Porter Robinson - Fellow Feeling - Commentary lyrics

"Fellow Feeling" was one of the
First songs that I wrote
For the album and back then I was really
Into this idea of orchestral instrumentation
It was very beautiful
To me and I think as time went on
I got a little bit more into
Other sounds that were, y'know
A little bit grandiose - how
Do you pronounce that?
Grand-waiose? Fuck! I’ve lived my
Whole lived on
The internet so there’s so many words I know
But I don’t know how to pronounce but
Anyway, that aside yeah, i
Wanted it to be a very
Pretty thing that somehow
It turned into this
Vеry hateful, violent like, ugly thing likе
I was I don't know
To me "Fellow Feeling" stands for-
I wanted people to
Kind of feel what I felt when it came
To aggressive
Electronic beats and where my head was at at
That time, how that music was making me feel
I was really frustrated with heavy
Heavy 128 BPM stuff and so I turned
It into this like ugly, evil
Chugging, techno monster, um, that
Doesn’t have a really danceable meter to it
And it glitches and moves in
And out of quarter
Notes, and it’s not in the right key, and
It's just this, I don't know- to me
This song was meant to help people understand
Where my head was at with dance music but
One of my fears with renouncing dance
Music was that people were going
To take it as, y'know
Me also renouncing all of my
Old music and that’s not what I ever wanted
You know that music stood
For something to me at the time and
I wrote it for a reason and
To me the second half of
The song is a reference to
Like "Language" and "Easy", earlier
Songs of mine that I still very much love
And I wanted to
Show that I could write this like big, loud
Melodic music
At 128 BPM, that that was still who I was
And that that fit with my new vision
But this idea of writing
Aggressive, heavy beats for the sake
Of it, was- y'know
I feel like I was expressing
Some violence towards that idea
And I think the vocal
Makes it pretty literal"