An emotional and hard response to Dominoes by Ren.

[@momstin58]

My soul sister from across the pond! You described my whole life too. Never fit in, bullied, no self esteem. Never got mean though, was too meek. I've never worn makeup and I always have resting bitch face too 😅. This song had a big effect on me. I listen to it a lot and it's helping me to feel more comfortable with myself at 66. Yes, this song should be played everywhere! BTW-you're beautiful with or without your 3-minute miracle 🤗💜

[@MusingMamie]

@momstin58 I listen to it a lot too. Mental retraining and drip-feeding the ideas into my child. 🤫🤞😁

[@19athlon48]

I have a sister that keeps me grounded and every time i have a bad day she snaps me out of it with words i need to hear, without her i would be well into depression you need kind words and not negativity

[@MusingMamie]

Having someone is always important. Someone who is grounding and uplifting, sees you for all you are and all you feel, and can help keep your head above water. My husband is my person. You are fortunate to have your sister. ❤

[@RichieWands]

@@MusingMamieHi ren is the best introduction to him as a person & an artist, i am glad you did Dominoes first tho & btw with or without makeup you are gorgeous, it comes from within & it can not be not faked but do what makes you feel comfy.

[@MusingMamie]

@RichieWands Hi Ren was my second. My intro to Ren was Jenny, Screech and Violet. And then I disappeared fiwn the rabbit hole...

[@DBS6567]

I love your honesty, tell like it is from the inside.

[@audivawalsh2983]

Ren is wonderful :) All of his work pulls at the heartstrings, whether it's sad, happy or Bardcore. I'm here for more Ren reactions whenever you're ready. You're beautiful without or with makeup by the way. If you've already immersed yourself in Ren you may also appreciate a rapper called NF. Greetings from Australia!

[@MusingMamie]

@@audivawalsh2983 I have plans to look into NF, but I'm trying to stay away because I want to make some honest reactions to new music. I want to look...

[@toniyoung5131]

I've subbed in the hope you find more Ren. I've loved a lot of music in my 71 years, and many artists. Ren is like a lot of my favourite artists in one package. He's more open than any other though, which is what makes him unique. React to Hi Ren, then Sick Boi. When ive seen them here I'll suggest many more. He'll light up your life. Most importantly, react the his million subscribers video,. Knowing someone who sees life as he does makes you go out of yourself.

[@MusingMamie]

@toniyoung5131 There is more Ren... He and a few other artists have become very important to me recently. Dominoes came first because it affected me so much the very first time I heard it.

[@belindamelville2270]

❤❤❤❤❤😢

[@StefanVillkatt]

❤💔❤

[@violincredible]

I absolutely adore you. I've so much to say that I saved this to a new playlist called 'to comment on properly'. But for now I'll just say that this song speaks to a historical and ongoing tragedy that is not just awful but unforgivable, because it is by design, it works exactly how it's meant to. I highly recommend a book (from the ?1950s) by Betty Friedan called 'The Feminine Mystique' (Maybe you've already read it and are way ahead of me) She talks about the changes she saw, particularly in the magazine publishing world, having risen quite high in it before the Second World War and how things changed after that… For example how in the stories in women's magazines before the war there were female characters who are heroines in their own right, didn't need a man, flew aeroplanes, changed the world, arse-kicking sort of women, and then after the war all the stories changed and women needed a man, lived to make him great, to look pretty, bring up children etc, but she goes deep inside of this stuff, like about how immense amounts of money were spent on research, on psychologists and psychiatrists willing to basically be evil, in order to create problems, exacerbate insecurities, invent brokennesses in people so that they could more easily be sold ever more crap, how women were told that they should be happy just being a mum and a consumer, etc… This was all very deliberate and absolutely unconscionable and now I'm kind of ranting so please read the book (or don't, I'm not your boss). This is already very long and rambling so when I comment properly it's gonna be bloody incredibly long I guess… Take-home message: I think you're absolutely wonderful and I love where you're coming from and when you say this song made you emotional i'll tell you that it gets tears streaming down my face and I start sobbing, because I see this tragedy so bloody clearly, writ so damn large… Sorry, I'm going on… Makeup or no makeup, even if you were a brain floating in a jar I'd find you beautiful and utterly delightful. Much love from a humble fiddle player in the antipodes. x

[@MusingMamie]

I had to wait to respond because I needed to refresh my memory on the Feminine Mystique (I read it years ago when I first saw 10 Things I Hate About You). The worst thing is that from here, it seems like it was slow, but it was a systematic erasure of strong women from the narrative. "immense amounts of money were spent on research, on psychologists and psychiatrists willing to basically be evil, in order to create problems, exacerbate insecurities, invent brokennesses in people so that they could more easily be sold ever more crap, how women were told that they should be happy just being a mum and a consumer, etc…" Let's be fair; psychologists are responsible for modern marketing techniques that manipulate consumers and potential buyers. Unsurprisingly, they were used to manipulate the societal place of women and reshape community beliefs and norms-especially in the world's upheaval of the time.

[@RichieWands]

Watch a stand up show by Bill Hicks “it’s just a ride” i think you will appreciate it, loved your honesty & openness in this video, never doubt you are a beautiful person if your intentions are good, the only meaning there is in life, is the meaning you give yourself. ❤

[@MusingMamie]

I love Bill Hicks - one of the all time greats. Another awesome human being who died too soon.

