I’ll never forget seeing Porter live during his Nurture tour and for one brief moment showing Fantano’s “strong 5” of Worlds on the visuals screen and people laughing. Honestly one of the most creative shows I’ve ever been to.
This album legit changed my life when I was a young high schooler. It’s actually hard to go back and listen to now because of the emotional weight it holds. I’m such a different person now but I think about Worlds constantly.
exact same here man. I sit here at 25, but whenever I hear tracks like Fresh Static Snow or Lionhearted, I’m instantly transported back to 15 y/o me, blasting Worlds and Adventure in my first car in between classes.
Same experience but I was a sophomore in college. Legit became obsessed with this album and the Worlds Live shows for a few years after Hard Summer. It basically took over my life, and it was both great and a bit more emotional than I need nowadays. Still an amazing album though, it completely altered my trajectory in life in the best ways possible!
@@matthalter2453 Yes dude Adventure was right there along side Worlds for the more upbeat vibes. On the Shelter tour they played my hometown on my 16th birthday and it felt like destiny to me. Still the best night of my life.
Call this a stretch, but I think he's well on the verge of becoming an EDM icon along the same wavelengths as Daft Punk, Deadmau5, and Skrillex. Porter just can't miss, and he's only gonna keep on gaining more popularity
fantano should really listen to Virtual Self. its Porter Robinson's side project. trance and neo trance EP from 2017. One of the songs also got nominated for a grammy
For the Porter Robinson fans: 0:01 Video Started 2:24 Revisit Started 2:39 Polygon Dust 3:06 Fresh Static Snow 3:24 Guest Appearances on “Worlds” 4:05 something important. 4:46 Revisit Reaction 4:53 Divinity 5:03 Sad Machine 5:23 Years of War 5:27 and 3:56 Flicker 5:37 Hear the Bells 6:00 Sea of Voices 6:11 and 2:55 Fellow Feeling 6:23 Goodbye to a World 6:44 Conclusion No info for "Natural Light", "Shepherdess", and "She Heals Everything" unfortunately, but still, Anthony Fantano's least favorite track is "Lionhearted". Porter mentioned during his past VR streams that his least favorite track he chose, and that he worked on, is also "Lionhearted". Looking forward to "Hollowheart", Worlds' 10th Anniversary new track, coming out on August 12th, 2024.
@@musiczheir Well, Porter did tweeted a while ago that “Hollowheart” will release on Worlds’ 10th anniversary, but who knows. Maybe it’s change. Just like when Madeon tweeted that he’ll be releasing a new song on January, but instead it’ll be releasing on the 1st of February lol. Still, looking forward to both Hollowheart and the Madeon collab. :-)
@@OfficialKAYN07we all should stop believing in Madeon words on his drops like we do on Kanye ones. Im still waiting for a Dragon release. Im barely alive bruh just gove it to me
fellow feeling is about him leaving brostep in the past, and embracing the sound he has now. its basically the thesis of the record. the vocal fits it perfectly.
I love the spoken word parts in Fellow Feeling! I had never heard anything like it in EDM before. I love all the vocals on Worlds as a whole. I guess I just like that cutesy, smooth EDM sounding vocals rather than the Nurture pitched up or more 'authentic' vocals. I want the story-teller glossy vocals from Worlds!
Him touring the album REMIXED, with added visuals, is one of the coolest live experiences I’ve ever heard of. So glad I got to experience it in person. Fresh Static Snow blew me the fuck away.
Still absolutely love Worlds! It was exactly the album I needed 10 years ago and it still resonates deeply for me today. Glad you revisited this and gave it another chance.
I graduated high few months ago and Nurture was my favorite throughout the last year. Reading this comment, I had a strong feeling that I might say the same about Nurture 10 years later
Cheesy as it is to say, Worlds changed my whole perspective about music, electronic music in particular. The lows of the album are a lot lower than anything on Nurture, but even thinking about the highs still gives me chills namely Divinity, Sad Machine, Sea of Voices, Goodbye to a World. I still consider it one of my favorite albums despite it containing several tracks I skip almost every time I go back to it, because it starts and ends so strongly that it’s easy to forgive its weaker tracks. Porter’s music from Language onwards has always grabbed me in a way no other artist compares to, he’s such an inspiring beacon of expression and seems so humbled by his success. It’s hard not to love him and the art he creates for us
Porter did an Essential Mix around the time that he released this album, and it carried me through some really dark times in my life. It contained mixes of a lot of the songs on this album and a lot of stuff he was into at the time. It introduced me to a lot of artists that I previously had never heard of, like Chrome Sparks. I still go back to this mix when I'm feeling low.
