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"We Are Young" is a song recorded by American pop rock band Fun, featuring American singer Janelle Monáe. It is the third track on the group's second studio album, Some Nights (2012). The song was released on September 20, 2011, as the lead single from the album.
The title track was commissioned as the second single and has reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, selling 6.8 million digital downloads as well as becoming their second No. 1 on Alternative Songs. The band later won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and "We Are Young" won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.
On March 7, 2012, Fun's single "We Are Young" reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This makes Fun the first multi-member rock band to have a No. 1 Billboard debut on the Hot 100 since Nickelback's "How You Remind Me". [35] On April 11, 2012, Billboard.com announced that Fun's "We Are Young" also made Digital Sales history.
In a 2021 interview, Midnight elaborated and stated that the music supervisor gave the assignment to Ollie and Jerry and they wrote "There's No Stopping Us" "to the same exact beat and bass line of ['We Are the Young']". [5] A music video directed by Doug Dowdle was released in 1984.
We Are Young" is a 2011 song by Fun featuring Janelle Monáe. We Are Young may also refer to: We Are Young, a 1967 Canadian multi-screen documentary short film; We Are Young, a 2020 Chinese reality competition show "Kick Ass (We Are Young)", a 2010 song by Mika and RedOne "Young" (Tulisa song), originally "We Are Young", a 2012 song by Tulisa
These are the awards and nominations received by the American indie rock band, Fun. Fun won four awards from 27 nominations. They were nominated for six Grammys, including Record of the Year ("We Are Young") and Album of the Year (Some Nights), and won Best New Artist and Song of the Year.
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The video for the single shows Mika as a helpless individual left in an alleyway after being mugged. [5] He begins to sing and as he does, the words of empowerment in the lyrics and his finding of an issue of the "Kick-Ass" comic inspire him to run for the rooftops and wail the chorus to the sky, now dressed in a slightly more superhero version of his "original persona" outfit.