“Ta fête” by Stromae

"Ta fête", French for "your party", opens Stromae's second album, Racine carrée, and the Belgian singer sent it out as the record's fourth single on February 3, 2014. He wrote it, sings it and produced it, with Thomas Azier adding production, Shameboy on guitar and bass, and Lionel Capouillez mixing: dance-pop built almost single-handed.

Within weeks it had a bigger job. In March 2014 it was named the official song of Belgium's national football team for the 2014 World Cup. Lieven Van Baelen's video, out that June, casts Stromae as the ring announcer while a man picked out of the crowd tries to run and escape a raised obstacle course, a setup with echoes of The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner.

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