My first couple listens of Porters Music has a dark background too. The day i stuck on Sad Machine i lost my first love in a car incident. Three days after, when i finally got these news from her family i was so broken and through the all 'time is healing process' i listened to Worlds. Like every fucking day. Enormous amount of tears but i finally came to a normal life. Nearly that time dropped The Thrill if i remember correctly. When i finally decided to continue a normal life and stopped to look back get your wish was released. So, the day nurture was released i found a way to make myself better and after a 365 days i met a girl. We are getting married in half a year. The whole story is so poetic. Its truly unbelievable how my life connetcs to his music.
My first Fantano review was actually the Worlds review, my favorite album at the time. Yeah, I hated it, but I still stuck around. This makes me really happy! Sure, he still doesn't love the record, but I'm glad he acknowledges its merits.
@@costcopizza999 GTAW can act as the "end card" for the narrative laid out in Shelter. go watch the Shelter music video, should show you the story a bit more clearly
@@costcopizza999 Goodbye to a World" is the ending of the world that Rin lives in, and "Shelter" is a continuation of that story, with references to giving shelter and the end of the world.
@@fizzypizzel6477 I don't think that's actually how it is supposed to be perceived as I remember in one of the interviews (maybe it's the "Porter schools us in DDR" one) he mentions how GTAW's inspiration for Porter was playing his favorite MMORPG game and the servers were shutting down and everyone who were friends in that lobby were chatting in that game for the final time and it felt like saying goodbye to a world. But I don't really have any complains if one still wants to think of it that way :)
honestly I loved this album then and i think it's aged beautifully. i feel like you really had to see Worlds Live to fully appreciate the universe he created for this album. its a masterpiece and one of the best electronic albums of the 2010s.
Worlds is a masterpiece. I genuinely think it was a vibe and lifestyle that you just had to be around for. To this day, the Worlds Live show is the best, most insane, live show I’ve ever attended or seen. The feeing you get during and even hours after the show ends is just bliss. I’ve been waiting and praying that he’s going to do a 10 year anniversary show. If you’ve never seen worlds live in person and if Porter ever decides to do another worlds show. Idk what to say other than you have to go. I’ve never experienced anything like it. This show made me chase porter around the country so I could see it as many times as I could. I’m somewhere at around 20 worlds shows and they get better each and everytime! DONT MISS OUT! Porter is a legend
I'm in the minority who enjoys Worlds over Nurture more (both great albums though), but I have a personal connection with Worlds because it changed my perception on edm I used to listen to really generic artists like Martin Garrix and Tiesto when I was an elementary schooler. If you saw the early 2010s edm scene, you knew that most of the stuff was the same copy and pasted house drop. thats what every producer did and there was no originality I discovered Sad Machine back when it released in 2014 and the sound design amazed me. I fell into a rabbit hole of more "indie edm" artists such as i grew older and some artists I discovered were Former Hero, acloudyskye, Aiobahn, etc Sorry for the long text wall ahaha but i feel that people online dont give enough credit to Porter on Worlds. Youll always hear about Flume or Skrillex when it comes to "influential 2010s edm artists," but i vividly remember a lot of people taking inspiration from porters sound design later in that decade.
This album blew my mind as a kid in high school, and I wept when I went alone Worlds tour. A fantastic, beautiful album that remains one my favourites. Goodbye to a World still blows my mind. Glad to see this get the recognition it deserved!
Same. I love all his work but this album will always hold a strong place in my heart. Nurture was amazing too, as was Virtual Self, but theres a reason that he's remixed Divinity into every live show he's ever done lol. An amazing project.
happy to see that this album only grew on you enough for your thoughts to line up closely with my own still has its unignorable flaws and was definitely wayyyyyyyyy overhyped back in the day (also that bricked-out production hasn't exactly aged well), but it is a good album carried by hooks and lead melodies so well-constructed that I still remember exactly what all these tracks sound like despite only ever listening to the album to make my videos on them years ago, and like it or not, nobody can deny the giant measurable impact it left on the EDM scene at the time
I personally think it's a lot better than Nurture, but that's just me. I have different moods I can switch to constantly, be it death metal, dubstep, gangsta rap or cutsy pop-like electronic music, so I have no problem with the overly cute themes in this. I love almost everything about this album.
i love worlds, loved it when it came out, but i do only go back to about half of the tracks now. nurture is a damn banger factory, it's in my top 5 all time for sure
Kinda same here. There's a few tracks on Worlds that just haven't aged great/haven't stuck with me *as* much... but Divinity, Sad Machine, Flicker, FSS, Sea of Voices, Fellow Feeling and GTAW are always gonna be top-tier for me. Feel like any of those could go toe-to-toe with most of Nurture (though I think Nurture as an album is superior)
I loved Worlds so much in 6th grade I probably listened to it daily, I’m a university student now and I still go back to it since it holds so much emotional weight for me.
