I listened to the wrong part 2! Don't know how I missed that, thanks for letting me know. The best place the suggest music for reactions and such is on our DISCORD! Join with this link: discord.gg/K8rV3AXuMm
Dont worry about doing the live version for part 2 (watch the lyric version yourself) he released part 2 during covid when UK was on lockdown so it just wasn't possible to have him and his friends come together to make a full live version as they normally would, the beach one was a sort of preview to try promote the full lyric video as I understand.
@@zeynep-jp9ui This is actually a one take video, it is not a one shot video, the difference being that there was one cut behind the wheelchair. Since there was a single shot before the cut, and one shot after, but both shots were done one time, or in one take. So that makes this a two shot, one take video. Incredible regardless.
@@majboomer1285it’s actually a one shot not a one take. A one take is without edits, a one shot is either a single long shot without any cuts or the illusion of a single long shot without any cuts. This was the illusion of a single long shot without any cuts and therefore it is a one shot
Ren's live performance video's are just that live! You can always count on Ren's live video to be true to form including MG3, which many reactors believe entirely that it was studio vocals layered over the natural ambient noise of the room giving it the feel of a live performance, but that couldn't be further from the truth. You can watch the BTS making of MG3 if you have any doubts, plus if you play that track from the Sick Boi album you'll notice that the song is at a quicker tempo and has no dramatic pauses within the song unlike this visual presentation. I'm sub's for your Ren journey and deep dive, because to be totally honest, you haven't even scratched the surface of how versatile and captivating this artist truly is. Cheers ✌.
Thank you for this! I can tell you know a lot about Ren’s work. I’m JUST learning about him and am amazed with every new track and video. I have a lot more to watch, apparently!
Watch Rens interview with The Charismatic Voice. He explains a lot on there about his process on these live one takes and how cleans a lot of it up in post production.
22:00 "I wonder what Ren's goal is here?" I love his message, "Choose good because the option exists." I wish this channel (and all the others as well) would react to Ren's new video, "Eden" 🙂❤
Message, we are teaching profit and greed before community and human need. Ren believrs that we should be using collective intelligence to creat a society that provides homeostasis for the earth and secured basic human support. Adjustments to our politics to ensure food,shelter and healthcare and medical research not based on profit and greed. But he says WE have the answer, if we WANT IT ENOUGH. HE does not have the answer, but we as a collective do.
You're totally right. We in America DO treat guns differently than they do in Britain. Last year Britain had 50 gun related deaths. We had 48,830. We could certainly teach them a thing or two.
For some reason my comment was deleted. Our country loves guns way too much to ever stop making them and using them. I lived in Detroit my entire life, and never owned a gun. But it's scary to think anyone could have one and end my life with 1 squeeze of a trigger.
I didn’t delete your comment! Might have triggered the comment moderation tool. Totally get it. But looking at that number, the majority of those deaths were suicide. Studies found that there are actually up to 2 million self defence uses of firearms per year. Which is a plus in my books!
Money Game 1 and 3 are both recorded live. Money Game 1 took something like 140 takes or something silly like that. And yeah, Ren does hours and hours of work to clean up the audio enough to get this quality with relatively low-end gear. He picked up a lot of those skills cleaning up busking videos for himself and friends where the videos were generally recorded outside and there's lots of ambient noise.
The irony of course being that in any City in the UK, if you know the right people and the right pub you can buy any virtually hand gun you want in half an hour. In London , Manchester or Liverpool you probably can do it in 15 mins.
You should definitely check out more Ren - for a completely different side of him, try I Shot the Sherrif/Road to Zion/Hip Hop with his band The Big Push (the busking version where Ren is wearing red suspenders). Or Genesis.
The sea shells section refers to the beginnings of the Shell oil company whoch started off selling sea shells from a store in London before diversifying into Oil
He did play the piano a piece he based on music by Grieg, the music the string quartet played he reworked from the music from the other Money Games and it's all live. Yes it was a real gun and ammunition but some one out of shot swapped the magazines, Ren insists on authenticity. There are a number of behind the scenes videos you might find interesting.
Not many reactors have mentioned the bad gun practice. Yes, it was a decommissioned .45 All one take, with the one cut. If you are interested, Wolf Johnson has made a short and a long video on the making of this. He flew to the UK to document the whole filming process. It is interesting to hear there are still people who find it hard to understand Ren does his one shots etc, live. He and the team he has gathered put a lot of effort into making these as an artform. They pride themselves on not following the current trend of producing fake and unnaturally perfect performances as much of the music industry does now days. If you really want to understand where he is coming from, just consume more of his work. It ranges from Dark, to emotional, to catchy and cheeky and anything and everything in between. Ren has some wonderful collaborations with artists like Sam Tompkins, Chinchilla, Victus, Eden Nash, Liv Sangster and a whole heap more. He was in a band called the Big Push also. If you are at all curious, you will look them up as well. I have never heard anyone regret having done so.
This is definitely live and it’s mind blowing. The time spent in choreography and rehearsal is enormous to make a one-take, or even a few takes video. I mean, even ONE SCENE in a movie takes days of rehearsal and careful human and camera choreography to get right. A 30 second commercial can easily include 50 cuts and a full day of shooting. That’s the trade off. Days spent shooting and then editing or days spend blocking and then rehearsing. Reshooting in its entirely, rather than scene by scene, until the whole thing is RIGHT. The only compromise I see here is that the camera is mostly locked off, so one element is less daunting, but still…this is a massive undertaking. So impressive. I often wonder if these one-take endeavors are even worth it, since the only people who notice are kind of movie geeks or production professionals. I don’t think the average viewer even notices, let alone appreciates the mountain of work and skill that’s involved. Think about how many people just didn’t appreciate the effort in the film “Les Miserables”. They may not like musicals or may have found it boring, I don’t know; I loved it. But most people didn’t notice that it was all sung LIVE and that that alone was unprecedented in movie musicals. Since then, there was the opening scene of “La La Land” which was also under appreciated…I’m rambling. This is a brilliant piece of work. That is all.
