Ren is a flippin wordsmith. Literally millions of people have struggled with how to articulate depression and other mental illnesses for decades if not centuries. With a handful of small, simple words, Ren nails it as well as anything I have ever seen or heard. "I'm still here in this bed that I crawled in I hope that I'm someone else in the morning."
The chemistry between them is even more 🔥 on "How to be me". His latest track "Animal Flow" dropped yesterday. If you'd like to see Chinchilla solo watch "Fingers (live) and her latest "Little Girl Gone " Peace ✌️
The story behind "How to be Me" is so heartbreaking though... It's about their mutual friend who jumped from the very bridge they're singing in front of in that video.
Ren said in his interview with Knox this past monday (may 15th 2023) that he missed his friend Joe by 2 minutes...They never found Joe's body after searching around 10 days...Than he had another friend pass away a few months later...😢
I have never seen someone put in the exact explanation of what they were feeling in a moment with just a single look on their face! I just wanted to hug you bc that song connected to something deep with you and it was heartbreaking and so beautiful at the same time! Heartbreaking to know you relate what they’re saying but beautiful bc music! A single song can mean so many different things for so many different reasons for so many different people and then brings all those different people together to see how we aren’t so different from one another! Thanks for making my eyes sweat at 6am! LoL
More Ren please, I think you would like "Humble" by Ren and Eden Nash. They have another awesome song together about mourning called "How to Be Me" by Ren & Chinchilla.
This just hits me in the feels so hard every time I listen to it. This just hits so close to home for me. Thank you for reacting. I so agree that this is something that needs to be talked about so much more than it is!
This song is beautifully done and needed. It's not sad to me, it's empowering. Its stripping walls of stigmatized talking points, straight from the artists mouth.
yep its so hard to feel ok cause something always goes wrong. Latest one was being blinded by the sun and getting into a motorcycle accident. Counting my blessings cus it could have been worse but partly crushed vertibre bunch of other damaged ones, rib, shattered both bones in left arm, broken pelvis, and hyper extended nerves in my shoulder. Part that truly sucks is that i work on a roof or in an attic all day. just being so physically weak when i was so strong just sucks
thank you for reacting to my two favourite artist ever ❤ and thank you for taking about mental health, am 63 and have suffered from mental health, and Ren has been my saviour I have followed him for years all his music is amazing ❤❤❤
THANK YOU for not stopping it every 30 seconds like so many other reaction vids and just enjoying the song. Also when you did stop it, it was perfectly needed.
Anyone trying to silence ren is bs. He is an amazing artist who speaks to millions who have had health and mental health issues. I hope he continues to blow up. His music should be everywhere.
Loved the reaction Brandy. This is such a powerful and emotional song, their collabs together are phenomenal. They are both gifted and talented artists. 🔥🔥🖤
I agree with your message about mental illness. Good reaction. Btw Ren has made me a 50 year old tear up a few times while listening to his songs. I have suffered with Social Anxiety really bad my entire life. Some days are just so damn hard.
I saw that clip from CNN and it was the part of Hi Ren when he says you got to kill you if you want to kill me. They played that three second clip and try to say that the song was about suicide. They made a statement afterwards but it wasn't exactly an apology. It's possibly the best song ever
CNN do understand the context but nefariously hijacked the snippet to push a distorted agenda that serves their purposes… it’s an insult to real victims to bastardise the original intent of the song 😢
Your reaction followed by your words that came straight from your heart. I could be your grandma and I have dealt with being bipolar most of my life and your eloquence at a young age blew me away. Hang in there.
You are a sensitive, intelligent woman. Don’t apologize for your tears. They are expressions of your genuine humanity. And, yes, of course this song got to me as I’m sure it got to most people who have listened to it. Losing feelings because of anti-depressants is its own special breed of suffering and you do feel like the walking dead (thus the chalk outline around your ‘dead’ self). And you are right, what he writes has probably saved lives. He one of the most important and gifted artists I’ve seen in a LONG time. Thank you for reacting to him. More REN please.
