"pumped up kicks" foster the people

"This orgy of success was ignited by "Pumped Up Kicks" — the song that went from YouTube to the eager forebrains of very dedicated fans and then an after-the-fact three-song EP. Simply searching for "Pumped Up Kicks" and "song of the summer" — a cliché as applicable as it is adorable — yields hundreds of results from local newspapers, national media outlets, radio station websites and blogs.

"When I wrote ['Pumped Up Kicks'] I didn't know that it would be the type of song it has been," Foster says. By that, he means that he didn't know it would become the impetus for launching the band into a major label deal and all these sold-out shows and the trappings of pop fame circa 2011, etc. 'I produced 'Pumped up Kicks' myself and to me it was just a demo. A week or two later it started to go viral.'" - LA Weekly