Ooh, I like the live and on the beach version of Money Game 2; haven't seen that one before. Yeah, they can see through the sacks on their heads, enough to get by anyway lol. If I'm repeating something, I apologize (I'm too lazy to read through 200 comments ha ha). Normally, his one-take videos have no cuts, but in Money Game 3 there is one cut where the camera goes around him when first placed in front of the strings. They had only one custom suit and it would have taken too long to wait for the suit and the floor to dry; plus they only had the one day to film it. One of the water spouts(?) malfunctioned and the one lady violinist's bow got sprayed (Ren and co. paid her for a new one), but she barely moved at all (you can see her moving her bow back as much as possible) so the shot wasn't ruined! If I could make a suggestion: if you are going to talk or comment on something, it's a good idea to pause the video first so you aren't talking over the music and potentially miss something. Then when returning to the video, hit the left arrow so it goes back 5 seconds, so again, you don't miss anything. If you normally do this, sorry, this is the first video I've watched of yours.
18:00 "What story-telling. Incredible story-telling." I am going to check to see if you've watched The Tales of Jenny and Screech. Yes, Ren is a great story teller! 🙂❤
Every single Ren song is live. Sometimes bc the different shots and so on it is cut or, recapture it 3-4 times max. There is a video about how the made Money Part3;there infos. Also as a photographer an n a cinematoprapher, musican myself, I can only say, it is everything above.
Monster … in his song, Monster, REN tells us that he is a vessel and whose messages he is channeling … the Adversary owns the yin and yang of this world. He has many captains and some are tasked to do the stuff that appears “ white “ and some are doing the obviously dark, ‘but if the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness?!?”
One cut! Just one. As the camera moved behind the wheelchair & his black jacket! That was the only one. Several rehearsals, obv. And it was REN playing the piano at the start, until Charlie took over because REN acknowledges that the music he’d written for the piano was beyond his ability to play, after the initial introductory piece. Charlie is a professional pianist.
Im gonna power thru this...even tho you did the live part 2. The things us watchers have to sit thru...1 cut, all real, he practiced/rehearsed that for months. Ren cares about the performance, if your gonna make/invent and try to find flaws, then Im gonna get defensive for him.....was a real gun (colt 45), however had been disabled. Was real ammo ...theres a switch that takes place off camera of someone handing ren an empty mag under his arm. Took great pains to get this accurate, because he knew thered be gun know it alls that wanna analyze it and, funniest thing,.. theyve all been wrong. If you ever mention/hint lip sync again tho....Thats all the other artists in your reactions. How many of them are even involved in a video planning.
Do you think Ren (his name is a proper noun that should start with a capital "R" btw) would approve of the threatening and rude tone of your comment? Do you not think it would be better to politely inform Isaac (I assume his name to be, please politely correct me if I am mistaken), one that is new to watching Ren, the correct information as known by the "RENegades" (aka Ren fans)?
whats rude? my typo or you insinuating the things you were, that were false. All i stated were facts related to the video. Sorry I didnt sugar coat it, im not known for being flowery. How you choose to interpret them is up to you. Im not taking an english test so dont care if I dont use caps for everything. I just find it interesting how some reactors look for flaws and try and predict them instead of reacting to the actual video thats playing. No other artist puts this much into a song/video or performance @@Uniquely-Unoriginal its a shame all of you dont show it/him the proper respect. Theres many reactors Ive watched that do. I also dont care about punctuation if you wanna grade me on that also, go ahead.
@@yarbafett -- I apologize. I just re-read my comment and I believe I made it sound like your whole comment was rude/threatening when it was just a couple phrases (or at least the one phrase (re. lip sync) that sounds threatening/rude). I'm just saying that maybe you should consider/use wording that is more polite/positive sounding when explaining the information. Constructive criticism in a positive way kind of thing. Hopefully, you know what I'm trying to get at. Ugh, I feel I am not explaining it right. I'm not grading anything, I ignored all grammar and punctuation errors. Hell, half the time, my punctuation isn't right and occasionally, spelling. I'm not an English teacher. I pointed out the capital "R" for his name because it's a pet peeve and find it disrespectful when anyone doesn't cap the first letter of anyone's name. I threw that in there because I could, so I did :D Anyhoo, oh yeah, I'm not a reactor and appreciate Ren and his art. He is amazing plus tax and deposit!
i fail at comedy a lot also, many comments are meant to be funny. No harm meant. I just get a lil defensive with Ren. My apologies as well@@Uniquely-UnoriginalI was actually enjoying the reacts except for those few comments.
it's amazing to me that you listened to Ren's take on immigrants and still managed to espouse the right wing nonsense. oh well, opinions are like *ssholes...
It’s not left or right wing. My wife almost couldn’t come to the states because of the amount of illegal activity that happens through the crossings of our border. It’s not an opinion. It’s experience.
@becauseisaac I get it! I have extended family who fled Russia & one family's sister left Ukraine under some bad circumstances (many years back). They went thru hell doing it "properly," so I can't imagine what is happening now. And sorry I played into the political thing. It just struck a nerve that it was even mentioned, much less in that fashion. Sigh, I'll grow up one of these days😀 I promise to play nice from here in out lol Look forward to seeing what you'll dive into next! ❤️✌️
@@becauseisaacthe advent of asylum seekers and even the 'illegal' crossings at the southern border and the ability for any other immigrants to enter the US (and attempting to gain citizenship) are not now or have ever been mutually exclusive, even considering the most stringent of quotas. And yes, actually, the thought process of which you based your opinion are in fact talking points of the conservative end of the spectrum, although fortunately the Overton window is shifting as the country's demographics continue to change. And though I also empathize with what I'm sure was a trying process to bring your loved one with you and go through a frustrating process of obtaining that citizenship, the tortuous (and I _do_ mean torturous) conditions which those entering at the border (even those _legally_ seeking asylum) is something I hardly call "free".. though unironically, it is the one thing these desperate people yearn for most..only to be judged by those who are truly 'free', but too 'dumb' to appreciate it.
