Ready 2 Go

"Ready 2 Go"
Single by Martin Solveig featuring Kele
from the album Smash
Released	March 28, 2011
Format	CD single, digital download
Genre	Electro house, dubstep
Length	4:25
Label	Mercury
Writer(s)	Martin Solveig, Kele Okereke
Producer(s)	Martin Solveig
Martin Solveig singles chronology
"Hello" (2010) "Ready 2 Go" (2011) "Big in Japan" (2011)
Kele singles chronology "On the Lam" (2010) "Ready 2 Go" (2011) "What Did I Do?" (2011) Music video "Ready 2 Go" on YouTube

"Ready 2 Go" is a song performed by French electronic music DJ and producer Martin Solveig from his fifth studio album, Smash. It features vocals from British singer Kele Okereke. The dubstep influenced song was released as the album's third single on March 28, 2011. It has so far peaked to number 20 on the French Singles Chart. It is a secondary theme song of the 2011 Copa América tournament.^[1] The song has been featured in the episode "Disturbing Behavior" of The Vampire Diaries ^[2] and on its sister show The Secret Circle (TV series) in the episode "Masked". ^[3] The Hardwell remix of the song was used for the Iceland sponsorship advert for the 2011 series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.

Music video

The music video for the song was uploaded to YouTube on May 4, 2011. The entire 11-minute music video was shot in the Stade de France, during half-time of the football match between France and Croatia,^[4] with the participation of many of the 80,000 fans in the stadium. In the video, Solveig comes into the stadium with a majorette, sings on the tape "Ready 2 Go", then begins to dance. Later, he runs around the stadium and fans in the stands brandish square papers of different colors to form the words "Ready 2 Go".^[5]

Track listing

• Digital download^[6]

1. "Ready 2 Go" (single edit) – 4:25

• German CD single^[7]

1. "Ready 2 Go" (radio edit) – 3:05
2. "Ready 2 Go" (single edit) – 4:25

• UK digital EP^[8]

1. "Ready 2 Go" (UK radio edit) – 2:32
2. "Ready 2 Go" (single edit) – 10:34
3. "Ready 2 Go" (club edit) – 6:27
4. "Ready 2 Go" (Arno Cost Remix) – 6:46
5. "Ready 2 Go" (Hardwell Remix) – 6:35

Credits

• Written by Kele Okereke & Martin Solveig
• Composed & produced by Martin Solveig
• Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd. & Temps D'Avance
• Lead vocals & backing vocals - Kele Okereke
• Instruments, programming & lead vocals - Martin Solveig
• Mixed and mastered by Philippe Weiss at Red Room Studio, Suresnes
• Back photography - Romina Shama

Charts

Release history

References

External links

• Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics