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According to Spin , the song incorporates a "marrying fist-pump stadium rock to the prim indie-pop of Grizzly Bear's 'Two Weeks,' keeping the deliberate beats and soaring melodies but replacing choirboy primness with a percussive whomp." [15] Andrew Unterberger of Popdust compared the song's chorus to Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield" and Supergrass's "Alright". [16] Tim Jonze of The Guardian described the chorus as anthemic and compared it to work done by Arcade Fire and stated that the lyrics were "life-affirming and fit for a teen movie soundtrack." [17]

Lead singer Nate Ruess says the lyrics were inspired by one specific night, after "my worst drinking night of all time." Ruess told Rolling Stone that he was kicked out of a taxi cab for vomiting all over it, saying "the cabbie was demanding all this money, and all I could do was stand on the corner with my head against the wall. It took me another day before I was a functioning adult and could actually write down the verses." [18]

Critical reception

"Obviously the harmonies bring to mind a band like Queen, so there's a touch point for older listeners." [19]

—Bruce Warren, assistant station manager for WXPN (88.5 FM) comparing the song to the work of rock band Queen in an interview with The New York Times .

"We Are Young" received critical acclaim. Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone called the song "rollickingly catchy", writing that "Ruess' knack for the anthemic is matched by Gen-Y humor – emo self-deprecation that leavens the bombast." [20] In addition, fellow Rolling Stone columnist Steve Knopper compared the song's crossover success to that of Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks" (2011), writing that the song displays a "sprightly pop-novelty feel" that is the best track on the album. [21] Al Shipley of The Village Voice agreed with this comparison, attributing the song's success to the changing music industry as a result of advertising and iTunes. [22] MTV News called "We Are Young" the band's "breakout anthem" and one of the year's most unlikely sensations. [9]

RJ Cubarrubia of Billboard commended the band for taking their "warm retro sound into soaring ballad territory," calling the track a "bold statement." He did, however, criticize the small inclusion of Janelle Monáe in the track: "Monáe's guest spot is a missed opportunity, as the budding R&B star is relegated to background harmonies instead of adding something soulful and special to an already powerful hook." [14] Bill Lamb of About.com praised the chorus stating: "'We Are Young' carries a hook in the chorus that is likely to stop many listeners dead in their tracks the first time they hear it. The second time around this just might have become your new favorite song." [23] However, Luke Lewis of NME gave a highly negative review of the song, giving a 5 out of 10, stating: "It's not clear what compelled Janelle Monáe to work with these New York-based Panic! at the Disco soundalikes. They're hardly natural bedfellows, and her input is limited to a brief vocal. It's a winning formula though – this stirring emo ballad went to Number One in the US. This year's Owl City then, if that concept doesn't chill your blood." [24]

The song won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where it was also a nominee for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. [2]

Chart performance

"We Are Young" hit US radio on December 6, 2011, [25] and entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 53 on December 24, 2011. [26] [27] The song's debut coincided with the airing of the episode of Glee it was featured in, "Hold On to Sixteen". As such, the Glee version of the song debuted on the same day, and debuted at the number 12 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, meaning the song was technically a Top 40 hit for the Glee cast before the original version. [28] Following the popularity of the Glee version, there was a 1,650% jump in sales of "We Are Young" (from 3,000 to 49,000 during the week of December 11, 2011).

The song had another surge in popularity in February of 2012 due to its appearance in a Super Bowl commercial spot, which helped it explode at radio and at retail. [29] In the week following the Super Bowl, it rose 26 spots to number 63 on the Hot 100, and jumped from number 72 to 41 on the Hot Digital Songs chart. [27] It rocketed up the charts, until, on March 7, 2012, "We Are Young" ascended to the top position on the Billboard Hot 100. [30] It remained number one for six consecutive weeks, and was also the first song to log seven weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales, beating a record that was previously held by Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" (2010). [31] "We Are Young" topped the Hot 100 Airplay chart with 120 million impressions in seven weeks, becoming the first group since Destiny's Child's Survivor (2001). [32] The song was the first song in 2012 to be certified by the RIAA 3 times platinum with sales of 3 million, [32] and was later certified 5 times platinum on June 21, 2012. As of early January 2014, the song had sold 6,830,000 copies in the United States. [33] In 2023, "We Are Young" hit 1 billion Spotify streams. [34]

In the United Kingdom, the song climbed to number one on the UK Singles Chart on May 27, 2012 ― for the week ending date June 2, 2012 ― after floating around the top ten of the chart for several weeks. In November 2012, it made a re-entry to number thirteen. At the time, the song had sold 986,000 copies there, becoming Britain's third biggest-selling single of 2012. [35] Since then, the Official Charts Company have confirmed that "We Are Young" has now sold over one million copies in the United Kingdom, becoming the 128th single to do so in the 60-year history of the UK Singles Chart. [36]

Music video

The music video, directed by Marc Klasfeld, was filmed at David Sukonick Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The video showcases a bar fight in slow motion with the band performing on a stage in the bar. Some other portions of the video were shot in real time. The video opens with a girl (played by Rachel Antonoff, sister of the band's guitarist Jack Antonoff and ex-girlfriend of lead singer Nate Ruess) [37] messaging another person on a HTC Titan. On the screen was a text message reading "NOW!" implying that the message was possibly a signal to begin a flash mob [ citation needed ]. The girl then throws the smartphone into the middle of the bar, where it hovers in mid-air. As the first chorus begins, the girl gets a wine bottle smashed over her head as the patrons degenerate into a bar fight. Different types of food are thrown and smashed at various points in the video, most notably grapes. Large amounts of flour and confetti are sprayed across the stage from the left and right. People run, fall, and fly across the bar. Streamers and a disco ball also fall from the ceiling. During the second chorus, various glassware is thrown around and, as a result, shatters. A couple kiss with food spread all over their faces, and Janelle Monáe walks into the center of the bar and sings the first half of her bridge in real time and the second in slow motion. Monáe's role in the video was described as being the eye of the storm. It is also implied that Fun's performance mirrors the intensity of the bar's atmosphere, as their performance becomes more intense and energetic as the video progresses. The video concludes with Fun ending their performance as the girl from the beginning of the video walks out of the bar smiling. [38] [39] As of August 2022, the video has received 1 billion views on YouTube.

Live performances

On April 27, 2011, before the song was met with mainstream success, the song was performed at the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. [40] On February 22, 2012, Fun performed "We Are Young" on Conan backed with a choir. [41] On April 23, 2012, the band performed the song at the iHeartRadio Music Festival among six of their other songs including "Some Nights". The performance was critically successful and garnered positive feedback from Bon Jovi. [42] On June 3, 2012, the band performed the song to open the 2012 MTV Movie Awards. The performance began with the band pounding away in a tiny red-lit cube, dressed in white tuxedos, with frontman Nate Ruess bounding back and forth in the enclosed space. Eventually, as the song grew into the chorus, Ruess stepped out of the cube, and at that widescreen moment, Janelle Monáe herself appeared on the stage, Monáe met Ruess in the middle of the stage, and the two traded verses and embraced. Then, Ruess bounded back to his bandmates and brought the song home. [43] On June 29, 2012, Fun performed "We Are Young" on British talk show The Graham Norton Show and November 11, 2012, on 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards in Frankfurt, Germany. The last performance of "We Are Young" was on December 5, 2012, for "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live! – Countdown to Music's Biggest Night" in Nashville, Tennessee, where they were nominated for 6 awards: Album Of The Year (lost), Record Of The Year (lost), Best New Artist (won), Best Pop Vocal Album (lost), Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (lost), and Song Of The Year (won) beating "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen.

Influence and legacy

The Glee Cast's cover of "We Are Young" boosted the sales of the song as well as leading to widespread recognition in popular culture. Glee cast.jpg
The Glee Cast's cover of "We Are Young" boosted the sales of the song as well as leading to widespread recognition in popular culture.

