Ancient Metaler Reacts to Ren - Pocket Full of Pain
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- Today, I was watching Ren's live stream where he was reading Chapter 6, of what seems to be a book about his life. At the end he played a recording of him recording the vocals to Pocket Full of Pain, and i was completely blown away.
So I wanted to share it with you all.
Original Video: • Chapter 6
Ren is a generationally legendary talent. His fans range from little kids to grandparents. Just an absolute legend, and for all the right reasons. Tell everybody they’re missing it.
I’ve also been tuning in for the “Chapters” and was completely amazed at the ease it seems Ren has when recording this song. He makes it look so easy for him. Yet we know he is suffering a lot during this time in his life. He is just so real, can connect big time to all of us and has more talent in his pinky finger than most. But dang he has had to work so very hard for everything he has done.
This is what Ren is all about !! I feel his importance in our world !!
Just watched Chapter 6 and wow that was hard to watch. Then at the end this is played....wow. One of my many favorite songs by Ren. Watching him sing this was fantastic! I went out and started searching find this version. Thanks for posting!
I did the same thing and that's why I decided to react to it. Very moving.
I watched Chapter 6 and I wept quietly watching the song at the end. Long live Ren.
Ren should be treasured.
Thank you so much for this. He is the same age as my oldest daughter and I want to hug him and not let him go. 🤗
You are so welcome. I like this version more than the one on spotify because you can see his reactions and feelings.
@@TheAncientMetaler-1963 I feel the same way about Patience too!
Thank you so much! Ren is such a gift to everyone, I listen to him everyday !😊
His tenacity is unlike any other person that I've ever seen before.
What a humble,intelligent young man. ( Even at such a young age).😮❤🤯
So glad that you are helping him raise awareness by sharing this song. The video of him at the time connects it so much more to the time. I will never cease to be amazed by how much tenderness he managed to keep in his heart, especially for others, during those unbearable times. He did not let all that battlescarring harden him. Remarkable. ❤
I totally agree! You can see my reaction when he starts to sing at the beginning. I'd heard this several times by that point, but it still blew me away. Such and amazing voice, but beyond that it is the quality of the performance. Ren, even at that young age, is a PRO.
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I'm so excited for this year! When Sick Boi was released he said he was at about 70% energy/health and only getting better... I'm really looking forward to his new work! I love this one, and "baby" Ren is so adorable! Overly grateful he never gave up!
Same here!
I'd only heard this track once before he played it at the end of his storytelling yesterday (and obviously, I'd never seen THIS version; this video was previously not in the public realm as far as I know), but my god what a powerful piece to share along with Chapter 6.
1) Yeah, while like you say, he wasn't explicit about it in yesterday's reading, I think the reasonable deduction is to assume he himself recorded all the instrumentation. He *did* say Crutch and Pocket Full of Pain were recorded in his bedroom to flesh out the bones of the Freckled Angels album that he was putting together for his friends and family, not knowing if he'd ever have anyone listen to his music farther than his loved ones. "Recorded in his bedroom" and "just for family & friends" doesn't leave me with any kind of impression that anyone else was working with him for any of the tracks not previously recorded at Sony, and he explicitly said in an earlier chapter that the guys from Trick the Fox stopped checking in on him (unfortunately all too common with chronic illness, ESPECIALLY chronic illness with no "easily acceptable" diagnosis... lots of people continue to believe ME isn't a "real" illness, it's just people being lazy freeloading off their family & the government. Even if a loved one of someone with ME doesn't outwardly believe that, the attitude of society to people with what are considered to be "vague" illnesses that don't even have any kind of treatment or medical support, can cause people to be overwhelmed by a sick person, not know how to respond or maintain a relationship, and they end up distancing themselves either purposefully or just... gradually the relationship falls off).
2) The lyric "I choose life" repeated over and over and over again hits me like a truck. I've been that person, making the active choice to choose life. Not in exactly the same situation as Ren, but consciously one day thinking the words "I choose life" in the midst of a maelstrom of chaos (long before I ran across Ren's music), precipitated decisions that changed the course of my life and may have saved my life.
