Porter Robinson - Fellow Feeling (Audio)
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Porter said this song took him three project files and 500+ hours to make, and, boy, was it fucking worth it.
500+ hours you say
Billain made an insane song with synths made out of car engine sounds lasting 3 years.
Billain & Kodin - Feed For Speed
@@anjopag31 Billain mentioned pog
This is not just a song, this is a story, a reflection of the world. All you hear and see is horrible things, but we seem to forget about everything that is beautiful. The beauty of life and all we have within us. This is a fucking masterpiece
davey daalman thank you!
This track was more specifically pointed towards the current state of dance music. But I never would've thought about applying that concept to the world as a whole. Nice interpretation man!
gumdrops27 this will just break u down tears lol
davey daalman In respect of your opinion i don't think it's a mastepiecie, more like an art. You do't listen to enjoy it, more like to hear out the story behind it.
I agree that it is a masterpiece of electronic music. This track stands out as a masterpiece because of its narrative, its dynamic, its originality and its relevance in this time. Porter wrote this as a critique/parody of EDM. He really nailed it.
At first, the scratches and distortions scared me, but I've learned to love them. After all, they are very important to the story.
Really surprised me on the first listen as well.
@@AAAAA_BRAD I think that it was Porter's intent to shock the listener, and he did it by showing insane creativity and expression. I love this song
@@ema6897 Porter is such a genius...
It scared me too
What?
FELLOW FEELING
LYRICS
I cried, for I didn't think it could be true
That you and I might have always known one another
And that we could not only evoke, but conjure a place of our own
That everywhere that has ever existed
Was all in service of our dream
Now please, hear what I hear
Let me explain
This ugliness, this cruelty, this repulsiveness
It will all die out
And now, I cry for all that is beautiful
Let me explain
I'm saying thank you for the lyrics
I couldn't find it
@@Crute293 oof
@@cheeseburgerhottudoggu2046 oof?
Thx mate!
This should be pin 🤣
"I cried, because I didn't think it could be true." My entire day in a nutshell
Hillary supporters in a nutshell
tonnot98 that's why I'm crying
Nova Gray Lmao trump is good for us all. If you wanted freedom, this is what it is.
Nova Gray me when I get my test results #30percent
OOF. When politics are somehow brought up.
was a 15 year old in high school ready to end my life when I first heard this song, been listening to porter since I was 12. I'm going to be 22 next week. time flies, huh? glad I'm still here.
Hope you’re doing better now bro 🙏
Woah i literally thought i typed this comment since my 2015 era when i was the same age sucked hard
ehehhehehhehhehhehe same
This song saved my life in a different way it’s crazy how music affects us
This was me two years ago before hearing "Goodbye to a World." Went through a devastating breakup, dealt with overwork and underpay, all while struggling with college and car/phone payments. Was heavily considering suicide one day while Pandora is playing through some songs, when i start hearing the synthesizers. I just sat there, unable to do a thing as Goodbye to a World played. I started to tear up with the first lyrics, sung during the quiet after the build up. And as the song finished, I was sat in my room, silently crying to myself for almost an hour. I don't know what Porter's goal was when he made his songs, but they succeeded in keeping me alive, so I'm grateful.
How do you describe this??
How do you tell someone what this is?
*You can't. You let them know this exists, and you make them hear.*
I tried explaining and I failed. "It's cool! It like tells a story about ... Um .... Beauty and Ugly BUT there's more meaning to that by... Uh"
Gabby TheBest Yep
You could say you make them hear
What you hear.
it combines beauty with ugly to make something even more beautiful
Gabby TheBest ,,
You guys hate the 2min drop while the lyrics make it so obvious why it's there. Plus it a technical masterpeice.
i love porter robinson, but his fanbase is really pretentous, i know this song is really old but everyone here is acting like theres a ton of people who dont get the meaning behind the song, but seriously, all you people who think the drop is getting hate, scroll down in the comments, take about 10 mins to just scroll through them, ill wait
done? good, notice how theres not a SINGLE HATE COMMENT ABOUT THE SONG! its like you guys are looking for something to complain about, or some reason to call other people dumb and act like your smart for getting this songs meaning.
(pasting this below all the comments defending the drop from imaginary haters)
@@flightlessnerd3857 grave digging a lil but most of the time people come here to vent about things they see or hear about elsewhere
gives off “that one absolute banger of a song in a rhythm game but the chart is too difficult” kinda vibes
I agree
@@BagelBagelBagelBa what happened to basil in ur pfp :[
@@sillygoofyliquidgoober
Rabies
a good example is giselle by widowmaker. it’s a BMS song but it doesn’t hit has hard as this
lmao, i'm mapping this track in osu rn
This song carries a really powerful message and it seems that everyone is missing it. Porter Robinson is trying to express that EDM is becoming very generic and has no expression of personal emotion and the standards and trends of these big mainstream songs are limiting an artist's ideas solely because of the conforming nature of production and the effect of its success. The drop in this song IS NOT meant to be desirable. Its the "Bad Guy" of the song if you will. The woman's voice in this song is Porter's own thoughts. "Ugliness" "repulsiveness" are words used to describe mainstream EDM and also more specifically the drop in this song. Porter even used EXTREMELY generic drum pad sounds for the drop mocking unoriginality. The orchestra is a symbol of beauty and expression. "I cry for all that is beautiful" someone usually cries for something if its missing or gone. "hear what i hear" Obviously the drop sounds like.. well, a bunch of random sounds. No feeling, no soul, no emotion...just empty noise. The funniest thing is that a ton of people in the comments are saying things like "boring" "stupid drop" "where is the old Porter Robinson".. It's clear that the message he is trying to convey is actually slipping right past the people he is not trying to affect and yet they are the ones making his points most valid. Pure genius.
