The song was released on September 6, 1984 by MCA as the second single from his fifth studio album, I Can Dream About You.
He wanted Dan to write a song for the main dance sequence….Dan was wary of doing it because it was a fairly low budget film and he questioned its chances for success.
Dan did not want to be the artist on this song and so we created a faux group called '3V' which was, in fact, Dan and me…In the end, "Heart Of the Beat," was not used as the main song but instead a song sung by Ollie and Jerry called "There's No Stopping Us" replaced "We Are The Young," and, powered by the momentum of the film, hit the top of the charts…[4] In a 2021 interview, Midnight elaborated and stated that the music supervisor gave the assignment to Ollie and Jerry and they wrote "There's No Stopping Us" "to the same exact beat and bass line of ['We Are the Young']".
[6][7] The fictional Sorels from the film Streets of Fire (played by Stoney Jackson, Grand L. Bush, Mykelti Williamson and Robert Townsend) appeared in the video.
Upon learning of this, Williamson requested that his manager negotiate that each of the actors be paid $5000.00 each to appear in the video.