Was not expecting this. I've always LOVED this album. It was the first electronic album (that I've heard) that actually sounded like music and not just sounds
I realized the original review was the first needledrop review I ever watched, and this album was the first edm album I actually listened through all the way
I came here after Porter posted this video's thumbnail on his post on X. For me, Fellow Feeling is my most favourite song of this album. The seamless blend of cinematic vibes with progressive house, coupled with the exceptional glitches in the track, truly captivates me. A decade on, and this entire album still exudes creativity, amazement, and a timeless freshness!🌻
Glad you came around on the album, I got put on by the end of decade edm mix by the proximity channel they played a version of goodbye to a world that genuinely changed my perspective on edm. It's called goodbye to a world shelter edit. It's only on TH-cam unfortunately
I'm really glad you're starting to give EDM more of a fair shake. I know you don't like "genre music," but I am sincerely glad to see you start softening on some of your more cynical reviews and genre views.
This album carries a lot of memories for me, and inspired so much of my early music making. I always thought that your review of it was dismissive due to it having a EDM sheen on it but I'm glad you gave it another listen.
I love Worlds. I have been listening to it since I left home, and life has been the adventure that Worlds promised, not without its hardship, but always another world beyond the horizon.
I totally respect your opinion amd think you're a respectable dude. I freaking love this album to death. I also appreciate your tying Worlds to Nurture because there's definitely a lot of the beginnings of nurture in it or the endings of worlds in nurture however you want to look at it.
I think you need to check out his work from before Worlds to see where he’s coming from with his sound design. The evolution from Spitfire > Language > Easy > Worlds reveals a lot
You gotta Respect what Porter and Worlds did for the electronic music scene, not just how many people it influenced even like Jane Remover or Underscores and so many more, but the shift some producers did from their stick after worlds came out. Also how the live shows for Worlds and then Nurture basically remixed and recontextualized the whole album to a point to make it even more appreciative. Something only a hand few of electronic artists in the size of porter robinson do. Most just do DJ sets and call it a day. I kinda hoped fantano would have also touched up on these live shows, as they are documented on youtube.
14 year old me is shitting his pants. This album meant EVERYTHING to me when I was into edm and I was so pissed about Fantano's rating, this is a big moment
Just wondering Anthony.. have you ever taken a listen to his Worlds Live performance/set? In my opinion this completely elevates this album to another level and is the reason for so many peoples’ fondness and love for this album as one of their all time favorites
The best way to explain Worlds is to call it a product of its time. And in many ways, it defined its time. A lot of EDM in the early half of 2010 was still often unpolished and some times weird. A lot of stuff I listened to and thought was cool back then sounds unpolished and somewhat rough to me now. It was probably mostly made by kids in their bedrooms using pirated fl studio. For me, Worlds was one of the last really experimental EDM albums. Nowadays, we as a community seem to have learned how to make EDM - even new artists seem more polished.
Worlds to me was the best album at that point in time. I went to his show at redrocks when it came out and man was it the best show. To this day its in my top 5 best show ive been to ever.
This album was definitely hurt by the mixing. It sounds a little bit better on vinyl since they had to master it for the format which helped it sound cleaner and less claustrophobic.
The disco ball in the top right corner made whopping 48 spins throughout the whole video of anthony changing his mind on Bianca's skin to clothing ratio
divinity is one of my absolute favorite songs of all time - as soon as the quickly-ascending bloops hit around the 3:30 mark, i am just sent to somewhere else
Worlds and Dark side of the moon are my favorite albums. Supermassive black hole being the runner up. These albums expanded my mind on what music can be.
IT'S ABOUT TIME MELON I was 17 when this album dropped, and I was almost only listening to popular EDM at that time. Worlds changed my music taste, and made me discover a whole new way of making electronic music.
Divinty remains one of, if not my favorite song of all time. A truly transformative experience for me at a transformative period of my life. My favorite album.
World's was great, but I'm still a huge fan of Porter's side project Virtual Self. As someone that grew up listening to trance and other dance music via DDR Ultramix, a revisit to those simpler times was exactly what I needed.
The album itself is one of my personal favourites of all Porter's work. For me, its the story the album tells cover to cover. The journey it takes you has its peaks and valleys, and ultimately lands on a very heart-wrenching and touching note.
10 years ago Worlds was my most listened to album. I went softer on it when Shelter and Good Faith came out, and really it dropped off my regular listening completely when Nurture released; my new most listened to album. Still love it but not as much as I once adored it.
I think the reason why this album is celebrated is because of the live show that came with it. I bought tickets to the live show sight unseen as I bought tickets before the album came out. While I adored the album (and Fellow Feeling, btw…. It’s one of my favorite tracks lol), the live show was a complete remix of the album. If you can find a copy of the Second Sky “last show” of WORLDS, listen to that. It takes the album and remixes it brilliantly. I still think about that night, giraffage opening for Porter and then that 70ish minute remix of the album. I still listen to the remake of that set on TH-cam because it’s nostalgia for me. I’m glad you decided to revisit the album after all these years. It’s bonkers to me that this album is only 10 years old because it’s carried me through some deeply emotional times in my life.
