He didn't shoot the other kids. He shot himself in front of the teacher and kids. The kids look on in complete horror with blood all over them. It's a heart wrenching song and video.
As others mentioned, it's based on a true story. Although, Jeremy only killed himself. Eddie Vedder is amazing singing this song and the passion he shows in the video. This song is beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.
Eddie always sounded like this. "Alive" was the better song. I hate this song with every fiber of my being BECAUSE it wasn't a deterrent; it was an encouragement. I grew up with 90's grunge AND that mindset made suicide acceptable and normal. I hate this kind of shit. Sorry Jayvee.
@@jackatomin it's not the only song that talks about suicide and portray it like a final 'solution' is not great but is better than saying Jeremy will rot in hell for taking his own life
This video's popularity caused the band to go underground, as the video was a wake up call about suicide, yet the band would have none of the celebrity for the song about suicide. This was there last Mtv music video.
@@angelagreen778 No it wasn't, I watched a lot of Mtv when I was a teenager and this was definitely not their last Mtv video, the last video I can remember seeing of them on Mtv (around the time Mtv stopped being about music and around the time I stopped watching Mtv) was Do the evolution.
I remember there was a new girl in my school. I had been bullied for 5 years. She was brand new fodder, and a new girl in a small town. I stood up and snapped my pencil in half out of anger and yelled at MY bullies that were doing it to her. The teacher had left the room at the time. I just couldn’t stand to see it happen to anyone else. I ended up being grounded on the day of that girl’s birthday party. I begged and pled with my mom, that I was her only friend. My mom could tell in my eyes I was telling the truth and I had to go. Sure enough, her mom had balloons out and all of the fixings. I was the only one that showed up. I’m so grateful that my mom believed me. She moved again shortly thereafter. I think about her a lot.
You sound like a wonderful person. I’m glad your mom allowed you to go to this young girls party. As the only person to take the time and make such an effort to spend time with her I’m sure she thinks about you too.
I was bullied terribly as a youth. Thank God I had a loving, supportive family or I might not have made it. Even so, I carried that pain inside me for 30 years, and I purged those demons by becoming an author. It felt like a thousand-pound weight had been lifted from my shoulders.
Art can be an amazing outlet. I know this song helped me immensely when I discovered it as a teenager. I was picked on a bit, but mostly I was just troubled. I thought about ending it so many times. I thought about lashing out. Luckily, I also had wonderful and supportive parents, and I found an outlet in music. I'm glad you found your outlet as well!
@@jamesalexander5623 he’s not in office and politics aren’t mentioned. Bring it to a discussion that it pertains to. It’s a really played out record and some of us are sick of hearing about him.
When this song came out, school shootings weren’t as common as they are now (which breaks my heart to even think about) so you can imagine how much of an impact it and the video made. It upset a lot of people. To this day, I get chills every time I hear the end of the song because the music really intensifies to match the chaos of what Jeremy must have been feeling. It’s kind of a tragic masterpiece.
Can't watch this anymore without shedding tears. It definitely hits home. A 13 y/o neighbor of mine took his own life a few years back. Apparently the kids at school who were bullying him told him he should. His dad took the head groundskeeper job at the cemetery where he's buried so he could visit him every day. Such a sweet kid & is still sorely missed.
"Daddy didn't give affection. And the boy was something Mommy wouldn't wear." And "Try to Erase this from the Blackboard" are some major hard-hitting lyrics in this. Gives me chills every time and I've heard this song 100's of times since it dropped.
As a mother of girls who were bullied, this song gets me and I advocate against bullying. Oh I think the fire symbolizes his life and how he wants to burn it all up because he decides to kill himself. Many abuse survivors go through this exact feelings when having flashbacks.
The mother of the real Jeremy, that this song inspired, is not a fan of this song. I think because it portrays her as uncaring, but you have to understand that Jeremy felt like NO ONE cared. It wasn't about reality, it was about JEREMY'S reality. In that reality, mommy didn't seem to care. No matter how you unwrap it, it's horrible that a child, any child, gets bullied to this point.
Agreed. The Delle story inspired Eddie but it was combined with Eddies own school experience too, it’s not a factual tale of Jeremy Delle. It must be hard for the mum to hear this song though 😔 The message remains strong!
If you ever listen to interviews with his mother, it is clear that she definitely cared a lot more for her daughter than she ever did for her son. Her son was an artist that she could care about after he was gone. But her interviews show the lack of care that she had for him while he was still here. IMO. She did not seem like she really gave a fig about her son. She cared about her Lost Child. But most of the things she said, you could tell she really wished he was a girl. I'm just going off of what I heard from interviews. And the attitude that she came forth with. I could be wrong. But that's how it appeared from everything I have heard
@@jackiegoodspeed1849 this song does not promote bullying. It is supposed to be pointing out the consequences of what bullying can cause. You don't know what someone else is dealing with. And you don't know what you're bullying is going to push them to do because of the other things they are dealing with. This song was meant as an eye-opener. Not a promotion of bullying
The lyrics "try to erase this from the blackboard" are soul crushing after watching the video. Especially because of the fact that it is based on real events
07:03 the children are actually doing the Bellamy salute which was created by the man who wrote the pledge of allegiance which was replaced in 1942 by the hand over the heart we now do because it was adopted by italian facists and of course the Nazi party.
