Ren - Dominoes (A Blind Reaction)

[@greenmonster4918]

Didn't recognized the decay & analogue peddle stuff, but now that you pointed it out, I'd say it's purposeful by Ren (& his genius). The song is all about embracing the pure, the natural, and how 'beautifying' is imprisoning. All the cracks & pops & background noise early on used to bug me, but now I get it.

[@walterooski]

Dude, I didn't even connect that until you said something. That could have TOTALLY been the purpose behind it. I just noticed there was stuff most would eliminate, but that's stuff I love because it sounds like a live setting. To me, hearing those decays SCREAMS that somebody PLAYED something. That, juxtaposed with the idea that people are told to eliminate their "ugly" traits like producers eliminate sounds like that makes such a good dynamic to the song.

[@kalijhawk70]

Walter, if you ever feel like crying, let it out. Keeping it in is not a good thing, it poisons you from inside. I think this is another thing that is tremendously healing about REN’s music. I have cried so much since I found his music but, it has been tremendously cathartic and has left me feeling uplifted as things held in and shoved down have been set free. Let it go, let it out so it doesn’t eat you from inside. ❤

[@emhutch25]

Agree. Cry if you need to.

[@TheBorderRyker]

Completely agree. 👌🏻

[@Emi-70]

Jepp, I can only agree 👍

[@ImmortalIndustries]

100% agree. Sensitivity is not weakness, it's the opposite.

[@rebeccarose7405]

This song hits me so very, very hard. I have lost more than one friend to eating disorders-beautiful, wonderful people who wasted away to nothing and were gone. Their lights went out. The first time I was only in 9th grade. The last one was a couple years before Covid, and after we had spent a long weekend with other friends, celebrating her birthday. She was on a waiting list at a treatment center, but her heart gave out before she had the chance to be admitted. She’d just turned 21. Her mother, who was my very dear friend as well, committed suicide a few years later, partially out of the guilt that she hadn’t been able to save her daughter. Please, please take the very best care of yourself! Disordered eating kills people and it does so way more than people ever know about. This song speaks to the pain I feel when I think of my lost friends. ❤️😢💔

[@ColoniaAgrippina2023]

You are positive, your channel is, simply put, you - like Ren - make this world a better place... thank you.

[@petebrown6356]

I'm a guy....a grandad of two young granddaughters....this still hit me like bricks, powerful. While it does shout out to all of us, there's tremendously more pressure on girls respective to how they look.

[@Xian42]

I've started liking your videos before even watching them. I just know they're going to be good.

[@walterooski]

I hope I never disappoint 😂

[@SilviaA.M.]

Same here 😊🖐🏻❤️

[@Night_Parade]

Same

[@kellyl6883]

I needed someone to save me from myself also, it speaks volumes that Ren can produce something this cathartic and important. If I'd heard this 30-40 years ago when I needed to be saved from my own hand perhaps I would've ended up in a better place. I grew to ask for help, but at the end of the day I also learnt that I had to help myself more than anyone else ever could.

[@FusedAndLovingIt]

I love how intentional Ren is with the sounds of the words. For example, the line "..she felt ugly." abruptly breaks the rhyme scheme on the work "ugly."

[@boho_hippychick]

I just want to let you know, Walter, that I can't wait to wake up every day to see one of your reactions. You have such a genuine vibe that brings great peace to my heart. If only more people were like you, my friend. 🙂❤

[@subkang]

If you wanna see bedroom Ren. Check out Patience, he was going by Ren Gill then. The live version has a little interview with him first. Its in the middle of his misdiagnosis so it’s kinda sad knowing that he has years of suffering ahead of him. Its such a sweet little uplifting song of his that is not as well known.

[@greenmonster4918]

That song comes up on streaming platforms as by Bear McCreary featuring Ren, for all of you out there that want to add to your Playlists!

[@RonNL70]

Thank you Walter for your heartfelt reaction Much ❤

[@tedlitschauer9061]

Walter you are such a sweet genuine soul ... subscribed for support the algorithm and someone else who wears their heart on their sleeve my father taught me in not so many words "Be kind to everyone you meet , for your kindness may be the only kindness they know"

[@nondetection8882]

Video released 3 years ago, but song published in 2016. Probably written before.

[@jodi.lynn.]

