We Belong

"We Belong"
Single by Pat Benatar
from the album Tropico
Released	October 25, 1984
Recorded	1984
Genre	Pop, rock
Length	3:42
Label	Chrysalis Records
Writer(s)	Eric Lowen & Dan Navarro
Pat Benatar singles chronology

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"We Belong" is a 1984 single from Pat Benatar's sixth studio album Tropico. It matched the success of "Love Is a Battlefield" on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S., peaking at number five, and reaching number three on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart and the top 40 on its Adult Contemporary chart in 1984. The song was written by songwriting team Lowen & Navarro. The song earned Benatar a Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.

[edit] Cover versions

Lowen & Navarro recorded their own version of the song on their 1990 album Walking on a Wire.
A eurodance cover of the song was released by Double Dare.
The song was covered by American artist Lynn Carey Saylor for her album You Like It Clean released in January 2007. It features "We Belong" songwriters Lowen & Navarro on backup vocals, as well as Queen guitarist Brian May. Eric Lowen, who is seen in the video singing throughout with Saylor, suffers from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease). The singer wished to honor him by recording a cover of this song.
A cover version by Arabella Harrison is currently used in a television ad campaign for Sheraton Hotels and Resorts. According to Harrison's MySpace page, there is no full-length cover of the song as she was only commissioned to record a 45-second version.
A cover version by The Bangles is included on Keep The Light Alive: Celebrating The Music of Lowen & Navarro. The proceeds of the album benefit The Eric Lowen Trust, ALS Association Greater Los Angeles, and Augie's Quest.
American folk musical duo Everly recorded a version that is included in the third volume of their "B Track" albums that have songs featured on the The CW hit television series, One Tree Hill, as Bethany Joy Galeotti (one half of the duo) stars in it.
Vitamin String Quartet perform a cover version during the 100th episode of Gossip Girl, in which Blair Waldorf marries Prince Louis Grimaldi.

The song was featured in one of the final scenes of the Will Ferrell comedy film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
It was the musical theme to a multi-million dollar marketing campaign for the Sheraton Hotel & Resort company in 2006.
It is the name of one of the episodes of the hit teen drama series Instant Star
It appeared as one of the last songs in the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
It was covered by Bethany Joy Galeotti as Haley James-Scott on One Tree Hill in the episode "Weeks Go By Like Days"
It was covered by Kristen Alderson as Starr Manning and others on One Life to Live in a musical episode of the soap.
The song was sung in a 2003 Saturday Night Live opening skit, as members of the cast claimed to be a Pat Benatar cover band and sang to Salma Hayek.
The song was featured in the 2010 film Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.
The song is downloadable content for Rock Band 3.