This song is one of the most highly disturbing songs of the generation, yet it hit the Hot 100 list as soon as it was released. “Pumped Up Kicks” was Foster the People’s first song to be released and was also included in their first album Torches, which hit the racks May 23, 2011.

The song describes an outcast in high school who has found a gun and is plotting revenge against all of the people that have bullied him. Instead of writing a sad story about a victim from another person’s perspective, this song gets into the mind of the victimized killer, accessing his thoughts and finding his reasons to want revenge.

Disturbing? Very much so. “It’s a f**k you song to hipsters, in a kind of way,” said Mark Foster,  guitarist and lead vocalist, in an interview with Rolling Stone. But the kids, or “hipsters,” mentioned in the song have not reacted as negatively as expected.

By deciding on a chic, upbeat tempo for the song, the band has made it accessible even to the people that it is aimed against. It mixes a familiar electronic song with acoustic sound in the vein of Mumford and Sons, hence creating a whole new type of music. The alarming chorus of “All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you’d better run/ better run, outrun my gun/All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you’d better run/ better run, faster than my bullet,” mixed with the groovy dance music makes this a one-of-a-kind song.

So  press play on this Song of the Summer and groove your way into disturbia.