Yeah, this video is really hard-hitting. And it shows how a child can feel like they have no hope and no other options. Javon, check out the studio version of Black if you haven't already. That's another song with a powerful meaning behind it.
Eddie Vedder has one of the most powerful voices I've ever heard 🖤 I always without fail cry when I hear this song, so many bad memories for me. I had a really fucked up school experience and it left me suicidal, music was the only thing I could connect to. "Jeremy" in particular helped me because I could hear the pain and sorrow in Eddie's voice, it was like for just a few minutes someone was sitting next to me, crying with me. 💔
When this first came out on MTV, the censored version, it looked even more like he had shot the class (took out the part with him putting the gun in his mouth). I totally understand the confusion there. Good reaction, thank you for sharing.
THANK YOU for reacting to the uncensored version of this powerful and important song💔 So many kids have to endure torment at school by 'bullies', or have to live in an abusive home daily, whilst waiting for the 'next time', constantly in fear. How many 'Jeremys' are out there, waiting for help? I was one.....yet those who looked the other way, could've helped, but didn't. So many people in the comments are telling of their own hellish childhoods. When will it ever stop?
*Pearl Jam* drew attention to this almost 30 yrs ago, but things are still the same. The uncensored video and the true background of this song should be shown in schools - to kids and teachers alike. Don't look away - instead *SPEAK UP* if a kid needs help, at school or at home! Stop the cycle of abuse. Peace & love to those that grew up in fear and abuse☮️ #Jeremy
I was days away from being Jeremy. I took it upon myself to leave public school and enroll myself into an accredited home school. Yes, I had to bust my rump to pay for it, but it did not cost me the life I was struggling to keep.
Issues like this is why The Bully Project was created. Grateful to Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam for creating this song. It is very important for people to hear & understand the path that some individual's lives take before they become something like this. Thank you for listening.
The end of that video is not what anyone expects the first time. That song has ever NOT affected me. It remains powerful for me 30 years on. (I can't fucking believe it's been 30 years. What the hell.)
I was bullied as a kid! I came from Finland as a 4 year old to Canada and didn't speak a word of English, in grade 1 through grade 4 my English was not great. It still hurts when those memories come back!
I never knew until recently that there was an uncensored version of this video. I always thought that Jeremy came into the classroom and shot the other kids.
When we said the Pledge of Allegiance in school before class began when I was a kid,we raised our arm. Then later it was changed to our hand over our heart.
His name was Jeremy Delle. He was 15 years old when committed suicide by gunshot in front of his English class in Richardson, Texas in 1991. The inspiration for the song came from newspaper article that Vedder read about the incident.
Please react to: Aerosmith: Janie's Got a Gun -The Offspring: Gone Away -Blink 182: Adam's Song -The Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays -Five Finger Death Punch: Coming Down -Thanks!!!
I was so sad to hear about the death of Trevor Wilson, the star of Pearl Jam’s iconic 1992 “Jeremy” music video. He was only 36 and drown while swimming in San Juan, Puerto Rico Aug 7, 2016 (16 days before his 37th birthday). May he RIP.
As a kid in the 80's and the 90's, there was somewhat of an "awakening" on how parents affected their kids by their parenting techniques. So many ppl did not see or believe the effects of puritanical style parenting had on the kids. Being one of those kids myself, I got a birdseye view on how my peers were affected by this and Pearl Jam was among a list of artists that finally started to bring this topic out Front and Center. It was also the early days of medical sciences paying attention to how this and bullying all played out on child development. SO many of the kids i grew up with in Florida back then are addicts. When we moved north in 90 (right before Ten was released in 91), the girl across the street from me was bullied relentlessly. Her brother came home from school to find her hanging in their barn. She had gone home early from school that day after having a huge fight that morning with her father in their front yard. The abuse from her parents coupled with the bullying at school because they were "poor" was to much for her. Jeremy strikes home on so many levels for so many of us....
I almost 50 now,I heard this song since the first time released..and I m still listening until now...great band,great eddi voice and song writer,great video story,great video clip ever...grunge is music with deep soul 👍🏼❤️big PJ fan from Indonesia
I was massive Pearl Jam fan back when this was out in the 90's and this video was on heavy rotation on MTV so I don't know how many times I've seen it on MTV and music video tapes of stuff I'd record of the telly but this here is the first time I think I have ever seen the unedited version where you see Jeremy put the gun in his mouth and its shocked me. I've always understood what was happening and even cutting away from the gun in his mouth the video packs a punch but this was like a punch to the gut that knocks the wind out you.
A very important lesson is to not mess with people you don't know. You don't know what they have experienced, where they have been, or what they are capable of.
A lot of pearl jam tracks are without vids so you’d probably do well to pick from their MTV unplugged live or P20 concerts. Alive has a vid (same era as Jeremy from the Ten album - one of the best albums imo) Later tracks - I Am Mine, Given to Fly, I got ID. (I think you’ve covered Black already?) 🌟
He needs to do Porch from the end of the MTV Unplugged performance if it's available. That's a hellacious finale to the show, and the entire band blows it out of the water that night.
Tragic how song mirrored what was happening back then (in the late 90s) & yet it is STILL very much the same sad & twisted story of today in 2021. #JeremyLivesOn
I love this song about how bullying can lead someone to despair and tragic actions! I believe, in the video, he killed himself and the blood splattered onto the other students. The song is said to be based on a true story! It's my favorite Pearl Jam song!!💖💖
JEREMY is based on two different true stories. The song takes its main inspiration from a newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy named Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson, Texas, who shot himself in front of his teacher and his second-period English class of 30 students on the morning of January 8, 1991. In a 2009 interview, Vedder said that he felt "the need to take that small article and make something of it-to give that action, to give it reaction, to give it more importance." Delle was described by schoolmates as "real quiet" and known for "acting sad". After coming into class late that morning, Delle was told to get an admittance slip from the school office. He left the classroom and returned with a .357 Magnum revolver. Delle walked to the front of the classroom, announced "Miss, I got what I really went for", put the barrel of the firearm in his mouth, and pulled the trigger before his teacher or classmates could react. Lisa Moore, a schoolmate, knew Jeremy from the in-school suspension program: "He and I would pass notes back and forth and he would talk about life and stuff," she said. "He signed all of his notes, 'Write back.' But on Monday he wrote, 'Later days.' I didn't know what to make of it. But I never thought this would happen." When asked about the song, Vedder explained: "It came from a small paragraph in a paper which means you kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. Sixty-four degrees and cloudy in a suburban neighborhood. That's the beginning of the video and that's the same thing in the end; it does nothing … nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. Be stronger than those people. And then you can come back." The second story the song is based on involved a student that Vedder knew from his junior high school in San Diego, California. He elaborated further in a 1991 interview: "I actually knew somebody in junior high school, in San Diego, California, that did the same thing, just about, didn't take his life but ended up shooting up an oceanography room. I remember being in the halls and hearing it and I had actually had altercations with this kid in the past. I was kind of a rebellious fifth-grader and I think we got in fights and stuff. So it's a bit about this kid named Jeremy and it's also a bit about a kid named Brian that I knew and I don't know...the song, I think it says a lot. I think it goes somewhere...and a lot of people interpret it in different ways and it's just been recent that I've been talking about the true meaning behind it and I hope no one's offended and believe me, I think of Jeremy when I sing it."
I still get shook up & have to hold back tears when I watch this video and I’ve heard/seen it many times. I think it’s important to note how he tosses an apple to the teacher at the end. It’s done in a way that says “F U” for not intervening. Teachers should show this video to high school kids & have them write essays on it.
The actor who played Jeremy in the video, Trevor Wilson died a few years ago! Apparently he was swimming by himself in Puerto Rico and drowned! So sad!
to me ? a kid that went through that kind of childhood , this song is the most powerful song ive ever heard , i went through being picked on every day , until i retaliated , its not only the parents . but teachers also . when i got picked on i would go n tell the teachers . not cos i was a sook or a dobber , because i wanted to hurt these kids .. but the teachers would always tell me to go away and stop making trouble ... so i did retaliate and then got known as a trouble maker . lol . fortunately i was a pretty strong minded kid . i never really let it get to me . but its always there in your mind . that you dont fit in . and you have noone that seems to want to help you . and its human nature to get mad . and if it keeps going get even . by the time i got to high school i had it all sorted out . and made a few good friends . before i got kicked out of school in year 8 lol . some kids set the science room on fire . and i went to turn off the bunson burners before i told the teachers . so the fire wouldnt have fuel .. but as i was shutting them off a teacher came in . n said he saw me lighting them . lol after 2 months of them trying to get me to confess which i never would if i didnt do something lol . they decided i was a liar n expelled me . lol but life didnt get much better lol . i ended in a job as a butcher apprentice . sounds great huh ? lol all my bosses were my dads old apprentices , lol he had retired by now . but they were now bosses . and knew my name n put the 2 together . so i had 4 years of hell , all because my dad was an arse hole to them . lol . i got sacked illegally once from there . but i was an apprentice and they had no real reason to sack me . so that went to court n i got my job back . they still gave me hell . but by then i had my breakdown n was on some pretty good pill's . lol it never bothered me .. but the moral to this whole story is . be good to ppl . especially young ppl . and give them time and love . because as jay said . as kids ? thats where it all starts ...
This topic raises many emotions. I saw in your reaction. Thank you for being human. I cried and i have seen it many times. I stand with anyone that feels bullied or alone or different!