The song was covered on Glee on the episode "Hold On to Sixteen", which aired in December 2011. [29] The track was given to Glee music supervisors by John Janick, head of Fueled by Ramen, "about five months" before its release, according to Ruess. Janick brought the song to the attention of Glee music supervisor PJ Bloom. "I vividly remember John dropping by my office with a just-mastered 'We Are Young' in hand," said Bloom. "It was still on its original blank CD-R titled in poorly handwritten red Sharpie." When Janick suggested that the track was perfect for the musical show, Bloom demurred. "Glee doesn't break bands, we celebrate existing pop success—that's our core model." [29] Bloom changed his mind after playing the song only once and, less than five minutes later, sent it to Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy. Bloom called the cover of "We Are Young" one of "the pinnacle song moments of the entire series," and continued, "For Fun, Glee provided a launching pad for much of the success to come. For Glee, Fun allowed us to show the world we could be an A&R source and break a band. It was music business perfection." According to Columbia, which handles Glee releases, "We Are Young" marks the first track that was truly broken by Glee. [29] [44] Producers of Glee were incredibly receptive to the track, and set on including it in an episode regardless of whether it became a hit or not. The Glee cast version topped the Digital Songs chart in December 2011, hitting number one on iTunes and number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. [22] [29] As Glee's version of "We Are Young" gained popularity before the original did, Ruess e-mailed the musical director of the program, writing, "You guys are #1 right now, but we are coming for you, we're going to reclaim the spot!" [44] As of March 2015, the Glee Cast recording has sold 455,000 copies in the United States, making it the seventh best-selling recording in the show's history. [45]

"Obviously you never write the song hoping it ever fits into a commercial of something, you just want to write a good song. I think we'd be more apprehensive if it was something like a cheese commercial."

—Ruess, on the song's licensing for the Chevrolet spot [27]

"We Are Young" was selected as the soundtrack of a one-minute Chevrolet advertisement for the Chevy Sonic, aired during Super Bowl XLVI on February 5, 2012. Chevrolet's agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners considered "hundreds of songs" before settling on the track. "It's a beautiful song, with a number of different projections in that driving beat and very sweet melody," said Andrew Bancroft, associate creative director for Chevrolet. "He liked the track so much he selected it even before pairing it with the ad's footage, a rarity in music-synching terms," said Billboard. [27] Although most commercials of that kind go through many different competing soundtracks, Chevrolet loved "We Are Young" from an early, rough cut of the spot. The song's appearance in the spot was largely credited for the song's massive commercial success to come. [6] [30] [46] The following year at Super Bowl XLVII, Taco Bell aired its own Super Bowl advertisement with a Spanish version of the song as its soundtrack. [47]

The song was also used in "Faking Bad," an episode of American Dad! . "We Are Young" was also covered by Pentatonix in a May 2012 a cappella version that went viral on YouTube. [48] On the June 6, 2012, episode of Conan , the song was parodied in a "Basic Cable Name That Tune" sketch as their "slightly different" version "We Have Pubes."

The song was used by the WWE as background music to highlight the nominees for Game Changer of the Year at the 2011 WWE Slammy Awards on the December 12 edition of WWE Raw and in the "Once in a Lifetime: The Rock vs. John Cena" special that aired on the USA Network to help promote their highly anticipated match at WrestleMania XXVIII. [49] [50] It was used at the end of Interactive Multimedia's Trash Bash 2012 at MCCTC.[ citation needed ] "We Are Young" was used in the episode "Chuck versus the Baby" of Chuck 's fifth season. [51] It was also featured on both the season finales of Gossip Girl season 5 [52] and 90210 season 4 [53] as the closing number of the episode. It was used as the soundtrack for the trailer of Judd Apatow's film This Is 40 . [54]

British band Little Mix performed an acoustic version of the song which was included in their debut album. Little Mix at the Gibraltar Music Festival, 2015.jpg
British band Little Mix performed an acoustic version of the song which was included in their debut album.