The behind the scenes for MG3 was very interesting and the hand offs between the magazine he "loaded" the rounds into and the empty one that he put into the gun he winds up mishandling. Enjoyed your reaction to all of it.
20:57 - Thanks for catching that! I believe it's intentional, giving an object example of how a lack of discipline can be dangerous whether it's a firearm or a money game.
My god. You make me sad. Im glad you appreciate his art, though. And I DO believe that you "meant to be all preachy". And how tf did seeing this "make your day"???
Freedom without restraints always descends into chaos and capitalism without restraint is what we presently have. Mainly because we are in time period where people are especially concerned about their individual rights. To the extent that they can no longer see benefit in acting in a communal manner. The opportunity is coming far faster than many were anticipating.
12:10 really though capitalism only provides equal opportunity when its REGULATED: I.e. anti monopoly laws, consumer protection laws, etc etc. Those are policies that are fundamentally more SOCIALIST than CAPITALIST policies. Capitalism at its heart is "money first, for yourself", which really means "money for those who already HAVE money" (a vast swath of the billionaires alive today were born into wealth). In order to maintain high levels of wealth, you're fundamentally going to want to deprive others of the opportunity to really gain anything substantial themselves, which in turn means monopolisation and rampant privatisation that hinder fundamental services like healthcare or even prison systems (you can read about how private prisons make profit off their inmates, and how they incentivise putting more and more people, often minority groups, into jail). Capitalism is not the better evil, a mixed system combining the strengths of each is.
Please react to the money Game pt 2 (lyric video)❤ I want to see your reaction to it. The one you watched is the live cut and is only about one third of the actual song ❤
That was the wrong version of money games pt 2. You didnt listen to the full song. That video u watched was only 1 verse from the full song. (Like this comment so we can get a reaction to the full version of this song)
he sings all his stuff live, usually in one take, he's one of a kind and with all the miss-diagnosis in his youth and the shit he was told by so called professionals it's a miracle he's still alive and so glad he is. his music has had me in absolute tears, but you just have to listen because i feel everyone can relate to even one little, take that little bit and realise your life might not be as bad as you think it is, a true marvel.
Yes its a real 45..... he had a lot of fun getting it through customs in the UK, he loads the original clip with .45 ammo, but hands it off as the camera gives a close up of the gun on the table, he loads the gun with a second clip containing .38 ammo (all bullets were decommissioned)..... After the shoot had finished and they loaded the van up (they filmed at the fun factory in the UK) they were joking how they'd be able able to explain the Gun, Bags of wrapped powder and fake money in the van if they were ever stopped by the Police....
You have to dig all his history, all his years of music and creation, read on the amazing techniques deployed in each of his videos. You just met a genius creator, he is already an epic legend. Have fun!❤
Real gun but not loaded. In the behind the scenes for this video they show how they swap out the magazine he's loaded with bullets and he actually puts an empty (or with blanks) magazine. Totally safe.
Ren most definitely was NOT lipsynching in MG, nor in MG3 for that matter. Ren's known for his live, 1 take videos, as in Hi Ren. Money Game was also a live, 1 take. It was Ren and Sam's first attempt at a live, 1 take video and they underestimated the complexity of the format, resulting in about 180 attempts. Hi Ren, in contrast was just 4 takes, with the 3rd take being chosen. Money Game 3 was going to be single take but they had to make a single cut, as the 'rain machine' kept malfunctioning. If it's a live video from Ren, then it's a genuinely live performance and in almost all instances it will also be 1 take.
His music is so powerful. It takes the good, bad, and the ugly and puts it in our faces and sceams for us to look at it. Ren is agnostic by his own discretion, and I think he asks the questions that most believers (not of any particular faith) would steer clear of. Because once the question is asked, it demands an answer.
Great reaction fella. I'd be interested on your views of Rens track called Eden. It's was a video he created at the end of the puzzles he released to help launch his SickBoi album. But tells the story or Adam and Eve through Rens eyes. May be a good one to react to next.
Stumbled across your video on dark side of the moon. Great album. However, I feel Meddle is their best. They brought many things to today’s music. This album I believe is stripped down to their basics. Echoes takes you down many roads.
I didn’t watch the video and I’m a fan of Ren but I just came here to say I thought Kacey from Yellowstone was doing RUclips reaction videos when I was scrolling and saw your thumbnail 😂😂 I mean once I slowed down my scroll and looked closer I was like fuck I’m stupid but I had to share that with y’all haha 😂carry on
Hope you went back and watched the proper video with the full song of Money Game 2. It’s brilliant. Also, on his channel, Ren has. A short titled “ when you get in a rap battle on the way to Econ class “ - fantastic.
Re the “isms”, we live in a society, we’re societal animals, we need each other to survive, that’s a clue to humans needing socialism. Without socialism we’d all be either fighting each other & dying, or starving and dying. The true meaning of socialism is a million miles from Communism and as far from capitalism too. I think more education about the meaning of these societal constructs is necessary, but understanding the word SOCIAL is a good place for anyone, including you, to start.
Socialism, lol, the most flawed system of all. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions and I can’t argue with that, they also say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome, I can’t argue with that either
@@becauseisaac it's humanities weakness & greed that's the problem, not the theoretical proposition. Sadly, all the dogmas, the "isms" are open to corruption, but in the end we all depend on society ie:other people which is socialism at its best!
12:50 - Any decent pianist is able to play without looking at the keys. I would consider myself an average piano player, but once i've learnt a song i play it with my eyes closed. At the risk of sounding pretentious, playing with my eyes closed allows me to feel the song more and put more emotion into it. Also, for most songs you can't look at your hands/fingers. You could look at one hand or the other but not both at the same time because they're too far apart to be able to see both hands at the same time. Playing the piano is based on muscle memory rather than vision. So yeah... it's normal to be able to play blind folded. It basically makes no difference whether you can see or not. For reference I'm at grade 7 if that means anything to anyone. And generally the harder the song the less you are looking at your hands because you are moving them so fast and they are so far apart that it's impossible to see what you're playing. You feel it.
