Dalé! The 2014 World Cup is right around the corner, and Latino music stars Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez have come to give you the soundtrack. Today (April 8), the duo released the official song of the 2014 FIFA World cup, "We Are One (Ole Ola)."
To help fit with the Rio de Janeiro setting of the soccer tournament, the song has notable tropical, sunshiney beats. An acoustic guitar launches the track off from the start before tribal drums and little whistles.
As always, Pitbull gets party friendly in the soccer themed track. "Whole world, one night, one place, Brazil / Everybody put your flags in the sky and do what you feel" he name checks in the first verse with staccato raps mixed with "woos" and crescendos for days.
The song thematically plays up the homeland pride of the World Cup, as Mr. Worldwide encourages all those listening (and attending the soccer matches) to show off their flags and wave them proudly in the sky. It's happy, celebratory and a little nationalistic, but what sports aren't?
"We Are One" features Jennifer Lopez and the Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte, who echo the sentiments that this gathering is for the whole world to join together and play a little soccer in the sun.
The track isn't anything groundbreaking by any means, and seems to take the soccer theme and the Brazilian theme really literally. When listening to this, it's a song about the World Cup and nothing else. But, I guess that's what a theme song is supposed to be, no?
Listen to "We Are One (Ole Ola)" below, via Billboard:
