It is likely, if you've been in a radius of five miles from the radio this summer, you've probably heard encourage the peopleof the "pumped up Kicks", their hazy, blurry track which has become an unexpected smash and a real competitor for the Summer Jam of 2011.

But you really listened to the song - or, more precisely, his words? The great tradition of such alt-tubes as "Novocaine for the Soul of eels" and the Smashing Pumpkins "Today", the trail manages hide a bleak message under any of the joy.

"'Pumped up Kicks' is really about bullying and the tragedy that bullying product... If this child will react in a disagreeable manner;" the two sides eventually be injured, "Foster frontman Mark Foster was told MTV News."

"All the other children with the pumped kicked up to you would be better run, better run, behind my gun," goes the refrain, on a falsely jovial tone.

"I tend to do so with a lot of songs," said Foster. "I like to say a different type of history, words, and that the music is expressed, because he brings another layer of history itself." I wrote a block from the beach, and I worked in a House of music - Mophonics, a place where I composed for the ads and other things - and I think that had some influence on the noise. »

And although Foster people may receive a kick on the fact that resolve their decidedly dark has become one of the biggest titles of the year, they are also époustouflés by its slow-burning success... because, really, they never thought "Blows" would do everything he has.

"I wrote the song as a year and a half ago, and that he again be circles and become a song of summer, this year, I think that it was certainly unexpected on our part," said Foster. "We love the song, but we had no idea that she would be widespread throughout the world the way it."

Still, they take full advantage of their rise. Foster said he already worked on the follow-up to their debut, Torches (which is just released in May), providing a portable studio on the road - and they have big plans for another potential success. Or, we should say, they had big plans... to Katy Perry has held and ruined them with his "last Friday night (T.G.I.F.)" video.

"Yes, we really want to get Kenny G involved on a runway, it would just kill ," Foster sighed. "" "". And I think that we were all really sickened, in fact, when we discovered that Katy Perry put him in his video, because we had talked about that for a year , bringing Kenny G to the fold and write something with him. But it is OK. Katy Perry had first of all, we will have botched seconds. »

"Pumped up Kicks" is one of your favorite summer songs? Talk in the comments!