I´m a 47 male and I cried like a 5-year-old the first time I saw it and it still makes me cry every time. Be proud of having depth and strength of emotion.
Amazing and heartbreaking to see his eyes so full of pain and briming with tears. Specially if you consider this man had the guts when he was a 25 yr. old captain comanding 3000 NATO troops to stand off the order of a U.S. general (The comander of NATO forces) to attack 200 rusian soldiers in Kosovo and thus risking to start WW III, knowing he would probably face a Court Martial. The humanity of this guy...
I'm a man of 69 and my father died over 20 years ago but still in floods of tears when I watch this video, in fact if you can watch this without crying, there is something wrong inside you!
You know what I genuinely don't think I have ever listened to it without getting at least a tiny bit tearful! Haha It's a beautiful song and it's doing its job if it's making people feel something. That's what music's for! :D
I lost my dad 3wks ago. May 4th 2023 n my Mama passed in Aug 2022 so its a double hitter for me an this song got me, by the end I was bawling so hard. Condolences to everyone who has lost their parents. Its a heartache i dont know how to deal with it
Give this song and clip credit.. So many families have had to say goodbye to a loved mum or dad well before their time. Until you have experienced this, you will never know the heartache that comes with it. My dad passed 30 years ago and this song just rips bandaids off what I thought was healed..
You know what? I've lost count of the amount of reactions to this song I've viewed, but! This is the first one where the reactionist actually thought to tell their dad they loved them. That is the best and correct response. Respect for that.
Bravo..you gave yourself permission to cry. James is a poet ... courageous and real always. 'Monsters' invites us to share his pain and gives us permission to experience ours. An experience not a performance. Thank you.
My father had stomach cancer & just eventually covered his body. Mom & I went to the hospital on the way where he died. He was 74yrs old, & looked SO FRAIL!! It was heartbreaking at the time ofcourse. I'm so happy that James Blunt's family donated a kidney for his dad, after the video. Thank God. Take care. xxx
Good morning, KJG...thank you for sharing your reaction to Blunt's Monsters. For a lot of people, this video has had significant emotional impact, eliciting a ton of sharing of their own personal stories of loss...regardless of not being a son of the lost...or not having lost a father. In the abstract...this is simply about the challenge of living in relationship...and facing the transition of the relationship to the absence of one of its meaningful partners. Some things you might consider in your reacting... If you don't know the content of a piece...allow yourself, push yourself...to get centered and calm before you enter. As you encountered...music has qualities about it that take us into spaces of our own emotional closets...which aren't necessarily directly connected to the content...but indirectly enough that things get triggered. It appears to me, as a counselor/coach/educator and listener with people struggling with PTSD...i.e., hidden, buried, or denied emotional memories...for decades...that you were fighting to stay atop of what you were feeling. If you take some time before a video viewing in which you don't know the content...then wherever it goes...it will be less jarring...less able to knock you off the horse...so to speak. With that in mind, think about the early part of the video as James begins to tear up...and ultimately tears are finding their way down his cheeks. Notice how powerful that is...and how he didn't fight them in any visible way...didn't wipe them away...didn't do anything...but sing his song. Openly, transparently, honestly. It's not only his voice that disarms the viewers...but his transparent and raw emotions around something we all can touch...even from a distance...the imagined loss of a parent. Audiences of those people sharing their creative output of whatever kind want to feel the creator, the content sharer...is being honest...or making an honest presentation of the creation. I don't have to have lost my father...to understand and sing about what that would feel like...to me...and you being like me...as a fellow human with a skull with a social brain of imitation...you, too, would feel it...as you did here. It was painful to watch you struggle to not let out what you were feeling. It was clear it was touching you significantly...in your breathing, your needing to chew your fingers...your fighting with your smile...all sorts of things...spoke to the internal fight...the anxiety...the internal confusion as to what to do with what you were feeling. I'm not sure the images in your head that were fueling that internal fight...as such struggles are when we "don't want people to think...". Music finishes...you continued the