Genre Alternative rock Label Republic
Mercury | Length 4:09 Producer(s) Grant
Mosser | |
Recorded 2013 at
Westlake Recording Studios
(Los Angeles, California) Writer(s) Alexander Grant
Ben McKee
Josh Mosser
Dan Platzman
Dan Reynolds
Wayne Sermon | ||
"Who We Are" is a song written by Ben McKee, Dan Platzman, Dan Reynolds and Wayne Sermon of American alternative rock band Imagine Dragons, co-written with producers Alexander Grant and Josh Mosser. The song was originally recorded for the 2013 Soundtrack album The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, which serves as the official soundtrack to the 2013 American science-fiction adventure film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. It appears as the seventh track on the album.
Composition
The song's lyrics allude to District 12, a region of the fictional country of Panem in the The Hunger Games universe, subject to the nation's mining industry, and recounts the feelings of the rebels in District 12 at the onset of the rebellion towards the end of Catching Fire. In addition, the song makes several apparent references to The Hunger Games, especially the events of Catching Fire, including the attic where the protagonists of the novel meet during the rebellion of District 11 and "the view from up here", which references Katniss Everdeen's strategy of climbing trees to get a better view of the arena during the Hunger Games themselves.