I took when they said "Jeremy spoke in class today" was because he walked in the room, gave the pass back to the teacher and said something like " I got what I really went for", then he killed himself. He didn't kill any of the of the other students. Another way someone could look at it is that he spoke when he made such a big statement by killing himself in front of the class.
Yeah because it's supposed to be like the kids that witnessed it are saying that to someone, the double meaning of spoke, he spoke to the teacher yes but what his actions said spoke louder than anything in their whole lives... Jeremy spoke in class today, yes he did...
@@killinglonliness88 it's possible he didn't say anything. I read all of the available police reports and his friends, family, and classmates' testimonials about what happened that day, and for maybe a year or so leading up to it, I thought that's what they said he said or did. But I wasn't there, so I can't be sure.
Super sad reality depicted in this song/video. The mind is a fragile thing. I can’t help but cry every time I see this video. Great reaction J 🙋🏻♀️🙌🏼👍🏼👏🏼💜🇨🇦
Mate I have been waiting ages for you to do this reaction, thanks. Yes the video it's another level and it was a real story ish, although Jeremy's parents say he was never neglected but who knows. Great reaction mate.
This video was extremely popular when it was released. Such a tragedy based on an actual event wrapped into an awesome song. Thanks for the reaction!😍😍
I was in my teens during the grunge-era, and I used to play ”Ten” on high volume at home (to my parents annoyance)… ”Ten” deals with heavy subjects and the record still help me to cope in times of trouble. ”Jeremy” hits even harder now when I’m a parent myself. ❤️
I've seen a lot of reaction videos to this video... you're actually the first I've seen to stop the video and comment on the kids doing the "not see" salute. Good catch.
Just because it was on rotation doesn’t mean it can’t be underrated. It never even made the top 100 it’s initial release. The video wasn’t really underrated, but I feel the song is for sure.
He didn't shoot the other kids. He shot himself in front of the teacher and kids. The kids look on in complete horror with blood all over them. It's a heart wrenching song and video.
i was in the room after…
Saddest song out here other than runaway train and bullying still goes on and teachers allow it.
Right. He traumatized them all for life as his payback for their bullying.
He shot himself and the kids who bullied him symbolically had blood on their hands.
@@CBGB_1977 Yes! I've seen this video over a thousand times & I didn't realize this..I thought the other kids were shot too
As others mentioned, it's based on a true story. Although, Jeremy only killed himself. Eddie Vedder is amazing singing this song and the passion he shows in the video. This song is beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.
Eddie always sounded like this. "Alive" was the better song.
I hate this song with every fiber of my being BECAUSE it wasn't a deterrent; it was an encouragement. I grew up with 90's grunge AND that mindset made suicide acceptable and normal.
I hate this kind of shit.
Sorry Jayvee.
Eddie always shows passion in al, their songs with the great instrumentals!
@@jackatomin it's not the only song that talks about suicide and portray it like a final 'solution' is not great but is better than saying Jeremy will rot in hell for taking his own life
This video's popularity caused the band to go underground, as the video was a wake up call about suicide, yet the band would have none of the celebrity for the song about suicide. This was there last Mtv music video.
@@angelagreen778 No it wasn't, I watched a lot of Mtv when I was a teenager and this was definitely not their last Mtv video, the last video I can remember seeing of them on Mtv (around the time Mtv stopped being about music and around the time I stopped watching Mtv) was Do the evolution.
I remember there was a new girl in my school. I had been bullied for 5 years. She was brand new fodder, and a new girl in a small town. I stood up and snapped my pencil in half out of anger and yelled at MY bullies that were doing it to her. The teacher had left the room at the time. I just couldn’t stand to see it happen to anyone else. I ended up being grounded on the day of that girl’s birthday party. I begged and pled with my mom, that I was her only friend. My mom could tell in my eyes I was telling the truth and I had to go. Sure enough, her mom had balloons out and all of the fixings. I was the only one that showed up. I’m so grateful that my mom believed me. She moved again shortly thereafter. I think about her a lot.
You sound like a wonderful person. I’m glad your mom allowed you to go to this young girls party. As the only person to take the time and make such an effort to spend time with her I’m sure she thinks about you too.
I would bet she thinks of you and remembers your kindness. Moments like that are memorable. :)
I am sure she will never forget you. You are kind!
Jeez that's heartbreaking, I hope that she was able to overcome such awful behaviour and cruelty in her life.
She will never forget him
I was bullied terribly as a youth. Thank God I had a loving, supportive family or I might not have made it. Even so, I carried that pain inside me for 30 years, and I purged those demons by becoming an author. It felt like a thousand-pound weight had been lifted from my shoulders.
Art can be an amazing outlet. I know this song helped me immensely when I discovered it as a teenager. I was picked on a bit, but mostly I was just troubled. I thought about ending it so many times. I thought about lashing out.
Luckily, I also had wonderful and supportive parents, and I found an outlet in music. I'm glad you found your outlet as well!
@@spencerific93 I did. I"m almost done with my tenth book.
The sad thing is, bullies grow up to be grown-ass people who still bully. Very small people.