fight as you would start to touch it as you talked...it would start to well up...and you would tamp it quickly back down...making you more anxious...more uncertain...more frustrated with yourself in being unable to walk through your feelings quickly, easily...without laughing when it wasn't what you were feeling. Stop and think about...as a content creator...what you audience is wanting to see in your reaction. They want to see the real you. If that means you stoic and dead to an emotional presentation...and that's the real you...well...that's the real you. If it means this touches lots of energy in you that is vulnerable, fragile, highly emotional and scary for you...that's the real you. The gift of your life comes through here seemingly once every 13.5 billion years...for a very short ride. We look to each other...not to find out how to feel...what to feel...as much as 'do you feel what I feel?' Note how many of the responses to your video are from people sharing their loss...and how they felt while watching, feelings that were in some way similar to yours. Yes...we look to each other to see if we're okay in what we're doing...the fundamental response relationship of being a social animal. When something affects us strongly...we want to find and share with others that which we experienced so strongly...because...it was so strong a response. We don't call each other to share that we trimmed our toe-nails today...but we would call to share that we broke our big toe when we dropped the couch on it while moving. So come and react...share...be the gift that is uniquely you...and be real, honest, open...transparent. As children...we cry when other children are hurting...and then we slowly learn in our socially dysfunctional group life to quit paying attention to the pain of others...until we're vaporizing children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and not losing a bit of sleep over it. Notice what a pleasant world the trying to hide and deny what we feel...does for the beauty of our every day. Be so real...you allow the hurt...to hurt. mark
I did indeed, enjoy your Videol My Dad passed away in 2006, to early to this his eldest son granddaughter to years later. I miss him every single day. Left a sub for you being able to show your emotions about the Video. Please know that real man DO cry. On specail occasions...
That's my age and my dad died also 20 years ago know how you feel!!! So sorry mate I feel for you as we both know that sad sad feeling all the BEST to you and your family
James father had kidney cancer and he had only one as he,d donated one years before and no matches could be found until a distant relative saw this video and came forward who was a perfect match
Thank you. Thank you for not pausing the song and letting the song just run to the end. Right up until his father touches his arm. This means a lot. Too many “Reactions” pause every few seconds, add a whole load of ignorant waffle and totally ruin this beautiful tribute song. You have clearly done a bit of background research, without ruining your experience, and this shows. Thank you again, and keep well
I am all cried out. It's been days of crying. When I'm all cried out this way, my comic twin awakens to find the funny even in the most macabre of scenarios. First, when we make plans, God just laughs at them. James thought it would be good to give tribute to the father he adores while James Sr. still can appreciate it. So God gives him a new kidney and he is now recovered. Second, I thought would it be nice to watch as many reaction videos and catch a few sociopaths, those who who have no empathy for anything so they try to fake it but not make it. So far I have found out a couple. Anything for a giggle. Reaction videos are hilarious to watch really.
Well I have two constructive comments to make: 1. sort out your volume 2. don't be disrespectful about the thing your reacting to. I have to say, I have seen a lot of reactions to this song, I guess maybe because it strikes a cord within me having dealt with loss myself. From your reaction I can only conclude you haven't suffered a loss yet, this is the first time I have seen someone laugh, smile and joke while doing a reaction to this song. I can only be happy for you if that is your situation, I would imagine when you do loose someone close to you, you will see this song in a totally different light.
Chris, go set up your own reaction videos unless you're too lazy or too much of a coward. We aren't interested in your "constructive comments" or analysis of someone else's life. People show emotions in different ways. That's the interesting thing about reaction videos. Since you've seen so many reactions, you have to know that NO ONE comes prepared for what James Blunt tosses out in this song. People that hear this song are all different ages and backgrounds and I suggest that YOU are the one that needs to be respectful.... to KinJoeGrom and the rest of us that want him to share his reactions.
