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Calvin Harris Calvin Harris birth name/real name is Adam Richard Wiles he was born on the 17th January 1984 in Dumfries, Scotland. He was a football fan and aspired to be like Steve McManaman who was a professional footballer. Harris says “But I never had curly hair, so I got into music. If I'd had curly hair, things would've been different." He was first attracted to electronic music in his teens and was recording bedroom demos by 1999. According to an interview with News of the World, while he was discovering music and producing it he became very anti-social which affected his personality. His earliest success was when he was twenty-one with the songs "Da Bongos" and "Brighter Days" they were released as a 12" club single and CD-EP by the Prima Facie label in early 2002 under the name Stouffer.

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Calvin HarrisCalvin Harris birth name/real name is Adam Richard Wiles he was born on the 17th January 1984 in Dumfries, Scotland. He was a football fan and aspired to be like Steve McManaman who was a professional footballer. Harris says “But I never had curly hair, so I got into music. If I'd had curly hair, things would've been different." He was first attracted to electronic music in his teens and was recording bedroom demos by 1999. According to an interview with News of the World, while he was discovering music and producing it he became very anti-social which affected his personality. His earliest success was when he was twenty-one with the songs "Da Bongos" and "Brighter Days" they were released as a 12" club single and CD-EP by the Prima Facie label in early 2002 under the name Stouffer.

Calvin Harris released a song called ‘ Ready for the Weekend ‘ in 2009. It was his second single from studio album Ready for the Weekend’ . The song features the female vocalist British singer Mary Pearce. The song made world debut

In 12 June 2009 as it was played on the famous radio station BBC Radio 1 by Pete Tong. It was also featured as the song of the day on Popjustice on the 13th July 2009. Harris then went on to perform the song at the Itunes festival on the 18July 2009 in London.

The song then got into the UK Singles Chart at number three on 16 August 2009.

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Track listings

UK CD single and iTunes single[11][12]

"Ready for the Weekend" – 3:37

"Ready for the Weekend" (High Contrast Remix) – 5:42

UK iTunes EP[13]

"Ready for the Weekend" – 3:37

"Ready for the Weekend" (Fake Blood Remix) – 5:40

"Ready for the Weekend" (High Contrast Remix) – 5:42

"Ready for the Weekend" (Dave Spoon Remix) – 6:21

"Ready for the Weekend" (Dave Spoon Dub Remix) – 6:35

UK 12" single[14]

A1. "Ready for the Weekend" (Original Version) – 3:37

B1. "Ready for the Weekend" (Dave Spoon Remix) – 6:21

B2. "Ready for the Weekend" (Fake Blood Remix) - 5:40

During an interview for The Sun on 10 April 2009, Harris commented on the song saying ;

"It's different to the first single. It's still happy, dancey, with more singing. The hook's sung by a woman called Mary Pearce, who's a diva. She's got this great big voice and it's like a nod to an old dance classic. I love underground dance music but I also have an extreme love of commercial dance music. But only the good stuff."

The music video for the song was directed by Ben Ib and premiered on the British channel T4 on 4 July 2009 at 11:00 am. FHM model and TOWIE star Lauren Pope makes an appearance in the video. Several dancing females appear wearing red leotards to match Harris' magic portal, shirt and furniture. They next "change into blue and yellow zip-up bathing suits, expanding the palette and multiplying endlessly, just in time for the weekend."

On 23 July 2009, it was reported that the video was removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim from another party. Harris stated that he was upset it had occurred and believed that the British Phonographic Industry had prompted the removal.

Chart (2009)

Peak

position

Belgian Tip

Chart (Flanders)2

Belgian Tip Chart (Wallonia) 7

European Hot 100 Singles 11

Irish Singles Chart 9

Japan Hot 100 97

Scottish Singles Chart 32

UK Singles Chart 3

UK Dance Singles Chart1

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DirectorThe director of this music video was Ben Ib. He is a music video director and CGI artist living and working in London he also runs a design+ animation studio specialising in concert visuals as well as directing Music Videos and TV Commercials.

He has directed music videos for Kylie Minogue, The Ting Tings, Roni Size, Goldie Lookin Chain, Mr Hudson, Stateless, and has created live tour visuals for Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and The Smashing Pumpkins.

Ben Ib studied Art at Leeds University and started out by creating club visuals in the Faversham, Leeds, where he was Creative Director. His first digital short "Collapse", created as a 3rd year University film won the 'Video Positive' award in 1996 and was screened on Channel Four's "Digital Underground' series. His early digital work was screened at The Hanover Film Festival, The AVE festival (Arnhem, The Netherlands), One Dot Zero, Cinefeel and the Edinburgh Film Festival. In 1998 Ben came to London and worked as a 3d artist in various Post Production Houses, eventually moving into the direction of commercials for music artists such as Madonna, the Manic Street Preachers and the Beach Boys. It was from here that he began his career in Music Videos.

Camera Work The video opens with a close up of a circle that calvin harris is holding in front of him. The camera then pans out revealing calvin standing next to the river thames in London. The camera then shakily wobbles away , as it looks like a outtake or a mistake. But it just

gives it a quirky and realistic feel. The camera then zooms out so far that it shows another red circle which seems to be a

window. The main camera technique in this video is handheld as it wobbles around the screen. There is also a lot of panning when it goes onto another scene or shot. It looks like there are no cuts in the video from where the camera tilts to another scene. Yet

it has just been edited very well.

GenreThe genre of this music video is synthpop which can also be known as also known as electropop, or technopop it is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco.

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Lyrics The very beginning of the song there is someone singing ‘ooo’ twice and whenever they say ‘ooo’ a circle comes up this only happens twice at the start of the video. I then realised the lyrics ‘And I make her bleed’ when this is in the music video a hand punches through the wall and the walls are a deep blood red. It then goes on to say ‘We find the nearest girl and ask her to dance’ it then zooms in to the model Lauren Pope that Calvin Harris was currently dating at the time of the music video. ‘This reflection in my mirror’ Shows Calvin placing a circle on a wall to show a shot of a of a town and then panning up to show a plane. ‘When I tilt it towards the sunlight’ The background for the first time is a dark night black but the circle he is holding has a bright sunlight reflection on it . He then sings the lyric ‘You fall out of view’ while he is jumping down into a black hole and for the first time in a outside location.