I appreciate you sharing your story. ♥️

[@seagull01-cp8pb]

Another Ren song that makes me cry. Coupled with a great and insightful Rooski reaction and I am blubbering 🦇

[@StephiesCorner]

These lyrics really hit home. Loving your insight, Walter.

[@MissMaria1969]

Beautiful ❤❤❤❤

[@jasonstewart3996]

I get it, im 50 and ive dealt with certain personal body inadiquacies all my life after puberty. Ive been ridiculed by so many woman even the ones that fell in love with me because of who i am eventually cheated and ridculed. Even my wife of 22 years who was so in love with me and i her. and eventually went the same way. Imagine the pain after that long of being a devoted and loving husband totally 100% still in love and devoted and then finding out that even her your life partner of half your life went the same way. I cant help what i was born with. I want to say life isnt worth living in anymore and definitely not worth loving anymore. Its people like you ren that make the world seem livable becuse you ky it out there for us to see and tell us, explain really that we all deserve love

[@walterooski]

My friend, our stories are not so different. My ex-wife did the same thing... I am proud of you though. If you're talking about it, you're gonna friggin' make it. I've battled myself my whole life so I know what it's like to wage those internal battles, but I also know what commitment to winning the war looks like and I believe in your ability to win the war.

[@DakotaDogProductionsAk83]

Jason, you sharing this is so powerful. Thank you so much for that. Can you believe that you are so precious and so valuable. We need you mate. You are a freaking champion 🎉

[@Lynnie_14]

G'day Roo 👋 🇦🇺 It was my first time hearing this song too. Ren's lyrics are like words from an Indian guru. Deep and insightful. They can punch you in the gut, stab right through your heart and flood your consciousness with emotions that demand attention. That's the way music should be. It's as scary as it is scintillating. Ren has this insane ability to connect on an emotional level, at a different level of consciousness - Those goosebumps are waves of energy and Ren's energy is intense! I took a sabbatical with NF - OH! There's another Rabbit Hole that the Rooski RENegades would appreciate. NF's songs make me feel the hurt and anger that I've kept buried. I feel his anger turn to anguish and so does mine. The image of black clothed NF dragging his black baloons of burdens around in 'The Search' resonated with me. It took that combined heavy load of individual traumas and compartmentalised them into smaller burdens - balloons that I can pop at any time and deal with one by one a much smaller scale. Then there's 'Hope' and the new 'white' NF ❤ Ren and NF healing me simultaneously - who'd have thought 😅 ❤❤

[@walterooski]

Ma'am, I love you and your honest introspection. I respect the need to take a step away, I did that myself in my own way by reacting to more joyous songs as I liked some of my re-opened wounds. I also found that they prompted me to take care of myself in a way I hadn't considered before and I found tremendous liberation and healing by opening myself up. I hope the same happens for you. I'm still going to be on my NF journey, rest assured, but I think I'm gonna head back to Mansion on this next stop and head back to the beginning. Thank you for being a Rooski, my friend. All my love!

[@Lynnie_14]

@@walterooski You're a gem Roo - A beautiful Aussie opal once hidden deep down in a dark place where it's beautiful colours can't be appreciated, but the light is shining on you now my opal friend and all your glorious colours are sparkling as they should 😉 🥰 Yes, the healing that's taking place and the strength I'm feeling within myself is great and I am taking care of myself. Mansion is amazing - as is this growing community 🙌 🥰 Love You ❤🤗

[@DuelerDog55555]

Love how you keep it real and show yourself! ❤

[@WhiteBoyDay]

Hey Walter- many of his lines have got me choken up too. This song always gets me

[@DakotaDogProductionsAk83]

😢what a reality check. I want to change the environment Im in and help those around me to understand how valuable and precious they are. Thanks Walterooski. Thanks Rooski fam. Thanks stranger who reads this. You ARE unique and one of a kind awesome!

[@brianbritton3693]

Walter and you Rooski's build our dominos back up daily. The breakdown is only the bottom rung of the ladder we climbing together. Have you done Ocean yet bro ? pop that on the list for Bri

[@dazzman555]

Wonderful reaction Walter. So glad you reacted to this song - so powerful.

[@xxTheMouseThatRoaredxx]

For me it was absolutely no control of a chaotic life of moving every two months, from kindergarten through 8th grade, being food insecure and yet fighting about if I was eating enough at 8 years old when all we had was boiled cornmeal mush which is like a breakfast porridge made out of raw cornmeal that tasted like glue. We had no sugar, butter, or milk but after running out of that for 3 ½ days with no food I regretted not eating more, and now I have a fridge stuffed full of food I barely eat 🤷‍♀️ because my brain can't decide if I'm food insecure again or if I need to stop eating. I feel insane sometimes. Luckily I have a husband that likes to eat 😊

[@DakotaDogProductionsAk83]

Your are precious Trace. Thanks for sharing your experience! Love on you and your family ❤

[@xxTheMouseThatRoaredxx]

@DakotaDogProductions thank you for seeing my humanity. It means a lot 🫶🏻

[@GregDaniel78]

I'm so very glad you got round to this one. Its in that glossy and radio-friendly Ren you hear frequently on his stuff from this period (like Diazepam and Hold On), obviously sans-radio friendly subject matter. And I'm also glad your thumbnail shows a healthier Walterooski. I myself am battling from being substantially underweight. I am still investigating what is at the root of it but I hope someday my appetite would match my body's need for calories. Right now I can go a day and half before the hunger pang kicks in. Doctors appointment next week. Kram from Sweden.

[@belinda35]

Thanks for another great reaction, Walter.

[@ethantodd4400]

Powerful reaction brother, much love ✊🏽

[@cherylrobbins715]

Outstanding

[@FaerieCastle]

Big hugs and comforting pats to you. I knew this one might be hard on you but I think it is a song that needs to have more attention. Take care of yourself and never feel bad for getting emotional. ❤❤❤

[@johnlasky7766]

Maybe listen to NF Hope? I don't know, I feel like it's a good segway from this video and your reaction. When you mentioned doing things you love vs making money and finding yourself the song came to mind. Love you brother, thanks for sharing your thoughts and emotion as always!

[@Lynnie_14]

Definitely! NF - Hope, really hit home hard for me - I'd been effected by too many emotive Ren videos bringing back trauma memories and needed some respite. NF's music helped me to unpack those 'burdens' that he speaks of in 'The Search'. He's great ❤ I'd love to see a collaboration between the two. Both emotive story tellers with beautiful voices, incredible rap skills and artistic visionary. 👌

[@kevinweinheimer9861]

Great reaction, this is definitely my favorite track,,,,,,!,,,

[@pirada74]

❤❤❤

[@kiwatts]

Yes, This is THAT Ren. The shut in introspective time of isolation Ren that debuted in 2016 with Freckled Angels.

[@DominicKirby1967]

I wish you nothing but the best in your continuing journey and I'm loving your reactions and your musical knowledge.

[@bellaluna8097]

You are such a lovely soul... so appreciated ❤

[@Lulabee2024]

Another great reaction from you ❤❤❤ and what a great song from Ren ❤❤❤

[@belindamelville2270]

Ren❤❤❤❤

[@fangirl6115]

Nothing wrong with a good cry W, it can be very cleansing. I do it often😢😊❤

[@nathandts3401]

Was concerned when you put the premiere up for this one.

[@walterooski]

No need to be. It's a constant battle, but I've committed to winning the war. Thank you for your concern though, it means the world.

[@christilehman-starr4428]

He uses analog pedals busking constantly Loving your comments Do you play ? Seems like you have some knowledge. And here we go with the storytelling Rock on Can you please do Sam Garrett? Song is called I & I

[@walterooski]

I do play, yes 😂

[@jasonstewart3996]

Walter dong ever be sorry for crying. Sometimes crying is the only way i can release the pain

[@niky9226]

❤❤🫂

[@grandmaimhungry8135]

If you're looking for something different but great, give Angelina Jordan a go.

[@christilehman-starr4428]

Sam Garrett I & I Your mom is lovely My son also got down to that weight at one point. We got it back up but…. 🥹 Pulling for you sweetie. Keep eating!

[@kellyl6883]

I needed someone to save me from myself also, it speaks volumes that Ren can produce something this cathartic and important. If I'd heard this 30-40 years ago when I needed to be saved from my own hand perhaps I would've ended up in a better place. I grew to ask for help, but at the end of the day I also learnt that I had to help myself more than anyone else ever could.

[@mauraleib]

❤❤❤