Porter Robinson - Sad Machine - Commentary lyrics

"Sad Machine" was in fact the last song I
Wrote for the album, um, and I
This was another song that really began
With writing that riff i mean
I had i had wanted to use that kind of drum
Sensibility, I wanted something
Another thing that was
Kind of in that 90 BPM space
But, I wanted the song to first imply that
It was 177 BPM like a drum N
Bass song 'cause it's like 'dada dada
Dada dada' and I wanted
People to kind of expect that
Faster beat and of course
I take it to half time so it's 885
BPM, which is around 90 and
I really wanted that
Sort of trick for the song, I wanted to
Like make the listener anticipate
A drum N bass
Beat and then not actually do that and
I wrotе that riff while I was in the
I wrote that first lеad melody while
I was in that process and I
Was like, 'Oh man, well this
This needs to be the hook' I
Had also used AVANNA the Vocaloid
Program, the female robot vocal in this song
For two other songs at
This point i had used it
On "Fresh Static Snow" already
And I had made "Goodbye To A World" already
Which is the last song on the
Album and I knew I wanted to kind
Of embrace her as a signature
Of the record, and so I started
Writing this vocal for her, and
I tried three or four different things and
None of them worked and finally
I wrote that first, that intro verse
That 'Who survived?' and, uh
Then the notion
Of a human-robot duet occurred to
Me, and I just knew
Knew knew knew I had to do it and uh
I was trying to think of various
Common turns of phrase, trying to think
Of the hook of the vocal, and
The song feels very kind of fragile
And vulnerable to me um, but
Wistful and nostalgic and stuff, and I knew
Those were all just keywords, but um
When I thought of the phrase 'She depends
On you', I was like 'Oh man
That's really beautiful' And
I wrote a melody, to that, and lo and behold
We had the hook of "Sad Machine"
I think it's a contender
For my favourite song on the album
And i think it's a contender
For one of my favourite songs
On the album so, um, i was so happy
That I got to release it
In advance of the record, because I felt
That it really summed up to people
What the album was about, in a weird way"