*never saw it live, never tried seeing it live* sigh -- time is passed to change your mind on this, dude - you had years to go see the live show while this was on your radar. i pray one day you get to see the live show and then listen to the album again. It's the single greatest piece of art I've ever come across when you really understand the depth of each sound and song. the overly dramatic or corny vocals you're referring to are part of an experience that the album was designed to be, its not just an album, its a production, show, and experience. Your review is focused on the wrong things and fails to understand the scope of the work displaying a phoned in research process and lack of initiative to listen to all these fans who told you - a music influencer - to go see the show for all the years it was being performed. To that note, he toured it for 6 years and performed live renditions of each track, some of which had three or more versions. Idk man, this revisit is an attention grab at best and congrats, you got my comment.
Idk if u know this album is conceptual so it has a full story and narrative behind it; that being said, I loved Polygon Dust and Years of War at the time. I'd say all songs are good in some way but it's not what I currently listen to
Holy shit this album was so crazily influential to me when it came out, it still makes me think today. Not to mention how much other artists and genres that spawned off from it. Truly a mind blowing record and Nurture is just all of what makes Worlds good but better. I was so disappointed when I saw that first review but glad he’s changed his mind for the better. Let’s ho
I’ll never forget seeing Porter live during his Nurture tour and for one brief moment showing Fantano’s “strong 5” of Worlds on the visuals screen and people laughing. Honestly one of the most creative shows I’ve ever been to.
Yeah that shit was so funny to me and me only in my friend/rave group they were confused why I was laughing lol
didnt expect to see you here on a fantano vid lol
Agreed, nurture tour live was an amazing experience. So many great memories of it.
Oh my I remember that hahah totally forgot about that till now
better update the live visuals
holy shit he really changed it from a strong 5 to a light 6 🤯
I men considering the ridiculous amount of complaints he still had its not impossible lmao
OMGGGG XDDD
spoilers
nevermind
This album legit changed my life when I was a young high schooler. It’s actually hard to go back and listen to now because of the emotional weight it holds. I’m such a different person now but I think about Worlds constantly.
exact same here man. I sit here at 25, but whenever I hear tracks like Fresh Static Snow or Lionhearted, I’m instantly transported back to 15 y/o me, blasting Worlds and Adventure in my first car in between classes.
Same experience but I was a sophomore in college. Legit became obsessed with this album and the Worlds Live shows for a few years after Hard Summer. It basically took over my life, and it was both great and a bit more emotional than I need nowadays. Still an amazing album though, it completely altered my trajectory in life in the best ways possible!
@@matthalter2453 Yes dude Adventure was right there along side Worlds for the more upbeat vibes. On the Shelter tour they played my hometown on my 16th birthday and it felt like destiny to me. Still the best night of my life.
wow your hometown that's awesome!@@coltonwiggs1594
Damn. I feel like nurture's gonna be that for me a few years down the line. It has helped me get through so so so much shit.
giving it a 10 for fresh static snow alone was a classy move
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Phenomenal song
i wonder if he knows about the live edit
@@sheekshow Gotta be my fav on the album
Fresh Static Snow Live Edit is the better version IMHO, I like World's Live better, idk if he listened to it but that's definitely half the experience
Porter is legitimately one of the best electronic artists to come out of the 2010s EDM boom and I can say that without hyperbole
Every project he released has had such a ripple effect on the genre as a whole. Incredibly influential artist
ong, seeing him break away to diffferent direction in music despite the backlash and nailing it speaks to his legitimacy
He changed the entire EDM scene with just one album, imagine what he's gonna do this decade
even virtual self started a whole movement. hes a genius
Call this a stretch, but I think he's well on the verge of becoming an EDM icon along the same wavelengths as Daft Punk, Deadmau5, and Skrillex. Porter just can't miss, and he's only gonna keep on gaining more popularity
The most bonkers take away from this video is the realization that Worlds is 10 years old now WTF!?
Not quite, coming up to 9 years old this summer
Fuck I'm old
it came out in 2014@@madsines5301
@@madsines5301Nope, it’s 10 years in August
@@madsines5301 it was released in 2014, its 2024
Wasn't expecting an update 10 years later on one of my favourite albums but im lovin it
Badabapabaaaa
fantano should really listen to Virtual Self. its Porter Robinson's side project. trance and neo trance EP from 2017. One of the songs also got nominated for a grammy
For the Porter Robinson fans:
0:01 Video Started
2:24 Revisit Started
2:39 Polygon Dust
3:06 Fresh Static Snow
3:24 Guest Appearances on “Worlds”
4:05 something important.
