REN - SU!CIDE [MUSICIAN REACTS]

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Sean Staxx

Sean Staxx

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@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Stream my new song here: open.spotify.com/album/1NdlCPDOv2eHojJTDW7Hxp?si=Nyt4g6T9SQ-p9BUpazEhDA
@timflesner663
@timflesner663 Жыл бұрын
I wanna make one of those novelty T-shirts like they had in the 90s. Ren: making grown men cry since 2022
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Haha fr. Dudes too good
@cindyd.01
@cindyd.01 Жыл бұрын
Haha nice
@mypetcrow9873
@mypetcrow9873 Жыл бұрын
Sign me up!
@sammyd8860
@sammyd8860 Жыл бұрын
The first half of the song was written a while ago and Ren was getting ready to release it, but he had a nagging feeling that it sounded incomplete. Ren added the last couple of minutes immediately after he had done his recent interview with Knox Hill, in which, for the first time, he really talked openly about the circumstances around Joe's death. It feels like he had kept so much buried inside himself and it came out in the interview, and it felt good to honour Joe properly. Here he talks about his guilt for being too late to save him. This is just being far too tough on himself. I am glad that Joe's story is spreading wider and that people are honouring him but Ren, man, please stop beating yourself up. It was not your fault.
@nrsvlda70
@nrsvlda70 Жыл бұрын
I’ve watched this several times now… still weeping by the time it’s over. I can get through the first part.. but when he starts talking about Joe.. the waterworks begin (so don’t feel alone)!! Such a beautiful piece; hoping it helps those who might be contemplating doing harm to themselves to see how it affects those who love them, who are left behind wondering what else they might have done to stop it from happening. Thank-you for your thoughtful reaction/response.
@ricci8497
@ricci8497 Жыл бұрын
I think we are all the same come the second half in this for the most part at least I'm not tearing up as much as I was doing.
@Shadyworks68
@Shadyworks68 Жыл бұрын
Same here,it's so intensely good 😔
@tundiel
@tundiel Жыл бұрын
Wonderfully sincere reaction and words at the end there. I agree 100% with everything you said. Ren did a live twitch the day after releasing this purely to check in with his fans because he knew it was a tough one. It ended up being well over 2 hours long, and while it started off with him making sure everyone knew where to go if they needed to talk and stuff, it ended up being hilarious. Sam and Josh (his videographer and I believe tech guy) joined him, and the ensuing chaos from hilarious fan questions and even more hilarious answers was brilliant. So down to earth, all three of them. It was like hanging out with your best friends. Ren's as genuine as they come, and that's what draws people to him. He's a keeper, for sure. ❤ Thanks again for the heartfelt reaction. I don't think I've seen anyone NOT choke up at this, but not everyone acknowledges that it does, if you know what I mean.
@Shiroar
@Shiroar Жыл бұрын
I am really looking forward to Ren showing “the haters” that he can carry 34 baked common house potatoes in his arms 😂 Ren is something very special. Making us all cry over his heart wrenching art and then making us cry from laughter the next day.
@yilomina2047
@yilomina2047 Жыл бұрын
@@Shiroar Lol - yes, I want video of the baked potatoes!
@thomasgoldschmidt298
@thomasgoldschmidt298 Жыл бұрын
The first part of the song is from the viewpoint of someone (him) contemplating suicide , the second part is from the viewpoint of someone (him) left behind. Only Ren can talk about such sensitive topic in such a meaningful and healing way. Curious if CNN wants to flag this as something that promotes it. They are good at choosing polar opposite examples. As Ren mentioned in the community section of his channel: "Suicide does eliminate the possibility that things will get worse, but it also eliminates all possibility that things could ever get better. I was in a situation that seemed impossible to climb out. I climbed out. I would have never given myself that option if I choose to opt out of living. Is my life easy now? No, not close, am I glad to be alive? every day. Is life good? Yes. Did I believe life could be good back then? mostly no, but I carried on and gave myself that chance. I know that the last song may have opened some wounds, and been close to the bone for some people, but for anyone going through difficult times at the moment, give yourself the option to make life better. You deserve that chance I love you"
@thegodofwine8228
@thegodofwine8228 Жыл бұрын
That line about his old friends, and 'missing the F'n Lads'..man that hit me hard, and I feel like it hit a lot of reactors hard...its amazing how relatable he is, maybe its honesty. We all miss the 'fn lads' from when times were carefree.
