This is the third or fourth reaction I’ve watched you do with Ren. You are incredibly good at hearing the lyrics and being able to spit them back perfectly, while also understanding the meaning behind it. Enjoying your trip down the Ren rabbit hole. Keep doing what you do.
Your reaction made me cry as much as the song does. Ren was called by a friend in the middle of the night that Joe had called her to say he was on the bridge. Ren lived closest and ran to the bridge but he was minutes too late. Another friend, Callum Mackay, died 6 months later in a tragic accident, Ren composed a piano piece tribute to him too. Imagine being so ill and carrying all that sadness too, my stomach turns at the thought. 😢
Wow, thank you so much for this background information. I can’t imagine the pain he must still feel from that. This is Such a beautiful way to pay tribute to Joe however.
It gets worse - Ren lost another friend right after Joe - all still in their early 2Os. The track McKay is avtribute to this otger friend, Callum. Suicide vegins witj Ren's own feelings about that act and ends with those about Joe - which is also this 1st section of For Joe. This is a mash up of that section of Suicide with his other song (and album title) Freckled Angels - Joe had a face full of freckles. And another new bit that sandwiches them together.😊
I have been loving your reactions to Ren's music. Your empathy,intelligence,the way you just "get it" is something special to witness young man. You have a beautiful aura that radiates all around you from deep inside, I believe you would really hit it off with Ren. Please keep the Ren reactions coming.....you're a joy to watch ❤
Thank you so much for your positive feedback & support🙏🏾. I truly appreciate great music with substance to it! Every time I listen to ren I feel as if I am a little bit smarter
@@1KZayyI’m in my upper 50s…Ren is the most amazing artist of any kind that I’ve seen in a generation. He, his talent, his life story are otherworldly. Welcome to the Ren Rabbit hole!
You don't need the turtleneck, lol. After seeing several reactions I find you extremely insightful and intelligent. You might like to know that Joe's death came when Ren was very sick and ready to give up. After seeing the fallout for Joe's family, Ren decided he could never do that to his.❤ The turtleneck was hilarious though😂
Ren filmed this in Calgary Alberta. Yes, Joe unalived himself. There are a few songs inspired by the event. Freckled Angels and How to be me. Awesome reaction 🫂💕
The reason he says freckled angels is because Joe was covered in freckles. His face is also on the cover of Ren’s album Freckled Angels which you can see on his YT page. There’s also a restaurant in Ren’s hometown called Freckled Angels in honour of Joe’s memory. Love your reactions, insights but most of all your smile. Keep up the good work!! Much love from the UK xx
“I am so glad I found out about this {guy} bro this {guy} is amazing” is how we Renegades all feel. So glad I get to live in a time where I watch the appreciation for Ren grow.
Not only did his best friend Joe commit suicide but 6 months later his other best friend died in the strong water current too!! The other dedicated song is Mckay and it's a piano piece because this wordsmith couldn't find the words 😢
Good morning my beautiful RENgades! And the newbies that will be a RENegade once you start diving deep at all. If you aren’t a REN fan, keep listening to new stuff. Just a few more Stuff you haven’t and before you realize it, you willl be stuck wanting to hear more. If you listened to “Hi Ren ,” jump straight to Ren and Sam Thompkins “Earned it/Mans World,” and crap your self when Ren opens his mouth, and then jump straight to “The Hunger.” Try to wrap your mind around the f act that there is a Human that can do both if those songs. Very few could do that vocal, and none that can do that live vocal. With. Any comparable abilities could turn around an album he. do fThe Hunger Games. No other artist. But then just imagine that you haven’t scraped the surface. If you listen to those two videos and aren’t holding your breath, waiting to see what else is possible, you literally don’t understand music and respect greatness. And that’s ok. You will grow up and realize now wrong you were
Beautiful reaction! I love the way you share your emotions and interpretations. You have become one of my faves! Continued luck and good vibes with your channel!
