Porter Robinson on crafting a new anthem for League of Legends

theverge.com:

Like many of us, Porter Robinson turned to video games during the pandemic. In particular, the musician got really into League of Legends. He remembers getting his first kill and thinking, “Oh, I get it. I get why people play this. I get why people love it.” It became a hangout for his group of friends during a particularly challenging period, a space where everyone would get together in the evenings to play. But it wasn’t until League developer Riot released the animated series Arcane on Netflix that Robinson truly got sucked into the fantasy universe. “I was like, ‘I want to be involved in their world,’” he tells The Verge.

League is currently in the midst of a 10-week-long event that spans multiple games and mediums, focusing on a parallel universe called Star Guardian; think of it like Sailor Moon meets League’s fantasy realm of Runeterra. (League has a few of these alternate takes on its mythos, which has led to the fictional bands K/DA and True Damage.) There are new skins and game modes across the main game and its various spinoffs, as well as the latest of Riot’s “creator-safe” ambient albums. Tying it all together is a musical anthem by Robinson called “Everything Goes On,” which was released today alongside an animated video. You can check it out below.

Robinson says he was initially inspired in part by an animated short Riot released in 2019, called “A New Journey.” He was attracted to the short because of the animation — it was helmed by anime studio P.A. Works — but he also saw himself in the main character, a young college student who joins a League team at school and finds a sense of community. “It was almost like my story of getting into League in a way,” Robinson explains.

However, when he actually sat