It's easy to forget just how insanely popular Beyoncé and Jay Z are, but when we talk about them we're talking about two human beings who have combined to sell more than 300 million records and pick up 36 Grammys along the way. Even if you think that record sales are worthless and that awards are meaningless, those are still pretty impressive figures.
The reality is that the couple that is Beyoncé and Jay Z is a once-in-a-generation thing. It's like Cal Ripkin Jr.'s consecutive-game streak or Brock Lesnar beating The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 30. Eventually someone else will play a lot of baseball without stopping, and eventually another wrestler will win 20 times at Wrestlemania only to finally lose a match. Eventually two of the biggest names in music will get married and reign at the top...but we may not be here to see it.
What are the odds that another rapper will rise up to become the biggest name in the game and another singer will become an icon and that they'll just happen to fall in love with each other as well? Short of Drake marrying Rihanna, it isn't happening for a while at least. (If Kendrick Lamar and, say, Ariana Grande get married in seven years, feel free to laugh at how wrong this point is.) Even if that pairing did work out, it wouldn't be the same because all of us living through Beyoncé & Jay Z would just see them as a poor knockoff.
Odds are they'll tour again in a few years, and even if that show is also balls-to-the-wall awesome, it won't have the same impact as On the Run because the narrative will be different. It has no choice but to be. This is the culmination of who they are now, but they both have stories left to write.
Those stories may not all be epics, but they'll be fascinating to hear. For now, let us all appreciate this moment for what it is, when two talented artists came together to make something bigger than themselves and justified all the clichés that came to mind.
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