I really don't think its a jab at the state of the edm industry, that doesn't make sense in the context of Worlds. Worlds is about escapism and different fictional worlds.
To me, this song is about the balance between good/evil that exists in all worlds both real and fictional. About how good and evil must exist even in an idyllic world because good creates evil and evil creates good. Its also about the cyclical nature of good/evil throughout eternity. Its about the beauty of this inescapable reality.
I guess this could be extended to the edm industry, but I don't think that is the intended message. There is no way Porter wants the most important song of his album to be trivial satire. If you listen to what Porter actually says in interviews, he is very enthusiastic about many different genres of music.
I understand where you are coming from since the topic he is touching upon is rather ambiguous. That is the beauty of it. In my defense I have actually seen many of his interviews and i do know for a fact that what i have described earlier is indeed his stance on EDM. Although you may find it to be "trivial" the big picture is about expression and emotion. Where you are looking is the even bigger picture, which is purposefully encouraged.
Aaron Fong I wanna give you 10 thumbs up for that comment. Yes, it can be related to the EDM industry, but I feel Porter had a deeper message. Whenever there's a beautiful, there's always an ugly. And when the says "all the repulsiveness will die out" it's such a powerful message as I think Porter, for the first time, is where he wants to be. He's doing what he really wants and is being adored for it. Well that's personally how I think the track relates to Porter as that's kind of how it relates to me.
Dematsa Thanks! You have some amazing stuff going on on your channel btw. Subbed.
Hey thanks dude! Means a lot you took the time to look at all. XD XD
Does anyone else just sit in bed, turn on Porter Robinson, and just close your eyes, then lay down.
YES.
I do & I just tune into another realm of imagination which is beautiful
I do that to every new song I hear so I can just focus on feeling and hearing and not seeing
d00d i started doing that before i read this rip
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Everyone is looking at the deeper meaning and all but can we just stop and appreciate the first drop. Like holy crap, even though being extremely dirty and everything it still is a super high quality drop.
Bruh that shit was bonkers and it fucking rocked, like just beyond great sound engineering
i really like the first drop tbh, for me it wasn't dirty, it was a masterpiece
4:40 you hear an inward breath...... she's explaining
holy shit nice catch
I heard that and it was cool hearing her explain the beauty of EDM
Raymond Williams Honestly thank you so much for this. Was just that extra level of awe about the song.
Jakob Borghus Haha thank you, I've been waiting 3 months for someone else to see it that way too
Raymond Williams
Glad your wait is over. This is honestly one of the most beautiful and haunting tracks I've heard in my entire life. Every little detail in it just adds so much to it. That inward breath. Again, thank you!
But what if I think scratching-reeling-low beat noises are beautiful
I feel the same way. ._o
You can find beauty in everything, you just have to know where to find it.
+ニャン That's pretty deep. I completely agree though.
+ニャン and once u find it u let your tears come out and fall and enjoy your lasting moments on this world with these beautiful beats Porter has brought upon this world ウィテュルクぉゔぇ fロムケヴィン
when I first listened to this song this part totally caught me off guard, but it made me like this song even more. because it's part of it, part of this beauty
I imagine that those electronic noises are us "hearing what she hears". The song before it is beautiful, leading us to this girl, before she shows us the "ugliness and cruelty". However, she reels us back in, explaining it, and mixing the beauty of the song in with the synths.
Why are you in all the TH-cam comments? It's like the 9284929th time I found you
I guess Fellow Feeling isn't the same vibe as Nurture so that's why it is no longer played
It will remain one of my favorite Porter Robinson songs for it lore
dullscythe is the reason why I came back to this song
I just came from your OMORI phobia mashup video 😭. I love that video so much!
@@enceladus2468 Thabks ❤️
the vocalist is AmaLee by the way.
i also love this song, all this meaning it conveys, i saw your work with omori's music, without taking the feeling of the song
Gosh imagine how immensely extraordinarily amazing would a collaboration between Porter Robinson and Madeon be. They would define the true meaning of art once and for all.
They've already collabed m8.
Smelly Socks porter and skrillex would be fucking awesome
Blueberry_3ffect Then send me the link immediately
Tiesto edit They already collabed... They are long time friends.
Add Above & Beyond and you got a soundtrack to heaven imo.
this song 100% reflects the EDM genre, people think it's so gritty and horrible to listen to when it can actually be this beautiful thing.
What? I take it you have not heard Kaskade.
stfu, Kaskade is good, but Porter Robinson is an even more huge artist (musically talking, no offense)@@rumblefish9
Never thought a song would bring me to tears this quickly. So beautiful.
most people probably would not understand the song . but i totally agree it is beautiful
Same ;-;
Hear shelter
You didn't listen all the way
Mark Fikter good one
Porter Robinson: Listen to how ugly and terrible this drop is
Me: Yeah I know it's rad do more
RIGHT? Im dying here i actually find it so cool😂😂
He Made It Generic And Simple, To Mock Mainstream EDM.
You've Already Fallen.
ZombieHeadShotGaming honestly think those ‘generic’ and ‘simple’ drops are some of his best work. It’s a shame he isn’t as versatile when it comes to releasing tracks from other genres and I know he makes music from multiple genres but it would be nice to see him explore and do more.
