jay z ft beyonce on the run official videort 2

At least, she manages to evoke and embody the many complicated aspects and images of womanhood that we encounter, and often aspire to. She is superwoman, but, in a strange way, she’s also everywoman. The limited emotional access she gives her fans allows us to project upon her. Which only made Bey and Jay’s onstage performance of faithfulness, love, and support feel more fraught.Īlthough we put Beyoncé on an unfathomably high pedestal-woe betide the woman who compares herself to Queen Bey-there’s also something uniquely relatable about her. A few months earlier, elevator security cameras had caught Beyoncé’s younger sister Solange smacking Jay-Z furiously at the Met Gala, fueling speculation about what might have inspired such rage in a protective sibling. That this was real life.īy that time, in September of 2014, rumors were already swirling about Jay-Z’s infidelities. And they seemed to have fun and love each other, and even have time for vacations, while doing it. I wanted to believe not only in the lyrics of the song, but in Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s marriage, a seemingly supportive and symbiotic relationship between two creative dynamos, who not only managed to work together to create the performance onstage, but also a healthy, beautiful daughter.

The first time I watched this unfold, four years ago, I wept-wept!-on my sofa, with the same phrase repeating over and over again in my mind: I want to believe.

Jay z ft beyonce on the run official videort 2