See : Donald J. Trump .... Classic Bully! ... Don't Even Deny It!
@@jamesalexander5623 he’s not in office and politics aren’t mentioned. Bring it to a discussion that it pertains to. It’s a really played out record and some of us are sick of hearing about him.
and some people who get bullied become bullies themselves
The song was inspired by a newspaper article Vedder read about Jeremy Wade Delle, a high school student who shot himself in front of his English class
The young actors in this video never get enough credit for an amazing performance, they conveyed so much without any dialogue.
Trevor Wilson, who played Jeremy, tragically died in a boating accident a few years ago.
When this song came out, school shootings weren’t as common as they are now (which breaks my heart to even think about) so you can imagine how much of an impact it and the video made. It upset a lot of people. To this day, I get chills every time I hear the end of the song because the music really intensifies to match the chaos of what Jeremy must have been feeling. It’s kind of a tragic masterpiece.
" tragic madterpiece," excellent wording.
Yeah, this song gave me chills back then too, its scary how accurate it is now compared to back then!
I don't think there were any mass school shootings at this time. That all started with Columbine which was a few years later.
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Everybody hurts
NO ONE knows how to deal with it
This is the hardest video to watch without getting emotional
Pretty much every grunge video, lol.
Yes this and " runaway train."
No, he didn't shoot the other kids. He only shot himself. The kids got blood splatter all over themselves.
They had his blood on their hands
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Sure did for the rest of their lives. I wonder if those kids learned anything.
@@jackiegoodspeed1849 I'm sure they did!
Can't watch this anymore without shedding tears. It definitely hits home. A 13 y/o neighbor of mine took his own life a few years back. Apparently the kids at school who were bullying him told him he should. His dad took the head groundskeeper job at the cemetery where he's buried so he could visit him every day. Such a sweet kid & is still sorely missed.
"Daddy didn't give affection.
And the boy was something Mommy wouldn't wear."
And
"Try to Erase this from the Blackboard"
are some major hard-hitting lyrics in this. Gives me chills every time and I've heard this song 100's of times since it dropped.
As a mother of girls who were bullied, this song gets me and I advocate against bullying. Oh I think the fire symbolizes his life and how he wants to burn it all up because he decides to kill himself. Many abuse survivors go through this exact feelings when having flashbacks.
The mother of the real Jeremy, that this song inspired, is not a fan of this song. I think because it portrays her as uncaring, but you have to understand that Jeremy felt like NO ONE cared. It wasn't about reality, it was about JEREMY'S reality. In that reality, mommy didn't seem to care.
No matter how you unwrap it, it's horrible that a child, any child, gets bullied to this point.
Agreed. The Delle story inspired Eddie but it was combined with Eddies own school experience too, it’s not a factual tale of Jeremy Delle. It must be hard for the mum to hear this song though 😔
The message remains strong!
Maybe she didn't care. Maybe that's why she didn't like the song.
So tired of other kids,bullying. Teach your kids to not bully.
If you ever listen to interviews with his mother, it is clear that she definitely cared a lot more for her daughter than she ever did for her son. Her son was an artist that she could care about after he was gone. But her interviews show the lack of care that she had for him while he was still here. IMO. She did not seem like she really gave a fig about her son. She cared about her Lost Child. But most of the things she said, you could tell she really wished he was a girl. I'm just going off of what I heard from interviews. And the attitude that she came forth with. I could be wrong. But that's how it appeared from everything I have heard
@@jackiegoodspeed1849 this song does not promote bullying. It is supposed to be pointing out the consequences of what bullying can cause. You don't know what someone else is dealing with. And you don't know what you're bullying is going to push them to do because of the other things they are dealing with. This song was meant as an eye-opener. Not a promotion of bullying
Now that the video is over, it's based on a true story of a boy who shot himself in front of his class, he did not shoot his classmates
The lyrics "try to erase this from the blackboard" are soul crushing after watching the video. Especially because of the fact that it is based on real events
True story- and he shot himself, not the others- RIP Jeremy Delle Wade- 💔🥺🙏🏼🙌🏻
Imagine without this song most people wouldn't know his name or what he went through.
The blood on the other kids may signify the mark his suicide will leave on their lives forever.
07:03 the children are actually doing the Bellamy salute which was created by the man who wrote the pledge of allegiance which was replaced in 1942 by the hand over the heart we now do because it was adopted by italian facists and of course the Nazi party.
Yeah, this video is really hard-hitting. And it shows how a child can feel like they have no hope and no other options. Javon, check out the studio version of Black if you haven't already. That's another song with a powerful meaning behind it.
Why the studio version? The unplugged live version has video and it’s amazing.
Agree Unplugged version is a masterpiece ❤
This song still haunts me, but I love all music from this era.
Eddie Vedder has one of the most powerful voices I've ever heard 🖤
I always without fail cry when I hear this song, so many bad memories for me.
I had a really fucked up school experience and it left me suicidal, music was the only thing I could connect to.