Don Xavage he’s got a very specific theme, something no other genre of music quite captures. In all reality I believe he’s made his own.
@@AssistantCoreAQI Bruh the first drop is legit more experimental and out there than the second drop lmao, stop being so pretentious
I know the original meaning is about how EDM has started sounding repetitive n what not but regardless it still comes to me with a different meaning:
I have Autism and ADHD. Both give me pretty bad anxiety, and I have a lot of trauma due to a past I will not detail. Because of this, a lot can happen. I can get ovetstimulated, hyperactive, meltdown, panic etc. It sucks, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. But in spite of that I still have this optimistic and joyus attitude towards life. My friends and family don't always understand how bad those moments can be, and even if I manage to explain it they can sometimes get confused as to how I can still be as accepting and optimistic as I am. Thats why that speech stood out so much to me: "...This repulsiveness, soon it'll all die out. And now, I cry for all that is beautiful".
this this this this. This interpretation is why I love this song! Reaching out the people you love can be very hard when you're in a dark place, overstimulation, overthinking, anxiety, pain and hell- it's all a headspace. This song says instead to me - Never forget to cry for all that is beautiful, and you will escape this ugliness.
I found this meaning of the song on a site and I think It fits perfectly !!
"It's really not there to make fun of EDM, but is there to be a part of the story. Fellow Feeling is about a world driven by hatred and other things seen as ugly. the girl in Fellow Feeling is crying for the beautiful things suppressed by the ugliness. in the build up you can hear the ugliness fighting the beauty but the beauty manages to blossom at the end with the second drop."
Best Explanation yet ~
The song is actually a statement of how EDM in porter's opinion is going bad and has no soul. The girl talking is porter's thoughts and the first drop is meant to almost make fun of EDM as a genre with simple EDM drum pads. It's porter saying that EDM is becoming soulless and just a garbled mess of sorts.
@@jjjoshiii6659 that description was already acknowledged in this one too lmao, no need to restate it again
Interpreting this piece as a tool for trivial commentary on "the current state of EDM and generic dance music" really discredits any deeper meaning this song has.
In my opinion this is the best song I've ever heard. It's not the rythm, not the sound, but the meaning behind it. That drop fits perfectly with the context
same!
this isnt music, this is a trip!
To be precise, a feels trip
It's still music though so listen
all aboard the feels train o3o
read the replies and there like a song
Nice trip see you next fall
Beautiful. You are such an inspiration!
Yeah! You're right :D
I Love you cupquake! Thankyou for bringing me to this!
Your picture scares me.
OMG hai hai cupquake
I'd love to see you do a painting based off of the theme of worlds :) ♡ (theme as in how you interpret the album) ♡♡♡
"Now please, hear what I hear."
*ME WHEN RECOMMENDING PORTER'S MUSIC TO MY FRIENDS*
I find this song symbolic of the relationships between people (that's the recurring theme I've found in this whole album, actually).
People work on different "wavelengths" so to speak, and sometimes they come into conflict. Hence what you hear around 2:30.
However, as we make an effort to understand each other ("let me explain"), we can work together despite our differences, merging our different "Worlds." Hence the last part of the song (notice how there are still occasional distortions as we can never truly understand each other 100%, but we can get close)
I agree, and as you say, since I was barely a teenager I came to the conclusion that we all live within separate, yet coexisting "worlds." You will never, ever, encounter anyone who shares the same exact experience as you; that's the sad and wonderful thing about being human. We can come close, yet no closer than 'close.' We have all been to different places, met different people with different emotional entanglements to each, most of which does not even exist in each respective world. My first experience of this song was superficial, shallow. The orchestral part was soothing, but then came the drop. I kept listening in disdain. I felt somehow that the song had become tainted and even ugly. But then she speaks that this is just what the world looks like. It's an ugly, horrible place, but, "let me explain. This ugliness, this cruelty, this repulsiveness... it will all die out. And now, I cry for all that is beautiful."
its actually about porter's past music and his angst with feeling tied down to his old sound and how he is now making music much different than that. but it is just a song, it can be about anything really i guess
For me. I hear the world, the beauty. And how it slowly gets "eaten" by us. We slowly evolve and change beauty into a machine. A world in which we created a new, and destroyed the old. The girl talking is explaining to someone what we've done.
holy crap thats what i thought but i couldnt explain it as well as you did, this song is a song of humanity and the way we live and it is beautiful and tragic at the same time. It's more than just a song it's pure art
Holy fucking shit, what a great insight you have.
Porter Robinson AGAIN displays a beautiful ability to show the world just how powerful music can really be. This song combines both your classical these (the beginning section) then kind of switches to a heavy beat-based noise-filled section (much like dubstep these days) and closes with a LOVELY blend. Not only this, but a masterful story is woven throughout. Absolutely beautiful.
That sounds nothing like dubstep.
It sounds more like Neuro. XD
well thats not what dubstep Sounds like
it sound like idm
Ibnu Athailah sounds like isoprophlex by aphex twin but crisper
anjopag31 aphex twin is dubstep right??? porter have way more glitches though
that little breath sound at 4:40 just before the drop gives me goosbumps EVERY FUCKIN TIME its mental
When people stops thinking about the drop they are actually going to appreciate electronic music. EDM is not the deal, EM IS THE REAL DEAL! Learn how to appreciate electronic music!
Yes! I 100% agree. All I hear from people is the "the drop this...the drop that....drop drop drop!" Its not about the drop! What about the actual freaking music? A lot of EDM tracks sound good, have very good melodies and have a lot of substance but people are just so fixated on the damn drop that they miss the actual beauty of the track.
