Christina Aguilera
Oct 3, 2013
Following the release of her seventh studio album, Lotus (2012), which spawned two singles "Your Body" and "Just a Fool", "We Remain" is a song by American recording artist Christina Aguilera, taken from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, the soundtrack to the 2013 American science-fiction adventure film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. It was released as a digital download single on October 1st.
"We Remain" was written by Ryan Tedder and Brent Kutzle of OneRepublic, Mikky Ekko and Christina Aguilera.The song is an arena pop power ballad which lasts for a duration of 4:00 (four minutes). It features a "propulsive Ryan Tedder-ish beat" and Aguilera's "enormous", "soaring" vocals. At the chorus, Aguilera sings "So burn me with fire/ Drown me with rain/ I'm gonna wake up screaming your name/ Yes I'm a sinner, yes I'm a saint/ whatever happens here, whatever happens here, we remain".
Ryan Reed of Rolling Stone magazine called the track "a triumphant sounding arena-pop ballad" and noted that the song was "sure to be a hit at District 12 radio." The Huffington Post wrote that the song was "one of the standouts from the 'Fire' album" and that it was "generating a ton of buzz. A heavy power ballad, it encapsulates the spirit and power of Games' heroine, Katniss."