"The Way We Are" is a song by English recording artist Alesha Dixon. It is the lead single from her fourth studio album, Do It for Love (2015). The song marks as a return to Dixon's UK garage-style earlier work with the girl group Mis-Teeq.
Lewis Corner of Digital Spy commented positively on the track, describing it as "an uptempo garage anthem with a hint of her former band Mis-Teeq about it."
The video premiered on Dixon's official YouTube channel on 19 May 2015.
Dixon performed a rap mix of the single on Britain's Got Talent on 27 May 2015.
The Way We Are may refer to:
Quiet Days in Hollywood (also known as The Way We Are) is a 1997 drama film written by Robert G. Brown and Josef Rusnak. Rusnak also directed. The movie features Hilary Swank, Chad Lowe, and Natasha Gregson Wagner.
The plot features a series of interlocking stories. Each vignette is introduced with a character that had sex with someone in the previous segment. The movie opens with a seventeen-year-old prostitute, Lolita (Hilary Swank) who hangs around outside movie premiere with another teen prostitute in the hopes of getting a picture of her idol, movie star Peter Blaine (Peter Dobson). After her friend is forcibly dragged off by a jealous boyfriend, Lolita wanders around by herself in the streets of Los Angeles. Then she ends up performing a sexual favor for a man who ends up knocking her unconscious.
The man, a young African American named Angel, is engaged in questionable criminal activities. He later ends up trying to flee Los Angeles after he makes a major mistake during a drug deal. He takes Julie, a young waitress (Meta Golding), with him. After they have sex in a stolen car while driving through a car wash, Julie rethinks her plans to escape with Angel. After she notices that a car filled with men has been shadowing them, she runs out of the car. Angel is killed by the men.
The Way We Are is an album by the Japanese R&B duo Chemistry, released on November 7, 2001 by Sony Music Japan.