Jayzs moonlight music video does more than simply show. Jay z remakes friends with allblack cast for moonlight music video. The 89th academy awards took place on sunday, with moonlight taking home the top prize. Jayz has dropped a new video every friday since the release of his latest album 4. Master of nones alan yang on directing jayzs moonlight video, making jayz cry, and listening to 4. Jay z remakes friends with allblack cast for moonlight. Shawn carter is peeling back more vulnerable layers of jayz. Brian josephs august 4, 2017 share br this article. I just want to say that jayz 2017 album is how an older rapper should approach their later work, i mean on the one hand u got eminem that came out that same year wit an embarrassing effort to recapture the energy of his old music, and on the other hand u got hov who instead uses the wisdom and. Jayzs music video for moonlight is being viewed by some as a meta. I could talk about the message of the whole thing and everything but really its not my place. Jayz remakes friends with an allblack cast for the official music video to moonlight.
His new video for the song moonlight is no different. Jayzs video for moonlight has now been released on youtube, a week after it hit tidals platform as an exclusive. Master of nones alan yang on directing jayzs moonlight. Africanamerican representation is important in media and film, but i think the message that jayz conveyed through his video moonlight was very interesting. In jayzs new music video for moonlight, he recasts friends with an allblack allstar cast. Jayz continues to deliver cinematic visuals for standout songs off his recentlyreleased th studio album, 4. From film quarterly winter 2017, volume 71, number 2 on august 4, 2017, jay z released moonlight, an eightminute music video culled from his album 4. After warren beatty and faye dunaway said on stage that. Reactions to jayzs moonlight saw many fans raving that the video was a brilliant way to turn the white privileged world of the entertainment industry on its head.
Peep below for the moonlight behind the scenes footage. Jayzs music video for moonlight is being viewed by some as a meta critique on the longheld view that friends was actually a white version of the 1993 show living single. Hamilton moves to disney plus, leaving movie theaters in the lurch. Alan yangs 3 most illuminating revelations on directing. It remains to be seen when and if well get the nc17 film with lupita and mahershala, or any of the. Jay z releases behindthescenes video for moonlight f.
Reactions to jayzs moonlight prove people have a lot. Watch jayzs full moonlight short film yes, the black friends. The video for jayzs moonlight is an allblack friends remake until its. Last friday, jayz released a starstudded visual for moonlight in support of his new album 4. Watch jayzs moonlight video see the jayz video that. The short ends with a nod to the featurelength moonlight and the. How to stream jayzs moonlight music video, so you can. Watch jayzs full moonlight short film yes, the black. Directed by alan yang, cocreator of netflixs critically acclaimed series master of none aziz ansari, 2015, moonlight samples nbcs friends 19942004 as its original source.
The film, the latest in the xmen franchise, costars james mcavoy, michael. Our picks for the best music videos of 2017 include everything from a cutting animated satire to a guerilla. Jayz black friends moonlight music video is actually a comment. This week, the artist and entrepreneur released the complete visual for teaser released prior. Jayz brought this fantasy to life with his latest music video, moonlight, which features a star studded cast of tv and films actors including the aforementioned actresses as well as tessa. The tidalbacked jayz content mill rolls on with the video for moonlight, the 4. Kim dellara, chaka pilgrim, inga veronique, stephan mohammed, jamie rabineau, michael sagol, jasper thomlinson, bert hamelinck production company. The video for jayzs moonlight is an allblack friends remake vox. Jay z has released his very own version of beloved sitcom friends. Jayzs moonlight music video does more than simply show friends. Jayz addresses race issues in the new video for his song moonlight, named in honour of the triple oscar winning movie of the same name. With lil rel howery, lakeith stanfield, jerrod carmichael, issa rae. But its about much more than remaking the iconic nbc sitcom shot for shot.
Jayz remakes friends in his new video for moonlight. Aug 07, 2017 image via tidal following the release of the moonlight music video on friday, jay z dropped some behindthescenes visuals earlier today for the widely popular friends remake. This is directly referenced at the end of the film in case you didnt pick up on it, but i prefer the content of the short. Much like jayz other recent videos, the clip is a tidal exclusive. The full video will be available everywhere in a week, yang said on twitter. Moonlight video 2017 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Jayzs moonlight music video does more than simply show friends with an allblack cast. Music mogul jayz continues to make tidal the goto spot. Albums drop by artists all the time, but there are few artists out there that can.
Jayzs full short film for moonlight, directed by alan yang, is now available away from tidal. Directed by master of none cocreator alan yang, the video for. Moonlight, one of the most beautiful and cutting songs off jayzs newest album 4. Jayzs moonlight video recreates friends with an allblack cast. Thought its mostly been forgotten as awards season chatter is on hiatus, jayz brought back all the memories of that night with the track moonlight on his th studio album, 4. Film editing isaac hagy set decoration karuna karmarkar sound mixer tommy cella boom operator spencer flynn cam op keith dunkerley additional editor jeff watterson. Jayz black friends moonlight music video is actually a. Jayzs recreated an episode of friends for new moonlight. Jayzs moonlight music video stars tiffany haddish, issa rae. Buress then teases him whether a black full house reboot is next. The central premise of the video which stars issa rae, lil rel. Below are the complete moonlight lyrics by jayz displayed.
Jay zs video for moonlight features some of the biggest rising stars in comedy. Aziz ansaris master of none copilot alan yang brought his eye for telling compelling stories with people of color to moonlightno, not that moonlight, but the black starstudded music video for jayzs 4. Jayzs newest music video for moonlight enlisted the help of a few big names in hollywood when he created the music video for moonlight which was. A complete guide to the albums disses, from kanye to cosby. Some have even made the argument that this may be the most complete record since american gangster, which was released almost ten years ago. Jay z gathered a starstudded cast for the friendsinspired music video of moonlight. The moonlight video is a brilliant short film that brought tears to jays eyes. It seems like every day, i come across a tweet or a post, where there is a remake of a classic movie or. Moonlight and pretzels film moonlight and pretzels 01 august 1933. If twitter can get that rihannaissalupita heist film made, i believe we can get a. Watch jayz parody friends in the moonlight video rapup. Jayzs new music video moonlight is so shady youll need a jacket.
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