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Live Review: WATCH: Major Lazer 'Get Free'

30 August 2012 | 3:00 pm | Antigone Anagnostellis

Major Lazer has collaborated with SoMe to create a feel-good, peaceable clip for their latest single 'Get Free'.

This week MAJOR LAZER released a striking new music video to accompany dance hit ‘Get Free’.

The Grammy-nominated DJ/producer (as Diplo) collaborated with director SoMe to create this feel-good, peaceable clip. SoMe directly captures the natural character of Jamaica and the dreamy island life. Filmed in Kingston, it weaves through time and space to share the free and easy lifestyle and party scene.

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Starting off with a cheeky nod to Husain Bolt (that lighting pose) and a cry 'WE’LL FREE PEOPLE WITH THE MUSIC' the video showcases a multitude of the weird and wonderful, from street marionettes to a man stroking a chicken. Most of the time, we’re invited into the Jamaican dancehall scene with plenty of booty shaking and loose dance moves.

As the music hypes up, so do the shots, making for a seamless relationship between the music and visuals. Dirty Projectors lead vocalist, Amber Coffman makes an appearance, chanting that chorus line: ‘I just wanna dream!” SoMe’s montage of human faces and places is like a love letter to Jamaica. I would be very happy living in this sexy Jamaican dream.

But don’t be thinking it’s all palm trees and laying on the beach, there’s some fierce adventure in the clip – dance crew battles, a boxing match and motorcyclists doing wheelies. These guys “never got love from a government man” and frankly, they don’t need it. They are having much too much of a good time. We get to see all sides of Jamaica, the young and the old, the day and the night, the wilderness and the clubs. And nearly everybody is booty shaking. A poignant finish – 'GET FREE' etched onto a wall.

‘Get Free’ is set to appear on MAJOR LAZER’s second album, Major Lazer Free's The Universe, released in November.