"Pumped Up Kicks" received considerable attention after it was posted online in 2010, and it helped the group garner a multi-album record deal with Columbia Records imprint Startime International before the group had issued a commercial release. The song became both a crossover hit and a sleeper hit, as it received airplay on modern rock stations soon after its release in September 2010, and in mid-2011 began seeing noticeable airplay on contemporary hit radio stations. The song spent eight consecutive weeks at number three in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the first Billboard Alternative Songs number-one single to crack the U.S. top 5 since Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody" in 2009. The song was widely praised by critics, and it has been licensed for use in a wide range of popular media since its release.
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the
Not long after Foster the People formed in 2009, the group's frontman Mark Foster Foster wrote and recorded "Pumped Up Kicks" in five hours while working as a commercial jingle writer at Mophonics in Los Angeles. Thinking that he was just recording a demo, he played all of the instruments on the song, but this version is what was ultimately released.
F O S T E R T H E P E O P L E
The lyrics to "Pumped Up Kicks" describe troubled and delusional youth with homicidal thoughts. Foster said, "I was trying to get inside the head of an isolated, psychotic kid." He stated the lyrics were written to "bring awareness" to the issue of gun violence amongst youth, which he feels is an epidemic perpetuated by "lack of family, lack of love, and isolation". Some people have speculated that the song is a reference to the Westroads Mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska; the shooter was Robert Hawkins, and the first lyrics of the song are "Robert's got a quick hand". Similarly, Hawkins stole his stepfather's AKM-style rifle, and in the song, the alleged shooter steals his dad's revolver. However, the band's publicist told an Omaha World Herald reporter, "This is completely false. The character name in the song is just a coincidence."
Foster The People - Pumped Up
\x26quot;Pumped Up Kicks\x26quot; by Foster
pumped up kicks
Foster The People - Pumped Up
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the
Not long after Foster the People formed in 2009, the group's frontman Mark Foster Foster wrote and recorded "Pumped Up Kicks" in five hours while working as a commercial jingle writer at Mophonics in Los Angeles. Thinking that he was just recording a demo, he played all of the instruments on the song, but this version is what was ultimately released.
F O S T E R T H E P E O P L E
The lyrics to "Pumped Up Kicks" describe troubled and delusional youth with homicidal thoughts. Foster said, "I was trying to get inside the head of an isolated, psychotic kid." He stated the lyrics were written to "bring awareness" to the issue of gun violence amongst youth, which he feels is an epidemic perpetuated by "lack of family, lack of love, and isolation". Some people have speculated that the song is a reference to the Westroads Mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska; the shooter was Robert Hawkins, and the first lyrics of the song are "Robert's got a quick hand". Similarly, Hawkins stole his stepfather's AKM-style rifle, and in the song, the alleged shooter steals his dad's revolver. However, the band's publicist told an Omaha World Herald reporter, "This is completely false. The character name in the song is just a coincidence."
Foster The People - Pumped Up
\x26quot;Pumped Up Kicks\x26quot; by Foster
pumped up kicks
Foster The People - Pumped Up
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