Ofcourse its not a real gun- this is the UK! You think you can get a real one even for a video shoot lol? Its a very good replica with accurate replica bullets- and even tho its a totaly none functional replica they had to import apparently it took tons of paperwork. How he was treating it was being in character- Jimmy didnt care by that point- and since it was a fake gun and fake bullets it was fine for Ren to treat it like that too. p.s- there was no shock value in Hi Ren- it was just a straight up video about himself a those thoughts. And yes- ofcourse his goal is to try to do some good with his music- on those songs with a social message.. most of his vids are about his own thoughts and feelings about his life and illness etc tho. Ren is always honest and open and upfront with his words- he doesnt do stuff just to shock- only to convey meaning. (unless were are talking about a rap/hip hop flex song lol)
This is proformance art as well as music. I love it. He represents the angst of his generation forced to live in a decaying world driven by greed on a colossal scale hell bent on extracting the last out of a dying system.
Ren is not lip syncing. Basically, him, the guitarist and the cameraman took 150+ takes to get to the final one-shot take. Ren uses post production to modify sounds, such as balancing volume due to the variability of what is captured on his lapel mic and the camera mic. Example, that utter raspiness in his voice at one point may be him or partially filtered. He does different things with the sound in videos such as layering. Ren specifically stated he does not (or rarely?) uses autotune. His voice is not perfection and he leaves it that way on purpose. That is a joy for us.
The gun is very much real in part 3. They had a lot of trouble to get a real Colt .45 into the UK for the shoot but they managed. But there is a cheeky mag switch, when the camera moves from him loading to focus on the gun on the table. So the mag he finally puts into the gun is empty.
Most of these "live" videos are recorded as a live performance. But then Ren spends weeks tweekimg post audio to clean up levels and compensate for mic positioning, cut out unwanted sounds and such.
Gun was a real deactivated gun. Rounds loaded into the clip were real, but even though the gun was deactivated legally in the UK they couldn't load them into the gun, so the clip is switched off camera.
The gun in part 3 is real when he is loading it. Just after he slides the magazine in, his hand leaves the frame and they swap the real fun for a prop gun for obvious reasons. Very fast and very well done.
No. Same gun different magazine. They couldn't have shells and a magazine that fit the gun. Since the calibre of shell had to be different, a second magazine was needed.
One take master. Although many people say there was one cut in Money Game part 3, but I don't see it. In a Ren interview, he talked about the pain staking it takes to edit his one shot videos.
He has to have the cut because they had to move the mic and waterproof it. Budget meant he only had one custom suit too and they couldn’t risk messing it up with the rain scene. Independent artist doesn’t have the luxury of an extra day shooting.
I so desperately wish I could just say my words and have it off my chest. There is just ... You aren't allowed to... there is this CRAZY, ABSOLUTELY VICIOUS system that 😳 literally 😳 ... My heart is so frustrated because the damage ... Are people ...
I listened to the wrong part 2! Don't know how I missed that, thanks for letting me know.
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First time I’d seen it live like that, really enjoyed it.
the live version is just a part of the lyrics version... you have to see it.
No lip syncing on MG1. Ren's singing into a lav mic; then he meticulously perfects the voice track.
Dont worry about doing the live version for part 2 (watch the lyric version yourself) he released part 2 during covid when UK was on lockdown so it just wasn't possible to have him and his friends come together to make a full live version as they normally would, the beach one was a sort of preview to try promote the full lyric video as I understand.
Love your reaction of this, I do like when some reactors do all 3 parts together. Ren is a master of one takes
Ren does one take. No lip sync
This one is actually two takes
@@zeynep-jp9ui This is actually a one take video, it is not a one shot video, the difference being that there was one cut behind the wheelchair. Since there was a single shot before the cut, and one shot after, but both shots were done one time, or in one take. So that makes this a two shot, one take video. Incredible regardless.
@@zeynep-jp9uiyes this is a two take. He didn't want a cut but he had to to get the string quartet in. He hates cutting
@@majboomer1285it’s actually a one shot not a one take. A one take is without edits, a one shot is either a single long shot without any cuts or the illusion of a single long shot without any cuts. This was the illusion of a single long shot without any cuts and therefore it is a one shot
@@Renagade999it’s a one shot
183 takes. This was their first live, one take. It was a huge effort. Ren's roomate and bandmate Romain on guitar
For Money Game 1
Just for MG1
AND their whole budget was one overhead light and a roll of gaffer tape!
He was the Kubrick of music videos with that one.
That's properly insane.
Ren's live performance video's are just that live! You can always count on Ren's live video to be true to form including MG3, which many reactors believe entirely that it was studio vocals layered over the natural ambient noise of the room giving it the feel of a live performance, but that couldn't be further from the truth. You can watch the BTS making of MG3 if you have any doubts, plus if you play that track from the Sick Boi album you'll notice that the song is at a quicker tempo and has no dramatic pauses within the song unlike this visual presentation. I'm sub's for your Ren journey and deep dive, because to be totally honest, you haven't even scratched the surface of how versatile and captivating this artist truly is. Cheers ✌.
Thank you for this! I can tell you know a lot about Ren’s work. I’m JUST learning about him and am amazed with every new track and video. I have a lot more to watch, apparently!
Watch Rens interview with The Charismatic Voice. He explains a lot on there about his process on these live one takes and how cleans a lot of it up in post production.
From a philosophical perspective you will probably find REN’s ‘Dear God’ and ‘Heretic’ interesting.
+1
22:00 "I wonder what Ren's goal is here?" I love his message, "Choose good because the option exists." I wish this channel (and all the others as well) would react to Ren's new video, "Eden" 🙂❤
I just searched for REN “Eden” reactions and I only had 4 reaction videos pop up, couldn’t believe it! It’s an amazing song.
@@staceyshaffer180 I know. I wonder if there is a reason I just don't get?