Lovely reaction to a lovely song… I highly recommend the Ren & Chinchilla song How To Be Me (live) version… it’s another very deep song dedicated to his very good friend who sadly took his own life and the live version is performed on the bridge where he did it! ❤
I do agree on your recommendation, it is a really emotional and beautiful song, but it is not performed on the bridge were Rens friend took his life. I believe they recorded this on a rooftop in Brighton.
the world needs more people like you. We empaths are so rare and REN is our Voice. Greetings from Germany.. We must give more love to all the angry people around us, or the world will fall.
Love the reaction. I am so happy I started watching reactions to music in particular. Witnessing the emotion music stirs up in people is fascinating ( sounds like a psych essay) but it is refreshing to see people being moved by music. Joy, love, sadness etc I find it comforting to see our humanity show ❤️ 😊
Here's a thought... something to consider. In the artistry of the video, is she really there? The lights flicker which Ren has used before to represent the supernatural. Also, she isn't there when the camera pans by the first time. It's she an angel? A former patient that has come back?
If ya haven't yet... she dropped a video to Little Girl Gone that you'll Enjoy!!! To say the keast! Lol To say she's the Definition of Bad Bitxh is a Serious Understatement!!!!
Nice words you said, i suggest chinchilla fingers live for hunger tv, so you can feel her power by herself, also waiting for more Ren. Thanks for the video.
"Sertraline and a sip of seratonin"... THAT line, makes me feel sick to my core. That's exactly what it's like. I miss one day of sertraline and I'm on a manic hyper spiral down.. and the amount of living f*cks, disappears out the window along with the will to live. Luckily I have a brilliant couple of support workers who I appreciate more than most on this planet. Very aware of how fortunate I am in that respect.
Ren makes us remember that we are humans who NEED connections. I just subscribed, we are all locked in our bedrooms alone watching others locked away watching others…..time to go and and talk to real people about REAL things even if we’re not ok. Much love🇦🇺💫🌈
As amazing as this this song is, wait til ya see "How To Be Me" you're gonna want to do the live version if you liked this song, it leveled me though, and trigger warning, Ren wrote it, not really about, but due to a friend that lost their battle with their demons, so to speak. You are only the second reactor I've seen, which has been a bunch, understand the line "I'm scared of being ok" the same as I understood it" Boy does that line hit deeeeeep for me. I truly admire your wanting to have a positive outlook, and encouraging others through positive affirmations, you should keep doing so, but you can't possibly know those things to be universal for all people. I'm not playing who's trauma is worse, or trying to diminish yours or anyone's personal struggle, no matter how bad it is for one person, doesn't make what another went through or is going through any less earth shattering in their mind. I am insignificant, I DO NOT matter, I am NOT important, I AM in my own head, and my head exists in reality, if I died the second I stopped typing this 99.9999% of the people on this planet wouldn't blink an eye or lose a second of sleep, and the people I matter to, is so god damn infinitely small and minute in the grand scheme of things, that logic insists that I'm insignificant. And I've had a decent run, and was a care giver for my community for many years, and had an average circle of friends, some are not even that fortunate. I do think we can make a difference in other people's lives, I do think we, as humans, can help others live a better more fruitful life, personally and by setting an example for others to see. I've lived my life by three simple rules....1 Never kick down, instead offer a hand up. 2. If you have the means and/or ability to help, then you have the responsibility to do so. 3. It's not that F-ing difficult to just be kind to other people, even when it is, it's still the path of least resistance. I don't regret living by that mantra, and there were times I failed to do so, but overall it's served me well, but sometimes life just goes sideways, and there's no finding your way back to the path you once enjoyed walking. I wish that weren't the case. Don't let my debbie downer attitude stop you from trying to prove me wrong, or advocating for a positive outlook and mental health in general. In my former life, reading people quickly was essential to my job, and I could tell immediately that you have a beautiful soul, and a determined spirit that will fight for good with everything ya got, please don't let life take that from you, as it did from me. ✌️💚
Definitely a song about fragility and the human condition. I'd love to hear a whole album from them. Love the vulnerability. A real window into the soul
How to be me is about the suicide of his best friend. The guy jumped off a bridge, and his body was never found. The live version was recorded on a bridge.