Toni O Exactly ;)
I agree but you have to understand that electronic music is much about building up an huge amount of energy an trying to create a beautiful progression that just booooooms out ! so yeah when the drop is bad it kinda kills the vibe to it and you can't fully enjoy that part of the track. But anyways i wouldn't call that 2:38 an actual drop but hey its music its for us to enjoy and interpretate
Well for me the first drop 'kinda killed the vibe' like Duarte Marques said and broke the beautiful melody. Rest of the track is magnificent though and i fully respect the artist for that.
***** I feel like Robinson wrote this song kind of as a slap to the current status of the EDM scene. Just like Eric said Everybody is all about the drop and Robinson hates that so thats why it says "please listen to what i hear" and you have a "bad drop" with discordant unpolished drums. and then it says "Let me explain: this ugliness, this repulsiveness, will all die out. and now I cry for all that is beautiful" then the lyric melody returns.
i feel like I'm listening to art
You are listening to art, pure art
Eric Kauffmann eric :v
Well, obviously you are. Music is art.
+Hal Palmer Yep, all music. Music is literally aural art.
Kyle Harmieson I read "anal art"
This song with its abrupt and loud distortions and intentional disconnect from what "edm" is, is so beautiful. I make electronic music, and have felt so much pressure as an artist in the genre to make everything apply strictly to the "rules" and its made things terrifying to take a chance, have fun and experiment. Like, I have a story to tell, and I feel restricted, but I just want to make art ❤ beautiful and insanely inspiring
(EDIT) Since you guys don't understand the language of 'music', let me translate for you:
0:00 - 2:30 "This is what _music_ sounds like. Order and emotion."
2:31 - 3:10 "This is what your average EDM hit track sounds like. No emotion, but abstract rhythm."
3:11 - 3:39 "All of the music that's orderless and emotionless will be made into something more complex and beautiful."
3:56 - 4:11 "This is what it would sound like if the two were combined."
4:40 - 5:48 "The most beautiful form of the two."
+Jesus Fucking Christ Agreed
If anyone is afraid of disagreeing with 2:31 - 3:10, let me be the first to admit.
gm1beanzz Noises. Noises everywhere.
+Jesus Fucking Christ lul just reaching out to people that thought it sounded somewhat cool. I thought it was unique.
gm1beanzz I see.
I was looking up meaning to the song and i found this. please read, its so so so cool: ((just making sure to say this isnt mine. i forgot where i found this so if anyone knows pls remind me lol i should have put the source in before.))
Edit: Just found an amazing explanation on youtube for the drop
"This song carries a really powerful message and it seems that everyone is missing it. Porter Robinson is trying to express that EDM is becoming very generic and has no expression of personal emotion and the standards and trends of these big mainstream songs are limiting an artist's ideas solely because of the conforming nature of production and the effect of its success. The drop in this song IS NOT meant to be desirable. Its the "Bad Guy" of the song if you will. The woman's voice in this song is Porter's own thoughts. "Ugliness" "repulsiveness" are words used to describe mainstream EDM and also more specifically the drop in this song. Porter even used EXTREMELY generic drum pad sounds for the drop mocking unoriginality. The orchestra is a symbol of beauty and expression. "I cry for all that is beautiful" someone usually cries for something if its missing or gone. "hear what i hear" Obviously the drop sounds like.. well, a bunch of random sounds. No feeling, no soul, no emotion...just empty noise. The funniest thing is that a ton of people in the comments are saying things like "boring" "stupid drop" "where is the old Porter Robinson".. It's clear that the message he is trying to convey is actually slipping right past the people he is not trying to affect and yet they are the ones making his points most valid. Pure genius."
I don't think its about EDM I think it's about internal struggle and perceiving things differently because of that.
+Avarita Mostly about music, but applicable elsewhere too :)
absolutely brilliant, thank you for posting
it very much so is. have you seen the livestream after the tour was over recapping worlds?
+Legendary Lugia (Cali) yes it is lol Porter said it himself in his live stream and a few interviews
Someone used this with the OMORI phobia music to make a banger, their channel is called Airneko
guys, this isn't about mixing good and evil. it's about how EDM is being treated. when the singer says 'please, hear what i hear,' the music sounds "evil," and corrupted. when she says 'let me explain,' she is explaining what she heard. ugliness (how EDM looks to him), cruelty (how it's being treated), and repulsiveness (the EDM genre today sounds emotionless and angry to him). the singer says 'it will all die out,' and that she cries for all that is beautiful, which is refering to albums like 'Worlds'.
Thank
+goosef beautiful
But specifically porter wanted this to be viewed differently by different individuals it can be viewed like that with what you said about edm and some individuals can view it like life. different individuals with different perspectives on my opinion it's called world because each individuals that hear porters music have imaginations running wild on them. hence each individuals have worlds. And it makes sense if you think about it.
+goosef funny to hear porter's eariler stuff though like 100% in the bitch
i like to think it goes beyond that
This is my go-to song for when I need to relax. Whenever I have a panic attack, if I can I will listen to this song on repeat until I'm calmed down and it's really effective. It's such a beautiful song and is definitely one of my favorites of all time.
This is very nice, I also use it to relax
lol denied
KIDD MELODY did i miss something lol
+Peri DeCamp no I just like saying lol denied but since I'm here one of my fav songs is goodbye to a world tbh
KIDD MELODY ah ok lol
I noticed something, at 4:41 you can hear a breath. I can't unhear it now, and you probably won't either :D
I did not sign up for that feels trip
+Frost bound me neither m8...me neither
Ryansvk R Ur feels heavy m8?
