Found Ren through you two and at first, was thrown off. But I rewatched the actual video of one of his songs...then another...and another and I am blown away by this young man's talent. So REAL. All respect REN and thank you two for your reactions.

@MalcolmMXTaylor

Жыл бұрын

This is great to see!! Ren wants reaction channels to review his music as it helps him as an independent artist to reach more people!! He doesn't have the financial backing of a record label but has mastered social media in a way that helps to build everyone's following!!!

The truth about suicide, it’s devastating. This song will save a life.

@josh4601

Ай бұрын

It stopped me. I realised just how much ren was hurting because of his friends suicide. years and years later, it occupies his mind... I don't wanna do that to my family, my loved ones.

Ren spent livestream time after this dropped, to be sure we (his community) was alright. And we went to the livestream to assure ourselves that Ren was alright. And to give him comfort. By the end it was a great visit.

@ginjamutha

8 ай бұрын

That was a beautiful livestream. The fact that his first concern was how we were all doing says everything about who Ren is as a human being ❤️

This was about Ren's friend Joe. Ren got a call in the night that Joe was on the bridge - going to jump. It was a 10 minute walk but he could run it in 5. He tried calling and kept trying but got a busy signal... about 1/2 way there the signal changed to out of service. Ren was only minutes away and first to get to the bridge. Maybe it's because he's had years of therapy but he seems very in touch with what's important.

Ren has been placed on earth to touch as many souls as possible and no-one can disputes his songs are doing just that! I really enjoyed your reaction and kindness to humanity.

I was in tears then hit hard tears and tough to breath when he mentioned all the names of his friends (though not Joe). Then without the body they were not able to wave to the hearse. That one hit so freaking hard. In Ren's interview with Rosalie, he mentions this song but not by name. He stated that he ended the song at the end of hte original part, then added the second half on after the fact and at the last minute. I believe he wanted to express his feelings for the suicide of his best friend and get some closure on the pain and angst. Split the entire in half and you have two works of art from Ren. Should we expect anything else?

The closing part was added just before he released it. He had felt that it was not complete. He had just done an interview with Knox Hill in which he really opened up about Joe's death and that inspired him to add the final part. Perfect decision. It made the song complete

Hard topic...both sides, struggling with contemplation and the pain of being left behind too. If you don't get emotional the first time you're not human.

Beautiful. Wonderful reaction. Sooo real. ❤to all who have had to deal with this in some way.I enjoyed your discussion. Gets you thinking.

@dougoneill7266

Жыл бұрын

What Chris Seiler said..

I watch a whole lot of Ren reactions and this is the first time that I've heard the analogy of the faces shifting like shifting sands. So True! It's obvious now that you mentioned it. I mean, of course the faces are shifting, but the analogy of shifting sands is spot on! From what Ren has said, the original song was about the act in general, but then he added the poem at the end which is, of course specific to himself and Joe. Thanks for this reaction.

There must be those with whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

That hits home!

Very emotional ! Ren has an exceptional ability to sing or speak straight into the heart and soul!!

This is my first time watching a reaction by the two of you, and I told myself I wasn’t going to add another reaction channel. That thought flew out the window about half way through the video when I realized you had something that most other reaction channels don’t have….a kind of depth that is hard to describe. You don’t just listen to a song and then say, “That was amazing.” You actually gave the song its due and reflected on the important message Ren has given us. Chase - you are the first reactor that I have seen to put together falling through the cracks of the night sky and those who chose suicide as people who fall through the cracks. I could tell you truly meant it when you said people shouldn’t fall through the cracks. I enjoyed the reaction and the insight you both provided. Subscribed, liked and commented.

