"We Are Young" is a song by the band "fun". it was released on September 11, 2011. the song was the band's first singe from their latest album "Some Nights". it originally became popular online, but its fame increased when the hit show "Glee" covered it in its episode "Hold On to Sixteen". by February 2012, it hit the top of the iTunes list, was passed for a few days by Justin Bieber's song "boyfriend", but got ahead yet again and became one of the most mainstream songs in the time being. it is the most popular song on iTunes and number 12 on the Billboard hot 100. Fun is doing great, but has only released two albums since 2009. it consists of three current members; Jack Antonoff, Andrew Dost, and Nate Ruess. Ruess formed the band with the other two when he broke up with his original band "The Format" in 2008. since then, he has been hugely successful with his current band and his biggest hit, We Are Young. the music video has been a huge success as well, taking place at a bar in which a riot breaks out. in the beginning, you see a girl texting someone, in which the message reads NOW! assuming this is supposed to trigger the riot. people and object fly across the bar, showing just how young a wild the band really is.