Leopold Nunan grew up in Brazil and now calls Los Angeles home, and for years he’s used his own music and festival work as a way of putting Brazilian culture in front of new audiences abroad. That cross-cultural instinct shows up constantly in what he makes, folding in electronic production and disco’s history alongside more mainstream pop influences instead of committing to just one of them.
Ready To Go
“Ready To Go” teams Nunan up with Andrea Ferraz for a disco-pop single that deliberately skips the heartbreak angle so much of current pop leans on, going for something lighter instead, a song about feeling unburdened, surrounded by people you trust, and not overthinking the moment you’re actually in. It’s not trying to bring disco’s classic period back wholesale either, it takes what made that sound work and updates it for a current pop audience, so nothing here plays like a costume.
Neither lead is fighting for the spotlight here, it plays more like a genuine duet than a feature slapped onto someone else’s single, the kind of chorus built to land with a crowd. Nunan, Ferraz, and co-producer DJ JackEL keep the arrangement pushing forward the whole way through, giving the whole thing a propulsive, can’t-sit-still quality that matches what the lyrics are actually saying, that hesitation isn’t worth the time.
Production-wise, the track leans on the fuller, richer tones of older disco records while staying firmly planted in a current pop sound. The video builds out its own separate world too, glossy, colorful, leaning on a playful sci-fi conceit and old-school glamour, more like a short film than a standard performance clip, and it turns the whole release into something bigger than just one song.
Final Thoughts
“Ready To Go” is a genuinely fun, well-built pop record that doesn’t need a sad backstory to justify itself, and it’s proof there’s still real appetite for music that just wants people to dance.
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