Do you really think that was appropriate?? For one, this is obviously a channel that is an advocate for all things relating to dealing with mental health, the details of his friends unfortunate death were not necessary, and if they were, it's polite to offer a trigger warning. Secondly, the fact the song was written because of that subject is ok to reveal via a trigger warning, but again, the details are a spoiler to the entire song since it's revealed at the end. Not trying to be a dick, nor am I saying you did anything intentionally mean, just a heads up to take a second to review/reflect before hitting "reply" ✌️
@Sunshyn ☼ Γƒƒ I just repeated Ren's own explanation. If its OK with Ren, then all debate is null and void. Any sapient human it free to ignore his words. Stifling an artists words and vision to protect from potential harm to persons unknown is the thin end of a very dangerous wedge.
What I think.. Well, I think you will make additional findings about meaning of the song if you also listen to the Lyrical version of this beautiful song.
I really hate to put you through this but The Tale of Jenny, Screech and Violet is a definite must. But please watch the full video as a whole. It’s a trilogy that will hit you even harder than the two you’ve already done…… but it’s worth it.
i dont have a watermark or filter on. I turn the opacity down a little bit for reacts just so youtube doesnt suppress videos upon upload (which they like to do a lot)
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Ren is a flippin wordsmith. Literally millions of people have struggled with how to articulate depression and other mental illnesses for decades if not centuries. With a handful of small, simple words, Ren nails it as well as anything I have ever seen or heard.
"I'm still here in this bed that I crawled in
I hope that I'm someone else in the morning."
Finding Ren has been the highlight for me in 2023 and I can't see how it will be bettered.
i agree with you there
Agreed. Seldom in my 57 years have I been affected, or uplifted by an artist to this extent
The chemistry between them is even more 🔥 on "How to be me". His latest track "Animal Flow" dropped yesterday. If you'd like to see Chinchilla solo watch "Fingers (live) and her latest "Little Girl Gone " Peace ✌️
The story behind "How to be Me" is so heartbreaking though... It's about their mutual friend who jumped from the very bridge they're singing in front of in that video.
Ren said in his interview with Knox this past monday (may 15th 2023) that he missed his friend Joe by 2 minutes...They never found Joe's body after searching around 10 days...Than he had another friend pass away a few months later...😢
brother and sister
I have never seen someone put in the exact explanation of what they were feeling in a moment with just a single look on their face! I just wanted to hug you bc that song connected to something deep with you and it was heartbreaking and so beautiful at the same time! Heartbreaking to know you relate what they’re saying but beautiful bc music! A single song can mean so many different things for so many different reasons for so many different people and then brings all those different people together to see how we aren’t so different from one another! Thanks for making my eyes sweat at 6am! LoL
thank you
You are great! Been chasing Chalk Outlines reactions for a while now and that’s how I got here. 😊 Edit to add: Love the accent. ❤
More Ren please, I think you would like "Humble" by Ren and Eden Nash. They have another awesome song together about mourning called "How to Be Me" by Ren & Chinchilla.
100% yea!
This just hits me in the feels so hard every time I listen to it. This just hits so close to home for me. Thank you for reacting. I so agree that this is something that needs to be talked about so much more than it is!
it hit close to home for me as well
@@SlayWithBrandy Breeaking News:Ren's new drop Animal flow hit #1 UK itunes chart, #8 Australian itunes chart, #16 US itune charts. 💣 🔥💣
"It's such a perfect day, take it just in case" - get me more then the next line even.
This song is beautifully done and needed. It's not sad to me, it's empowering. Its stripping walls of stigmatized talking points, straight from the artists mouth.
Agreed.