@@dianadenman5637 hi Diana Sorry if you thought my response was disrespectful, it certainly wasnt my intension and i hoped it would help him grow his veiwers. I can see its taken you four months to form your reply and i can see its been very thought out and constructive. You havent resorted to vile name calling or hateful words at all and i thank you for being kind and considerate to others. Thanks again Ill take your suggestion into advisement, but it is unlikely i will react to music videos having seen much of what is around already it would be false reactions. Thanks though
Many people who are uncomfortable showing their emotions will smile or laugh as the real emotion attempts to express itself. These incongruous expressions of emotions are relatively common, my own father burst out laughing at his mother's funeral as he was simply unable to show the grief he was feeling. Sometimes a smile or a laugh mean just the opposite. I don't know if this is the case here but it's a definite possibility
Having said all that, this song always makes me cry like a baby. I had a very unemotional (but loving) dad but my mum is highly emotional and I take after her.
I've just watched this again, and have stayed away from it because as others have said he seems to find it funny. Now I've watched it again, the laughing and making silly noises is a cover because he doesn't know what to say or do, he's completely out of his depth. At least his reaction is real, not like some reactors who have no empathy at all and the crying is an act, you can see it there's no tears, I find it embarrassing and don't watch. He is upset and certain parts you can see it, swallowing and emotion on his face before he goes into cover up mode. He does have a heart, his problem is showing it.... The first time I watched with the giggling, laughing and pulling silly faces, I did think he was a little peculiar, he isn't...
I think you look like you had an interesting reaction, I couldn't tell because I couldn't hear what you're saying. I think you need to invest in a better microphone.
I am sorry people are judging your response. I took it to mean you were uncomfortable showing tears so doing what we humans do sometimes, try to cover with smiles and comments to distance yourself.
you are laughing all the time and yawning a few seconds. people who cant understand emotions of other people and feeling good if other people suffer are known as psychopaths. train your disguise a bit more, ye older you get the better it will be.
Many people who are uncomfortable showing their emotions will smile or laugh as the real emotion attempts to express itself. These incongruous expressions of emotions are relatively common, my own father burst out laughing at his mother's funeral as he was simply unable to show the grief he was feeling. Sometimes a smile or a laugh mean just the opposite. I don't know if this is the case here but it's a definite possibility
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I´m a 47 male and I cried like a 5-year-old the first time I saw it and it still makes me cry every time. Be proud of having depth and strength of emotion.
Me same age and always same reaction!! it´s imposiible not to cry with this song
Never be sorry for showing emotion. this is a song that still gets me every time, no matter how often I hear it! It's a beautiful song!
you fought so hard but the song wins. this song wins always.
Amazing and heartbreaking to see his eyes so full of pain and briming with tears. Specially if you consider this man had the guts when he was a 25 yr. old captain comanding 3000 NATO troops to stand off the order of a U.S. general (The comander of NATO forces) to attack 200 rusian soldiers in Kosovo and thus risking to start WW III, knowing he would probably face a Court Martial. The humanity of this guy...
Never apologise for showing feelings. This video is exceptionally gifted in forcing out emotions
I'm a man of 69 and my father died over 20 years ago but still in floods of tears when I watch this video, in fact if you can watch this without crying, there is something wrong inside you!
agree. I was a mess watching it
I lost my dad in 1990. This song reduced me to tears all 100 times I've listened to it. Dad I still miss you There's nothing to forgive or forget.
You know what I genuinely don't think I have ever listened to it without getting at least a tiny bit tearful! Haha
It's a beautiful song and it's doing its job if it's making people feel something. That's what music's for! :D
Agree 100%. I'm 67 and dad died in 1982. It totally destroyed me.
I lost my dad 3wks ago. May 4th 2023 n my Mama passed in Aug 2022 so its a double hitter for me an this song got me, by the end I was bawling so hard. Condolences to everyone who has lost their parents. Its a heartache i dont know how to deal with it
if you dont react like this you have no soul. I still bawl my eyes out when i listen to this.
A truly beautiful and emotional song..