@dawnpatterson8708
@dawnpatterson8708 Жыл бұрын
Light in the dark. Absolutely loved that. I have seen this quite a lot now. Gets me every time. This one.....hurt. It took me a bit to realize that this is a GIFT of perspective. There are many who are so lost in the depths of despair. That they can't see a hand, friend or those around that love them. This is an intensity personal glimpse into the pain that a loss such as this creates. Yeah, it hurt. It was supposed to. He said that he had the first part all ready to be released. He didn't think it felt complete. After the Knox Hill interview, where he spoke about Joe and that day. He sat at the piano and it just fell out of him. They had to rush to get it added. He got word that people were calling it the day the internet cried. So, he went on twitch the next day to talk about the song. AND ask if everyone was alright? As much as this song nearly shattered my heart. Hearing him cry. I found the antidote on twitch that day. He was laughing and excited about the 3 weeks off of clinic. To go ro the UK to do Money Game 3. My heart soared. Thank you for this. It was a rough one. I appreciate you.
@nedheadwyoming
@nedheadwyoming Жыл бұрын
Your reaction is so human, thanks for your sensitivity. Ren is the most unique person and he's teaching us to get real and in touch with ourselves and others
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Thank you and he really is something special 🙏
@MamaJ1975
@MamaJ1975 Жыл бұрын
The fan base on social media is incredible - I belong to several Ren groups, and even admin one - the Ren movement is just getting started, and everyday it grows, and ripples outward, touching more and more people. What's also pretty amazing to me, is the age range of his fans - from small children to people in their golden years, everyone loves Ren. Great reaction, loved your honesty during and after the video. It's a hard song, but also a hopeful one.
@GW-kf1be
@GW-kf1be Жыл бұрын
Beautiful reaction Sean. I always love your reactions to my favorite artists. Your awesome, thank you.❤
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
I appreciate that 🙏🖤
@Shiroar
@Shiroar Жыл бұрын
The recently added ending really completed the song. And made it absolutely heart wrenching. Beautiful vulnerability and song. Ren is doing something very important with his art by voicing things we don’t talk about enough. And he is bringing us together as humans that feel empathy and share similar emotions. We relate. We are less alone.
@Hexenkind1
@Hexenkind1 Жыл бұрын
Full context and story to this song: "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 mums 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 main land 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 dialling 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 to 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."
@musicmathchocolate
@musicmathchocolate Жыл бұрын
How many people out there have been touched by suicide? Ideation/attempt/completion for yourself or loved one. I have 2 people in my life. Such an important song. Thank you, Ren.
@sch7194
@sch7194 Жыл бұрын
That was one of the best reaction's I have ever seen...100% respect my friend...Ren touched your heart & its beautiful when the soul is revealed...great artist like Ren can and will do that & that's the magic trick...such a serious topic & yet we can talk as about it ❤
@geoffwindram8052
@geoffwindram8052 Жыл бұрын
Sean, this is the one I've been waiting for. Value your insights above all others. I don't know how Ren does it, love to hear you do some extended breakdowns of the music, vocals and production with your knowledge and experience. You're an exceptional communicator.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, I try my best 🙏🖤 ren is an exceptional person and and even more phenomenal artist.
@bendersbrain
@bendersbrain Жыл бұрын
Great song, Ren's great, tears are underated, Let it GO ! ;)
@cherylrobbins715
@cherylrobbins715 Жыл бұрын
Being empathetic is always appreciated. Ren IS the mental health spokesperson.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
💯🖤
@TobiiRheaStarr
@TobiiRheaStarr Жыл бұрын
Beautiful reaction. The ending was written after his interview with Knox and it always gives me tears 🖤
@ScottishDeeSideEye
@ScottishDeeSideEye Жыл бұрын
I loved this reaction because you didnt stop the video at all, you let us all enjoy it and sing along to it, most pause constantly and its soooooo annoying. But you give your reaction to it afterward. Brilliant. ❤
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🙏🖤 I think pausing ruins the experience
@craigmitchell604
@craigmitchell604 Жыл бұрын
Wrenching my gut and then my heart and then my soul and then…from within the wrenching…something so beautiful emerged from that paralyzed hurting. Something almost…tranquil.
