Ready Tracklist
Ready is Australian singer Ruel’s debut EP released on June 15, 2018. The EP was released a day before his very first headline concert. In his interview with Atwood Magazine, Ruel said
Ready EP took about 3 years to complete. I started writing for it when I was about 12 and then finished recording it when I was about 15. … didn’t really have any idea what I was doing or really what I wanted at all but I kept writing because I loved it and I had a great time doing it. I wrote overall about 35 full songs for the EP, then my team and I selected our favourite 5 when I was 15. I wanted the EP to have a lot of variety and not too much of a set theme, so when it was time to write the next one, I could go conceptually and musically anywhere I wanted. … It was such a relief to finally have it out and it was even more amazing to see the reception it got. I really wasn’t expecting much but I got way more than I ever would have thought.
Regarding the compilation’s six tracks, Ruel explained
I have a different kind of relationship with all of the songs of the EP. Most of the songs come from my personal life experiences that I was going through at that time, specifically “Say.” “Say” really does hit home to me because I was going through those exact problems and experiencing the hurt that I express in the song.
“Ready” Q&A
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Why did Ruel name the EP Ready?
In his December 2018 interview with Music Team, Ruel explained the story behind the title.
My singing teacher Chelsea actually came up with it when we were on the Gold Coast when we were about to play the Commonwealth Games in the opening ceremony, it was like a month before and we needed a name. It does nod to ‘Don’t Tell Me’ because the punchline of the song is “don’t tell me when I’m ready” and I had just been working so long on that EP, like three years in the making, which is a long time for a fourteen year old or however old I was at the time [laughs]. But yeah, it was a very very long process and I always wanted to hold back — that was the play from when I started. We wanted to wait until I was ready to release music, we couldn’t just make a song and release it straight away. “Don’t Tell Me” was written when I was twelve and was released when I was fourteen for example.
It’s always just about being ready, and I feel like what better name to call it when you’re ready to release it than ‘Ready’.