4:46 Revisit Reaction
4:53 Divinity
5:03 Sad Machine
5:23 Years of War
5:27 and 3:56 Flicker
5:37 Hear the Bells
6:00 Sea of Voices
6:11 and 2:55 Fellow Feeling
6:23 Goodbye to a World
6:44 Conclusion
No info for "Natural Light", "Shepherdess", and "She Heals Everything" unfortunately, but still, Anthony Fantano's least favorite track is "Lionhearted". Porter mentioned during his past VR streams that his least favorite track he chose, and that he worked on, is also "Lionhearted".
Looking forward to "Hollowheart", Worlds' 10th Anniversary new track, coming out on August 12th, 2024.
Hollowheart is getting an official release on August 12th? Wtf?
@@musiczheir Well, Porter did tweeted a while ago that “Hollowheart” will release on Worlds’ 10th anniversary, but who knows. Maybe it’s change. Just like when Madeon tweeted that he’ll be releasing a new song on January, but instead it’ll be releasing on the 1st of February lol.
Still, looking forward to both Hollowheart and the Madeon collab. :-)
thank you!!!!
@@OfficialKAYN07we all should stop believing in Madeon words on his drops like we do on Kanye ones. Im still waiting for a Dragon release. Im barely alive bruh just gove it to me
@@OfficialKAYN07.. and he kept that promise, indeed..
porter robinson jumpscare
First time I've been happy to be spooked
fellow feeling is about him leaving brostep in the past, and embracing the sound he has now. its basically the thesis of the record. the vocal fits it perfectly.
its dramatic, but if you embrace it its quite a good song even if its a lil dramatic lol
I love the spoken word parts in Fellow Feeling! I had never heard anything like it in EDM before. I love all the vocals on Worlds as a whole. I guess I just like that cutesy, smooth EDM sounding vocals rather than the Nurture pitched up or more 'authentic' vocals. I want the story-teller glossy vocals from Worlds!
This album actually changed music and tapped completely into a side of electronic music that was dying to be set free.
Him touring the album REMIXED, with added visuals, is one of the coolest live experiences I’ve ever heard of. So glad I got to experience it in person. Fresh Static Snow blew me the fuck away.
Still absolutely love Worlds! It was exactly the album I needed 10 years ago and it still resonates deeply for me today. Glad you revisited this and gave it another chance.
Balance has been restored
Saying that with an ordinary corrupt human love pfp is crazy. You know DAMN WELL there is more balance to be restored
It’s too late. He deleted his entire discography because of you.
This album means so much. Got me through my last year of high school. I was 17 then, 27 now and still enjoy this album regularly. Strong as hell
I graduated high few months ago and Nurture was my favorite throughout the last year. Reading this comment, I had a strong feeling that I might say the same about Nurture 10 years later
PORTER ROBINSON WILL HAVE TO UPDATE HIS MID-SET VIDEO OF FANTANO GIVING HIS ORIGINAL RATING
MIKE WAZOWSKI-HEADS STAY WINNING
TRTRRRRRUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Cheesy as it is to say, Worlds changed my whole perspective about music, electronic music in particular. The lows of the album are a lot lower than anything on Nurture, but even thinking about the highs still gives me chills namely Divinity, Sad Machine, Sea of Voices, Goodbye to a World. I still consider it one of my favorite albums despite it containing several tracks I skip almost every time I go back to it, because it starts and ends so strongly that it’s easy to forgive its weaker tracks. Porter’s music from Language onwards has always grabbed me in a way no other artist compares to, he’s such an inspiring beacon of expression and seems so humbled by his success. It’s hard not to love him and the art he creates for us
not cheesy lol, it was geniuenly a gateway for so many ppl listening to edm at the time, including so many producers/scenes
Porter did an Essential Mix around the time that he released this album, and it carried me through some really dark times in my life. It contained mixes of a lot of the songs on this album and a lot of stuff he was into at the time. It introduced me to a lot of artists that I previously had never heard of, like Chrome Sparks. I still go back to this mix when I'm feeling low.
This mix is the GOAT 2.2M plays and counting
LEGENDARY 2 HOUR MIX
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My first couple listens of Porters Music has a dark background too. The day i stuck on Sad Machine i lost my first love in a car incident. Three days after, when i finally got these news from her family i was so broken and through the all 'time is healing process' i listened to Worlds. Like every fucking day. Enormous amount of tears but i finally came to a normal life. Nearly that time dropped The Thrill if i remember correctly. When i finally decided to continue a normal life and stopped to look back get your wish was released.
So, the day nurture was released i found a way to make myself better and after a 365 days i met a girl. We are getting married in half a year.
The whole story is so poetic. Its truly unbelievable how my life connetcs to his music.
My first Fantano review was actually the Worlds review, my favorite album at the time.
Yeah, I hated it, but I still stuck around.
