*REACTION* Ren - Su!cIde (Official Music Video)

[@1tommymulligan]

Posted by Ren Ren: 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. This will be my next release. You can turn on notifications by following the link in the comments below 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.

[@TAHBofficial]

Wow... that is very intense and gives so much back story to his song. Thank you so much for the information and for your support. -J

[@arklilbro]

21,000 raised

[@therealobanir]

@@arklilbro I saw him on S4C, a Welsh TV channel presenting the RNLI with the cheque and he was speaking Welsh! The majority of the population of Wales can't speak Welsh, I thinks it's less than 20% that can. He just keeps surprising me.

[@andrewphillips3973]

​@therealobanir closer to 30% country wide, though on Anglesey or Ynys Môn in Welsh its more like 65-70% Welsh speakers

[@valeriedavot9074]

Fibonacci sequences are mathermatics.

[@kierand600]

0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21... golden ratio

[@1individeo]

And geometry. it is basically a perfect spiral

[@ordinaryvalley]

Please do the Tale of Jenny and Screech Full by Ren. Its a piece of art to be recognized by as many ppl as possible ❤

[@docdurdin]

Fibonacci sequence represents Order and Double Dutch represents Chaos and confusion. Great reactiom guys, you do neeed to check more of Rens work out., it's all impressive and not all about depression.

[@TAHBofficial]

Yeah we definitely will!

[@phaedralewis285]

You guys are so honest and real with your reactions. You don't pretend to know more about the song than you do, you just react from the heart and it's very refreshing. Love you guys.

[@TAHBofficial]

Wow, that might be the nicest comment we’ve ever had! Thank you!!

[@Calmontheoutside]

Ren has been in Wales over the few days doing several things for Joe, his friend in the song-seeing Joe’s family, delivering money raised from this song to the parents and rescuers who searched for Joe.

[@TAHBofficial]

Thats incredible. Thank you for the information! -J

[@Danielle-ed9kt]

Fibonacci sequence is the golden spiral it is seen throughout nature in everything from a sunflower grows to how the galaxies are firmed and every thing in between

[@geralynsteppe5974]

Ren typically posts the lyrics to his songs in the comment section, so it could be helpful to you to have them pulled up to check if you need them. Comes in really handy when you're reacting to a rap song, since captions are nearly always incorrect. Enjoyed your reaction.

[@TAHBofficial]

Appreciate the feedback! Thank you for watching! - A

[@maddynuff2091]

Really lovely reaction guys. Thanks 😊

[@TAHBofficial]

Thank you for the support! -J

[@drakal30]

Normal bros watching a genius at work. Love it.

[@TAHBofficial]

Thanks for watching! -J

[@dmasters1970]

Great reaction guy's ❤from D in the UK 🇬🇧 BTW for the algo

[@sicmuvva11]

Sick Boi is dope a must watch! Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical equation.The clip was done by AI fans had sent paintings and pictures of him and they fed them into AI amazing result!

[@TAHBofficial]

Appreciate the recommendation! Thank you for watching! - A

[@im2yz4u17]

Fibonacci Sequense has applications in many areas of research and mathematics. However, in the context of Ren's song it probably represents the beauty and complexity of nature. He then follows that with Double Dutch, which is probably a reference to incomprehensibility of the world, humanity and mental health condition; at least on the context of the song.

[@TAHBofficial]

This is why we love the comment section. People a lot smarter than us can explain everything! Thanks for the explanation. -E

[@deepbluehue3]

Yes , I wanted to add that after looking this up / I learned something ! / DOUBLE DUTCH / before the term was used for jump rope style it was ( and still is ) a British term ... " The English, historically, found Dutch particularly difficult to understand, so anything that was completely incomprehensible would be double Dutch, i.e. twice as hard as Dutch. "

[@patrickquinlan3056]

@@deepbluehue3 Yes, that is the meaning I am familiar with and Ren would be as well.

[@deepbluehue3]

@@patrickquinlan3056 As an american , I'm 54 and never heard the expression , meaning incomprehensibility ! I get the impression * from reactions I've seen that many people ( americans ) just see jumping two ropes in thier minds when hearing this term ... ~ Don't understand the context . How I became acquainted with double dutch when I was young was that 1980's Frankie Smith song ' ' Double Dutch bus ' .