This song is referencing Joe Hughes, Ren's best friend. Here's what Ren wrote, on Joe's birthday anniversary: Today I want to write something beautiful and eloquent but I’ve been staring at my computer screen for the past 10 minutes blankly. So I’ll just write. Today, the 1st of June is my friend Joe’s birthday. I first met Joe when I was 8 years old, my friend Josh said I had to meet this guy, so we both walked over to his, it took about 10 minutes from my house. I was greeted by this kid covered head to toe in freckles, he grinned at us, climbed onto the back of his sofa and screamed “Swanton Bomb!” then front flipped off the top and landed right onto his back on a stone floor. He lay still for a moment, twitched a few times, then got up, grinned at us, brushed himself off, and did it again. This was Joe. He’d do anything to make people laugh. He ended up becoming one of my best friends. He was there when we stole our first cigarettes out of his mum's pack, way too young. He was there when I had my first kiss, with a girl twice my size on the back of the 42 bus. He was there when I first got so drunk I threw up in the woods after drinking as much white lightning Cider as we could. I was there when he did his first backflip on skates and saw him do a 720 off of the pier cave, that moment became legendary. Joe was the funny one in our friend group; he’d make us laugh till it hurt. No one had a bad word to say about him. It was impossible not to like him. Usually we put celebrities, athletes and actors on pedestals, turn them into role models and admire them from a far. The person I admired was Joe. Him and Sagar knew every word to the songs id write, we’d get drunk at parties and they’d be singing along as loud as they could. It gave me a lot of confidence back then. On Christmas Eve 2010 I was sitting in a pub with Joe, he’d been feeling low after a couple of consecutive break ups. He tried to check himself into a mental health outpatient facility a few weeks earlier, but they turned him away because he didn’t have an appointment. He turned to me and said that sometimes he wished he could just walk into the sea and keep walking. He said it in a kind of half joking throw away comment type of way, then took a sip of his drink, walked over to the juke box and put Dig by Incubus on. If I knew that was the last time I’d see Joe id have hugged him, told him how much I loved him, how much I looked up to him, how much we all loved him, and I wouldn’t have left that pub. I didn’t know that, so I finished my drink, said happy Christmas and left. Two nights after Christmas I got woken up by a phone call at 3am, it was my friend Ella. She told me Joe was on the Menai Bridge, a large suspension bridge connecting the mainland to the isle of Anglesey where we lived. He’d been on the phone to her in tears saying goodbye. He told her to tell everyone he loved them. I pulled on my clothes as fast as I could and started running toward the bridge. It was up a hill. I lived about a ten-minute walk away, I could run it in five. As I ran I started dialing then redialing his number. The line was busy, which was a good sign, it meant he was still on the phone to someone. As I got about halfway, the busy tone changed. It told me the line was out of service. I got a sinking feeling and picked up my speed. I arrived at the bridge minutes after I left my house. It was deafeningly quiet. I was the first person to arrive. I got there probably about 2 minutes too late. Joe’s body was never found. Initially we refused to believe he was gone. The coastguard came out that night, with boats, and helicopters. Me and my friends spent the next 10 days putting up missing posters everywhere we could, walking up and down beaches with flashlights, getting about 3 hours sleep a night. When you’re walking up and down a beach with a torch when its dark everything looks like a body. We still haven’t found Joe. As his birthday came around, I wrote a song, freckled angels, a song I dedicated to Joe which I sang in front of his friends and family. A charity football match was put on for him, raising money for the RNLI where I won two bottles of wine in a raffle, I drank them both as quickly as I could, naturally, turned to my friend and probably slurred something along the lines of “This is the last time I ever drink” That was 12 years ago, I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol since. My first ever album I named Freckled Angels in tribute of one of the best people I ever knew. Skip forward some years. I’d been sitting on this song I wrote a few years ago. It always felt a little incomplete. It was going to be my next release, but I was dreading it because of this feeling of incompletion. I decided, very last minute, to do something about it. I sat by my piano, and the rest of the song fell out of me. I hadn’t thought about Joe in a little while, and the song initially wasn’t going to be about him, but the words all fell out of me. I wrote and recorded a whole 2 minutes extra, recording each part as I wrote it. Tears spewing out of my eyes pretty much the whole time and decided not to do my usual thing of perfecting each line, I just recorded every line as it came. This will be my next release.

@thewilsonlife6258

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I was a bout to re post this from when you posted on my channel.

@thewilsonlife6258

Жыл бұрын

Awsome video guys. I enjoyed your take it.

As a survivor who had family and friends die, I feel the same way as if they fell through the cracks and somehow, I was saved. Did I have survivor's guilt? Sure. How did it manifest itself? Drugs, alcohol, self-abuse, along with PTSD from childhood trauma. Eventually, sobriety saved me again and my therapy is still ongoing.