"Jeremy" in particular helped me because I could hear the pain and sorrow in Eddie's voice, it was like for just a few minutes someone was sitting next to me, crying with me.
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This video gets me every time. I'm not crying, you're crying.
When this first came out on MTV, the censored version, it looked even more like he had shot the class (took out the part with him putting the gun in his mouth). I totally understand the confusion there. Good reaction, thank you for sharing.
I remember watching the Grammys and this won an award and the kid who played Jeremy went up on stage with Pearl Jam.
Another sad thing regarding this video the actor playing Jeremy himself died by drowning a few years ago...he was 34 years old.
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The bands Pearl Jam and RHCP from your last two videos have deep catalogues of amazing music. I hope you explore them even more.
THANK YOU for reacting to the uncensored version of this powerful and important song💔 So many kids have to endure torment at school by 'bullies', or have to live in an abusive home daily, whilst waiting for the 'next time', constantly in fear. How many 'Jeremys' are out there, waiting for help? I was one.....yet those who looked the other way, could've helped, but didn't. So many people in the comments are telling of their own hellish childhoods. When will it ever stop?
*Pearl Jam* drew attention to this almost 30 yrs ago, but things are still the same. The uncensored video and the true background of this song should be shown in schools - to kids and teachers alike. Don't look away - instead *SPEAK UP* if a kid needs help, at school or at home! Stop the cycle of abuse. Peace & love to those that grew up in fear and abuse☮️ #Jeremy
I was days away from being Jeremy. I took it upon myself to leave public school and enroll myself into an accredited home school. Yes, I had to bust my rump to pay for it, but it did not cost me the life I was struggling to keep.
How amazingly self aware and mature you were to think to do that. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Issues like this is why The Bully Project was created. Grateful to Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam for creating this song. It is very important for people to hear & understand the path that some individual's lives take before they become something like this. Thank you for listening.
Another really great song is (in my opinion) a must hear: The Boomtown Rats "I don't like mondays" ! Definitly you will not regret it.
Just so sad, heart breaking.
One of the best songs ever written. Period.
I miss when songs used to be ABOUT something. No the self-indulgent me, me, me stuff we get nowadays.
The end of that video is not what anyone expects the first time. That song has ever NOT affected me. It remains powerful for me 30 years on. (I can't fucking believe it's been 30 years. What the hell.)
Right! How do all these songs remain so relevant? There are a few powerful generations out here. Look at our songs. They're amazing.
Same. I’m teary eyed and I am in my 40’s so I remember when this first came out. What a powerful song from an amazing band
This whole album is 🔥🔥🔥
Love your sensitivity and genuine reaction 💕
Songs like this bring awareness. A much needed thing. Brings things into the light.
Such a powerful song and video, I remember when this came out.
Please explore more Pearl Jam! I personally love their early stuff but it's all so good. Eddie's voice is magical!
He's done a few songs, but there are many to go, yes.
Hopefully
I was bullied as a kid! I came from Finland as a 4 year old to Canada and didn't speak a word of English, in grade 1 through grade 4 my English was not great. It still hurts when those memories come back!
One of my favorite songs
I never knew until recently that there was an uncensored version of this video. I always thought that Jeremy came into the classroom and shot the other kids.
You can never forget the first time you heard this song and seen the video that accompanied the track.
Based on a true story look up Jeremy Wade Dale very sad story 😢
I haven't heard this song in a long time so shocked me too, I love you're reaction Jayvee ,you are beautiful btw 😁
Wow!!! My favorite Pearl Jam song ever!!! 💪👏👏👏🎸
What is wilder is that yes, this is based on a true story.
Powerful song & vid!
Eddie Vedder, lead singer, read a newspaper article about a kid who, in 1991, did this. A true story. Kids name was Jeremy Delle.
Feel Better Jay!
That my friends is how you tell a story with music and passion.
When we said the Pledge of Allegiance in school before class began when I was a kid,we raised our arm. Then later it was changed to our hand over our heart.
Pearl Jam - Ten, astounding album. I still have the original Cassette version from the 90s i bought way back then.
His name was Jeremy Delle. He was 15 years old when committed suicide by gunshot in front of his English class in Richardson, Texas in 1991. The inspiration for the song came from newspaper article that Vedder read about the incident.
Please react to: Aerosmith: Janie's Got a Gun -The Offspring: Gone Away -Blink 182: Adam's Song -The Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays -Five Finger Death Punch: Coming Down -Thanks!!!
So many songs on this topic, yet nothing has changed.
The Boomtown Rat's song may be the first to highlight America's Tragic Obsession with Guns!
Make sure to be kind to one another, we are all we've got
The blood on the kids was his blood that Splattered on the them. Great song. Released my senior year in college.
Eddie is such an animated performer. He's so photogenic too. Really sold the disturbing vibe.
I was so sad to hear about the death of Trevor Wilson, the star of Pearl Jam’s iconic 1992 “Jeremy” music video. He was only 36 and drown while swimming in San Juan, Puerto Rico Aug 7, 2016 (16 days before his 37th birthday). May he RIP.