This makes me really happy! Sure, he still doesn't love the record, but I'm glad he acknowledges its merits.
holy shit... you actually did it.
0:12 Woah woah woah, is this the internets' busiest music nerd or not?
Realizing how Shelter can connect to Goodbye to a World cemented both as two of my favourite songs of all time
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Absolutely! Shelter is incredible🥹
@@costcopizza999 GTAW can act as the "end card" for the narrative laid out in Shelter. go watch the Shelter music video, should show you the story a bit more clearly
@@costcopizza999 Goodbye to a World" is the ending of the world that Rin lives in, and "Shelter" is a continuation of that story, with references to giving shelter and the end of the world.
@@fizzypizzel6477 I don't think that's actually how it is supposed to be perceived as I remember in one of the interviews (maybe it's the "Porter schools us in DDR" one) he mentions how GTAW's inspiration for Porter was playing his favorite MMORPG game and the servers were shutting down and everyone who were friends in that lobby were chatting in that game for the final time and it felt like saying goodbye to a world. But I don't really have any complains if one still wants to think of it that way :)
honestly I loved this album then and i think it's aged beautifully. i feel like you really had to see Worlds Live to fully appreciate the universe he created for this album. its a masterpiece and one of the best electronic albums of the 2010s.
Worlds is a masterpiece. I genuinely think it was a vibe and lifestyle that you just had to be around for. To this day, the Worlds Live show is the best, most insane, live show I’ve ever attended or seen. The feeing you get during and even hours after the show ends is just bliss. I’ve been waiting and praying that he’s going to do a 10 year anniversary show. If you’ve never seen worlds live in person and if Porter ever decides to do another worlds show. Idk what to say other than you have to go. I’ve never experienced anything like it. This show made me chase porter around the country so I could see it as many times as I could. I’m somewhere at around 20 worlds shows and they get better each and everytime! DONT MISS OUT! Porter is a legend
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I'm in the minority who enjoys Worlds over Nurture more (both great albums though), but I have a personal connection with Worlds because it changed my perception on edm
I used to listen to really generic artists like Martin Garrix and Tiesto when I was an elementary schooler. If you saw the early 2010s edm scene, you knew that most of the stuff was the same copy and pasted house drop. thats what every producer did and there was no originality
I discovered Sad Machine back when it released in 2014 and the sound design amazed me. I fell into a rabbit hole of more "indie edm" artists such as i grew older and some artists I discovered were Former Hero, acloudyskye, Aiobahn, etc
Sorry for the long text wall ahaha but i feel that people online dont give enough credit to Porter on Worlds. Youll always hear about Flume or Skrillex when it comes to "influential 2010s edm artists," but i vividly remember a lot of people taking inspiration from porters sound design later in that decade.
This album blew my mind as a kid in high school, and I wept when I went alone Worlds tour. A fantastic, beautiful album that remains one my favourites. Goodbye to a World still blows my mind. Glad to see this get the recognition it deserved!
thank you for your updated thoughts Anthony
or should I say thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
i’ll say goodbye soooooon
BOOOOO HAHAHAHAHA
tho its the eend if the wooooooorl
One of my all time favorite albums 💜💜
Same. I love all his work but this album will always hold a strong place in my heart. Nurture was amazing too, as was Virtual Self, but theres a reason that he's remixed Divinity into every live show he's ever done lol. An amazing project.
happy to see that this album only grew on you enough for your thoughts to line up closely with my own
still has its unignorable flaws and was definitely wayyyyyyyyy overhyped back in the day (also that bricked-out production hasn't exactly aged well), but it is a good album carried by hooks and lead melodies so well-constructed that I still remember exactly what all these tracks sound like despite only ever listening to the album to make my videos on them years ago, and like it or not, nobody can deny the giant measurable impact it left on the EDM scene at the time
epic crossover 🗿
valid take
respect for fantano restored
I personally think it's a lot better than Nurture, but that's just me. I have different moods I can switch to constantly, be it death metal, dubstep, gangsta rap or cutsy pop-like electronic music, so I have no problem with the overly cute themes in this. I love almost everything about this album.
The singing from you at the beginning is the hook. Jazz fusion man.
As someone who has been d-riding this album for a decade you love to see it
Big moment for chronically online Porter Robinson fan
I'm so glad to hear you have decided to change your mind on beastiality in light of the new allegations. Never too old to change your mind!
What bro 😭
Fantano can never beat the allegations
My soul can rest in peace so can my teenage self that crtied listening to this MASTERPIECE
How cool of you to just go back and give it another go! Like porter said in your interview the instinctual first reaction to any music is valid.
i love worlds, loved it when it came out, but i do only go back to about half of the tracks now. nurture is a damn banger factory, it's in my top 5 all time for sure
Agree, Nurture is definitely superior. But it's fun to revisit Worlds and see how that album laid the groundwork for Nurture.