Heartbreaking 💔💔💔 Great reaction. I would love to see you react to more of this incredible young man's work. He is a breath of fresh air, even touching on the hard subjects. Would like to see your reactions to his more upbeat stuff. And the work he's done with his band, "The Big Push" x

He'd written the first part a while ago but said that it never felt complete. After an interview, where the subject of Joe's suicide came up, he said he realised what he had to do. He'd avoided thinking too much about Joe and his end, for years. He'd been in Canada for months, undergoing experimental treatments in an attempt to repair some of the damage to his body and brain and was going to be there for months more. Nevertheless, he sat down and recorded it live, as he composed it, tears running down his cheeks. He said it was really quick, once he started. It all just came flooding out. He managed to get back to England for a few days and recorded the video to go with the audio he'd recorded. No attempt at lipsynch. It was difficult listening to the recording he'd made, so it's just his reaction to his audio. This is why it all sounds and looks so raw and real. It's because it is. The first part of this song is impressive enough but the second half turns it into a tortured masterpiece.

This was a very perceptive reaction. Thank you.

Pausing in the middle of a lyric. Heartfelt lyrics at that. Great...

thank you for reacting to this masterpiece Ren has started a movement of love ❤ RIP JOE ❤❤

great reaction guys..appreciate that you can see Ren and experience the amazing artist he is, i believe he is certainly one of a kind..keep reacting to his music you will not be disappointed

Great reaction guys please keep it up

This is about his friend who jumped off a bridge. They never found his body. Another friend had called Ren that night to tell him their friend was kn the bridge and was saying goodbye. Ren lived a 10-minute walk from that bridge. He ran there and got there in 5 minutes. He was 2 minutes late, according to when the friends cell phone went off line, so the guilt he feels hre is real even though it isn't his fault.

I like that you said not all mood swings are bipolar. I believe bipolar is used as a way of saying "there are pills for that" instead of giving real help. That way, it is your fault that you are ill. As Ren brought up in Sick Boi. Those around you can blame you without noting that you're honestly at your wits end from chronic illness. People are very selfish with their time and energy. People fall through the cracks because no one helps them cross the distance; others jump into the cracks because hope seems lost. The final action is a momentary decision. Everyone cares after you're dead, but in life, many denied your pain. Even giving true assistance can not always override that last decision.

real emotion makes a great reaction. thank you for your personal story.

Dude. Your friend needed a hug before the review

Great reaction guys. You need to do the follow up to this "for Joe" live. Phenomenal. 🔥✌️

@ChaseAndRemmingtonMusic

11 ай бұрын

We did. It’s on it’s way down the pipes. Man, what a piece.

Hugs needed ❤

Got my sub fellas. Thanks for your authenticity is this world of silicone.

"walking on the tracks in the night time, it never really felt like the right time" is about chronic suicidal ideation. Always thinking about suicide as an option, he's walking on train tracks, at night when he couldn't see a train coming, contemplating staying there, but it doesn't feel like the 'right time' to kill yourself. I relate to this massively... often times it's the first thing my head goes to when i'm hit with difficult path, "fuck this i'll just kill myself" because it became such a go to thought for years, it's become a stupid solution my brain jumps to.

I love your heart-felt reactions! ❤ You should do the tale of Jenny and screech (full song) next time! It's a good one!

@ChaseAndRemmingtonMusic

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. That really means a lot. We actually did a reaction to that one a few months ago, but the the files got distorted and we weren’t able to use them. It’s been a good while now. I think we will do it again. Won’t be our very first time seeing it, but it will just be our second. It was a groundbreaking piece. Now you’ve got me excited about it. I’ll talk to the team about doing it next week. -Remmington

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new to the channel but the guy on camera left looks like Grant Gustin from the Flash TV show to me...great reaction as well.

I genuinely cannot believe you haven’t reacted to Jenny/screech/violet - you have missed his best work

Did the bearded guy end up getting the job??

Are you guys brothers? Or father and son? I just feel like you two are related but different. One dude in a suit and one not plus the beard no beard thing. I doubt dude on the right is old enough to be lefts dad but who knows haha😂

@ChaseAndRemmingtonMusic

Жыл бұрын

We’re just good friends who are only about a year apart in age 😂 met in Japan about 11 years ago.

@mcguigance

Жыл бұрын

I thought maybe brothers loved the reaction and I watch a lot.