When Worlds Collide (Powerman 5000 song)

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"When Worlds Collide"
Single by Powerman 5000
from the album Tonight the Stars Revolt!
Released	July 1999
Genre	Nu metal industrial metal
Length	2:58
Label	DreamWorks
Songwriter(s)	Powerman 5000
Producer(s)	Sylvia Massy Powerman 5000
Powerman 5000 singles chronology
"Organized" (1998) "When Worlds Collide" (1999) "Nobody's Real" (1999)
Music video
"When Worlds Collide" on YouTube

"When Worlds Collide" is a song by the band Powerman 5000 from their album Tonight the Stars Revolt!. It is one of the band's most well-known songs and has been used in the video games Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 in addition to the 2000 film Little Nicky. The song had been nominated by the Boston Music Awards in 2000 for "Single Of The Year".^[1] Spider One has stated that the song is about social classes. In 2016, the band accused Square Enix of stealing the song for use in their popular MMO Final Fantasy XIV.^[2]

In 2020, Powerman 5000 re-recorded the song. It was initially exclusively available on the CD version of their album The Noble Rot. On October 15, 2020 it was released as a digital single and on streaming platforms.