Frost bound Ya ;-;
Sorry you will be missed
+Frost bound the feels trip signed up for you
Well shit she hears some pretty scary stuff
The first time I listened to this song, I almost screamed. It was one in the fudging mourning.
Aidan Peterson dead peop
Well she does have to listen to ugliness to be honest.
Yeah it's beautiful isn't it
@@plutoniguz4842 yeah
“Hear what I hear”
*opens a portal to hell*
I love noise basses like glitchy shit that doesn't have tonality. They are so sick when they have a driving rhythm behind them. Alon Mor, Babokon, Sakuraburst and shit like that are so dope.
Check out Shadient, he's got some sick stuff too.
Ayyy sakuraburst is the boi
Nero's Day At Disneyland follows up with these words, it's just noises but toned around and made to sound scary. Their titles can be wacky or disturbing (ie- Chicken And Cheese, Probably Wind Up Dead In A Ditch Somewhere, Family Lying Face Down In Living Room), but that's what I love about them.
Well _her._
It's made by one person by the name of Lauren Bousefield.
NDAD is criminally underrated IMO.
onumi
I don't know why but I really wanna see a video for this
Look out his live shows of this song... you'll see something there ;)
Same, it would be amazing how it would chane with the beat
+Adrian Gutz change*
I might make a No Man's Sky video for this! ^~^
+P3rspective Yes please.
Fighting my schizophrenia and this helps
Hey good luck I hope everything turns out alright
Now this is real music. Plenty of music artists seem to have forgotten what that is in today's society.
Now all sound the same
+Adrian Gutz Including Porter to an extent
lol denied
Listen to Arkasia, you'll be blown away :)
+KIDD MELODY Why do you keep saying that? XS
Crying when coming home... 30 yrs. Still crying at this track..
Every second, Every minute, Every hour, Every day.
Every year...
bro good luck i feel sorry to you
>Plug in speakers
>100% volume
>Night time
>Wake up neighborhood
>Mission complete.
Play of the game
Deviantart Stella-X I would want to be woken up by this beautiful song. Be my neighbor
I've lost
if only youtube supported greentext
Deviantart Stella-X
*I CRY FOR ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL*
So much love for this tune!
The first time listening to this song, I actually teared up and it was no overexaggeration. It was because you perfectly expressed the contrast of Noise vs Music, Chaos vs Peace, Ugliness vs Beauty. At first, each of them sounded the exactly opposition of the other, two ideologies conflicted. But in the end, they learned to accept and embrace each other. Hence, creates the balance of the whole song. For me, this is just the best song in the whole album. And it will always take a special place in my heart for helping me realize the importance of learning to live and embrace and make harmony with the world, no matter how different you are.
The symbolism behind this piece is referencing his past rant where he talked about how "mainstage edm" lacks the beauty of what drew him to music. The line "hear what I hear" right before the cacophonous first drop full of glitches and noise represents that Porter no longer hears any beauty in the electro house/big room style that made him famous.
I agree though this song needs an edit/remix without that part. While it is beautifully jarring and artistic, I really think the chord progression is good enough to be "tune of the year", were it turned into a more melodic, continuous style of tune, like language.
Well said, I was thinking the exact same thing listening to this. Just the way and how abrupt that section came in. I feel like it had a much more symbolic purpose in the song rather than musically.
Good point there mate, there IS a meaning to that "Heavy EDM drop". I give EDM two years before it gets destroyed, by its own will. People need to stop for a moment and open their ears to something else, at least try. Porter, Madeon, deadmau5, Daft Punk, etc.
Sebs Arce All four artists you just named are hugely popular. That's not to say they're bad, but I wouldn't say people need to "open their ears" when those artists are already getting millions of plays.
Indeed they are, although there are some EDM-listeners that do not recognize them or haven't even heard of them, And those my friend, are just young drop-thirsty Dance music listeners
It's Industrial, it's supposed to sound chaotic and messy. Shadient - Royalty
Incorporating distortion and unusual sounds into your song isn't bad though. KOAN Sound's Movember collabs (If You Hadn't is my favorite) and Culprate's Deliverance EP are good examples of this.
OH MY GOD! Why isn't anyone talking about the last DROP? Did any of you even listen to the whole song?
The last drop is fucking beautiful.
***** this so much. the last drop is monumental. it's just so fucking massive. this has to be the most underrated big room track I have ever heard.
***** I think the last drop is big room. well, at least the kick+snare combo.
hugo pereira
yes indeed
hugo pereira No its more like progressive house
Fellow Feeling was so ahead of its time to deliver such a powerful statement. And it still does wonders 7 years later. I love you, Porter.
Basically how i put things in my mind with this song:
Beginning - Son goes off to war, says good bye to parents and loved ones.
Drop: The actual ugly side to war and all the horrible things that it encompasses.
Final Drop (end): Son either comes home alive to see parents and loved ones OR dies a heroic death fighting alongside his brothers and his great but short life flashes before his eyes as he breathes his last breath.
noodleface4 Did he say fans couldn't have an imagination lol?
Tony Auditore good thing about music is that everyone hears it differently
arciting that's my point! Thanks hahaha. This was just my interpretation of it idk why some people are trying to be smart with me
Or at the end son comes home from war but isn't the same what he saw out their change him, made him realize how much he appreciates life and it's wonders
i think what porter means by that is that there's no fixed story anyone should follow. i'm sure he has a story of his own but it's up to the fans to interpret things however they want.
a message for the people who like the 2:31 part, even if it's supposed to represent the wrong in edm, it's made to be catchy a rythmic while still not holding any artistic value (much like all about that bass), so don't feel bad but try to distinguish between the shitty song all about beats and drops and the good ones that can make you feel happy and wholeheartedly smile
Don't you worry. I know.
