We Are Golden

This was the first single and title track from London-based pop singer songwriter Mika's second album.

Mika told Q magazine June 2009 in a pre-release interview: "It's big sounding and aggressive, but in a good way. It's got a gospel choir on it and a kids' choir, but unlike the first record they're not singing sweetly, they're screaming at the top of their lungs."

This features the Andrae Crouch Gospel Choir who sung on Madonna's "Like a Prayer." Mika told The Observer Music Monthly June 2009 that the choir, "refused to sing the line 'don't give it up when you're young and you want some.' One of them stopped and turned to me and very slowly said: 'You want what? A cheeseburger?'" Obviously that was not what Mika meant. He then explained that the song's theme was inspired by Angela Carter's 1967 novel The Magic Toyshop, which follows its heroine's burgeoning sexuality as she lives with her tyrannical toy maker uncle - "and I've been fascinated by that period in someone's life."