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Porter Robinson Is Addicted to Fame
The producer and DJ’s new pop-oriented album grapples with the perils of stardom.
Take the first track on the record, “Knock Yourself Out XD,” a hook-laden song filled with tongue-in-cheek lyrics about what it means to contend with nuclear levels of celebrity. :D juggles two truths about Robinson: his innate desire for a positive relationship with the culture that surrounds him, and his dark, introspective nature, highlighted on tracks with stark names like “Is There Really No Happiness?” “My instinct on this album,” he says, “was: Anything I’m scared of being said, I’m just going to say it.” But what that lyric meant to me was, despite being somebody of middling fame, I was writing an album about the pressures that I was feeling and the desire to both be consumed by it but also to escape it.
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