Sebastian Petruška Well said! But I think its also a representation on how generic and repetitive the era of EDM. Yes, it is supossed to be loud and crazy. And while some of the tracks are pretty decent. But somehow, the generic tunes are tugging the EDM society to like disgusting, meaningless and gross sounds.
thought it was about how the machine, the girl narrating the song, hears: ugly and constant machine sounds, contrasting with the soft strings that the human perceive's, then finally a unity of these two styles, showing a unity between human and machine
its wild mass guessing but thats what i inferred.
Just because it's not melodic or even tonal doesn't mean there isn't artistic value in it. Beautiful melodies will always have artistic merit, but even abstract and abrasive sound design like that has beauty too, different though it may be.
Chris O'Neill My point is he made it sound repetitive and distorted on purpose, I like harder electro sometimes, but it needs to be done well
A really unique piece of art.. This is art. Not something I could listen to every day, but this is really cool. A different take on art. Respect levels have gone up for Porter.
This is actually kind of genius, because. The drop is meant to be ugly, but it communicates so much anguish as well. If it represents uncreativeness and the sort of ear-grating repetition that we get get from too much generic edm, it doesn't actually replicate that sound-- it turns it into something almost beautiful in its own way. The first time we hear the real dirty bass in all its grittiness, after awhile it almost sounds like it's choking on itself, but the entire time it also sounds incredibly good despite being so jarring. What porter robinson does here is he shows you something ugly, tells you how ugly it is, but does it in a beautiful way. That's frickin genius if you ask me
When I heard this melody on the Worlds announcement 10 hour thing, I knew this was gonna be an amazing song. Favorite song on the album!
I KNOW RIGHT I was so excited for that song and every time he announced a new single I kept hoping more and more it was gonna be this one and it wasnt and I cried but now its out and Im happy
Its because of that song that I actually watched the announcement video like 6 times. Not the whole thing obviously lol
porter: *creates song equal parts melodic and heavy, equal parts light and dark, together as one to show both can be beautiful*
youtube comments: aNiMe MuSiC mAn SaiD dUbStEp BaD
C'est donc ça le futur.
Moustiluigi Random Uhhh no conprendo
@@aidenvalentine220 Uhh was Sprache ist das?
Kinda wish the “ugliness” was a song of its own because to tell the truth it’s better than the “beauty”
I would not lie that's what I think as well, the second drop is just generic as all hell but the first drop is rather interesting
When you get a feeling so complicated
ayyy
+Charles “Shadow” Prattley ayyyyyy
+Jackie Paz I came here to get a feeling so complicated and I am honestly feel so attacked right now.
Rand0mAcc3ss o I am wood
Underrated comment
I was feeling the emotions and then 2:36 the plot twist hit and the beat dropped.
I came from a omori video and stayed for the absolute sad and beautiful banger
That mashup with the Phobia Osts and this song?
@@trusshitnrun yeah lol
@@sillybootlegshoe1911 lol same
guess we all depressed by omori lol
To me this song is a story of:
Cherry blossom trees in the sunlight
Good dreams, of love and happiness
Of ruins of forgotten and lonely cities
Nightmares of fear and loneliness
A city of ruins, but made beautiful, mother nature is taking over again.
The sun shines in all the right ways to make it right again.
As all things have good and bad sides, but even the bad has good too.
Its just mixed in and you must listen closely, see harder, and sense more.
Do this now.
Fukase on fleek
isnt he always? ( im assuming your talking bout mai pic owo )
IKR
But there can also be bad within the good. I actually have plans to m make an rpg game that can hopefully teach people that good and evil can still go either way. the good can overcome the evil, but the evil can also corrupt the good.
@@purplecreepergirl5798 did you?
I believe there's a deep meaning behind this song
Rockymiite most people think its porters wayof showing that he hates edm
Listen to the album commentary for this song. He explains everything.
Yep, there is.
Basically he thinks modern EDM seems very emotionless and angry, but combining it with the start and the “ugliness” makes the beautiful noise near the end. Which is supposed to be the best beatdrop of the song.
Here's an analysis
What people pick up on instantly given the context and circumstances, is that this song is supposed to be a comment on the way modern Electronic music sounds too aggressive. But there's a few things I want to point out.
•The sounds are incredibly harsh, but despite that, there's quite a range of them played
•The melody might be beautiful, but it plays so many times before the first drop and throughout the song that it's kind of boring.
Another thing I want to point out is that after the harsh noises, the rest of the song is roughly a half and half mix of the relaxing instrumental parts and the chopped up noisy parts, alternating between the two. But when the final drop hits, it's both. We hear the melody again, but with a heavy drum beat and the occasional harsh noise cutting in.
And that's exactly why it's such a great drop. This song isn't just a meta-comment on Electronic music's direction, it shows how both extremes used within the genre can be overused and abused, and that the best music is a combination of both. In the song's later half, the two extremes slowly get closer and closer together until they collide into one danceable but emotional piece of music. Keep in mind that, although Porter's music shifted with this album, he still uses a bit of common electronic music techniques like the aggressive ones in this song (Live version of Fresh Static Snow, for god sake!).