Message, we are teaching profit and greed before community and human need. Ren believrs that we should be using collective intelligence to creat a society that provides homeostasis for the earth and secured basic human support. Adjustments to our politics to ensure food,shelter and healthcare and medical research not based on profit and greed. But he says WE have the answer, if we WANT IT ENOUGH. HE does not have the answer, but we as a collective do.
Exactly...well said
Couldn’t have said it better
You should have done the studio version official lyric video of MG Part 2.
Lip syncing? 😂 you better seek shelter mate. The mob will ascend 🫣😆✌🏻
He said lip sync lol like my boy is Millie vanillie
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Thumb down to this video reaction it is then, just for the blasphemy.
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Right lol?! Well said mate!
You're totally right. We in America DO treat guns differently than they do in Britain. Last year Britain had 50 gun related deaths. We had 48,830. We could certainly teach them a thing or two.
They will never understand, because they love guns too much. It's scary to live here in the US because of that.
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Absolutely!
For some reason my comment was deleted. Our country loves guns way too much to ever stop making them and using them. I lived in Detroit my entire life, and never owned a gun. But it's scary to think anyone could have one and end my life with 1 squeeze of a trigger.
I didn’t delete your comment! Might have triggered the comment moderation tool. Totally get it. But looking at that number, the majority of those deaths were suicide. Studies found that there are actually up to 2 million self defence uses of firearms per year. Which is a plus in my books!
Money Game 1 and 3 are both recorded live. Money Game 1 took something like 140 takes or something silly like that. And yeah, Ren does hours and hours of work to clean up the audio enough to get this quality with relatively low-end gear. He picked up a lot of those skills cleaning up busking videos for himself and friends where the videos were generally recorded outside and there's lots of ambient noise.
I think I read 78 somewhere else
The gun was decommisioned and even that was tricky to source in the uk, there is a behind the scenes vid for money game 3.
The irony of course being that in any City in the UK, if you know the right people and the right pub you can buy any virtually hand gun you want in half an hour. In London , Manchester or Liverpool you probably can do it in 15 mins.
You should definitely check out more Ren - for a completely different side of him, try I Shot the Sherrif/Road to Zion/Hip Hop with his band The Big Push (the busking version where Ren is wearing red suspenders). Or Genesis.
That one is my favorite!
The sea shells section refers to the beginnings of the Shell oil company whoch started off selling sea shells from a store in London before diversifying into Oil
He did play the piano a piece he based on music by Grieg, the music the string quartet played he reworked from the music from the other Money Games and it's all live. Yes it was a real gun and ammunition but some one out of shot swapped the magazines, Ren insists on authenticity. There are a number of behind the scenes videos you might find interesting.
Not many reactors have mentioned the bad gun practice. Yes, it was a decommissioned .45
All one take, with the one cut. If you are interested, Wolf Johnson has made a short and a long video on the making of this. He flew to the UK to document the whole filming process.
It is interesting to hear there are still people who find it hard to understand Ren does his one shots etc, live. He and the team he has gathered put a lot of effort into making these as an artform. They pride themselves on not following the current trend of producing fake and unnaturally perfect performances as much of the music industry does now days.
If you really want to understand where he is coming from, just consume more of his work. It ranges from Dark, to emotional, to catchy and cheeky and anything and everything in between. Ren has some wonderful collaborations with artists like Sam Tompkins, Chinchilla, Victus, Eden Nash, Liv Sangster and a whole heap more. He was in a band called the Big Push also. If you are at all curious, you will look them up as well. I have never heard anyone regret having done so.
This is definitely live and it’s mind blowing. The time spent in choreography and rehearsal is enormous to make a one-take, or even a few takes video. I mean, even ONE SCENE in a movie takes days of rehearsal and careful human and camera choreography to get right. A 30 second commercial can easily include 50 cuts and a full day of shooting. That’s the trade off. Days spent shooting and then editing or days spend blocking and then rehearsing. Reshooting in its entirely, rather than scene by scene, until the whole thing is RIGHT.
The only compromise I see here is that the camera is mostly locked off, so one element is less daunting, but still…this is a massive undertaking. So impressive. I often wonder if these one-take endeavors are even worth it, since the only people who notice are kind of movie geeks or production professionals. I don’t think the average viewer even notices, let alone appreciates the mountain of work and skill that’s involved. Think about how many people just didn’t appreciate the effort in the film “Les Miserables”. They may not like musicals or may have found it boring, I don’t know; I loved it. But most people didn’t notice that it was all sung LIVE and that that alone was unprecedented in movie musicals. Since then, there was the opening scene of “La La Land” which was also under appreciated…I’m rambling. This is a brilliant piece of work. That is all.
The amount of time it took for the music industry to appreciate & recognize Ren is criminal.
Ooh, I like the live and on the beach version of Money Game 2; haven't seen that one before.
Yeah, they can see through the sacks on their heads, enough to get by anyway lol.
If I'm repeating something, I apologize (I'm too lazy to read through 200 comments ha ha).
Normally, his one-take videos have no cuts, but in Money Game 3 there is one cut where the camera goes around him when first placed in front of the strings. They had only one custom suit and it would have taken too long to wait for the suit and the floor to dry; plus they only had the one day to film it. One of the water spouts(?) malfunctioned and the one lady violinist's bow got sprayed (Ren and co. paid her for a new one), but she barely moved at all (you can see her moving her bow back as much as possible) so the shot wasn't ruined!
If I could make a suggestion: if you are going to talk or comment on something, it's a good idea to pause the video first so you aren't talking over the music and potentially miss something. Then when returning to the video, hit the left arrow so it goes back 5 seconds, so again, you don't miss anything. If you normally do this, sorry, this is the first video I've watched of yours.
Thanks for letting me know! Such an incredible piece of art.
@@becauseisaac -- You're welcome! I totally agree!
18:00 "What story-telling. Incredible story-telling." I am going to check to see if you've watched The Tales of Jenny and Screech. Yes, Ren is a great story teller! 🙂❤
Every single Ren song is live. Sometimes bc the different shots and so on it is cut or, recapture it 3-4 times max.