@user-jg3rp1ib5z
@user-jg3rp1ib5z Жыл бұрын
You’re right- Ren is a shining light in a dark world ❤
@rodb9275
@rodb9275 11 ай бұрын
Such a great song. I'm so in love with Ren. I'm obsessed with watching reactions to his stuff. On this one, I "re-cry" watching people react to the ending, every time
@scottmckinney9325
@scottmckinney9325 Жыл бұрын
Dude, your reactions are always so heart felt and straight to the point. It means something that you are a real artist as well. I'm glad the Ren rabbit hole brought me to your channel some time ago. Thanks man.
@debbieswoveland9730
@debbieswoveland9730 Жыл бұрын
I agree with one of the other comments and that is, I could handle the first part of the song and was listening intently to the story, and then came the last part which was pretty heart wrenching. Ren is a modern day Bard. Extremely good at telling a story. He keeps you tuned in until the very end because you want to know what happens.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
💯
@christinapeck966
@christinapeck966 Жыл бұрын
Yes🥺the world🌎 needs REN ✨ 🎶music is life !!! I enjoy you Sean 🫶🏽
@sidetrack218
@sidetrack218 Жыл бұрын
"That one got me" You ain't human if this didn't 'get you' I watched it when it premiered. I knew the back story so I thought I was prepared but by the end I couldn't hold back the tears... Ren is one of those rare artist who can make you feel every word.
@RonNL70
@RonNL70 Жыл бұрын
Great reaction Sean 🙏👍❤️ It's a heavy one 😥😭
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
It really is! 😭🖤🙏
@Willeby2
@Willeby2 Жыл бұрын
Great reaction. I was tearing up with you. I have gone through all of your ren reactions....jyst a slight obsession since discovering Ren. I don't think i have seen you react to Ren and his band The big push. Please check them out, one of the best is "who shot the sheriff, road to zion, hiphop". Follow with the same busking session "War Pigs". I love his versatility, when you think you have seen everything. Hold on. Maestro, Ren!!!
@emilianoserranosouza1991
@emilianoserranosouza1991 Жыл бұрын
This one is deep,and hard ,and beautiful, real like Ren himself!!
@jteeitup99
@jteeitup99 Жыл бұрын
It gets damn near every one of us my brother.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🖤
@ukrobboxing
@ukrobboxing Жыл бұрын
Chokes me up everytime, so so raw… I agree it’s an important message… Ren is a true artist. Remember, anyone struggling… reach out your life is worth so much more than you think it is.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
💯🖤
@ethantodd4400
@ethantodd4400 Жыл бұрын
As always, an amazing reaction to a very powerful Ren song, thank you brother... Love to Ren and Joe's family & friends... ✊🏽
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Thank you and well said 🙏
@philflynn9161
@philflynn9161 Жыл бұрын
A friend of mine just left this earth. He was a year younger than me in high school. I wish he was here❤
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
So sorry to hear that 😢 sending you positive vibes and my prayers 🖤
@Ph4n_t0m
@Ph4n_t0m Жыл бұрын
I absolutely melted into a puddle of human compassion for that second part, and just ache to this day with the desire to give him a hug and to heal those wounds of his. That I feel his pain and that I know that pain is what keeps me from the "one small movement to expose our fragility" and inflicting that pain on anyone in my life and THAT's the incredible power and value that lies in sharing such raw emotional truth. Some can't see that and call the act of turning that pain into a performance vain or exploitative. Some tiktok idiots are exploitative. To call Ren that is so short-sighted and ignorant that it's just pathetic.
@elenaorujev3494
@elenaorujev3494 Жыл бұрын
So raw and heart wrenching!
@DeadDad1
@DeadDad1 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your reaction and for not being afraid to leave your tearful reaction in the final edit of this video. I am definitely going to subscribe. Thank you again and never forget we are in this together. ❤
@tinadunbar4577
@tinadunbar4577 Жыл бұрын
Best reaction ive seen, love your recognition of Rens talent, he certainly gives back, and man he is shining right now. RIP joe & my brother mike ❤
@Tessimistic420
@Tessimistic420 Жыл бұрын
The last part gets me every time still. ❤️
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🖤
@JMach82
@JMach82 Жыл бұрын
Great reaction! Thank you for your openness. Hope all is well
@sandyfitzgerald7652
@sandyfitzgerald7652 Жыл бұрын
Always love your reactions Sean, I knew you'd do this one justice, thank you ❤
@zfgdun
@zfgdun Жыл бұрын
Love ya Sean. Pump this out there. I've had too many friends I've lost to this. It sucks, and seems it never goes away
@mldkenny
@mldkenny Жыл бұрын
Always enjoy reactions and this one was certainly no exception, especially given the subject and sensitive message. What a unique talent Ren has to be able to strike such a powerful experience into an awareness for so many of us.