Fellow Feeling isn't just about Porter's view on music. It's about meeting someone who shares those views, and fully understanding each other, as the monologue suggests. It is called "Fellow Feeling" after all. What do either of those words have to do with the state of Electronic music?
This is why Fellow Feeling is my favourite Porter Robinson song.
Yes! People love to trash other people, and using an amazing piece of art like this to go after other artists that try their best is a disgrace to Porter and this song. But the truth is whether this is "technically" EDM or not, whether "every other musician these days is trash" or not, music is music, music is art and people need to respect that beyond their own personal tastes.
this song to me is a decpiction of my life when chaos is around they're is a certain beauty to it when I feel like I don't wanna live any longer their is something beautiful that comes along that gives me hope to keep going in the end the song is made whole which I hope to get to as well one day.
this song is fucking perfect
Porter robinson is basically saying the first drop represents how house has lowered its standards and lost the beauty/emotion it once possessed and carried.
His 2nd drop shows what originally made house music, specifically progressive house music so great! It was raw, emotional, medallic, building and then ending with a well blended euphoric, drop.
If you listen to armin, tiesto, kaskade, hardwell, and other top dj’s all of them point out they love making techno, progressive house, trance but the fans want hardstyle, hard bass music so they make what will sell.
Porter robinson is basically giving the middle finger to them
Man I don't know what you're talking about. The first drop is so unique and creative . I danced my brains out to it. Just because it has distorted sounds and a minimal melody doesn't mean it's shit
Your interpretation make nonsense.
makes sense i wish all edm was melodic like this
Porter and ODESZA need to make a collab!
sure!
sure!
+Crystal Paw fuck yeah...
Collab hasn't happened, but remixes have
+Pablo Rebolledo all 3.
I was absolutely repulsed by that "drop". Absolutely hated it, and because of that I love it. It is worth the world listening to this song through to the end.
+Michael Maylish its sort of like bitter but it's meant to be that way and its like wow daaaaaaaamn when you listen to the whole thing
Why the fuck isn't this getting billions of views... Shure it deserves more credit than that psy crap... am i right?
+Sniperaptor Absolutely right
Yup
i feel ya, man
+Sniperaptor Is music not an emotional journey? much rides on the "listener". To get right down to it would be the 5 w's. Quality Psy is good in its place and time, as any music. should be embraced never judged.
psy is viral, high art isn't.
This song reminds me a lot of the game Journey
Ikr that's what I thought when I first heard it
Also Abzû
CitrusWasp Yeah, Abzu is made by the same developers and has the same composer as Journey
lol denied
KIDD MELODY why denied :(
So obviously I'm late to the scene, I was at work listening to a spotify playlist today when this came up. I was like damn, beautiful. Then WTF. Then, crying unexpectedly. It's incredible. A journey. So much emotion expressed. Reading comments, it's incredible the conversation that it's created. That's what music is supposed to invoke.
This is what happens when once in a century masterpieces are created
porter robinson is the 21st centuries mozart. i hope to be half as good as him 1 day
I cried, for I didn't think it could be true that you and I might have always known one another and that we could not only evoke, but conjure a place of our own. And that everywhere that has ever existed, was all in service of our dream. Now please.... hear what I hear.
Let me explain this ugliness. This cruelty, this repulsiveness, it will all die out. And now I cry for all that is beautiful.
+Samantha Wong at 4:40, you hear an inward breath.... she explains further
Porter style drop. AMAZING
I genuinely believe this is the greatest and most powerful song ever made.
Dont worry Porter, the message was understood, I know what you mean, blame capitalism
Blame capitalism? Lmao
DKPOWA Capitalism allows competition for profit and to please the consumer. Individuals can become quite wealthy, no matter their backgrounds. They are encouraged by profit to make a better product. It is a good balance between a free market and one completely controlled by government. Its flexible, and it works. Would you prefer communism and its economic system or should we all just barter our possessions?
BruinsVictory Works? Sort of, perhaps. It comes with alot of issues aswell, when people are consumed by their greed. In the short lifespan of capitalism a whole lot has gone completely shit.
Furthermore, there is no point bringing communism into this as it has never existed in it's true meaning and never will, same applies to socialism, they are utopistic ideals that will never exist due to the basic human nature of being so fucking greedy and selfish.
BruinsVictory Capitalism isn't a balance between a free market and a command economy, it's completely no-rules. Capitalism is like a race, and the one with the most gains and opportunities (and not to mention inheritance) gets farther in the race and "wins", gaining riches and power. Sounds nice, but there's two problems with it:
The first is economically: once you've "won" the race, there isn't anything that says "don't keep going", and they still feel obligated to get more profits and power even though they have more money than they know what to do with, and so they feel a desire for control, and that's where things like lobbyism and corporatism happens. And people below them lose the opportunities and gains
And the second is a cultural thing; the only goal is to make a profit; it doesn't matter at all what you're doing. So with something like arts and music, the craft doesn't even matter, it's just getting more money, which is the major explanation why popular music is so shallow, meaningless and identical, and our culture is so vain, superficial and materialistic.
So I think that's what DKPOWA meant by "blame capitalism"
***** Communism is a more extreme and unreasonable version of Socialism, which an extreme and unreasonable version of Keynesianism, which is more or less a version of Capitalism that prevents the influence of Corporatism or Lobbyism from ever happening with minor judicial restrictions
Technoid Sigma its nice to see another smart person from time to time :D Thx
Why am I tearing up...? T^T
;-;
THE_NATE_PROJECT cause u are upset.
i cried to
I teared once to this. I thinkkk
This whole album (Worlds) is just fucking remarkable, the story is so deep seeded and vague, that's why! I've gotten the chills so many times from it man just OOH i love Porter Robinson!!1!