If you dont cry
You're already dead inside😭😭😭
Give this song and clip credit.. So many families have had to say goodbye to a loved mum or dad well before their time. Until you have experienced this, you will never know the heartache that comes with it. My dad passed 30 years ago and this song just rips bandaids off what I thought was healed..
Great reaction. 💜 Love seeing men be sincere with their emotions.
I agree with you, do not apologise for crying. I shed tears every time I hear this song, it hits me in places I didn't know I had
Could see it when it got to him. Very little people can stop the tears with this song
I just found your channel and have to say,this song makes me cry EVERY SINGLE TIME without fail.
It takes a strong man to show his tears. It also shows compassion, and those are just two positive qualities that makes you a worthy human being.
You know what? I've lost count of the amount of reactions to this song I've viewed, but! This is the first one where the reactionist actually thought to tell their dad they loved them. That is the best and correct response. Respect for that.
Bravo..you gave yourself permission to cry. James is a poet ... courageous and real always. 'Monsters' invites us to share his pain and gives us permission to experience ours. An experience not a performance. Thank you.
My father had stomach cancer & just eventually covered his body. Mom & I went to the hospital on the way where he died. He was 74yrs old, & looked SO FRAIL!! It was heartbreaking at the time ofcourse. I'm so happy that James Blunt's family donated a kidney for his dad, after the video. Thank God. Take care. xxx
Thank you for your honest reaction.
Your reaction was honest and heartfelt, everyone that I know cried the first few times they watched it.
and they should keep crying! thank you
It was you finally tearing for me🙌🏽🙌🏽 let it out sooner don’t hold it in.
They were both in the army & that’s what they said to each other when they were deployed😢🇬🇧
Daddy is our hero.... miss you dad...
I like your reaction. 👍🏻good song 🎧 and we cry together.. 💓😆😢👍🏻😭😆😆😆👍🏻
THANK YOU for not being sorry for crying!!
Crying is the apt reaction to this song ❤
Besides, crying is good for you 😊
I loved watching you fight the need to cry. You should just let it out. It's cleansing. Call your daddy or mama. Call someone you love.
Good morning, KJG...thank you for sharing your reaction to Blunt's Monsters. For a lot of people, this video has had significant emotional impact, eliciting a ton of sharing of their own personal stories of loss...regardless of not being a son of the lost...or not having lost a father. In the abstract...this is simply about the challenge of living in relationship...and facing the transition of the relationship to the absence of one of its meaningful partners. Some things you might consider in your reacting...
If you don't know the content of a piece...allow yourself, push yourself...to get centered and calm before you enter. As you encountered...music has qualities about it that take us into spaces of our own emotional closets...which aren't necessarily directly connected to the content...but indirectly enough that things get triggered. It appears to me, as a counselor/coach/educator and listener with people struggling with PTSD...i.e., hidden, buried, or denied emotional memories...for decades...that you were fighting to stay atop of what you were feeling. If you take some time before a video viewing in which you don't know the content...then wherever it goes...it will be less jarring...less able to knock you off the horse...so to speak.
With that in mind, think about the early part of the video as James begins to tear up...and ultimately tears are finding their way down his cheeks. Notice how powerful that is...and how he didn't fight them in any visible way...didn't wipe them away...didn't do anything...but sing his song. Openly, transparently, honestly. It's not only his voice that disarms the viewers...but his transparent and raw emotions around something we all can touch...even from a distance...the imagined loss of a parent. Audiences of those people sharing their creative output of whatever kind want to feel the creator, the content sharer...is being honest...or making an honest presentation of the creation. I don't have to have lost my father...to understand and sing about what that would feel like...to me...and you being like me...as a fellow human with a skull with a social brain of imitation...you, too, would feel it...as you did here.
It was painful to watch you struggle to not let out what you were feeling. It was clear it was touching you significantly...in your breathing, your needing to chew your fingers...your fighting with your smile...all sorts of things...spoke to the internal fight...the anxiety...the internal confusion as to what to do with what you were feeling. I'm not sure the images in your head that were fueling that internal fight...as such struggles are when we "don't want people to think...". Music finishes...you continued the fight as you would start to touch it as you talked...it would start to well up...and you would tamp it quickly back down...making you more anxious...more uncertain...more frustrated with yourself in being unable to walk through your feelings quickly, easily...without laughing when it wasn't what you were feeling.
