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But there may be no one in media more in control of their images than Beyoncé and Jay Z, and the parties involved with throwing the Met Gala have a lot to lose with a leak like this. It’s not surprising that the gossip site TMZ has sources at the Met Gala, given all the celebrity hijinks guaranteed to happen there each year. As Evidence We’re Living in the Panopticon It’s probably only hours until we hear from Bill O’Reilly on this. Some commenters have praised Jay Z for not hitting Solange back others have said it’s screwed up that anyone would need to praise a man for not hitting a woman.Īs for political implications? Well, Jay Z and Beyoncé are famously friends of the White House. Already, people are raising the notion of a racial element to the discussion around the video, with the music critic Brandon Soderberg worrying that some will use it to vilify those involved as conforming to "ghetto" stereotypes. What’s in the video inevitably will be interpreted in relation to those abstract ideals that Beyonce, Jay Z, and Solange are seen as standing for. The Knowles-Carters are godlike not necessarily because people worship them but because many perceive them-fairly or not-to embody abstract ideals. But I don’t know how well you can fight it. You can’t defend that impulse, really, when you remember that mass attention can only make life more difficult for the people you’re paying attention to. There’s almost comfort in it, as with reality TV-it’s the kind of drama we each personally have known in our day-to-day lives turned into a collective, pass-the-popcorn viewing experience. That inherent ugliness, of course, is a big part of what’s fascinating. You can find plenty of speculation already most of the non-jokey theories involve loved ones betraying one another, or substance abuse, or mental illness. Whatever happened in that elevator was undoubtedly painful and sad. Then you remember: These are real human beings with real inner lives and real relations. And, as there’s no audio, there’s an irresistible mystery: Why did this happen? All of this is happening at one of the most glamorous celebrity events in the world.
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But then you have Solange appearing to angrily attack Jay Z and being restrained by a bodyguard, as Beyoncé stands more or less composed off to the side. Getting a glimpse into what appears to be a truly private, personal moment for these three is alluring enough. The Knowles-Carters are gods not necessarily because people worship them (though plenty of people’s fandom is so fervent as to resemble worship) but because many perceive them-fairly or not-to embody abstract ideals. So you have these sort of symbolic figures, the kind who give credence to the common interpretation of celebrity culture as a modern-day manifestation of the same desires that fueled Greek mythology. Solange is the hipster sister she covers Dirty Projector songs and her producer is a Pitchfork darling. But she’s also a torchbearer for a kind of counterculture. One of them is, of course, the stereotypical drama that people imagine to be inherent in show-business families, where one sibling must compete with the other.
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Her little sister Solange, a singer with her own following, has come to represent other things. Beyoncé, remember, was just named the most influential person in the world. They are icons-of hip-hop and R&B’s cultural and economic rule, of the modern marriage in which the wife is as powerful as the husband, of the idea that commercially successful music can be critically lauded, of the American Dream made real for two people of color, of some indefinable notion of “classiness” in comparison to other celebs, and on and on. Jay Z and Beyoncé aren't just famous people. So far, I’ve got four explanations-or maybe four self-justifications-for the significance of this odd scandal.
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Or at least, that’s what I tell myself as I watch the #WhatJayZSaidToSolange jokes scroll by.
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