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The phrase ‘losing my religion’ is a southern phrase meaning “flying off the handle" (essentially losing one's temper). Basically it means that something has pushed you so far that you would lose your faith (or “religion”) over it.
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This video is so visually wonderful.
Love R.E.M. songs. The phrase "losing my religion" in the song is an old southern expression. It means being at the end of one's rope or losing one's temper. The lyrics of this song hits me hard. "I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try" reminds me of my feelings and frustrations when my mom suffered with Alzheimer's.
Michael Stipe has said the song is about unrequited love, a character pining for someone who may not know he exists. "You’re not sure if whatever’s happening is a friendship that’s developing or something more, and you want to say something, but you don’t know if you’ve - I’m gonna quote myself, this is so embarrassing - if you said too much, if you haven’t said enough. Am I dropping the right hints?” The video was directed by Tarsem Singh. He wanted to create a video in the style of a certain type of Indian filmmaking, where everything would be melodramatic and very dreamlike.
I heard him say it as well, to those that are unsure, think about the word unrequited, how would you feel, what fears would you have, now with that in mind listen to the song again. " oh no I said too much, I haven't said enough
This is the best of REM.
REM is the sountrack to my life. In high school, I fell in love with their musical style, and enjoyed all their cd's except Monster, which was such a departure for them. Sometime later, I learned that Monster was actually started as a collab with Kurt Cobain. It is my understanding that "Losing my religion" is a southern U.S. term that means faltering in a situation, at which you aren't at your personal best-you are either awkward, ormaybe just indifferent. It doesn't refer to turning away from religion, or becomin agnostic or athiest. Hopefully, this can shed some light on the message of this song.
One of my favorite songs. As you noted, visually and lyrically. Thank you for reacting to it.
I love R.E.M videos. They are so simple yet so complex.
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This was my favorite ever REM song n it always will be ...... i dont know why but i always feel like its sung from the heart thats been broken ..... 😞
Another really great song!!❤❤❤
90’s video’s where the best. Fun fact: singer Michael Stipe said he took his dancemoves from Sinéad O’ Connors’ dancing in her The Emperors New Clothes video. Cheers from your new Dutch subscriber ❤ Hope to see you react to more of these two artists.
It's very rare for me to love a song the first time I hear it, and way back in the '90s, I loved this song at first listen. I explored a lot of REM's music throughout the years, and I love them! They either make you feel happy, or they make you think. I also was geeked that Michael Stipe, the frontman for the group, collaborated with two of my favorite artists at that time: Natalie Merchant of 10, 000 Maniacs and Kate Pierson of the B-52s. This song is on my "Favorite Songs of all Time" playlist. It's been decades now, and I'm still not sure what this song means. Every time I revisit it, it hits differently. What I do know, is that for me personally, I never had true faith or peace until I stopped going to church and sent religion packing.
always on my list
Glad you enjoyed this one. It was one of my all-time favorites when VH1 was around. Thanks Nick.
You are completely right!
Great reaction. Thanks
❤❤❤ such a classic...nothing like that Athens Ga. music scene...Iconic
this takes me back ;) good stuff
As many have said, the song is about unrequited love in a troubled human relationship. The southern phrase "losing my religion" refers to being at the end of one's rope or losing one's temper. The imagery in the video is based on the Gabriel García Márquez short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", the films of Soviet film director and screenwriter Andrei Tarkovsky, the Italian painter Caravaggio, and religious imagery such as Hindu deities, Saint Sebastian, the Biblical episode of the Incredulity of Thomas (Censored from the above video found on You Tube).
Losing My Religion, released as the first single from the R.E.M.’s 1991 album Out of Time is definitely a remarkable song. With its beautiful, and rather surreal music video, it listed 4th on The Billboard Hot 100, was nominated for several Grammy Awards from which won two, and was constantly spun on the MTV.
The music video was directed by an Indian director - Trasem Singh, who admitted that it was modeled after the Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings in which an angel crashes into a town and the villagers have varied reactions to him. The clip has a moody art house feeling to it, and was created in a style of a type of Indian filmmaking, where according to Stipe everything would be “melodramatic and very dreamlike”. The video was also based on the inspirations drawn from an Italian painter Caravaggio, as the scenes from the clip strongly resemble the style of the painter’s work, and filled with religious motives and tableaux, or, so called “living images” portraying Indian deities.
Many controversies occurred with the song’s questioning of faith, however unlike it may seem, it actually is about unrequited love. The phrase “losing my religion” is an expression from the southern region of the US, that means “at my wit’s end,” meaning as if things were going so bad you could lose your faith in God.
The song can be interpreted literally or metaphorically. Michael has said the lyrics could have easily been "losing my obsession." But then, the religious influence in the visual element is undeniable.
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Miss REM songs.
This is JUST my interpretation, and I'm no expert - but this song has always put me in mind of the Soviet political dissidents, imprisoned for "religious delusions". If you listen to the lyrics with the mindset that the voice is a dissident who has been imprisoned, and is being tortured, or drugged, or more, due to his beliefs, the song makes so much more sense. ;) But again, that's just me. It also explains the conjunction of the religious iconography with the Soviet/Communist iconography.
Tori Amos covered this and it’s so haunting and different- you should definitely check her version out
I think only Michael knows the true meaning of all the words, if they have a true meaning at all. Maybe it's just Flow of consciousness. I like that it's vague. You can interpret for yourself.
You should react to Everybody Hurts, if you haven't already...you will cry lol.
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I believe that's the meaning based on the video. Man losing his faith in God (killing of the angel), then man trying to be God (building of mechanical wing). But I think under-meaning has to do with him losing him self/faith (losing my religion) to the music industry and trying to keep up with his high-standard love interest. That's me in the corner (angel), that me in the spot light (sacrificial lamb in the image of a young boy).
Losing my religion is a Southern saying. It means something or someone makes you so angry you might go off.