The last several months have been busy for one of the music industry’s most talked-about couples, Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
Beyoncé released her fourth studio album, titled “4,” last June, and it immediately took the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Not to be out-done by his boo, Jay-Z released his collaboration album with Kanye West, “Watch the Throne,” in August, which reached platinum status by mid-September.
The Jay and Bey fever ramped up with Beyoncé’s announcement at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards that she was expecting — and not just another Grammy nomination. Beyoncé broke the news by unbuttoning her coat after her performance to reveal a baby bump five months in the making.
Frenzied tweeters set a new world record over the announcement. Twitter’s official global public relations feed recorded 8,868 tweets per second at 10:35 p.m. on the night of the awards — the third-most tweets per second for any one event.
Destiny’s child entered the world with an entire floor of the Lenox Hill Hospital rented out just for her — total diva move. According to The New York Daily News, the hip-hop couple paid $1.3 million to rent out the fourth floor of the Manhattan hospital, essentially putting other new and expecting parents on lockdown.
The couple’s name for their daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, has been the subject of much speculation. According to The New York Post, her name reflects her father’s “The Blueprint” album series and her mother’s favorite number, four, in Roman numerals.
Though she hasn’t yet broken a tooth, baby Blue is already the target of a conspiracy theory. The source of this conspiracy could be a tweet by a user imitating comedian Katt Williams which read, “I.V.Y. = Illuminati’s Very Youngest B.L.U.E. = Born Living Under Evil. Blue Ivy spelt backwords (Eulb Yvi) = Latin for ‘Lucifers Daughter’.”
While I commend his ability to come up with three- and
four-letter acronyms, if he can’t spell correctly using the language in which he’s fluent, why would
anyone trust that this clever tweeter is an authority in Latin?
I’m not fluent in the dead language, and I’m sure few are. But the words “Eulb yvi” look more like a Slavic language. A simple Google translator inquiry can show that “Lucifer’s daughter” in Latin looks a little more like “filia de Diabolus.”
Despite the large number of Twitter users who reposted accusations of the infant being a member of a secret, fictitious society, my verdict is #IllumiNOTi.
But speculation might turn to playing her dad’s records backwards, because Blue Ivy Carter didn’t waste any time starting her music career. Sounds of her crying can be heard on Jay-Z’s new single “Glory,” which was released two days after his daughter’s birth. She is officially the youngest artist to hit Billboard charts and probably the most deserving of the prefix “Lil’.”
Did Roc-A-Fella Records sign her already? She’ll probably be hitting the studio again soon, if ailments like colic and diaper rash don’t get in the way. I’ve heard her new single, “Glurgg Ga Goo Glurg” will be available on iTunes next month.
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