Blue Ivy Carter Is Now A Grammy Nominee

That section of hope-filled and sleekly gloved but identity-challenged arm you see in the photo above is all of us. It wants, it strives, it works hard, and deposits its paychecks. It shops for glam accessories and slips them on in earnest for photo ops. It impatiently rips open bags of Doritos and faps to hot people it hopes to one day meet. And yet all its best efforts are nothing but a cruel exercise in that humorless asshole we all know as futility. This arm, like all of us plebes, loses time and time again, and gets edged out by the will-breaking, dream-shattering bitch troll known simply as “My Parents Are Famous And Yours Aren’t.” All my arm has to show for years of striving is vexing winter dryness and a raging case of carpal tunnel. Look down and you’ll see the same. But we’re totally not bitter.

As it happens, this particular, elegantly gloved arm is having nothing of the above scenario and belongs to none other than Beyoncé. The future 2021 Grammy recipient, of course, is her daughter, Blue Ivy Carter.

According to the Associated Press, Blue Ivy has been added to the list of Grammy nominees for the song “Brown Skin Girl,” from The Lion King: The Gift (Deluxe Edition):

When the Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 2021 Grammys last month, Beyoncé scored a nomination for best music video for “Brown Skin Girl,” which Ivy Carter is credited as a featured artist. The 8-year-old’s name did not appear on the nominees list, but the Grammys recently updated its website to now include her.

The update also includes Nigerian singer Wizkid, who appears on the song and video. SAINt JHN — who is featured on the track but was not in the video — was still not listed as a nominee.

The best music video Grammy is awarded to the main and featured artists on the track, as well as the video’s director and producer.

“Brown Skin Girl” is a celebration of dark- and brown-skinned women and features Beyoncé namedropping Lupita Nyong’o, Naomi Campbell and Kelly Rowland. She sings the lyrics, “I love everything about you, from your nappy curls to every single curve.” Ivy Carter gives a vocal performance that opens and closes the song.

Blue Ivy is no stranger to recognition in the form of awards. She won a BET Award for the same song last year and earlier this year (her 2020 has clearly not looked like the rest of ours), she won an NAACP Image Award for it. And why not? Her contributions totally made it the runaway hit that it is; just see for yourself:

Beyoncé also strung together a collection of home movies of Blue Ivy’s pre-award days, and graced us with yet another version, so we could all see the lead-in to a childhood full of accolades and recall our parents’ own home movies of us, which mostly involved footage of falling down during games of backyard croquet and barfing up our gross dinners of mashed carrots on mom’s new dress:

Pic:  YouTube