Amazing symbolism and deserves a Grammy. Seriously, this feels like it came straight from the soul.
I can't describe how beautiful this song is. When I hear it,I always get sad and happy at the same time and I don't know why...
Couldn't agree more . such a strange track. In a good way.
My mum didn't prepare me for this.
haven't heard these guys in a while good stuff
BUBBLEGUM GUN :-3
ur mum is gay xddddddddd
Para Soul mum pls :'(((
Para Soul but maaaaaaahhhm.
Only an hour into my 16th birthday and im already crying. i just want to go outside and see my friends again. When the line "it will all die out" hit I burst into tears. I really hope that's true.
Am I the only one who likes 2:38 ?
Nope!
Ricofyiiamaspy Dude, that was the only thing I liked about the entire album. I'm reviewing it and 2:38 jacked me off so hard, I wish the whole album was more like that. I love Industrial and the was some golden shit that everyone and their grandmother is going to forget about, unfortunately.
Absolutely love this whole song, idk why people think it ruins this song, I think it's great
Alex Thompson - Welch Well, I had only listened to this album and that one other popular track of his, and I'm already butthurt that he didn't use more aggressive sounds and drops periodically in his album.
Get the fuck out!
music
No matter how good a producer you are, you will never surpass this beauty. Holy crap.
I have this one friend. She's basically my "fellow feeling" at this point. She feels it whenever I feel sad, and would always cheer me up. I would do the same. I always feel like we have a deeper connection with each other. We have made lots of memories. But sadly, in January the 1st, 12:39 PM, she suddenly just stopped responding to my messages. It's been 5 months and no, I'm still not getting replies. 5 years of happiness has come to an end, unfortunately. There's no such things as a forever, but at least I've cherished those moments.
This is why I always record memories, often by recording in game footage. Sometimes, I'm furious that the recording was to no avail, and sadly there's probably no way in getting it back.
Thank you for making this. Including the Nurture album. It has helped me immensely in trying times, not only in this one. I have introduced her in the album one day. She loved it. Hope that she keeps listening into it.
i forgot about this masterpiece. Literally crying
Ive been looking for this song for 8 years because i forgot the name, but its always been my favorite. It still brings tears to my eyes after all this time.
I am 14, and this is deep.
I genuinely cannot tell whether or not this comment was meant to be ironic or unironic
2:37, she calls her ugliness...
I call it clean sound design.
I hope you are joking
@@JerryBlueChew wdym its actually really good
@@Kronomikalqiqi this was like a year ago but i agree its really good, but its not meant to be clean, rather messy but i think i read it wrong?
@@JerryBlueChew mm im sorry lmao
Porter, I just want to say that thank you for making this. It helped me through the times when it seemed dark, it seemed like when everything was lost, there was something still to fall back on. Your music is truly something otherwordly, and exotic.
I love the depth of this track. I mean, there's actually intelligent discussion happening in a TH-cam comment section. That's rare. Porter added a dimension of meaning to this album. There's substance to this song which many other electronic songs lack. Whether he's expressing his views on the state of modern EDM and his feelings towards it or another topic. He's making a statement through his music and that's not something you see with many popular electronic artists.
Dancing.
Barely touching the snow with her nude feet.
Flying like a bird beetween the trees.
Stars are falling already,
Like the tears on your cheeks that you feel, freezing.
Something in you that you lost seems living.
Somehow your heart skip a beat, you stop breathin'.
The air all around doesn't seems to help you anymore.
She is looking straight to you, smiling.
You feel empty, you feel happy, your body is so cold, yet your stomach is warm.
The floor break apart,
and when she fall, you can clearly hear one single thing :
"Fly."
did u make this? wow.... no words
Ur mum likes other women
Wow... screenshotted
On the off chance that someone will ever see this,
This song has always been about balance to me. The first couple minutes are all smooth, beautiful orchestra, but there's nothing particularly special about them. It's nice to listen to, but if the entire song was that, we'd get bored. The central drop is all static and ugly sounds pressed together into a mess with hardly any rhythm; it's powerful and catches your attention, but it's almost painful to listen to. However, the final minutes combine the beauty and melody of the orchestra with the intensity of the glitching part, and creates something entirely unique.
When I listen to this, I imagine a story broken into pieces. A protagonist speaks of the gentle, heartwarming moments they've experienced on their journey to some nihilistic being of huge power, who then refutes their argument by pointing out all of the horrible things that have happened along the way. In reality, neither of their outlooks are what really happened- the journey had held both happiness and suffering, and it also held a fierce determination driven by love that neither of the beings had mentioned, because it didn't fit either of their outlooks. The final few minutes are them learning from one another that the strength and willingness to push through pain is born of love, and that precious, gentle moments are worth fighting the world for.
Everyone's interpretation of this song is a little different, but I hope you like mine.
I see your comment lol
this is cute
that breath added for the transition @ 4:41 is pure genius.
Still come back to this song. Something about it just speaks true to me. From the vocals to the rhythm.
If anyone’s wondering, the spoken voice in this comes from AmaLee/LeeandLie (you may be familiar with her anime covers and she voices in a few)
this song is not for peoples who just want to jump Everytime, this song is for people who understand the art inside the song #CMIIW 😂
porter madafakin genius robinson
yup dude
Many of you may not like the first drop, but please stop saying that there needs to be a version without it. Without it, the song would lose its meaning.