Fellow Feeling (commentary) Songtext
von Porter Robinson

Fellow Feeling was also one of the first songs that I wrote for the album
And uh, 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, uhm
That were a little bit less grandiose, how do you pronounce that? Grand-woi? Fuck!

I′ve lived my whole life on the internet
So there's so many words that I know and I don′t know how to pronounce, uhm
But anyway, that aside; yeah, I wanted it to be a very pretty thing
That somehow, it turned into this very like hateful, violent
Uhm, like ugly thing, like I was

To me, Fellow Feeling stands for...
I wanted people to kind of feel
What I felt when it came to aggressive, electronic beats
And uh, you know, where my head was at at that time, how that music was making me feel
I was very frustrated with heavy, heavy 128BPM stuff


And so I turned it into this ugly evil, chugging, techno monster, uhm
That doesn't really have a 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, and uh
To me, that song was meant to, help people understand where my head was at with dance music, uhm

But one of my fears with renouncing dance music was that people were going to take it
As me renouncing all of my old music, and that′s not what I ever wanted
You know I mean, 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 more of a reference to Language and Easy, earlier songs of mine
That I still very much love, uhm

And I wanted to show that I could write this big, loud, Melodic music at 128BPM that was still
Who I was, uhm, and that would fit with my new vision
But this idea of writing heavy, aggressive beats
For the sake of it, was, you know
I feel like I was just expressing some like violence towards that idea
Uhm, and I think the vocal makes it pretty literal