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Jay-Z // Glory [Feat. Blue Ivy Carter]
You read it right. Two days old and Blue Ivy Carter’s already running the game, getting a feature on her dad’s new track ‘Glory’.
Dedicated to the newborn babe, ‘Glory’ features beautiful lyrics from Jay who tells Blue that she’s “Everything that [he] prayed for” and “a pinch of Hov, a whole glass of B”. Phew. Produced by Pharrell Williams, who also provides backing vocals, the track has a certain warmth about it which reflects the joy you can hear in Jigga’s voice.
With the final lyrics “baby I paint the sky blue, my greatest creation was you” being followed by a gargling Blue Ivy Carter, this song is just too sweet for words. This was definitely the perfect way to welcome Lil’ B into the world.
I haven’t gotten a chance to talk about Beyonce yet, but I just wanted to highlight this here. What a strange event in pop Jay-Z and Beyonce’s child (and indeed, whole relationship) is - to my mind without precedent in modern pop. The sense of being lived in public, like being tuned into Hova’s Facebook feed, feels very now. And while nearly every pop song is (or pretends to be) about love or sex, there’s so very few songs really about marriage, commitment, childbirth (even here, miscarriages).
Depends on what you mean by modern. My first thought is Desi Arnaz, Jr. And that whole deal was back when there arguably was a monoculture.