It really is very intimate. I really felt like an intruder the first time I watched it. But now I feel like i'm in it with them.
yep its so hard to feel ok cause something always goes wrong. Latest one was being blinded by the sun and getting into a motorcycle accident. Counting my blessings cus it could have been worse but partly crushed vertibre bunch of other damaged ones, rib, shattered both bones in left arm, broken pelvis, and hyper extended nerves in my shoulder. Part that truly sucks is that i work on a roof or in an attic all day. just being so physically weak when i was so strong just sucks
thank you for reacting to my two favourite artist ever ❤ and thank you for taking about mental health, am 63 and have suffered from mental health, and Ren has been my saviour I have followed him for years all his music is amazing ❤❤❤
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THANK YOU for not stopping it every 30 seconds like so many other reaction vids and just enjoying the song. Also when you did stop it, it was perfectly needed.
everyone has their own way of doing things
Anyone trying to silence ren is bs. He is an amazing artist who speaks to millions who have had health and mental health issues. I hope he continues to blow up. His music should be everywhere.
Agreed!!
Loved the reaction Brandy. This is such a powerful and emotional song, their collabs together are phenomenal. They are both gifted and talented artists. 🔥🔥🖤
Thank you 🤍
I agree with your message about mental illness. Good reaction. Btw Ren has made me a 50 year old tear up a few times while listening to his songs. I have suffered with Social Anxiety really bad my entire life. Some days are just so damn hard.
It’s unfortunate but life is really tough sometimes. But we have to push through 🤍
Yet another masterpiece composition from Ren! :)
GREAT REACTION BRANDY, I LOVED YOUR SENSITIVITY. YOU GOT THE PERFECT WORD: REAL!! THIS STUFF IS REAL, NO MATTER IF IT'S SAD OR HAPPY 🤘🏼🎶
Exactly 🤍
Found and sub'd ya today on the way to 12K here for you #chinchilla #Ren always ❤️
aww thank you! I seriously appreciate the love!
Beautiful message of positivity in your into. Needed to hear it
I loved your heart felt reaction!sending light , blessings and love your way ok ✨️🙏🫶 and you got a new sub thanks for your honest opinion 😊
Thank you so much!
@@SlayWithBrandy you're very welcome!
Loved your reaction and soulful description! ❤
Thank you!!
I saw that clip from CNN and it was the part of Hi Ren when he says you got to kill you if you want to kill me. They played that three second clip and try to say that the song was about suicide. They made a statement afterwards but it wasn't exactly an apology. It's possibly the best song ever
They need to understand the full context
CNN do understand the context but nefariously hijacked the snippet to push a distorted agenda that serves their purposes… it’s an insult to real victims to bastardise the original intent of the song 😢
Your reaction followed by your words that came straight from your heart. I could be your grandma and I have dealt with being bipolar most of my life and your eloquence at a young age blew me away. Hang in there.
Thank you so much, that truly means a lot to me 🤍
You are a sensitive, intelligent woman. Don’t apologize for your tears. They are expressions of your genuine humanity. And, yes, of course this song got to me as I’m sure it got to most people who have listened to it. Losing feelings because of anti-depressants is its own special breed of suffering and you do feel like the walking dead (thus the chalk outline around your ‘dead’ self). And you are right, what he writes has probably saved lives. He one of the most important and gifted artists I’ve seen in a LONG time. Thank you for reacting to him. More REN please.
Lovely reaction to a lovely song… I highly recommend the Ren & Chinchilla song How To Be Me (live) version… it’s another very deep song dedicated to his very good friend who sadly took his own life and the live version is performed on the bridge where he did it! ❤
I do agree on your recommendation, it is a really emotional and beautiful song, but it is not performed on the bridge were Rens friend took his life.
I believe they recorded this on a rooftop in Brighton.
Awesome reaction and final thoughts! It's always enjoyable to go on the Ren Emotional Rollercoaster with someone
thank you
This Guy is a Genius !!!!!
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the world needs more people like you. We empaths are so rare and REN is our Voice. Greetings from Germany.. We must give more love to all the angry people around us, or the world will fall.
Love the reaction. I am so happy I started watching reactions to music in particular. Witnessing the emotion music stirs up in people is fascinating ( sounds like a psych essay) but it is refreshing to see people being moved by music. Joy, love, sadness etc I find it comforting to see our humanity show ❤️ 😊
Here's a thought... something to consider. In the artistry of the video, is she really there? The lights flicker which Ren has used before to represent the supernatural. Also, she isn't there when the camera pans by the first time. It's she an angel? A former patient that has come back?