On August 21, 2012, British girl band and X Factor 2011 winners Little Mix sped up the original version of the song to celebrate their first anniversary as a band, as well as the release of their debut single "Wings". [55] [56] The band's version received mostly positive reviews; Perez Hilton praised the band for their "slowed down, acoustic, choral rendition" of the song and said that it may better than the original version of the song. He also commented that "each girl layers her voice to perfection to create a thick, unparalleled musical icing". [57] Rachel Ho of Starpulse said that the band "show off their powerful vocals as individuals, and harmonizing skills as group". [58] The band's acoustic version was available as a bonus track after pre-ordering the band's debut album DNA (2012). [59] It was also included in the US and Japanese editions of the album, [60] [61] while the acoustic video was available on the DVD of the deluxe edition of the album. The band performed the song again on several other occasions; in December 2012, they performed it during the Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball. [62] In March 2013, the band performed the song during an interview on SiriusXM Hits 1, [63] while in May 2013 the band performed the song, along with acoustic performances of their own songs "Wings" and "How Ya Doin'?", during a session at Capital FM. [64]

The breakout success of "We Are Young" catapulted Fun to levels of success that "no bands today usually receive," according to Billboard. [27] "Since the moment the first note was ever written, there's just been this huge level of excitement," said Ruess. "It's always seemed like we had this big secret, that we couldn't tell anyone, and now, it's just slowly unravelling." [9] John Janick, president/CEO of Fueled by Ramen and co-president of Elektra Records, states that everyone involved felt like "We Are Young" was a special song. "It just felt like a massive record from the beginning," said Janick in March 2012, "not to say that we can foresee the future, but I've noticed in my life there are very few projects where something feels special and you go after things and they come to you and things fall into place. This is one of those projects." [29]

The band's extensive touring, which has included playing Coachella, ensured that the groundwork was already in place for the act to grow, according to Fun's manager, Dalton Sim of Nettwerk Records. "From my perspective, the success comes from the hard work the band, Nettwerk Records and Fueled by Ramen have put into the band for the last three-plus years to develop a real fan base. Now, with some great exposure, the Fun fan base is taking those looks and spreading and connecting the band to new people." [29] In addition, influential Los Angeles-area alternative station KROQ put "We Are Young" in rotation before the Super Bowl appearance based on its anthemic sound and lyrical relatable nature. "That's always the first thing that will get a song on the air, if it's a song we love and we think the listeners will love," said Lisa Worden, music director of KROQ. "That's why it went on the air, and then all the marketing around it is an added bonus. That's helped in getting the song out and reaching a different audience." [29] Al Shipley of The Village Voice called the track "one of 2012's ubiquitous songs," predicting it would fully saturate pop culture in May 2012, when "it inevitably becomes the biggest commencement song since Vitamin C's ghastly 'Graduation (Friends Forever)'." [22] We Are Young is also known as baseball star Clayton Kershaw's walk-up song.

Credits and personnel

Credits sourced from Sound on Sound [65]

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Additional musicians

Charts

"We Are Young"
Funweareyoung.jpg
Single by Fun featuring Janelle Monáe
from the album Some Nights
B-side "One Foot"
ReleasedSeptember 20, 2011
Recorded2011
Genre
Length
  • 4:10 (album version)
  • 3:53 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Jeff Bhasker
Fun singles chronology
"C'mon"
(2011)		"We Are Young"
(2011)		"Some Nights"
(2012)
Janelle Monáe singles chronology
"Cold War"
(2010)		"We Are Young"
(2011)		"Q.U.E.E.N."
(2013)

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "We Are Young"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [138] 7× Platinum490,000‡
Austria (IFPI Austria) [139] Platinum30,000*
Belgium (BEA) [140] Gold15,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [141] Diamond800,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [142] Platinum30,000^
France (SNEP) [143] Gold75,000*
Germany (BVMI) [144] Platinum300,000^
Italy (FIMI) [145] 2× Platinum60,000*
Japan (RIAJ) [146] Gold100,000*
Mexico (AMPROFON) [147] 2× Platinum+Gold150,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ) [148] 2× Platinum30,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [149] Platinum60,000‡
Sweden (GLF) [150] 4× Platinum160,000‡
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [151] 2× Platinum60,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [152] 4× Platinum2,400,000‡
United States (RIAA) [153] Diamond10,000,000‡
Streaming
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [154] 2× Platinum3,600,000†

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

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