There is a video about how the made Money Part3;there infos.
Also as a photographer an n a cinematoprapher, musican myself, I can only say, it is everything above.
This isnt "shock factor" this is what some of us live
The Tale of Jenny and Screech (Full) is amazing as far as music and storytelling. Also one takes.
Monster … in his song, Monster, REN tells us that he is a vessel and whose messages he is channeling … the Adversary owns the yin and yang of this world. He has many captains and some are tasked to do the stuff that appears “ white “ and some are doing the obviously dark, ‘but if the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness?!?”
One cut! Just one. As the camera moved behind the wheelchair & his black jacket! That was the only one. Several rehearsals, obv. And it was REN playing the piano at the start, until Charlie took over because REN acknowledges that the music he’d written for the piano was beyond his ability to play, after the initial introductory piece. Charlie is a professional pianist.
Im gonna power thru this...even tho you did the live part 2. The things us watchers have to sit thru...1 cut, all real, he practiced/rehearsed that for months. Ren cares about the performance, if your gonna make/invent and try to find flaws, then Im gonna get defensive for him.....was a real gun (colt 45), however had been disabled. Was real ammo ...theres a switch that takes place off camera of someone handing ren an empty mag under his arm. Took great pains to get this accurate, because he knew thered be gun know it alls that wanna analyze it and, funniest thing,.. theyve all been wrong. If you ever mention/hint lip sync again tho....Thats all the other artists in your reactions. How many of them are even involved in a video planning.
Yep. Renegades will spread the word of Ren but we will make sure that it’s the truth. ❤️
Do you think Ren (his name is a proper noun that should start with a capital "R" btw) would approve of the threatening and rude tone of your comment? Do you not think it would be better to politely inform Isaac (I assume his name to be, please politely correct me if I am mistaken), one that is new to watching Ren, the correct information as known by the "RENegades" (aka Ren fans)?
whats rude? my typo or you insinuating the things you were, that were false. All i stated were facts related to the video. Sorry I didnt sugar coat it, im not known for being flowery. How you choose to interpret them is up to you. Im not taking an english test so dont care if I dont use caps for everything. I just find it interesting how some reactors look for flaws and try and predict them instead of reacting to the actual video thats playing. No other artist puts this much into a song/video or performance @@Uniquely-Unoriginal its a shame all of you dont show it/him the proper respect. Theres many reactors Ive watched that do. I also dont care about punctuation if you wanna grade me on that also, go ahead.
@@yarbafett -- I apologize. I just re-read my comment and I believe I made it sound like your whole comment was rude/threatening when it was just a couple phrases (or at least the one phrase (re. lip sync) that sounds threatening/rude). I'm just saying that maybe you should consider/use wording that is more polite/positive sounding when explaining the information. Constructive criticism in a positive way kind of thing. Hopefully, you know what I'm trying to get at. Ugh, I feel I am not explaining it right.
I'm not grading anything, I ignored all grammar and punctuation errors. Hell, half the time, my punctuation isn't right and occasionally, spelling. I'm not an English teacher. I pointed out the capital "R" for his name because it's a pet peeve and find it disrespectful when anyone doesn't cap the first letter of anyone's name. I threw that in there because I could, so I did :D
Anyhoo, oh yeah, I'm not a reactor and appreciate Ren and his art. He is amazing plus tax and deposit!
i fail at comedy a lot also, many comments are meant to be funny. No harm meant. I just get a lil defensive with Ren. My apologies as well@@Uniquely-UnoriginalI was actually enjoying the reacts except for those few comments.
it's amazing to me that you listened to Ren's take on immigrants and still managed to espouse the right wing nonsense. oh well, opinions are like *ssholes...
Enlighten us on how lefties are correct about...anything? Assholes indeed lol
It’s not left or right wing. My wife almost couldn’t come to the states because of the amount of illegal activity that happens through the crossings of our border. It’s not an opinion. It’s experience.
@becauseisaac I get it! I have extended family who fled Russia & one family's sister left Ukraine under some bad circumstances (many years back). They went thru hell doing it "properly," so I can't imagine what is happening now.
And sorry I played into the political thing. It just struck a nerve that it was even mentioned, much less in that fashion. Sigh, I'll grow up one of these days😀 I promise to play nice from here in out lol Look forward to seeing what you'll dive into next! ❤️✌️
@@becauseisaacthe advent of asylum seekers and even the 'illegal' crossings at the southern border and the ability for any other immigrants to enter the US (and attempting to gain citizenship) are not now or have ever been mutually exclusive, even considering the most stringent of quotas. And yes, actually, the thought process of which you based your opinion are in fact talking points of the conservative end of the spectrum, although fortunately the Overton window is shifting as the country's demographics continue to change. And though I also empathize with what I'm sure was a trying process to bring your loved one with you and go through a frustrating process of obtaining that citizenship, the tortuous (and I _do_ mean torturous) conditions which those entering at the border (even those _legally_ seeking asylum) is something I hardly call "free".. though unironically, it is the one thing these desperate people yearn for most..only to be judged by those who are truly 'free', but too 'dumb' to appreciate it.
The behind the scenes for MG3 was very interesting and the hand offs between the magazine he "loaded" the rounds into and the empty one that he put into the gun he winds up mishandling.
Enjoyed your reaction to all of it.
Thank you for your perspective and talking about the gift of eternal life!!! Preach mate….
The gun and rounds were real but when they did the close up of him loading it someone handed him an empty mag
Hey, I'm here for Ren! I want to see more of your reactions to the greatest artist and human being of this time!
20:57 - Thanks for catching that! I believe it's intentional, giving an object example of how a lack of discipline can be dangerous whether it's a firearm or a money game.
Reacting definitely not this chaps cup of tea, misses to much, think I will stick to Knox Hill a clever reacter
Luigi taught me to make a company
My god. You make me sad.
Im glad you appreciate his art,
though.