Stop and think about...as a content creator...what you audience is wanting to see in your reaction. They want to see the real you. If that means you stoic and dead to an emotional presentation...and that's the real you...well...that's the real you. If it means this touches lots of energy in you that is vulnerable, fragile, highly emotional and scary for you...that's the real you. The gift of your life comes through here seemingly once every 13.5 billion years...for a very short ride. We look to each other...not to find out how to feel...what to feel...as much as 'do you feel what I feel?' Note how many of the responses to your video are from people sharing their loss...and how they felt while watching, feelings that were in some way similar to yours. Yes...we look to each other to see if we're okay in what we're doing...the fundamental response relationship of being a social animal. When something affects us strongly...we want to find and share with others that which we experienced so strongly...because...it was so strong a response. We don't call each other to share that we trimmed our toe-nails today...but we would call to share that we broke our big toe when we dropped the couch on it while moving.
So come and react...share...be the gift that is uniquely you...and be real, honest, open...transparent. As children...we cry when other children are hurting...and then we slowly learn in our socially dysfunctional group life to quit paying attention to the pain of others...until we're vaporizing children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and not losing a bit of sleep over it. Notice what a pleasant world the trying to hide and deny what we feel...does for the beauty of our every day. Be so real...you allow the hurt...to hurt. mark
I did indeed, enjoy your Videol My Dad passed away in 2006, to early to this his eldest son granddaughter to years later. I miss him every single day.
Left a sub for you being able to show your emotions about the Video. Please know that real man DO cry. On specail occasions...
That was a very touching reaction. You’ve got a new subscriber. X
What a beautiful and powerful song 😢
🥲. Beautiful song. Great heartfelt reaction 👏👏
That's my age and my dad died also 20 years ago know how you feel!!! So sorry mate I feel for you as we both know that sad sad feeling all the BEST to you and your family
James father had kidney cancer and he had only one as he,d donated one years before and no matches could be found until a distant relative saw this video and came forward who was a perfect match
Best reaction ever. I understand. I love my parents very much also. You have a good heart. Your parents are lucky to have you as their son.
i appreciate it amber
Its very relatable
on every level
Its comes to us all
The inevitability of
death & how things
come full circle
parents & childrens
rolls are reversed
For a moment I thought you have no soul but then I saw your heart melt ❤
loved this reaction
Yup this one gets everytime.
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My reaction to this song each and every time!!!
You are such a good guy. İ feel this
This song is like the one chip challenge. You’ll probably lose.
Thank you.
Thank you for not pausing the song and letting the song just run to the end. Right up until his father touches his arm.
This means a lot. Too many “Reactions” pause every few seconds, add a whole load of ignorant waffle and totally ruin this beautiful tribute song.
You have clearly done a bit of background research, without ruining your experience, and this shows.
Thank you again, and keep well
Thanks for the genuine reaction dude
You being emotional just made be subscribe. Thank you for being honest with your emotions
Coming to give you a hug ETA: 36 hours
copy the ETA
HEY! i cried, too!
I am all cried out. It's been days of crying. When I'm all cried out this way, my comic twin awakens to find the funny even in the most macabre of scenarios. First, when we make plans, God just laughs at them. James thought it would be good to give tribute to the father he adores while James Sr. still can appreciate it. So God gives him a new kidney and he is now recovered. Second, I thought would it be nice to watch as many reaction videos and catch a few sociopaths, those who who have no empathy for anything so they try to fake it but not make it. So far I have found out a couple. Anything for a giggle. Reaction videos are hilarious to watch really.
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It’s Ok To Cry!!
Interesting reaction.....you looked more amused then sad.