Worlds to Nurture really shows how well Porter has evolved his sound while still keeping the pinnacle of quality in his works
Kinda same here. There's a few tracks on Worlds that just haven't aged great/haven't stuck with me *as* much... but Divinity, Sad Machine, Flicker, FSS, Sea of Voices, Fellow Feeling and GTAW are always gonna be top-tier for me. Feel like any of those could go toe-to-toe with most of Nurture (though I think Nurture as an album is superior)
big day for people who thought this was the greatest album of all time when it dropped in 2014 (it's me, I'm people)
I loved Worlds so much in 6th grade I probably listened to it daily, I’m a university student now and I still go back to it since it holds so much emotional weight for me.
Was not expecting this. I've always LOVED this album. It was the first electronic album (that I've heard) that actually sounded like music and not just sounds
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS WORLDS ROCKS
worlds gang
Are you a geologist?
I realized the original review was the first needledrop review I ever watched, and this album was the first edm album I actually listened through all the way
the album that defined my late teens and got me through a lot, while Nurture is definitely the stronger album, this'll always have a place in my heart
I came here after Porter posted this video's thumbnail on his post on X.
For me, Fellow Feeling is my most favourite song of this album. The seamless blend of cinematic vibes with progressive house, coupled with the exceptional glitches in the track, truly captivates me.
A decade on, and this entire album still exudes creativity, amazement, and a timeless freshness!🌻
Porters albums are such an experience especially live or in nature you can really immerse yourself in those worlds that much more!
Sea of voices is the greatest song ever made you literally cannot disagree
Best song on the album imo
genuine question: why do you think it's better than Goodbye to a World?
@@Strobeliite the windchimes 💯
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Worlds has definitely held up very well, Sad Machine and Goodbye to a world are some of my favorite songs I've ever listened to
Honestly the vocal passages were the parts of the album that spoke to me the most, that shit used to make me cry lol
Glad you came around on the album, I got put on by the end of decade edm mix by the proximity channel they played a version of goodbye to a world that genuinely changed my perspective on edm.
It's called goodbye to a world shelter edit. It's only on TH-cam unfortunately
Big fan of the story behind Sad Machine and Goodbye to a World, those were my favorite songs from this album when it came out
I'm really glad you're starting to give EDM more of a fair shake. I know you don't like "genre music," but I am sincerely glad to see you start softening on some of your more cynical reviews and genre views.
This album carries a lot of memories for me, and inspired so much of my early music making. I always thought that your review of it was dismissive due to it having a EDM sheen on it but I'm glad you gave it another listen.
I love Worlds. I have been listening to it since I left home, and life has been the adventure that Worlds promised, not without its hardship, but always another world beyond the horizon.
I totally respect your opinion amd think you're a respectable dude. I freaking love this album to death. I also appreciate your tying Worlds to Nurture because there's definitely a lot of the beginnings of nurture in it or the endings of worlds in nurture however you want to look at it.
Finally 🙏🏼🙏🏼 i have been begging for this for so long worlds is one of the best electronic albums ever
I think you need to check out his work from before Worlds to see where he’s coming from with his sound design. The evolution from Spitfire > Language > Easy > Worlds reveals a lot
You gotta Respect what Porter and Worlds did for the electronic music scene, not just how many people it influenced even like Jane Remover or Underscores and so many more, but the shift some producers did from their stick after worlds came out. Also how the live shows for Worlds and then Nurture basically remixed and recontextualized the whole album to a point to make it even more appreciative. Something only a hand few of electronic artists in the size of porter robinson do. Most just do DJ sets and call it a day. I kinda hoped fantano would have also touched up on these live shows, as they are documented on youtube.
14 year old me is shitting his pants. This album meant EVERYTHING to me when I was into edm and I was so pissed about Fantano's rating, this is a big moment
Your singing makes me cry everytime
When I first went to he’s Worlds tour and he played Sad machine I started to literally cry…this album has helped me through some tough times
Just wondering Anthony.. have you ever taken a listen to his Worlds Live performance/set? In my opinion this completely elevates this album to another level and is the reason for so many peoples’ fondness and love for this album as one of their all time favorites
The best way to explain Worlds is to call it a product of its time. And in many ways, it defined its time. A lot of EDM in the early half of 2010 was still often unpolished and some times weird. A lot of stuff I listened to and thought was cool back then sounds unpolished and somewhat rough to me now. It was probably mostly made by kids in their bedrooms using pirated fl studio. For me, Worlds was one of the last really experimental EDM albums. Nowadays, we as a community seem to have learned how to make EDM - even new artists seem more polished.
Worlds to me was the best album at that point in time. I went to his show at redrocks when it came out and man was it the best show. To this day its in my top 5 best show ive been to ever.
I’m glad you finally saw my video on why your original was a bad review. It’s all good though, you are forgiven now.