@margaretc5679
@margaretc5679 Жыл бұрын
You would probably enjoy Ludovico Einaudi. Ren is a fan, and you can hear many similarities in piano technique and composition.
@cas9065
@cas9065 Жыл бұрын
Excellent reaction, as always. And you are absolutely right. Off to listen to Out of Time now. Liked already.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Much appreciated 🙏🖤
@davideastham
@davideastham Жыл бұрын
RIP Joe Hughes ❤❤❤
@aburg6393
@aburg6393 Жыл бұрын
Really nice reaction - it was nice hearing your analysis and seeing the emotions you were feeling. I think you are so right - sometimes so much easier to start a conversation after hearing a song or sharing an article...like sometimes it's easier to talk with someone when you're driving in a car. It can just make it easier to start these important and necessary conversations
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🖤
@adelefran
@adelefran Жыл бұрын
Amazing reaction! Have cried so much listening to this!
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
It’s a strong one 🖤
@Siendorf
@Siendorf Жыл бұрын
Emotional for sure.
@ekatyawa6714
@ekatyawa6714 Жыл бұрын
ren pictures an vivid image with his lyricism,.. it's hard to consume,. no vibing with our boy on this one,. it's heartbreaking 💔💔
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
💯🖤😢
@kylec1411
@kylec1411 11 ай бұрын
very genuine reaction. i dont wanna sound like a bad person but seeing you tear up made me happy cuz it gives me hope in people. Came close to suicide more than once myself. Beautiful song tho. The world needs more vulnerablity especially around these subjects.
@kimzwolinski9919
@kimzwolinski9919 Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your reaction ❤
@DonnaPoynton.
@DonnaPoynton. Жыл бұрын
Beautiful and Heartbreaking,R.I.P Joe Hughes,Thanks Sean much love ❤
@MCP920
@MCP920 Жыл бұрын
Powerful.
@sicmuvva11
@sicmuvva11 Жыл бұрын
Love your reaction man, I think you are so right this artist is brilliant, Hard to watch the results of suicide but essential.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🙏🖤
@galeneric2
@galeneric2 Жыл бұрын
Got me too.
@Darien17CDMX
@Darien17CDMX Жыл бұрын
This song it's delicate and unique. The first part is listenable without much trouble despite the lyrics but as soon as the second part begin talking bout his friend it's so heavy to take. Ren really showed us a dark part of his life.
@johnnyeproductions
@johnnyeproductions Жыл бұрын
It got us all brother. It's ok
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🖤
@yilomina2047
@yilomina2047 Жыл бұрын
Great reaction, this is such an amazing song.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🙏🖤 it really is
@sabrinaevans8746
@sabrinaevans8746 10 ай бұрын
Yah if you don’t cry at the end you’re not human
@tafinzer
@tafinzer Жыл бұрын
His new song drops today 7/20.
@traviescratchcards5875
@traviescratchcards5875 Жыл бұрын
Another top tier, sincere and raw reaction from my man Sean! So glad i subbed. Cant say i didnt cry also, because i balled ❤
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏🖤 yeah this one was intense 😢
@AngelaBee_13
@AngelaBee_13 Жыл бұрын
Great reaction. 💕
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed 🙏🖤
@buddy7467
@buddy7467 Жыл бұрын
It's alright for men to cry, I did to!
@valentindumitru9554
@valentindumitru9554 Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
You're welcome 🙏🖤
@debrashrider4062
@debrashrider4062 Жыл бұрын
HI SEAN the world according to Ren is an emotional whirlpool. Now maybe go with a more playful tune. Possibly, "What you want" Dont miss that tiny pinch at the very end.
@JaneBerry1-w2b
@JaneBerry1-w2b Жыл бұрын
Great reaction Sean! Thank You
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🖤
@woodywoodman2319
@woodywoodman2319 Жыл бұрын
Imagine... being a couple minutes late from saving your best friends life! Then... spending 10 years of misdiagnosis and drug experiments that tore you up! And then there's the Pain too!!! Imagine that!!! PS... He's fine... Not considering it! Just wrote the track about what it's like on the other side of the action!