You never know
seen this 40 times at least. i still cried watching it again now. i loved your thoughts on this subject and song. keep it up
What an AMAZING speech you are giving people. I HEAR YOU. And thankyou! You are AMAZING!
More people need to hear these words and messages and if I can help that to reach people I will 🤍
The eye contact though... Crazy!!!
No other comment, but beautiful reaction! This chemistry of Ren/Chinchilla {Chills}
Great reaction love and respect from the UK 👍👍👍👍👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍
Thank you!!
If ya haven't yet... she dropped a video to Little Girl Gone that you'll Enjoy!!!
To say the keast! Lol
To say she's the Definition of Bad Bitxh is a Serious Understatement!!!!
I deff want to check that out next!
Chichilla has some pretty fire music on her own as well by the way :)
oh for sure!
Nice words you said, i suggest chinchilla fingers live for hunger tv, so you can feel her power by herself, also waiting for more Ren. Thanks for the video.
I’ll check that out next!
Love your reaction... (thumbs up)
Thank you!
Two types of people ones who are oo the harmony and the others the harmony and lyrics! We know we've been there
Ren and Chinchilla's "How to be me" live gets the feelings going also.
Coming up soon!
A beautiful reaction to watch , thank you x
I can take Ren, the woman tears me up emotionally.
Chinchillas fingers live on hungerTV is captivating to say the least….
They are even more in sync with each other on how to be me live….
It’s up next on my list!
58 years old and 15+ listens , and still ,the hairs on my neck stand up
I love your message at the beginning of the video
Thank you 🤍
"Sertraline and a sip of seratonin"...
THAT line, makes me feel sick to my core.
That's exactly what it's like. I miss one day of sertraline and I'm on a manic hyper spiral down.. and the amount of living f*cks, disappears out the window along with the will to live.
Luckily I have a brilliant couple of support workers who I appreciate more than most on this planet. Very aware of how fortunate I am in that respect.
Life is short make it the best one 💗
exactly
One of his best…and she is amazing!
Ren makes us remember that we are humans who NEED connections. I just subscribed, we are all locked in our bedrooms alone watching others locked away watching others…..time to go and and talk to real people about REAL things even if we’re not ok. Much love🇦🇺💫🌈
Came for the RenxChinchilla reaction, stayed for the Boston accent.
It got to me because you were emotional and I also liked what you have to say
Thank you 🙏
Mental health needs to be twalked about.
thats my NY accent coming out
great track, by both, good reaction
Great reaction Brandy
Thanks!
This was a great follow on to Hi Ren. Now move on to the Tale of Jenny and Screech. The full version. You will be blown away again.
Will do!
No sequencing, samples or auto tune. Just God given talent
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS
I would suggest the "Tale of Jenny of Screech" combined. It's amazing and you'll be thinking about it for days afterwards.
It’s up next!
As amazing as this this song is, wait til ya see "How To Be Me" you're gonna want to do the live version if you liked this song, it leveled me though, and trigger warning, Ren wrote it, not really about, but due to a friend that lost their battle with their demons, so to speak. You are only the second reactor I've seen, which has been a bunch, understand the line "I'm scared of being ok" the same as I understood it" Boy does that line hit deeeeeep for me.
I truly admire your wanting to have a positive outlook, and encouraging others through positive affirmations, you should keep doing so, but you can't possibly know those things to be universal for all people. I'm not playing who's trauma is worse, or trying to diminish yours or anyone's personal struggle, no matter how bad it is for one person, doesn't make what another went through or is going through any less earth shattering in their mind.
I am insignificant, I DO NOT matter, I am NOT important, I AM in my own head, and my head exists in reality, if I died the second I stopped typing this 99.9999% of the people on this planet wouldn't blink an eye or lose a second of sleep, and the people I matter to, is so god damn infinitely small and minute in the grand scheme of things, that logic insists that I'm insignificant. And I've had a decent run, and was a care giver for my community for many years, and had an average circle of friends, some are not even that fortunate. I do think we can make a difference in other people's lives, I do think we, as humans, can help others live a better more fruitful life, personally and by setting an example for others to see. I've lived my life by three simple rules....1 Never kick down, instead offer a hand up. 2. If you have the means and/or ability to help, then you have the responsibility to do so. 3. It's not that F-ing difficult to just be kind to other people, even when it is, it's still the path of least resistance. I don't regret living by that mantra, and there were times I failed to do so, but overall it's served me well, but sometimes life just goes sideways, and there's no finding your way back to the path you once enjoyed walking. I wish that weren't the case.
