Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Music power couple has their first child


Finally after many rumors about Beyonce and Jay-z's child, what has to be one of the most famous babies, has finally been born. Many, many rumors have been made about Beyonce and Jay-Z's newborn child, starting out with a rumor that the child was born around New Years. More rumors came when the child was born, saying that the couple rented out an entire floor for around $1 million in the NYC Lenox Hill Hospital to keep their privacy. Those were both just rumors, especially the first one because Beyonce gave birth to their first child/daughter Blue Ivy Carter on Saturday, January 7, 2012 at the NYC Lenox Hill Hospital. This baby was more famous then I'll ever be before she was even born! The anticipation for this child has been huge! I and I think many others, have been wondering what they would name her. After speculation on whether it was Ivy Blue Carter or Blue Ivy Carter, it was finally confirmed to be Blue Ivy. I think it's a beautiful name and defiantly unique which is perfect for the child of two of the most major hiphop artist of this century, known to be music's most powerful couple (click here for more info). Although the reason for their daughter's name has never been confirmed officially by Beyonce or Jay-z, people think they have thought of a reasonable explanation. Blue is supposedly Jay-z's favorite color and has defiantly been brought up by him before. Three of his albums have blue within the title, Blueprint, Blueprint 2: the Gift and the Curse, and Blueprint 3. The explanation for Ivy has been thought to be that it represents the Roman numeral IV which is an important number to the couple. Their birthdays both involve the 4th, (Beyonce's being September 4th and Jay-z's being December 4th). They got married on April 4, 2008 and supposedly they have the same "IV" tattoo on their wedding fingers. Beyonce's most recent album, her 4th album, is named 4. So there's obviously big significance in both Blue and Ivy. Beyonce and Jay-z both stayed pretty private about their daughter at first. The news of Blue's birth started by many close friends of the couple tweeting them congratulations. The couple announced their daughter's birth on Monday, January 9, 2012 and cleared up some rumors of Beyonce having a c section by saying that Blue was born naturally at 7 lbs. I'm so happy to hear about their daughter and I'm so happy for the couple. I think they deserve health and happiness for all three of them and I wish them all the best in the future. I can't wait to see and hear about Blue growing up having music's most powerful couple as her parents. She defiantly has amazing influences in her life because Oprah, who I think is the most powerful women in the world, is Blue's godmother. I'm excited to see if she grows up loving the spot light or being hidden from it, or if she grows up a singer like her parents. I get so caught up in this kind of news and I can't wait to see a picture of her. No pictures have been released yet, so fingers crossed they come out soon!! 

More information about Blue's twitter welcome can be found here, information about Blue's name can be confirmed here, and information about Beyonce and Jay-z's announcement of their daughter's birth can be confirmed here.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

"Safe and Sound"

December 22 started out as a typical day during break for me and thousands of other Taylor Swift and Hunger Game fans, but once Taylor Swift started tweeting about an upcoming surprise she had for her fans, I knew it wasn't going to be another normal day. She then tweeted "And this is it, the big surprise... Go get it! #The HungerGames" With a link to a picture of the "Safe and Sound" cover. Here's Taylor's tweets hinting to her fans about the surprise.
Safe and Sound is a song on the Hunger Games, a upcoming movie, soundtrack sung by Taylor and featuring the Civil Wars. This news from Taylor on twitter started spreading and soon "Safe and Sound" was trending and became the top trending topic on twitter in the U.S. and the second most trending topic on twitter in the world. Soon enough, later that day, "Safe and Sound" became the number one song on iTunes, which Taylor later tweeted thanking her fans for doing. I was at a friend's house when i checked twitter and heard the news that Taylor had a new song out. The first thing I did when I got home was I went on iTunes and bought the song. I then listened to the song and was so shocked by what I heard. "Safe and Sound" is a completely new sound from anything I've heard Taylor do before. The song is an acoustic ballad and it is so beautiful to hear. The blend of her voice and the Civil Wars is just breathtaking. I then listened to it on repeat in my room from then on. I think the lyrics are amazing like every other song Taylor has written. The composers of the song are Taylor Swift, Joy Williams, John Paul White, and T Bone Burnett. The chorus is, "Just close your eyes, the sun is going down. You'll be all right, no one can hurt you now. Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound." My favorite song lyric though is, "Don't you dare look out your window darling everything's on fire. The war outside our door keeps raging on. Hold on to this lullaby, even when the music's gone." The full lyrics to the song can be found here. The music just moves me, you can listen to it by playing the video below. I really recommend you go and buy it on iTunes.
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