Beyonce turned 33 on September 4, is clearly not divorcing

Sep 6, 2014 07:11 GMT  ·  By

For months, we’ve been hearing rumors that Beyonce and Jay Z were on the verge of divorce, because she had gotten the most out of the relationship already and didn’t want to stand for his infidelity anymore. If her most recent MTV VMA performance didn’t do away with this speculation, the video below will most definitely will.

On September 4, Beyonce turned 33 and her loving husband posted this video as his public way of wishing her a happy birthday. It’s practically a visual love poem to Beyonce, made possible by celebrating her as an artist.

The video is made with footage from her most recent tour, On the Run Tour, on which Jay also accompanied her, but also with older footage, outtakes from music videos and so on. It’s beautiful and it delivers its loving message without being too obvious about it, just like every other public statement these two have been putting out in recent months.

And there have been plenty of those, because they were meant to counter the wave of bad press coming at them. Every time a new breakup rumor came up in a more serious publication, Beyonce would post photos of herself and Jay and their daughter Blue Ivy on her website, as a way to tell the fans not to worry, they were still together, still in love.

However, no other statement was as loud as the one they made at the VMAs 2014, where Beyonce was honored with the Michael Jackson Vanguard Award and she performed a 16-minute medley of some of her most recent hits.

At the end of it, Jay walked up on stage with Blue Ivy in his arms and the award in one hand, and together they presented it to Beyonce, who couldn’t stop crying. It was a very beautiful moment, a display of affection these two don’t engage in all that often.

Even though they’re the most successful couple in music (and probably showbiz in general, too), Beyonce and Jay Z have managed to exercise a lot of control over just how much of their private life they want made public.

Since May this year, though, they lost some of that control when a video from a surveillance camera in an elevator leaked online, showing Beyonce’s sister, Solange, putting on a beatdown on Jay right in front of his wife, who did very little to interfere.

It was said that this was the moment when Beyonce found out just how unfaithful Jay had been to her, as Solange confronted him about it. If we’re to believe Beyonce’s father (and former manager), the entire incident was a PR stunt to drive ticket sales for the tour because, as they say, bad publicity is sometimes better than good publicity.

We might never know what exactly happened that night or what went down behind closed doors in the months that followed, but one thing is clear, as shown in this birthday video: Jay Z loves Beyonce.