I can still remember playing their album ten ( this song is on it) in my car...
Well, because my name is Jeremy, I've always loved this song. King Jeremy the wicked is a tattoo I've always thought about getting.
As a kid in the 80's and the 90's, there was somewhat of an "awakening" on how parents affected their kids by their parenting techniques. So many ppl did not see or believe the effects of puritanical style parenting had on the kids. Being one of those kids myself, I got a birdseye view on how my peers were affected by this and Pearl Jam was among a list of artists that finally started to bring this topic out Front and Center. It was also the early days of medical sciences paying attention to how this and bullying all played out on child development.
SO many of the kids i grew up with in Florida back then are addicts. When we moved north in 90 (right before Ten was released in 91), the girl across the street from me was bullied relentlessly. Her brother came home from school to find her hanging in their barn. She had gone home early from school that day after having a huge fight that morning with her father in their front yard. The abuse from her parents coupled with the bullying at school because they were "poor" was to much for her.
Jeremy strikes home on so many levels for so many of us....
I almost 50 now,I heard this song since the first time released..and I m still listening until now...great band,great eddi voice and song writer,great video story,great video clip ever...grunge is music with deep soul 👍🏼❤️big PJ fan from Indonesia
I’m worried about the upper respiratory thing you’ve got going on. Have you gotten it checked out? I want you to get well, man. 🤘
Yes. Please get checked. Feel better! 💜
Rest up and feel better J!
I was massive Pearl Jam fan back when this was out in the 90's and this video was on heavy rotation on MTV so I don't know how many times I've seen it on MTV and music video tapes of stuff I'd record of the telly but this here is the first time I think I have ever seen the unedited version where you see Jeremy put the gun in his mouth and its shocked me. I've always understood what was happening and even cutting away from the gun in his mouth the video packs a punch but this was like a punch to the gut that knocks the wind out you.
True story.
A very important lesson is to not mess with people you don't know. You don't know what they have experienced, where they have been, or what they are capable of.
Great reaction Jay. This song and the video break my heart.👍❤️✌️🌼
This is why it is cataloged by many as the best music video in history
I hope you feel better Jay 💟🥤🥘🧁🍵
A lot of pearl jam tracks are without vids so you’d probably do well to pick from their MTV unplugged live or P20 concerts. Alive has a vid (same era as Jeremy from the Ten album - one of the best albums imo) Later tracks - I Am Mine, Given to Fly, I got ID. (I think you’ve covered Black already?) 🌟
He needs to do Porch from the end of the MTV Unplugged performance if it's available. That's a hellacious finale to the show, and the entire band blows it out of the water that night.
One of favourite bands love his voice
Awesome Reaction 👏🏼
This video always make me cry 😭
He didn't shoot the other kids, just the other kids who were covered in his blood. One of many great Pearl Jam songs.
Tragic how song mirrored what was happening back then (in the late 90s) & yet it is STILL very much the same sad & twisted story of today in 2021. #JeremyLivesOn
I love this song about how bullying can lead someone to despair and tragic actions! I believe, in the video, he killed himself and the blood splattered onto the other students. The song is said to be based on a true story! It's my favorite Pearl Jam song!!💖💖
JEREMY is based on two different true stories. The song takes its main inspiration from a newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy named Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson, Texas, who shot himself in front of his teacher and his second-period English class of 30 students on the morning of January 8, 1991. In a 2009 interview, Vedder said that he felt "the need to take that small article and make something of it-to give that action, to give it reaction, to give it more importance."
Delle was described by schoolmates as "real quiet" and known for "acting sad". After coming into class late that morning, Delle was told to get an admittance slip from the school office. He left the classroom and returned with a .357 Magnum revolver. Delle walked to the front of the classroom, announced "Miss, I got what I really went for", put the barrel of the firearm in his mouth, and pulled the trigger before his teacher or classmates could react. Lisa Moore, a schoolmate, knew Jeremy from the in-school suspension program: "He and I would pass notes back and forth and he would talk about life and stuff," she said. "He signed all of his notes, 'Write back.' But on Monday he wrote, 'Later days.' I didn't know what to make of it. But I never thought this would happen."
When asked about the song, Vedder explained: "It came from a small paragraph in a paper which means you kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. Sixty-four degrees and cloudy in a suburban neighborhood. That's the beginning of the video and that's the same thing in the end; it does nothing … nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. Be stronger than those people. And then you can come back."
The second story the song is based on involved a student that Vedder knew from his junior high school in San Diego, California. He elaborated further in a 1991 interview: "I actually knew somebody in junior high school, in San Diego, California, that did the same thing, just about, didn't take his life but ended up shooting up an oceanography room. I remember being in the halls and hearing it and I had actually had altercations with this kid in the past. I was kind of a rebellious fifth-grader and I think we got in fights and stuff. So it's a bit about this kid named Jeremy and it's also a bit about a kid named Brian that I knew and I don't know...the song, I think it says a lot. I think it goes somewhere...and a lot of people interpret it in different ways and it's just been recent that I've been talking about the true meaning behind it and I hope no one's offended and believe me, I think of Jeremy when I sing it."
