Brit Reacts To R.E.M - LOSING MY RELIGEON!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m going React To R.E.M - LOSING MY RELIGEON!
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REM is a band from Athens, GA. In the American South, "losing my religion" means to lose your temper or to feel frustrated. REM singer Michael Stipe said the song is about "romantic expression" and about "someone who pines for someone else. It's unrequited love, what have you". Stipe has repeatedly stated that the song's lyrics are not about religion.
@Paulab... I always thought it was about losing your faith in someone or something you took for granted or relied on.
I always heard it was about whacking it.
"My son's attitude has just about made me lose my religion . When he gets home we will have a come to Jesus meeting with his father. God willing and the Creeks don't rise, he gets home safely."........ Ah, the southern language! REM is great. Definitely one of the best of the 80s.
I think it's apparent that the video has a lot deeper meaning than just that traditional old Southern usage.
Great song! Infectious.
Oh R.E.M was my 90s. Them, The Cranberries, matchbox 20, 10,000 maniacs, etc. Blast from the past. 😊
No Nirvana?
Oh, that brings me back to the 1990’s. “You Outta Know”, “Jeremy”, “Zombie”. The MTV live version of Nivana’s “Man who sold the World”, and 10,000 Maniacs “Because the Night”- back when MTV was cool, and played music videos.
Losing my religion means losing my temper.
It's a Southern thing
This song is from their album "Out Of Time", which is kind of a must-have-record. Not a bad song on it! The album was sold 12 million times, got 40 platinum and 7 gold awards. Of course it was a no1 album in the early 90s and the band received 3 grammy awards for it. Fun fact: 19 musicians were involved recording it.
I agree! It's a must have. I first fell in love with R.E.M. when my older brother bought their record Murmur in the early 80s and I made a cassette recording of it and listened to it every night for months. I know every song on that album so well, and We Walk remains my favorite song of theirs (sentimental, I guess). Automatic For the People is another must have album by them. Such an amazing group.
Losing my religion is a southern US saying that means at the end of one’s rope!!
The song is great and I absolutely love all the Caravaggio references in the imagery - the director and art people did a great job of bringing those paintings to life.
stunning imagery, they did a great job
This is the first time I've seen the music video and I studied art history in high school and college. They replicated his paintings perfectly! So glad I finally saw the mv.
Caravaggio is one of my favorite painters, too bad he died so young. The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, where I live has Caravaggio's "Card Sharps" in its collection. Great stuff!
One of my teachers would say if the class wasn’t listening would say, “Y’all are making me loose my religion” meaning she might do something not acceptable in her religion or she was losing her patience.
This is one of my favs. Michael Stripes voice with the haunting music is great.
Stipe
this song was a smash hit around the world and helped put them up there with U2 and other top bands as for the phrase "losing my religion" meaning to lose patience I have lived in the Deep South my entire life and have NEVER heard anyone use it⚛😀
I've lived in Texas my whole life and have also never heard it used this way, but I know it's an expression. Always loved this song, and all their songs. Miss REM. They were incredible and was sad to see them retire, but at least they ended on a high note.
I've always loved this song....one of the best existential crisis songs out there
You should check out Everybody Hurt by REM if you want a really thought provoking song.
I’ve seen some react to Everybody Hurts, but they haven’t read the printed thoughts of the people in the cars.
@@pauletteraspberry2923 Seems kind of half-assed.
No thoughts to add to what others have said - I'm really glad you have heard this song now. I like REM.
For me who was a teenager around the time I first heard this song (and wholly unfamiliar with the Southern slang), I personally always felt that it kind of "ethereally" described the quintessential teenage experience of trying to figure out who you are and where you fit into the world, since nearly all of us feel the surreal chaos inherent during that period of intense development (and which seemingly appeared in the video too). 😊
This song was on one of my high school mix tapes and I'd never seen the video.
This is a great song! If you look carefully, you'll see Michael Angelo, Leonardo Di Vinci, and maybe others in the scenes. You'll probably see scenes of other religions also.