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Most people wouldn’t thrive let alone survive the cards that ren was dealt. Truly an inspiration 💯
@woodywoodman2319
@woodywoodman2319 Жыл бұрын
@SeanStaxxMusic Thank you Brother! To see another serious... and Great Artist show the respect you do is refreshing! (Not just seeking clicks/views!!! Sadly there's several who are "Pretending" to be fans! Who in my opinion are no where NEAR his level, and honestly they're lacking the intelligence to react to Ren!) I mean HONESTLY SINCERE musician reactors who Actually get it!!! Respect you you my friend!
@dougoneill7266
@dougoneill7266 Жыл бұрын
Another quality reaction Sean, nice one.
@ciaranl7590
@ciaranl7590 Жыл бұрын
❤️❤️❤️
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🖤
@heikebroy8692
@heikebroy8692 Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤
@kazpwright
@kazpwright Жыл бұрын
I loved your reaction ❤
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🙏🖤
@dorkette_chicky
@dorkette_chicky Жыл бұрын
Appreciate your reaction, Sean. Peace friend.
@NightFogFilms
@NightFogFilms Жыл бұрын
Somewhere on the comments page of the Suicide video Ren wrote this but it wasn’t pinned so it can get lost in the comments. This is beautiful and relevant to the song and everyone should read it. 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 mums 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 main land 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 dialling 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 to 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. During this campaign I will be raising money for the RNLI, the group of brave men and women who spent hours tirelessly looking for Joe after the night he went missing. I'll also be donating 50% of the profit on all copies of the 'Freckled Angels' album directly to Joes family as a nice surprise gift. I will include links to the RNLI donation page below where 100% of the money will go to support them, I will be travelling to the UK later this month to make a music video, and have carved out a couple of days where I will travel to my home town on the isle of Anglesey to present the royal national lifeboat institution with a cheque of all the money raised.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Wow….such a sad story and ren has such a way with words that I can feel it almost as if I know him. Heartbreaking 😭truly wish the best for Ren and his loved ones 🖤
@cindyd.01
@cindyd.01 Жыл бұрын
@libby215
@libby215 Жыл бұрын
You always have an interesting take in your analysis - this was great ☮
@brigittegrenz1545
@brigittegrenz1545 Жыл бұрын
Hey Sean, I usually didn't want to watch the video anymore for the time being, it was too intense. But I wanted to see what you say. At first I thought the lyrics were bearable, even with the music. But then came the end... .
@smack_pop7
@smack_pop7 Жыл бұрын
❤️❤️❤️😢💔
@belindamelville2270
@belindamelville2270 Жыл бұрын
❤😢😢😢❤
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🖤😢
@goomymf
@goomymf Жыл бұрын
Gotta ask, who are youre top 5 storytelling artists? He wrote the last part after the knox hill interview, first time he really opened up about Joe.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
In no order. J cole, Joyner Lucas, Ren, immortal technique, Eminem. Bonus artist Kendrick Lamar
@goomymf
@goomymf Жыл бұрын
@@SeanStaxxMusic Immortal tecqnique, classic, love dance with the devil. Ive fallen oof on Em the last little but, but a great emcee. J Cole a d Joyner Lucas, I know who they are but never listened to any of their music. Obviously Ren, surprised you didnt mention NF. Not for nothing, but ill be checking out J Cole and Joyner Lucas tracks because of you. I love artists who arent afraid to talk about real shit, not these cookie cutter money and bitches, gangbanging garbage. I appreciate you my guy. Thank you.
@woodywoodman2319
@woodywoodman2319 Жыл бұрын
Only Ren could write such a Beautiful song, over such a ugly topic!!
@stranger2Utube
@stranger2Utube Жыл бұрын
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@azraelcales
@azraelcales Жыл бұрын
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@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
🖤
@aprilhammond9699
@aprilhammond9699 Жыл бұрын
I lost my fiance to suicide.... if I'd answered the phone....
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
Omg I can’t even imagine. My condolences 🙏🖤
@box4859
@box4859 Жыл бұрын
I'll stick to music that lifts me up and not brings me down. I don't see the point in reducing a person's life to the event of their death.
@SeanStaxxMusic
@SeanStaxxMusic Жыл бұрын
I understand your view but this is a way for ren to express himself, process what he’s dealt with and also help other people not feel alone.
@thanosdarkseid8695
@thanosdarkseid8695 Жыл бұрын
bout his friend joe jumped off bridge odd body never found!! at end he added that part! AFTER THE KNOX HILL ONLY LEGIT REACTOR A LONG INTERVIEW.....REN ADDED THAR PIANO END AFTER make it bout his friend........................
@healeychantel
@healeychantel Жыл бұрын
Got me too.
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