I still get shook up & have to hold back tears when I watch this video and I’ve heard/seen it many times. I think it’s important to note how he tosses an apple to the teacher at the end. It’s done in a way that says “F U” for not intervening. Teachers should show this video to high school kids & have them write essays on it.
The actor who played Jeremy in the video, Trevor Wilson died a few years ago! Apparently he was swimming by himself in Puerto Rico and drowned! So sad!
to me ? a kid that went through that kind of childhood , this song is the most powerful song ive ever heard , i went through being picked on every day , until i retaliated , its not only the parents . but teachers also . when i got picked on i would go n tell the teachers . not cos i was a sook or a dobber , because i wanted to hurt these kids .. but the teachers would always tell me to go away and stop making trouble ... so i did retaliate and then got known as a trouble maker . lol . fortunately i was a pretty strong minded kid . i never really let it get to me . but its always there in your mind . that you dont fit in . and you have noone that seems to want to help you . and its human nature to get mad . and if it keeps going get even . by the time i got to high school i had it all sorted out . and made a few good friends . before i got kicked out of school in year 8 lol . some kids set the science room on fire . and i went to turn off the bunson burners before i told the teachers . so the fire wouldnt have fuel .. but as i was shutting them off a teacher came in . n said he saw me lighting them . lol after 2 months of them trying to get me to confess which i never would if i didnt do something lol . they decided i was a liar n expelled me . lol but life didnt get much better lol . i ended in a job as a butcher apprentice . sounds great huh ? lol all my bosses were my dads old apprentices , lol he had retired by now . but they were now bosses . and knew my name n put the 2 together . so i had 4 years of hell , all because my dad was an arse hole to them . lol . i got sacked illegally once from there . but i was an apprentice and they had no real reason to sack me . so that went to court n i got my job back . they still gave me hell . but by then i had my breakdown n was on some pretty good pill's . lol it never bothered me .. but
the moral to this whole story is . be good to ppl . especially young ppl . and give them time and love . because as jay said . as kids ? thats where it all starts ...
"He lashed out"
Understatement of the year
This topic raises many emotions. I saw in your reaction. Thank you for being human. I cried and i have seen it many times. I stand with anyone that feels bullied or alone or different!
This song is a masterpiece!
I took when they said "Jeremy spoke in class today" was because he walked in the room, gave the pass back to the teacher and said something like " I got what I really went for", then he killed himself. He didn't kill any of the of the other students. Another way someone could look at it is that he spoke when he made such a big statement by killing himself in front of the class.
Yeah because it's supposed to be like the kids that witnessed it are saying that to someone, the double meaning of spoke, he spoke to the teacher yes but what his actions said spoke louder than anything in their whole lives... Jeremy spoke in class today, yes he did...
He came from home for school that day, tossed the teacher an apple, stood in front and then shot himself.
@@killinglonliness88 it's possible he didn't say anything. I read all of the available police reports and his friends, family, and classmates' testimonials about what happened that day, and for maybe a year or so leading up to it, I thought that's what they said he said or did. But I wasn't there, so I can't be sure.
Love this song
Super sad reality depicted in this song/video. The mind is a fragile thing. I can’t help but cry every time I see this video. Great reaction J 🙋🏻♀️🙌🏼👍🏼👏🏼💜🇨🇦
😔😔😔💔💔💔 such a good song.
Wow that's a deep song
Jeremy spoke in class with the gun being his mouth piece the Fire 🔥 Repersents being in hell of pain .
"What did he say" bwhahaha you crack me up
Mate I have been waiting ages for you to do this reaction, thanks. Yes the video it's another level and it was a real story ish, although Jeremy's parents say he was never neglected but who knows. Great reaction mate.
This video was extremely popular when it was released. Such a tragedy based on an actual event wrapped into an awesome song. Thanks for the reaction!😍😍
Have not herd this before very awesome
When I first saw this when it was released in 91 I think anyway I learnt don't just sit there and not try to stop the bullies!!!
I was in my teens during the grunge-era, and I used to play ”Ten” on high volume at home (to my parents annoyance)… ”Ten” deals with heavy subjects and the record still help me to cope in times of trouble. ”Jeremy” hits even harder now when I’m a parent myself. ❤️
I'm going to Pearl Jam's concert next year, can't wait. Great reaction, as always!
I've seen a lot of reaction videos to this video... you're actually the first I've seen to stop the video and comment on the kids doing the "not see" salute. Good catch.
I love!!! 💙💙💙
This song and video were not underated. They were both in constant rotation back then. Dont let anyone tell you different ☺
That’s true! I remember…
Yes. Played constantly on the radio and MTV.
Just because it was on rotation doesn’t mean it can’t be underrated. It never even made the top 100 it’s initial release. The video wasn’t really underrated, but I feel the song is for sure.