Nurture is my favorite, but Worlds is perfect in its uniqueness!
mds já faz 10 anos desse álbum, na minha fase de edm acho que foi o único álbum que carreguei comigo até hj, sendo o único ainda hj escutando no carro
This album was definitely hurt by the mixing. It sounds a little bit better on vinyl since they had to master it for the format which helped it sound cleaner and less claustrophobic.
The disco ball in the top right corner made whopping 48 spins throughout the whole video of anthony changing his mind on Bianca's skin to clothing ratio
One of the best electronic albums of the decade. This deserved a revisit
So glad you mentioned Sad Machine, definitely one, if not, my favorite song on the album.
divinity is one of my absolute favorite songs of all time - as soon as the quickly-ascending bloops hit around the 3:30 mark, i am just sent to somewhere else
One of the best albums of all time
Let's not get carried away
Lionhearted and Years of War are perfect songs, the rest of the album I can take it or leave it
Worlds and Dark side of the moon are my favorite albums. Supermassive black hole being the runner up.
These albums expanded my mind on what music can be.
Love it when I see a fantano thumbnail & title and I am like :OOOOO
Porter has changed my life with his music. Thankful for his talent
IT'S ABOUT TIME MELON
I was 17 when this album dropped, and I was almost only listening to popular EDM at that time. Worlds changed my music taste, and made me discover a whole new way of making electronic music.
My older cousin showed me this album when I was in 6th grade and it changed my life. I'm now in college willing to give it a relisten
Glad Fantano finally acknowledged that "Fellow Feeling" has the most pleasant drop of any EDM song ever.
So good to hear you changed your mind on The Holocaust Anthony, I agree it was awful.
Divinty remains one of, if not my favorite song of all time. A truly transformative experience for me at a transformative period of my life. My favorite album.
World's was great, but I'm still a huge fan of Porter's side project Virtual Self. As someone that grew up listening to trance and other dance music via DDR Ultramix, a revisit to those simpler times was exactly what I needed.
You apparently haven't laid on a beach staring at the stars on LSD while listening to World's on a pair of good headphones. lol
Listening to worlds really helped me unlock my virtual self.
Wow. I'm glad you came around after all these years. This is one of my dearly loved albums, means something.
The album itself is one of my personal favourites of all Porter's work.
For me, its the story the album tells cover to cover. The journey it takes you has its peaks and valleys, and ultimately lands on a very heart-wrenching and touching note.
this is epic fantano we didn't expect this!
this album is such a bop and a classic :)
I’m so happy you’re revisiting Porter. Can’t get enough love for my guy.
Porter's new edits of world are really cool too
10 years ago Worlds was my most listened to album. I went softer on it when Shelter and Good Faith came out, and really it dropped off my regular listening completely when Nurture released; my new most listened to album.
Still love it but not as much as I once adored it.
I think the reason why this album is celebrated is because of the live show that came with it.
I bought tickets to the live show sight unseen as I bought tickets before the album came out. While I adored the album (and Fellow Feeling, btw…. It’s one of my favorite tracks lol), the live show was a complete remix of the album.
If you can find a copy of the Second Sky “last show” of WORLDS, listen to that. It takes the album and remixes it brilliantly.
I still think about that night, giraffage opening for Porter and then that 70ish minute remix of the album. I still listen to the remake of that set on TH-cam because it’s nostalgia for me.
I’m glad you decided to revisit the album after all these years. It’s bonkers to me that this album is only 10 years old because it’s carried me through some deeply emotional times in my life.
porter drop another album this decade challenge
*never saw it live, never tried seeing it live* sigh -- time is passed to change your mind on this, dude - you had years to go see the live show while this was on your radar. i pray one day you get to see the live show and then listen to the album again. It's the single greatest piece of art I've ever come across when you really understand the depth of each sound and song. the overly dramatic or corny vocals you're referring to are part of an experience that the album was designed to be, its not just an album, its a production, show, and experience. Your review is focused on the wrong things and fails to understand the scope of the work displaying a phoned in research process and lack of initiative to listen to all these fans who told you - a music influencer - to go see the show for all the years it was being performed. To that note, he toured it for 6 years and performed live renditions of each track, some of which had three or more versions. Idk man, this revisit is an attention grab at best and congrats, you got my comment.
big moment for the porter fans
Idk if u know this album is conceptual so it has a full story and narrative behind it; that being said, I loved Polygon Dust and Years of War at the time. I'd say all songs are good in some way but it's not what I currently listen to
Well, now he has a new album coming out.
Holy shit this album was so crazily influential to me when it came out, it still makes me think today. Not to mention how much other artists and genres that spawned off from it. Truly a mind blowing record and Nurture is just all of what makes Worlds good but better. I was so disappointed when I saw that first review but glad he’s changed his mind for the better. Let’s ho