Are You What You Want to Be?

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"Are You What You Want to Be?"
Are You What You Want to Be Foster the People.png
Single by Foster the People
from the album Supermodel
ReleasedSeptember 8, 2014
Recorded2013
Genre
Length4:30
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Kurstin
  • Mark Foster
Foster the People singles chronology
"Best Friend"
(2014)		"Are You What You Want to Be?"
(2014)		"Doing It for the Money"
(2017)

"Are You What You Want to Be?" is a song by American indie pop band Foster the People. It serves as the opening track on their second studio album, Supermodel , and was released as the album's fourth single on September 8, 2014.

Indie pop is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and subsequently generated a thriving fanzine, label, and club and gig circuit. Compared to its counterpart, indie rock, the genre is more melodic, less abrasive, and relatively angst-free. In later years, the definition of indie pop has bifurcated to also mean bands from unrelated DIY scenes/movements with pop leanings. Subgenres include chamber pop and twee pop.

Foster the People American rock band

Foster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2009. It currently consists of lead vocalist Mark Foster, lead guitarist Sean Cimino, keyboardist Isom Innis, and drummer Mark Pontius.

<i>Supermodel</i> (album) 2014 studio album by Foster the People

Supermodel is the second studio album by American indie pop band Foster the People. The album was co-produced by their frontman Mark Foster and British musician Paul Epworth, and was released by Columbia Records on March 14, 2014 in Friday-release countries and March 18, 2014 in the United States. It is the follow-up to the band's 2011 debut album, Torches.

Contents

Release

An audio stream of "Are You What You Want to Be?" was uploaded by the band's Vevo account to YouTube on August 5, 2014 accompanied by its single cover. [1] The song impacted contemporary hit radio in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2014 and modern rock radio in the United States on September 9, 2014 as the album's fourth single. [2] [3] The song is also used on EA Sports game, FIFA 15 . [4]

Vevo is an American multinational video hosting service founded on December 8, 2009, as a joint venture among three major record companies: Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and EMI. In August 2016, Warner Music Group (WMG), the third-largest record company, agreed to license premium videos from its artists onto Vevo.

YouTube Video-sharing service owned by Google

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

Contemporary hit radio is a radio format that is common in the United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, and the Philippines, that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the top 40 music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop, or urban music. Used alone, CHR most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term contemporary hit radio was coined in the early 1980s by Radio & Records magazine to designate top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into adult contemporary, urban contemporary and other formats.

Personnel

Foster the People

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
US Hot Rock Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 42

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabel
United Kingdom [2] September 8, 2014 Contemporary hit radio Columbia
United States [3] September 9, 2014 Modern rock radio

References

  1. ↑ Foster the People (August 5, 2014). "Foster The People – Are You What You Want to Be?". YouTube . Retrieved August 22, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Lane, Daniel (September 8, 2014). "This week's new releases 08-09-2014". Official Charts Company . Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Alternative > Future Releases". All Access Music Group. Archived from the original on August 22, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ http://www.fifagamenews.com/fifa-15-soundtrack/
  5. ↑ "Foster the People Chart History (Hot Rock Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
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