You have to check out Everybody Hurts it will hit you right in the gut.
Love this song & video!
My mother called me about a decade ago, telling me she'd heard a song in the speakers at the local mall and she liked it a lot and hoped I could find it for her as an mp3, but she didn't remember any of the lyrics and she couldn't recall the melody (lol). The only thing she could say about it was that it had it two guitars playing, one high and one kinda deep. It instantly made me think of this song, which I already had as mp3, so I sent it to her and sure enough, that was the one 😄 I didn't see the music video until a few years ago and I've no idea what's happening with that but I love the song.
I love R.E.M., one of my favorite bands. You should check out Orange Crush by them, that's my personal favorite.
This song reminds me of my childhood friend, who came out. We were Green at the time..
If you like this band, they have about 30 more hits, so enjoy!!!
Great song
You should do living on a prayer reaction
REM was one of biggest bands in the world in the 90s. They went on a hiatus and never where talked about again. It's weird they were so big and got forgotten so quickly.
Such as classic now
Please react to The Cranberries Zomie. Iy you haven't heard it!!! Her voice is ridiculous
Is it bad that I prefer The Wolves remake. I prefer the original lyrics, but the anger that The Wolves' lead singer is able to emote just fits the nature of the song.
@@XandycaneI wish we could have heard her on it too, that was the original idea, they were planning a collaboration and then she, sadly, passed away before they could record anything.
@@dinogirrl1 I know. It's would've been epic blending the voices.
One of my favorites from them.
It's a metaphor
Losing my religion is when being polite gives way to rage
I have a song recommendation for you, Lightning Crashes by the band Live!
Plus from, a musical standpoint, it was the first ever number 1 song where a Mandolin was the lead instrument... NOT GUITAR!
This band is from my neck if the woods, Athens, GA. They have had many albums and the Automatic for the People is a great one. The title came from Weaver D's Soulfood Restaurants in Athens. When I worked at a grocery store the owner would order over a ton of Chitterlings a month for a once a month cook and he always had to turn people away because he would run out. BYW; Chitterlings are large hog intestines. You clean, clean clean them then you boil them and then you roll them in flour and fry them. They taste like chewy chicken skin with a porky taste. My family cooked five pounds thus month and people were fighting over them. We love to dip them in a mixture of hotsauce and mustard. Some folks will tell you that this is just what slaves ate, but I know a lot of people that love them, white and black. I will say that the Southern Black people more than likely are who first cooked them. I'm white and Southern and I have no problem telling anyone that you will NOT find a better cook than a Black Southern cook and NEVER go to a older Southern lady's house and refuse to eat. They will offer you food and it will truly hurt their feelings if you don't accept some food from them. My friend Bertha taught me to cook like a Black Lady cause she could make anything taste good. Most people in the South don't look at color. When everyone was poor then you just helped each other out. I've heard the older people say they didn't know they was suppose to be racist and Noone had more than the other cause they just wasn't anything to have. My dad's family moved so much because he said when the rent came due they moved cause they just didn't have any money. This was in the share cropping years, which was just another name for modern slavery. The mining up North has their own type of slavery. That was called the company store. Lots of things have happened that hurt people in this Country some of it almost as bad as Slavery and in some ways worse! The Chinese and Irish were treated horrible and the Natives were treated wore than slaves. The thing that brings us together is food and music. Just a little history lesson.
I gotta shout out another great Athens band as well.....The B52s! UGA students were so lucky!
Remember that different tribes went to war, conquered and enslaved other tribes, engaged in cannibalism, and wiped out entire tribes BEFORE the arrival of the Europeans. Plus, Indians migrated from Asia. And, INDIANS OWNED SLAVES, INCLUDING BLACK SLAVES. The ones that own slaves became rich. It’s not all victimhood for these groups. It’s a historical FACT not opinion.