Don't let my debbie downer attitude stop you from trying to prove me wrong, or advocating for a positive outlook and mental health in general. In my former life, reading people quickly was essential to my job, and I could tell immediately that you have a beautiful soul, and a determined spirit that will fight for good with everything ya got, please don't let life take that from you, as it did from me. ✌️💚
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"on a lighter note we're checking out Chalk Outlines" umm....
That made me chuckle too.
Lol i didn’t realize the video would jump right into the thick of it haha. Poor choice of words after the fact 🤣
Ren is the hero we need!
Straight sub love you outlook on things and personality
What? You have GOT to check out Chinchilla singing Fingers LIVE...
WILL DO!
Great reaction, I had similar on my first watch too. Hope you are OK x
I am 🤍
Do Ren Blind Eyed - MC Sessions next!
omg.. love your beanie!
thank you!!
Definitely a song about fragility and the human condition. I'd love to hear a whole album from them. Love the vulnerability. A real window into the soul
Beautiful and haunting❤
Agreed
His music crushes me sometimes. In a good way.
I feel this so hard
The Renergy
🙌
How to be me is about the suicide of his best friend.
The guy jumped off a bridge, and his body was never found.
The live version was recorded on a bridge.
Oh wow i never knew
Do you really think that was appropriate?? For one, this is obviously a channel that is an advocate for all things relating to dealing with mental health, the details of his friends unfortunate death were not necessary, and if they were, it's polite to offer a trigger warning. Secondly, the fact the song was written because of that subject is ok to reveal via a trigger warning, but again, the details are a spoiler to the entire song since it's revealed at the end. Not trying to be a dick, nor am I saying you did anything intentionally mean, just a heads up to take a second to review/reflect before hitting "reply" ✌️
@Sunshyn ☼ Γƒƒ I just repeated Ren's own explanation.
If its OK with Ren, then all debate is null and void.
Any sapient human it free to ignore his words.
Stifling an artists words and vision to protect from potential harm to persons unknown is the thin end of a very dangerous wedge.
Thank you ❤
What I think.. Well, I think you will make additional findings about meaning of the song if you also listen to the Lyrical version of this beautiful song.
You are amazing 🤩
❤️
Great reaction 👍 🇬🇧
Thank you 🙌
Is that a slight Boston accent I hear? Love this reaction ❤
I’m from NY! It’s a NY accent! :)
That is called "Ren reaction".
Enjoy... there's so much more!
Beautiful pain
Yes it is
Love it😢
thank you!
Lovely wise words
Great reaction
Thank you!
Please do his songs Depression, Insomnia, and Crutch❤
i will add them to my list
I really hate to put you through this but The Tale of Jenny, Screech and Violet is a definite must. But please watch the full video as a whole. It’s a trilogy that will hit you even harder than the two you’ve already done…… but it’s worth it.
I’ll do that one soon too!
those fingernails though, i thought she was gunna manifest into freddy krueger
🔥🔥🔥👌
Are people trying to silence Ren? Too late, Ren’s train has left the station -- he's on his way.
1 in 12 people suffer the same as you, no one is alone.
💙
Ren's music is free no need for the filter/watermark😀
i dont have a watermark or filter on. I turn the opacity down a little bit for reacts just so youtube doesnt suppress videos upon upload (which they like to do a lot)
It’s ok to 😢
🤍
🔥🔥🔥🚒👩🚒🔥🧯🧯🧯🧯
Lachrymology
ren x chinchilla how to be me live next please!!
Stay strong and you'll be fine... in fact, u will prosper
💙
Im a 35 year old bloke and cant not cry to this song
It’s too hard not to