[@toniyoung5131]

No one fits. I discovered that by the time i reached my 60s. Im 71 now. When i decided that i was happy with being my own self ( I had to grow into it) i discovered that everyone i know feels they dont fit. It's because we're all different. Since i stopped caring what others think, without being aggressive about it, i found friends who like me for myself. We're different from each other, but thats what makes us interesting.

[@MusingMamie]

@toniyoung5131 Im starting to agree with you on that first point, and I thank you for the 20 year heads up on deciding to be happy with who I am...I'm working on it.

[@MaxwellMoore-d1u]

Ren & Liv Sangster live studio sessions " Im in Love * 1st of Nine next please. Best jamming ive ever seen.

[@MusingMamie]

@MaxwellMoore-d1u Oooh, I could actually do a 1st watch reaction to that. I have seen but not watched. So I might treat myself to a genuine reaction 😁

[@donmclaughlin3926]

Thank you.

[@adam.4487]

I feel and look different than I did 45-60 years ago. I look nothing like the "me" I was when seeing myself in the mirror today at age 75. Years ago I was what some would say is "good looking" to "pretty". I was attractive enough to always be asked out on dates, some guys liked me a bit too much, and were clingy, I found it gross, so maybe that's why I didn't want to use makeup or fancy myself up to look like a person in a magazine, TV or the movies. I didn't like wearing makeup, some lipstick once in awhile. So when people saw me then and now, it's clean face and sometimes even messy hair. Maybe I was or am now still just lazy or don't care how I look to others. Take me as I am or walk away. Glad because I'm pretty sure I saved tons of money by not needing anything to look different.

[@papertrucker1]

We all have insecurities so we are never happy when we are criticised. If we only tolerate others better our life’s would be so much better 😅

[@MusingMamie]

@papertrucker1 I cant remember who it was that said it, but the gist was that the things we dislìke about ourselves, we identify in others and pull them apart instead of doing to to us. So the leason is that we have to be kinder and more accepting inside ourselves to translate that out to everyone else. Its only a theory, but one that resonates with me.

[@adam.4487]

@@MusingMamie That does kind of make sense. I feel and look different than I did 45-60 years ago. I look nothing like "me" I was when seeing myself in the mirror today at age 75. Years ago I was what some would say is "good looking" to pretty. I didn't like wearing makeup, some lipstick once in awhile. So when people saw me then and now, it's clean face and sometimes even messy hair. Maybe I was or am just lazy or don't care how I look to others.

[@MusingMamie]

@adam.4487 That is an awesome way to feel. Once upon a time, so I have been reminded, I was the same. But in my teenage years and early 20s something changed... Still exploring that.

[@adam.4487]

Oh by the way, I neglected to mention in my previous comment. I loved your little "rant". It was just brilliant! I mean it, really smart. When I see advertising I can almost tell that it's a bunch of BS, false advertising. Maybe I am just a cynical person and pretty much don't believe a lot of what is in advertising. So, your words and thoughts were wonderful. I had left comments on this song to a few others that it should be played in schools, starting at young ages then again in Jr and High schools. One thing that helped me survive was a sense of humor and knowing when to do "ridicule" about myself first, before anyone can even start picking at things. Laugh when a nasty comment was made and agree with them, that would throw them off. I was funny, I always laughed and made jokes and was kind to everyone, both the 'popular' and the less liked. I was the cute girl with that fun and weird personality. But there were times I did hurt inside, because there was always that one person, as you said, would hit us with some remark that put that pain in our chest and it would be a memory to constantly eat away at us. It wasn't all the time, and I would be confused why the person I was nice to was being cruel. Jealous perhaps? Yeah that's what I should have thought at the time. They felt like crap, so they needed to make others feel the same.

[@MusingMamie]

@adam.4487 Healthy cynicism is essential to living a reasonably balanced life. And I look at everything these days with a heavy dose of scepticism. It does hurt so deeply when we keep the pain inside when we hide it to maintain a facade of being "okay" or "fine". I think those are the wounds that fester the worst and lead to neuroses and poor mental health.

[@davidberesford7009]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Ren. Where misfits fit and strange is strength. Remember image is cousin to imagination. Personally I like people to think that I do not care what people think, but I recognise that am vain. Great little rant! You have got to see Rens Money game(s) Keep Reacting!

[@MusingMamie]

"Where misfits fit and strange is strength" this is gold and when you actually say it, it makes so much sense. You wonder why you never made the connection before.

[@nada-8-4-2]

Doing a reaction to dominoes with no makeup is a perfect idea. I used to work in the cosmetic industry and it took me 10 years to find a girl I liked who wears no makeup. Love her still married after 23 years. Being you rather than a mask says a lot of positive thngs about you. I taught all my kids to judge yourself and do not listen to others judgements of you. You have your own values and only you can judge yourself correctly.

[@MusingMamie]

@@nada-8-4-2 it seemed like the only thing to do. I do wear make up, but its only enough to make me feel "comfortable". I have acne and chickenpox scars that make me somewhat self-conscious (yes, I had to pìck at the ones on my face). As a general rule, daily makeup is not my thing and I intensely dislike anything that attempts to make me not look like me.

[@eddiebirdie1545]

You sound like the female equivalent of me, if we ever meet I'm scared that the universe will end 😂✌❤🐦.

[@MusingMamie]

😂

[@eminow2002]

I actually LOVE the fresh faced you... 🩶. So glad you posted this and gave us a chance to get to know a little of the real you💕