And I DO believe that you "meant to be all preachy".
And how tf did seeing this "make your day"???
You have hooked me.. I hope you keep going with Ren. The full tale of jenny and screen is a good one and another live one as well! Enjoy!
Welcome!
Freedom without restraints always descends into chaos and capitalism without restraint is what we presently have. Mainly because we are in time period where people are especially concerned about their individual rights. To the extent that they can no longer see benefit in acting in a communal manner.
The opportunity is coming far faster than many were anticipating.
12:10 really though capitalism only provides equal opportunity when its REGULATED: I.e. anti monopoly laws, consumer protection laws, etc etc. Those are policies that are fundamentally more SOCIALIST than CAPITALIST policies.
Capitalism at its heart is "money first, for yourself", which really means "money for those who already HAVE money" (a vast swath of the billionaires alive today were born into wealth). In order to maintain high levels of wealth, you're fundamentally going to want to deprive others of the opportunity to really gain anything substantial themselves, which in turn means monopolisation and rampant privatisation that hinder fundamental services like healthcare or even prison systems (you can read about how private prisons make profit off their inmates, and how they incentivise putting more and more people, often minority groups, into jail).
Capitalism is not the better evil, a mixed system combining the strengths of each is.
Please react to the money Game pt 2 (lyric video)❤ I want to see your reaction to it. The one you watched is the live cut and is only about one third of the actual song ❤
He actually posted the behind the scenes for the Money Game 3 video so you can see how he did it all in one shot.
MG1 one take. MG3 2 takes only 1 cut.
That was the wrong version of money games pt 2. You didnt listen to the full song. That video u watched was only 1 verse from the full song. (Like this comment so we can get a reaction to the full version of this song)
he sings all his stuff live, usually in one take, he's one of a kind and with all the miss-diagnosis in his youth and the shit he was told by so called professionals it's a miracle he's still alive and so glad he is. his music has had me in absolute tears, but you just have to listen because i feel everyone can relate to even one little, take that little bit and realise your life might not be as bad as you think it is, a true marvel.
I haven't seen the live version of 2 for a long time. That was really nice to see again.
Should be watched as a pair (For new viewers)
Yes its a real 45..... he had a lot of fun getting it through customs in the UK, he loads the original clip with .45 ammo, but hands it off as the camera gives a close up of the gun on the table, he loads the gun with a second clip containing .38 ammo (all bullets were decommissioned).....
After the shoot had finished and they loaded the van up (they filmed at the fun factory in the UK) they were joking how they'd be able able to explain the Gun, Bags of wrapped powder and fake money in the van if they were ever stopped by the Police....
He does all his stuff in one take!
You have to dig all his history, all his years of music and creation, read on the amazing techniques deployed in each of his videos. You just met a genius creator, he is already an epic legend. Have fun!❤
Your preach moment makes me want to suggest Ren's 'Dear God' song, if you haven't yet.
Or, perhaps its because you have 🤷😅
Real gun but not loaded. In the behind the scenes for this video they show how they swap out the magazine he's loaded with bullets and he actually puts an empty (or with blanks) magazine. Totally safe.
Fantastic reaction! I love your style ❤
Ren most definitely was NOT lipsynching in MG, nor in MG3 for that matter. Ren's known for his live, 1 take videos, as in Hi Ren. Money Game was also a live, 1 take. It was Ren and Sam's first attempt at a live, 1 take video and they underestimated the complexity of the format, resulting in about 180 attempts. Hi Ren, in contrast was just 4 takes, with the 3rd take being chosen. Money Game 3 was going to be single take but they had to make a single cut, as the 'rain machine' kept malfunctioning. If it's a live video from Ren, then it's a genuinely live performance and in almost all instances it will also be 1 take.
Wow. That’s dedication
His music is so powerful. It takes the good, bad, and the ugly and puts it in our faces and sceams for us to look at it. Ren is agnostic by his own discretion, and I think he asks the questions that most believers (not of any particular faith) would steer clear of. Because once the question is asked, it demands an answer.
There was no smeaky cuts, Ren also explained on his twitch stream that the entire thing was recorded live, and only had 1 cut! A Bona fide GENIUS
The call back-❤❤❤
Only one cut when the wheelchair spins round. Its a live performance.
Ren is a amazing because he talks about world wide problems
Please. Listen to the Tale of Jenny and Skreetch.
You will be floored.
This guy is crazy talented and original I love it.
Great reaction fella. I'd be interested on your views of Rens track called Eden. It's was a video he created at the end of the puzzles he released to help launch his SickBoi album. But tells the story or Adam and Eve through Rens eyes. May be a good one to react to next.
Stumbled across your video on dark side of the moon. Great album. However, I feel Meddle is their best. They brought many things to today’s music. This album I believe is stripped down to their basics. Echoes takes you down many roads.
I didn’t watch the video and I’m a fan of Ren but I just came here to say I thought Kacey from Yellowstone was doing RUclips reaction videos when I was scrolling and saw your thumbnail 😂😂 I mean once I slowed down my scroll and looked closer I was like fuck I’m stupid but I had to share that with y’all haha 😂carry on
Word to the could-be-wiser: assume that every performance is live.
Hope you went back and watched the proper video with the full song of Money Game 2. It’s brilliant. Also, on his channel, Ren has. A short titled “ when you get in a rap battle on the way to Econ class “ - fantastic.
such a shame you missed the right part 2 .. its the best one.. and its incredible
Re the “isms”, we live in a society, we’re societal animals, we need each other to survive, that’s a clue to humans needing socialism. Without socialism we’d all be either fighting each other & dying, or starving and dying. The true meaning of socialism is a million miles from Communism and as far from capitalism too. I think more education about the meaning of these societal constructs is necessary, but understanding the word SOCIAL is a good place for anyone, including you, to start.
The problem is, in paper socialism is great, but in practice, it’s always ended badly.
Socialism, lol, the most flawed system of all.
