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Welcome to New Retro Week, a celebration of the greatest artists, hits, and cultural events that made 2012 a seminal year in pop history. MTV News is back to see what lies ahead: These essays explore how today's blueprint was conceived a decade ago. Now is the time machine. It's difficult to recall memories of 2012 without Fun's Some Nights spinning in the background. The pop-rock band's frenetic, dramatic sophomore album came as a atom bomb, with lead singles "We Are Young" and "Some Nights" eliciting fears of how both genres might look when combined for a new decade.