, Petridis believed the album retreads braggadocio centering around the duo's wealth and excellence, with less musical daring, but still does so with likeable music, genuine wit, and energy.[18] As per The Daily Telegraph music critic Neil McCormick pointed, "Everything Is Love certainly doesn’t have the musical expansiveness of Lemonade. There are neither ballads nor bangers, and not much in the way of melodic song construction at all. Rather, these are snappily repetitive beats on which the stars can put across their message as a form of hip hop conversation."[19] For Variety, Jim Aswad described it as "solid and generally satisfying, but not the best from either."[20]

Will Hodgkinson of The Times reviewed track-by-track, stated: "Jay-Z is as dynamic as ever and the new, though Beyoncé demands attention on this surprise album, [...] despite the ups and downs detailed on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Jay-Z's subsequent mea culpa 4:44. Instead they are coming out fighting, with all that fame and money making them defensive, even paranoid, while a mix of classic soul, hard-hitting hip-hop and slinky R&B."[21] Pitchfork contributor Briana Younger wrote that the album "is a compromise between the spoils of Lemonades war and the fruits of 4:44s labor", and that "within this complex, messy and beautifully black display, the Carters find absolution."[22] Giving the album one and a half stars, Adam Rothbarth of Tiny Mix Tapes stated that everything about the album "feels superficial, from the artists' constant pronouncement of their love for each other to their engagement with topics like fashion". He also added that the "most boring aspect of the album is its centerpiece: the couple's obsession with their wealth".[23]

Accolades

Accolade! Ranked! class=unsortable
Yearclass=unsortableSource
AllMusicUnited StatesFavorite Rap and Hip Hop Albums2018
Associated PressUnited StatesAP's Top 2018 Albums62018
Austin ChronicleUnited StatesThe Best Albums of 2018 by Genre82018
BillboardUnited States50 Best Albums of 2018102018
ComplexUnited StatesThe Best Albums of 201872018
EsquireUnited States20 Best Albums of 2018182018
Exclaim!CanadaExclaim!s Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums Best of 201852018
FoppUnited KingdomBest Albums of 2018942018
GaffaDenmarkÅrets Album 2018172018
GQ RussiaRussiaThe 20 Best Albums of 2018172018
HipHopDXUnited StatesThe Best Rap Albums Of 201822018
NMEUnited KingdomNME's Albums Of The Year 2018912018
NPRUnited StatesThe 50 Best Albums Of 2018502018
PeopleUnited StatesThe Top 10 Albums of the Year2018
Rolling StoneArgentinaLos mejores discos de 2018122018
United States50 Best Albums of 2018482018
UproxxUnited StatesThe 50 Best Albums of 2018362018
Uproxx Music Critics Poll 2018: Albums352018
VibeUnited States30 Best Albums of 20182018
XXLUnited StatesThe 50 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 20182018
Accolade! Ranked! class=unsortable
Yearclass=unsortableSource
Cleveland.comUnited States100 greatest albums of the 2010s862019
Awards
YearOrganizationAwardResult
2018BET Hip Hop AwardsAlbum of the Year[24]
2019BET AwardsAlbum of the Year[25]
Danish GAFFA-Prisen AwardsBest International Album[26]
Grammy AwardsBest Urban Contemporary Album[27]
NAACP Image AwardsOutstanding Album
2018 Brit AwardsBest International Group

Commercial performance

Everything is Love debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 123,000 album-equivalent units, (including 70,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week. The album debuted on the chart after less than six full days of activity on Tidal, and four days of activity on all other digital retailers and streaming services.[28] In its second week, the album dropped to number four on the chart, earning an additional 59,000 units.[29] In its third week, the album dropped to number eight on the chart, earning 33,000 more units.[30] In its fourth week, the album remained at number eight on the chart, earning 29,000 units.[31] In 2018, Everything is Love was ranked as the 70th most popular album of the year on the Billboard 200.[32] On January 14, 2019, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 500,000 units in the United States.

Track listing

Notes

Sample credits

Personnel

Credits adapted from Beyoncé's official website,[33] Tidal[34] and the album's liner notes. "Salud!" is track 10.

Musicians

Technical

Production

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Italian Albums (FIMI)[35] 20
Japan Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[36] 36
Slovak Albums (IFPI)[37] 15
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[38] 9
Swiss Albums (Romandie)[39] 5
US Billboard 2002
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[40] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2018)Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[41] 106
US Billboard 200[42] 70
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[43] 36

Release history

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DateFormat(s)Label(s)
VariousJune 16, 2018[44]
June 18, 2018[45] [46]
July 6, 2018CD[47]
JapanAugust 22, 2018CDSony Music[48]

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