@@Heidi51616 The sad thing is they don't teach history anymore. My son's school book had 2 paragraphs about WWII. I have more than 30 books on that war and it would take a lifetime to learn what happened and changed because of this one war. My son told his teacher that his mom had forgotten more about that war than she ever knew. Yes, we had a meeting cause her feeling got hurt. She got a very through education on history and manners!
Best about this song, take from it what you think.
«Losing one's temper or civility
The phrase "losing my religion" is an expression from the southern region of the United States that means "losing one's temper or civility" or "feeling frustrated and desperate." Stipe told The New York Times the song was about romantic expression.»
When you don’t know something, or not sure what it means, GOOGLE IT!!!
Losing My Religion’s Meaning
Unlike early R.E.M. songs, “Losing My Religion” features lyrics you can understand. And yet, they were largely misunderstood anyway. Was it sacrilegious? A kiss off to the establishment? Were R.E.M. advocating that you reject the church and stop celebrating Christmas?
In fact, this was not the case. “Losing my religion” is actually an old southern expression for being at the end of one’s rope, and the moment when politeness gives way to anger. But if you were missing that key detail, you’d think that Stipe’s vague imagery was clearly a comment on the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Stipe, who comes from a long line of Methodist ministers and is an admirer of Buddhism, was merely giving a little known southern saying a poetic facelift, by building a wall of evocative words around it. The gravity he conjures with his hurt, reedy keen is immense. “I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing.” When he gets to the line “oh no, I’ve said too much,” it sounds devastating.
The single was accompanied by a moody art house video, which MTV spun constantly. Inspired by a short story from 1,000 Years Of Solitude author Gabriel García Márquez, it was the first to feature Stipe (looking as despondent as possible, in need of a back rub) lip syncing, a practice he had studiously avoided. Stocked with androgynous angels, it begins with a pitcher of spilt milk.
Thanks in part to its ambiguous imagery (“I’ve always felt the best kinds of songs are the ones where anybody can listen to it, put themselves in it and say, ‘Yeah, that’s me,’” said Stipe) the song would penetrate the global consciousness, from Dubai to Des Moines, and became R.E.M.’s biggest hit.
The love from MTV, and the fact that alternative rock bands were supposed to remain as such, created an inevitable backlash. Some said the band had grown too big, prompting Buck to retort: “The people that changed their mind because of ‘Losing My Religion’ can just kiss my ass.” In many ways, they’ve been struggling with their success, and their image, ever since.
R.E.M. never had another hit quite like “Losing My Religion,” though they’d rule the radio for a heady few years, with modern classics like “Man in the Moon” and “Everybody Hurts.” Then, like all bands, they got older. Drummer Bill Berry left and went back to the farm, spinning them in new artistic directions; their subsequent attempts to make radio friendly singles, instead of making singles that were radio friendly, ended up putting them at odds with a large chunk of their audience. But as R.E.M., Pearl Jam, and countless others have proven, bands don’t really need an audience outside of their hardcore fans. And of that, there are many… and they’re quite religious about it.
The song reminds me of 1992.
hey Kabir, you should listen to Heart of Gold by Neil Young. Fills your soul
Yes, you got it!, without that knowledge many that it had to actually do with religion, loosing their virginity etc. When it is actually them finally just being angry and fed up with the situation . Saying hey I am done.
This is high school for me. You have to have heard shiny happy people, right?
Losing my religion in the South means you are about to "cuss up a storm" and are "spitting mad" usually getting ready to fight!!
so has anyone told him that he misspelled religion?
Look up the meaning of "religion"
GEORGIA REPRESENT!
A Southernism… losing your patience or temper…he is in conflict on how he is reacting to a situation…
Thought provoking, aren’t they?
Losing my religion in the south means to get angry at someone. He's angry at someone and the religious depictions in the video kind of twist the meaning a little bit.
This song doesn't need visuals The video is all wrong in my opinion. Watch REM just preform it
To me he is love with someone who isn't trying ai though that I heard you laughing I thought that I saw you try 😢 I'm a baby boomer That's my opinion for what's its worth.
REM are awesome