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\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe idea I came to you with,\u201d Robinson says to Ninajirachi, \u201cI almost wasn\u2019t sure that I wanted to show you \u2014 because I\u2019ve had people be like \u2018I made this and it made me think of you,\u2019 and I felt like, \u2018Ooh, that didn\u2019t excite me.’\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBut Ninajirachi was into the sketch, with the pair expanding upon and refining it, ultimately making something that brightly exclaims their shared predilection for punchy, synth-driven hyperpop-leaning electronic music with emotional depth and intellectual backbone. This compatibility is understandable, as, amid her meteoric rise over the last year, the 26-year-old DJ-producer has been vocal about how much she was influenced by Robinson\u2019s music while growing up in Australia, with the pair first linking IRL when she opened for him during his 2025 Australian tour.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAnd it wasn\u2019t just your music that affected me when I was growing up,\u201d Ninajirachi now adds. \u201cIt was your shows. Your show was my first time in a venue, in front of a PA and a massive LED. It was like my hair was being blown back. I felt like a Victorian-age child being shown an iPod. I was just like, \u2018What the f\u2013k is this?’\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHere, the duo discuss \u201cWannaCry,\u201d having sympathy for a computer virus and feeling seen in each other\u2019s work.<\/p>\n \n\tTell me about the first day of having this song in the world. What\u2019s it been like for you both?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tNinajirachi:<\/strong> So epic. It\u2019s kind of everywhere. Porter, I know you\u2019ve had so many massive songs for such a long time, but this is the most I\u2019ve ever seen anyone share a bit of music I\u2019ve had my name attached to. Like, everyone has turned out for this song. It\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n \n\tRobinson:<\/strong> It feels so instantaneous. I\u2019m getting messages from people that I didn\u2019t even think would like it. It feels crazy to say about your own song, but to me it kind of feels like we cooked up a little bit of a future classic. It feels like one where some people will know the song and not know the artists. That\u2019s what I\u2019m hoping for. <\/p>\n \n\tTell me about the seeds of the idea. I know you guys have known each other for a while \u2014 was it inevitable that you\u2019d collaborate?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tNinajirachi:<\/strong> It kind of started from Porter honestly, even the song idea. Porter, the collab invite was you hitting up me and seeing if I\u2019d be down to to make music. I\u2019m very shy in that sense. I would have never done that. I\u2019m not like, a confident DM \u201cDo you want to collab?\u201d kind of person, so you made it happen. And you had the start of the song idea when I pulled up as well.<\/p>\n \n\tRobinson:<\/strong> I\u2019m usually really shy about asking people to collaborate too, but I guess with Nina, just given that you kind of grew up on my music, I felt like that was a layup for me. I didn\u2019t have to get nervous with like, \u201cIs she gonna want to get in the studio with me?\u201d I\u2019d watched Nina\u2019s ascent, and we had done shows together in Australia, and I just immediately liked Nina. I thought she was really funny and likable and normal and weird at the same time, and just incredibly talented, and I wanted to to know more. It feels weird to talk about this, but just knowing that my show was the first show Nina went to when you were 14, right?<\/p>\n \n\tNinajirachi:<\/strong> Yeah. <\/p>\n \n\tRobinson: <\/strong>So if I imagine being in her shoes, if I was to get in the studio with somebody who made a big impression on me, I guess I was just feeling pressure to make something good. I wanted to have something Nina would be into. I didn\u2019t want to flop, basically. So I cooked up a few ideas and \u201cWannaCry,\u201d especially the lead melody bit, was the thing I was most excited about. I wasn\u2019t sure if Nina would be into it, but once we dove into it, Nina just slayed all the writing, and totally fixed the production on it too. Something I feel like the fans don\u2019t know is that the bass sound got so fixed by Nina.<\/p>\n \n\tHow so?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tRobinson:<\/strong> This is technical, but my bass sound was just kind of whack, and Nina changed it into this amorphous flowing thing and added all these insane glitches and made the whole breakdown of the song and all the soft parts and the chorus. Some songs take me years, and when Nina and I got together, it just flowed really naturally.<\/p>\n \n\tNina, was that feeling true for you as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tNinajirachi: <\/strong>Definitely. We kind of meandered a bit too. \u201cWannaCry\u201d was the first thing we worked on, and it\u2019s not even that we we were stuck on it, it was more in the spirit of just trying to quick fire a bunch of ideas. We saved it, closed it, opened something else and then worked on that for a bit, and then worked on something else. Then we were kind of like, \u201cWe should go back to that first one. That was really good.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe writing did happen very quickly, but I think Porter, you have such good pop instincts, and the reason it happened so fast \u2014 I\u2019d spit a bunch of stuff out, but if I was on my own I would have a harder time discerning what was good or interesting. With this I\u2019d be like, \u201cWhat about this,\u201d or \u201cHere are five things\u201d and you would pick one and be like \u201cWe should do that.\u201d I\u2019d be like, \u201cOh, really?\u201d And then it was the best thing, every time. <\/p>\n \n\tTell me about the title and theme. I understand it\u2019s based off a famous computer virus?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tPorter: \u201c<\/strong>Wanna Cry\u201d is this infamous ransomware attack from 2017, but the name is emotional. Like \u201cWanna Cry,\u201d you think about people panicking and losing their files. It\u2019s nostalgic and emotional and technological. I was thinking about this yesterday, about how WannaCry and also the ILOVEYOU virus [in 2000] had this like double virality, where they were literally viral in the sense that they were self-reproducing and infecting people\u2019s computers, but they were also viral in a contemporary sense where their names were just catchy and infectious, and the idea stuck with people and spread. The WannaCry virus attack just sounds epic, you know. It sounds crazy and scary.<\/p>\n \n\tNinajirachi: <\/strong>Porter you were like, \u201cI have this virus concept.\u201d [Eventually we were like] \u201cThis would be so unique if it was from the virus\u2019 perspective.\u201d Like it\u2019s multiplied as far as it can go, and there are no more computers to infect, and that\u2019s the end of its life.<\/p>\n \n\tYou debuted it <\/a>during Nina\u2019s set at Coachella in April? How is it going off in shows?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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