Goodbye to a World

"Goodbye to a World" is a song by American record producer Porter Robinson. It is the closing track for Robinson's debut studio album, Worlds, released on August 12, 2014.

"Goodbye to a World"
Song by Porter Robinson
from the album Worlds
ReleasedAugust 12, 2014 (2014-08-12)
GenreElectronic dance music
Length5:28
LabelAstralwerks
Composer(s)Porter Robinson
Producer(s)Porter Robinson

Background and composition

"I played one [MMORPG] called Star Wars Galaxies, which was a really immersive online world. When those games stop being profitable, they shut down the servers so no one can play them anymore. I was deeply, deeply attached to that game, so I kind of lived through this home, this world that I was really attached to being destroyed. It's something that became very sentimentalized for me, so just the whole notion of a world being destroyed is something that I think is really beautiful when depicted in the right way."

 — Robinson in an interview with Cuepoint.[1]

"Goodbye to a World" features a Vocaloid voice, as Robinson thought the notion of a human and robot duet "was something that was really beautiful and touching".[1] Robinson said that he wrote the song while the atmosphere was apocalyptic outside, since it was raining and a tree had collapsed.[2] He saw the song as describing a "beautiful apocalypse", "[l]ike the idea of worlds being created and worlds being destroyed and the end of that album".[1] This was one of his first times working with soundfonts.[2] He considered the song to be one of the best at capturing the atmosphere of the album.[3]

Reception and legacy

Derek Staples of Consequence of Sound said that the "modern breakcore" song "spotlight Robinson's more intricate big room capabilities."[4] Earmilk declared that "Goodbye To A World" "revisits the saddened robotic vocals [of Worlds] as Robinson soars from one end of the intensity spectrum to the next. One moment, the track is ripping apart the stitches on our broken hearts and the next, Robinson has us geared for some solid fist pumping."[5] In 2015, the song was remixed by Chrome Sparks and included in Worlds Remixed.[6]

In 2016, it was included in a list of the "saddest EDM songs" by EDM Sauce's Stevo.[7] Matthew Meadow from Your EDM said in 2018 that the song was "still one of the most iconic endings to a dance music album in the past decade. It encapsulates everything beautiful about the album and stamps a brilliant end to it all."[8] In September that year, Mariah Carey sampled the song in her promotional single "GTFO".[8][9] Robinson played the song in the Second Sky festival in 2019[10] and 2021.[11]

References
  1. Pizzo, Mike "DJ" (October 5, 2015). "Porter Robinson Reflects on "Worlds," One Year Later". Cuepoint. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  2. Worlds Commentary. Porter Robinson. 2014. Spotify. Sample Sized.
  3. Polonsky, Sarah (September 11, 2014). "Interview: Porter Robinson Shares His New World". Vibe. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  4. Staples, Derek (August 12, 2014). "Porter Robinson – Worlds". Consequence of Sound. Archived from the original on August 15, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  5. "Album Review: Porter Robinson - Worlds". Earmilk. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  6. "ODESZA remixed Porter Robinson's "Divinity" ft. Amy Millan of Stars/Broken Social Scene (listen)". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  7. Stevo (September 11, 2016). "44 Of The Saddest EDM Songs You'll Ever Listen To". EDM Sauce. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  8. Meadow, Matthew (September 14, 2018). "Mariah Carey Drops New Song Sampling Porter Robinson [MUST LISTEN]". Your EDM. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  9. Evans, Steph (September 13, 2018). "Mariah Carey samples Porter Robinson's 'Goodbye to a World' on latest single". Dancing Astronaut. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  10. Lopez, Carlos (June 25, 2019). "Second Sky Was a Fantastic First Year Production [Review]". EDM Identity. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  11. Peters, Emily (September 30, 2021). "Second Sky Brought a Fairytale to Real Life [Review]". EDM Identity. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
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