Everybody Calm Down, But Your Official 2014 World Cup Anthem Has Just Arrived
It's by ol' friends J-Lo and Pitbull.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Brazil just around eight weeks away, but the excitement can start right now: the official anthem for this year’s tournament has been revealed, and it’s a steel drum-heavy Spanglish/Portuguese number by Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez and Brazilian artist Claudia Leitte, titled ‘We Are One (Ole Ola)’.
The World Cup has offered some epic tunes over the years — Ricky Martin’s ‘La Copa De La Vida‘ from France 1998; Shakira’s ‘Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)‘ from South Africa 2010; New Order’s Italia 1990 masterpiece ‘World In Motion‘ (which was more an English anthem than a World Cup song, but let’s not hold that against it because it included a pretty great John Barnes rap) — but where does this year’s installment rank on the all-time list?
Yeah, that’s pretty terrible. Gonna have to watch SBS with the volume down for much of June.