I love your reaction. Thank you 🤗
If you don't react to this song .... all I can say is 🤔
OMG está música me emocionou tô triste agora.
Todos nós temos uma história triste pra contar e Deus nos conforta.
Yeah, this song breaks everybody.
Well I have two constructive comments to make:
1. sort out your volume
2. don't be disrespectful about the thing your reacting to.
I have to say, I have seen a lot of reactions to this song, I guess maybe because it strikes a cord within me having dealt with loss myself. From your reaction I can only conclude you haven't suffered a loss yet, this is the first time I have seen someone laugh, smile and joke while doing a reaction to this song. I can only be happy for you if that is your situation, I would imagine when you do loose someone close to you, you will see this song in a totally different light.
Chris, go set up your own reaction videos unless you're too lazy or too much of a coward. We aren't interested in your "constructive comments" or analysis of someone else's life. People show emotions in different ways. That's the interesting thing about reaction videos. Since you've seen so many reactions, you have to know that NO ONE comes prepared for what James Blunt tosses out in this song. People that hear this song are all different ages and backgrounds and I suggest that YOU are the one that needs to be respectful.... to KinJoeGrom and the rest of us that want him to share his reactions.
@@dianadenman5637 hi Diana
Sorry if you thought my response was disrespectful, it certainly wasnt my intension and i hoped it would help him grow his veiwers. I can see its taken you four months to form your reply and i can see its been very thought out and constructive. You havent resorted to vile name calling or hateful words at all and i thank you for being kind and considerate to others.
Thanks again
Ill take your suggestion into advisement, but it is unlikely i will react to music videos having seen much of what is around already it would be false reactions.
Thanks though
This was my point it was like it was funny to him he wasn’t hiding any tears at all just mocking
Actions speak louder than words. Why laugh!!!!!!!!
Many people who are uncomfortable showing their emotions will smile or laugh as the real emotion attempts to express itself. These incongruous expressions of emotions are relatively common, my own father burst out laughing at his mother's funeral as he was simply unable to show the grief he was feeling. Sometimes a smile or a laugh mean just the opposite. I don't know if this is the case here but it's a definite possibility
Having said all that, this song always makes me cry like a baby. I had a very unemotional (but loving) dad but my mum is highly emotional and I take after her.
I've just watched this again, and have stayed away from it because as others have said he seems to find it funny.
Now I've watched it again, the laughing and making silly noises is a cover because he doesn't know what to say or do, he's completely out of his depth.
At least his reaction is real, not like some reactors who have no empathy at all and the crying is an act, you can see it there's no tears, I find it embarrassing and don't watch.
He is upset and certain parts you can see it, swallowing and emotion on his face before he goes into cover up mode.
He does have a heart, his problem is showing it....
The first time I watched with the giggling, laughing and pulling silly faces, I did think he was a little peculiar, he isn't...
We deserve more content
you will my friendd
I think you look like you had an interesting reaction, I couldn't tell because I couldn't hear what you're saying. I think you need to invest in a better microphone.
I am sorry people are judging your response. I took it to mean you were uncomfortable showing tears so doing what we humans do sometimes, try to cover with smiles and comments to distance yourself.
What is wrong with you. It's funny to you? Help me to understand .
I'm gonna say it. That was weird to watch.
Read the comments please
Why were you laughing throughout? Very rude
Why do you smile so damn much.I'am so sorry but it does bother me personally.
sorry debra
Come on be a man do it
you are laughing all the time and yawning a few seconds. people who cant understand emotions of other people and feeling good if other people suffer are known as psychopaths. train your disguise a bit more, ye older you get the better it will be.
dude, he wasn't laughing he was trying desperately not to cry. try to understand emotions of other people
Many people who are uncomfortable showing their emotions will smile or laugh as the real emotion attempts to express itself. These incongruous expressions of emotions are relatively common, my own father burst out laughing at his mother's funeral as he was simply unable to show the grief he was feeling. Sometimes a smile or a laugh mean just the opposite. I don't know if this is the case here but it's a definite possibility
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