Macklemore & Lewis "Same Love" Gets Grammy Nod for Song of the Year

The Grammy nominations were announced Friday night and one of the key results was the nomination of the gay marriage anthem "Same Love" by Macklemore & Lewis in the Song of the Year category. In fact, Macklemore & Lewis received 7 nominations overall, 2 behind the leader Jay-Z and tied with Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell Williams. Macklemore & Lewis are named in three of the top four categories.

RECORD OF THE YEAR
"Get Lucky" - Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
"Royals" - Lorde
"Locked Out Of Heaven" - Bruno Mars
"Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons
"Blurred Lines" - Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell 

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
"The Blessed Unrest" - Sara Bareilles
"Random Access Memories" - Daft Punk
"Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" - Kendrick Lamar
"The Heist" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
"Red" - Taylor Swift 

SONG OF THE YEAR
"Just Give Me A Reason" - Jeff Bhasker, Pink & Nate Ruess, songwriters
(Pink Featuring Nate Ruess)
"Locked Out Of Heaven" - Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Bruno Mars,
songwriters (Bruno Mars)
"Roar" - Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry
Walter, songwriters (Katy Perry)
"Royals" - Joel Little & Ella Yelich O'Connor, songwriters (Lorde)
"Same Love" - Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert & Ryan Lewis, songwriters
(Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert) 

BEST NEW ARTIST
James Blake
Kendrick Lamar
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Kacey Musgraves
Ed Sheeran

It would be very cool if "Same Love" won song of the year when the winners are announced, on January 26, 2014.

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Hat/tip to TheFour.com via Joe.My.God

Celebrity Friday: If Beyonce & Jay-Z Weren't Famous

Photo Credit: Harry Evans

Ever wonder what celebrities would look like if they were not celebrities, living lives of luxury under intense scrutiny in the public eye but instead were just like you and me, an Average Joe and Jane?

Through the magic of Photoshop, you need not wonder any more! Harry Evans has edited pictures of several celebrity to produce portraits which reflect what they would look like in an alternate universe where they never became famous. Picture above is what Beyonce Knowles and Sean Carter would look like.

Here's another:

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Celebrity Friday: Blue Ivy Carter Born, Charts 1 Week Later

Beyonce and Jay-Z are the proud parents of Blue Ivy Carter,
who was born January 7, 2012

The world has been agog (and aghast) about the birth of Blue Ivy Carter, the newborn daughter of pop superstars Beyonce and Sean "Jay-Z" Carter in Brooklyn on January 7th, 2012.

Today comes word that Blue Ivy Carter is breaking a record as the youngest individual to appear on the Billboard music charts.

The newborn daughter of rapper Jay-Z and singer Beyonce, whose cries were sampled in her proud papa's newly-released single "Glory," became the youngest person to ever appear on the Billboard charts.

She is credited as a "collaborator" on the single, which has as its official title "Glory, Featuring B.I.C." (short for Blue Ivy Carter).

The song debuted at No. 74 on the charts.

Some of you may think that surely Stevie Wonder's brilliant song "Isn't She Lovely"  from his masterpiece Songs in the Key of Life which features the cries of his newborn daughter Aisha must be in the running for the record of youngest charting artist but apparently it wasn't released as a single until almost two years after it was recorded.