Ready 2 Go

Album: Smash (2011)
Charted: 48
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Songfacts®:

  • This dubstep influenced song is the third single by French electronic music DJ and producer Martin Solveig, from his fifth studio album, Smash. It features vocals from British singer/ Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke and was released on March 28, 2011.
  • The tune was used as a secondary theme song of the 2011 Copa América football tournament.
  • The music video for the song was shot in the Stade de France, during half-time of a football match between France and Croatia. The clip involved the participation of many of the 80,000 fans in the stadium who brandished square papers of different colors to form the words 'Ready 2 Go' whilst Solveig run around the stadium. It followed the tennis theme of the French DJ's previous visual for "Hello."

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