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions and I can’t argue with that, they also say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome, I can’t argue with that either
@@becauseisaac it's humanities weakness & greed that's the problem, not the theoretical proposition. Sadly, all the dogmas, the "isms" are open to corruption, but in the end we all depend on society ie:other people which is socialism at its best!
Yes that was Ren then Charlie replaced him on piano! Red wrote all the music for piano and strings
12:50 - Any decent pianist is able to play without looking at the keys. I would consider myself an average piano player, but once i've learnt a song i play it with my eyes closed. At the risk of sounding pretentious, playing with my eyes closed allows me to feel the song more and put more emotion into it.
Also, for most songs you can't look at your hands/fingers. You could look at one hand or the other but not both at the same time because they're too far apart to be able to see both hands at the same time. Playing the piano is based on muscle memory rather than vision.
So yeah... it's normal to be able to play blind folded. It basically makes no difference whether you can see or not.
For reference I'm at grade 7 if that means anything to anyone. And generally the harder the song the less you are looking at your hands because you are moving them so fast and they are so far apart that it's impossible to see what you're playing. You feel it.
Ofcourse its not a real gun- this is the UK! You think you can get a real one even for a video shoot lol?
Its a very good replica with accurate replica bullets- and even tho its a totaly none functional replica they had to import apparently it took tons of paperwork. How he was treating it was being in character- Jimmy didnt care by that point- and since it was a fake gun and fake bullets it was fine for Ren to treat it like that too.
p.s- there was no shock value in Hi Ren- it was just a straight up video about himself a those thoughts. And yes- ofcourse his goal is to try to do some good with his music- on those songs with a social message.. most of his vids are about his own thoughts and feelings about his life and illness etc tho. Ren is always honest and open and upfront with his words- he doesnt do stuff just to shock- only to convey meaning. (unless were are talking about a rap/hip hop flex song lol)
Ummm, newsflash, you can get real guns in the UK
it was a real gun, just decomissioned. The bullets were also real but they swapped to an empty mag when the camera panned to the gun
Ren definitely is a master story teller and wordsmith, among many other things 😊💜💜
Lip sync??? Sheesh. Do you even Ren bruh 😂
AMEN! ❤🕊❤
Please try the tales of Jenny and Screech (full) for a magnificent example of his story telling.
part 2 sounds so much better with the beat and brass kicks but the message is just the same :D
This is proformance art as well as music. I love it.
He represents the angst of his generation forced to live in a decaying world driven by greed on a colossal scale hell bent on extracting the last out of a dying system.
man described economics 101 in 2 minutes. i took it in high school for 2 semesters because i failed it the first time lol
Lol
Part 3 definitely my favorite
The mic is in his shirt you see it later on at the end
Ren is not lip syncing. Basically, him, the guitarist and the cameraman took 150+ takes to get to the final one-shot take. Ren uses post production to modify sounds, such as balancing volume due to the variability of what is captured on his lapel mic and the camera mic. Example, that utter raspiness in his voice at one point may be him or partially filtered. He does different things with the sound in videos such as layering. Ren specifically stated he does not (or rarely?) uses autotune. His voice is not perfection and he leaves it that way on purpose. That is a joy for us.
The gun is very much real in part 3. They had a lot of trouble to get a real Colt .45 into the UK for the shoot but they managed. But there is a cheeky mag switch, when the camera moves from him loading to focus on the gun on the table. So the mag he finally puts into the gun is empty.
You can see his microphone cliped to neck of his coat. He's singling live
The dude is honest a once in a generation artist imo. Really talented cat.
You should do a Stephen Wilson jr reaction to his album son of dad. Great lyrics and powerful songs. P.s. ren is also a genius
All live, one take!
He really didnt see the microphone on the raincoat..
Yeah it’s live many of his videos are check out Chalk outlines.
Most of these "live" videos are recorded as a live performance. But then Ren spends weeks tweekimg post audio to clean up levels and compensate for mic positioning, cut out unwanted sounds and such.
Gun was a real deactivated gun. Rounds loaded into the clip were real, but even though the gun was deactivated legally in the UK they couldn't load them into the gun, so the clip is switched off camera.
have you done the Weeknds "trilogy" album yet?
The gun in part 3 is real when he is loading it. Just after he slides the magazine in, his hand leaves the frame and they swap the real fun for a prop gun for obvious reasons. Very fast and very well done.
No.
Same gun different magazine.
They couldn't have shells and a magazine that fit the gun.
Since the calibre of shell had to be different, a second magazine was needed.
@@rogerstarkey5390 how did they swap out the magazine so quickly though. This was a one shot take yeah?
@@LochieOReillywatch the full BTS by Wolf Johnson and it shows it 🖤
Chalk Outlines!! if you wanna hear him sing live!!
We need the best bits of all ideologies. take lessons from everything good and bad.
One take master. Although many people say there was one cut in Money Game part 3, but I don't see it. In a Ren interview, he talked about the pain staking it takes to edit his one shot videos.
One cut was when camera zoomed behind wheelchair.
He has to have the cut because they had to move the mic and waterproof it. Budget meant he only had one custom suit too and they couldn’t risk messing it up with the rain scene. Independent artist doesn’t have the luxury of an extra day shooting.
There was a cut when they panned past the wheelchair before the rain scene. Confirmed by both Ren and Sam 🖤
He is the one take king. Seems to be a personal challenge for him.
I so desperately wish I could just say my words and have it off my chest. There is just ...
You aren't allowed to... there is this CRAZY, ABSOLUTELY VICIOUS system that 😳 literally 😳 ... My heart is so frustrated because the damage ... Are people ...
180 takes this took (Money Game 1) if I remember right. One hundred and eighty times they shot this! Insane!
Can’t believe he said he lip sync part 🤯
Pt 3 was done with only one cut and done in one take cause they didn’t have the time or recourses to do it again
I'm sure other people have said it, but that was not the official money game pt 2 video, missed a whole verse out.
Ren's the GOAT...
Should have listened to money game 2 official lyric video. This was just a snippet, not the whole song.