[@activelyopen8468]

I take his use of the Fibonacci sequence and Double Dutch as seeing the world sequentially where situations lead to the next reality at one point and then completely disjointed or incomprehensible at another point.

[@elenag151]

Shiit , I thought i took long enough break from this song ! Really wanted to see your reaction… made me emotional all over again. What a masterpiece really, agree about the video- amazing job ! The video shows so much emotion and really adds to the song Thank you for this reaction

[@waschkarte3989]

Fibonacci sequence is actually not really meant to be stock stuff. It's a mathematical sequence, where you add the last two numbers to get the next one. Like.. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34,.. and there is a lot of hidden beauty behind it, a lot of things in nature actually combine with that weird sequence. And double dutch is something you know, but don't understand. So there's the mathematical beauty, and there's the double dutch, the weird unknown. Beauty and chaos.

[@TAHBofficial]

Thanks for explaining that better hahaha. We didnt really get what Alex was saying anyway. Thanks for watching! -J

[@phaedralewis285]

For a completely different side of Ren, you gotta check out him with his band The Big Push. Their mash up of - I shot the sheriff / Road to Zion / hip hop is incredible. And his new song Murderer is a banger! He is just amazing.

[@TAHBofficial]

Appreciate the recommendation, and thank you for watching! - A

[@michellecobb8403]

Great reaction gentlemen ❤

[@donald1379]

Ren is a genius...Great reaction...thanks guys

[@TAHBofficial]

Thanks for watching!

[@amandagoodtime7751]

I understand this song so much considering I lost 3 ppl in my life to suicide and it was the worst feeling still sometimes gets to me

[@TAHBofficial]

I've also lost friends to suicide as well. I feel you with how you hear this song. It gets me too. Thank you for your support and for the comment. -J

[@TerranSol]

Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical equation that appears in almost everything. 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 etc etc etc

[@TAHBofficial]

Thank you for clarifying, we still really didn't get what Alex was trying to tell us 😂 -J

[@TerranSol]

@@TAHBofficial oh no problem... A molusc shell is the perfect example of fibonacci. The way it spirals and increases in size and each spiral is made of segments. Each segment is a number in the sequence . It's called the fibonacci spiral. 0 1 1+0=1 0 1 1 1+1=2 0 1 1 2 1+2=3 0 1 1 2 3 2+3=5 0 1 1 2 3 5 3+5=8 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 5+8=13 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 Etc etc. DNA and cells also use this sequence

[@drewbombs7059]

The Fibonacci sequence is more than economics, it is the pattern of the universe, we see it in sea shells and all through the world it's known also as the golden ratio.

[@TAHBofficial]

Lol thank you for helping us understand what Alex was trying to say and thank you for watching! -J

[@johnnymayweather7476]

Ren is Iconic

[@kiwi6665]

Well done bruv's hearty af 💯

[@jamesdoherty6558]

great upload , thanks

[@TAHBofficial]

Thanks for the support! -J

[@GeriStorm]

👏👏👏👏🔥

[@francesdoll4039]

Good job guys!

[@TAHBofficial]

Thank you for watching! -J

[@ginamakescrochet]

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[@chris6770]

The video was AI generated with the new free AI tools. It's a great example of what can be done in a quick timeframe where the only limit is your creativity.

[@TAHBofficial]

Ahh that makes sense. Still super sick! Appreciate the insight, and thank you for watching! - A

[@belindamelville2270]

❤😢😢😢❤

[@TAHBofficial]

Agreed. Thank you for watching. -J

[@Rockerlita]

It a masterpiece

[@TAHBofficial]

We agree!

[@MusicTherapy74]

RENegade here. Just found your channel. Would love to see more reactions. Especially from The Big Push live busking. Much love from New Zealand.🇳🇿❤️

[@beverleytarran2983]

💕💕🇬🇧

[@TAHBofficial]

Thank you for watching! -J

[@Dad-JanieWorld]

Do chinchilla live version of fingers.

[@TAHBofficial]

Thank you for the recommedation! -J

[@garysherwin3316]

Video is done with AI

[@TAHBofficial]

Really! Thanks for letting us know! -E

[@sandraarutyunov4531]

Try ' for Joe ' of Ren

[@christianreese2522]

😎 'Promo sm'

[@adriandospia9452]

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