"My brain craves life" he says to Jennifer Brea in Unrest, just before the cut to him playing Patience, and it breaks my heart every time I watch that version of the song (which is one of my favourites of his). Here, "I choose life" are his words after the worst of his situation is over - he recorded Pocket Full of Pain after he discovered that antibiotics caused temporary improvements to his condition, so he knows it must be bacterial and it must be treatable. It's incredible that in a song written about his desperation, and while experiencing the return of many of his symptoms once he'd finished the antibiotics, we hear those lyrics and feel his unbounded hope and optimism.
3) "Welcome change with me" - jfc this guy. I absolutely 100% believe he will be responsible for some *massive* and very needed changes in the world. His music, and the WAY he shares his philosophies and beliefs, is gonna seriously change SOMEONE (or more likely, some people) who'll be an integral part of the transformations we so urgently need to see in the human world. He invites you into his life with his vulnerability; he invites you to see the world through his eyes, he invites you to take what you need from his art and his experience, and then releases you into the world to change others. "I'm the virus," he says in Sick Boi (I mean, he says it bitterly of course), and I 100% he *is* a virus. Ideas are contagious; there's a reason the terminology for "something that's become extremely popular on the internet" is "it's gone viral."
"You could be the start of the start of a beginning" - he's laying the goddamned foundation for change in people. People in this dominant society on the planet have been conditioned for generations to want instant change/instant transformation... and yeah, sometimes change does seem to happen like that, but most often, it's been worked for for years or decades by people who were unknown in their day and might not ever be known to history. An ongoing struggle you may not live to see the fruits of, is difficult for people to engage in; 21st century life eats up all of our time and bandwidth, and too often removes any ability for us to feel motivated to do anything because it both detaches us from the experience of the problems we're unleashing on the world and also insists that we're not the problem and that any attempt to make different choices is futile. We need to learn that wise people plant trees without ever expecting to sit under their shade. We need to learn to lead our lives in the pursuit of becoming a good ancestor.
By the time that Ren's going through the 2nd round of "welcome change with me" he's playing with his pronunciation of the words (LOVE it when he does stuff like that), and I start to hear "welcome change 'n me" which my brain interprets as "welcome change in me" and whether he *intended* to switch it from "with" to "in" or not in this recording, in my mind experiences it as an expression of joy and hope, that he might be finding a way out of the prison of his illness.
4) recorded in front of a yin yang flag; Hi Ren's philosophies already percolating in his soul ♥
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Super glad you decided to highlight the video he shared in yesterday's reading. I love the official Freckled Angels recording, but it's so impactful to watch him sing it, and to watch all the ad libs in the pauses and I'm so grateful he's sharing the outlines of his life with us like this.
Every time I watch Ren perform I am left with the same feeling. That is, either he is incredibly intuitive to accidently and unintentionally do the exact right thing at the exact right time to produce the greatest affect or 2) he is absolutely a genius who plans every single thing he does, from simple movements, to looks, to the turn of the head, in advance with clear intention. I suspect its a bit of both, but the result is PERFECTION in its very IMPERFECTION. That's part of the key, his performances have quirks, mistakes, (or as my home builder calls it "character"). But, that makes them perfect.
@@TheAncientMetaler-1963 all of what you said, yep. 👍
I agree, this version is far superior to the one on the album; so good I could listen to it on a loop. So bouncy and full of hope. 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Ren is such a performer, that seeing him perform adds so much to the experience that when there is no video, you feel a little less satisfied.
Thank you so much! Ren is such a gift to everyone, I listen to him everyday !😊
His tenacity is unlike any other person that I've ever seen before.
What a humble,intelligent young man. ( Even at such a young age).😮❤🤯
Thank you so much! Ren is such a gift to everyone, I listen to him everyday !😊
His tenacity is unlike any other person that I've ever seen before.
What a humble,intelligent young man. ( Even at such a young age).😮❤🤯
Thank you so much! Ren is such a gift to everyone, I listen to him everyday !😊
His tenacity is unlike any other person that I've ever seen before.
What a humble,intelligent young man. ( Even at such a young age).😮❤🤯