Get Free | |
Cover: | GetFreeMajor.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Major Lazer featuring Amber Coffman |
Album: | Free the Universe |
Released: | 18 May 2012 |
Recorded: | 2011 |
Length: | 4:49 |
Label: | Downtown |
Chronology: | Major Lazer |
Prev Title: | Original Don |
Prev Year: | 2011 |
Next Title: | Jah No Partial |
Next Year: | 2012 |
"Get Free" is a song by musical project Major Lazer from their second studio album Free the Universe (2013). The song was released as a digital download on May 18, 2012. The song features vocals from American singer and musician Amber Coffman.
A lyric video to accompany the release of "Get Free" was first released onto YouTube on 15 April 2012 at a total length of five minutes.[1] The official video, directed by So Me, was released on 23 August 2012. Filmed in Kingston, Jamaica, "Get Free" takes the viewer on a candid journey of Jamaican culture.[2] Both Coffman and Diplo make appearances.[3]
In 2015, English singer Newton Faulkner recorded "Get Free" for his fifth studio album, Human Love. The cover of the song was released as the lead single from the album on 27 November 2015, while a music video was released on 15 September 2015.[4] [5]
Chart (2012) | position | |
---|---|---|
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[8] | 18 | |
Belgium (Ultratop Wallonia)[9] | 88 | |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[10] | 49 | |
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[11] | 42 |
"Get Free" was featured over the end credits of Barely Lethal (2015), and in the 2017 movie Baywatch[13]