if ever you listen to the track suic!de by Ren, you can hear the first part of this live performance the way it sounded when he first sang the words as he was writing them. 💔
Love your unique reaction. This song always gets to me. Ren was in Calgary, Canada I believe when he filmed this he was in Canada for 18 months getting treated for his illnesses. 👍😊👍❤️
I lost my child. It doesn't matter how old you are or how many years go by, the "what if's" never end. I've actually been avoiding this song, and one other song... holy shit I'm glad I listened, that was good. Now I gotta find out what freckled angels are. I'm saving Suicide for when I'm a little stronger. The breaks you provided in this song made it managable
Thank you so much for listening to this with me. Sending so much love your way. I don’t even know you but you are such an amazing individual. Thank you so much for sharing, I appreciate your support. Keep being strong🫶🏾
@@jacks9624 thank you for the info, honestly I hardly ever pay attention to album covers anymore with all the streaming services, but I will definitely go check this one out
Joe had freckles. There have been plenty of pictures of him. Ren also does big fundraisers every year and donates to the volunteer (?) search and rescue type of unit that searched and searched for Joe. He also donated the Freckled Angels money to Joe's Mom.
1K Z A Y this is an amalgam of 3 songs, 'Freckled Angels', 'Dominoes' and 'Suicide'. Each of those songs you should react to; each is special in a very different way. Great reaction.
Your reaction was beautiful, be proud of yourself for you have that beautiful quality called empathy. You are a pleasure to tune into and your reactions prove that you just get it . Keep going with Ren, loving your reactions ❤
Every song Ren drops is more amazing than the last. This man is a legend. We are witnessing the birth of a star :) Thank you so much for sharing this reaction ... one of my favorites ... and one of my favorite Ren songs! More Ren please :)
Crying!!!!! Ren's honesty,authenticity is exquisitely beautiful!!!! Deep respect,love to Ren & everyone reading this!!!!! 😢😭🙏🥰🫶💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🧡🩷❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️
This always brings tears. Such powerful words. Please go back and listen to Freckled Angels. Joe had freckles and I believe he wrote it soon after he passed. So good❤❤❤ great reaction again😊❤️ oh and this was filmed in Calgary Canada, where he was getting his treatments.
Great reaction, one of the best I've seen.. Ren can make you laugh, cry, and every other emotion. Keep it up , its great to have a reactor to look to for Ren reactions. ❤
Great reaction man 👍❤🫂 The beginning of this song is the end of his song Suis!de. Ren as well incorporated parts of his songs Freckled Angels and Dominos. Joe Hughes jumped off the Menai Bridge in Wales in December 2010. If you wanna know the whole story, check out chapter 1 - an autobiographical reading by Ren - other his channel RenMakesStuff. Joe's face was covered in freckles. You can see them on the cover of Ren's album Freckled Angels. In June 2023 Ren donated 21K Pounds he had raised to the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) on Anglesey, who helped find Joe in that night and the following days. Another friend of Joe's opened a restaurant later and named it Freckled Angels as well.
Double Dutch in the UK means gibberish, not a skipping game as in the US. Fibonacci sequences are mathematical patterns, orderly. So he sees the world as disorderly and orderly.
That’s so interesting, because as an American who thought he meant our version of double Dutch, I took it to mean complex rhythm. Double Dutch is a real art form in that way.
Loving all the reactions. The more you learn about Rens backstory the more you’ll love and marvel at his music. Just randomly pick anything to react to and it’s all great
Damn I am loving your reactions. You are so respectful to the artist, and you take your time to understand what the artist is saying. So glad I subbed.
Ren and Joe lived on Anglesey,an island connected to the mainland by the menai bridge, he ran to the bridge but Joe was gone. He also has another song freckled angels. Joe was covered in freckles, apparently, and there's a cafe near the spot named after the song. I think freckled angels is a better song. I don't think I've seen another reactor do this one. So what next? Genesis? Murderer? I don't think you've done kujo beat down But,BUT before you watch it ,watch rens video where he explains what happened. Loving your learning curve 1k🇬🇧💙
Ren and Joe, we're childhood m8 they met through their parents in the late 90s as their parents were into going to music festivals, and they took the kids with them. They both grew up in Anglesea Wales. Anglesea is on an island at the northwestern tip of Wales. It's connected to the mainland via a very high bridge over a very deep fast tide rip stretch of the Irish sea. Joe had been struggling with mental problems and had been up on that bridge many times before, but he always got back down from the railings and went home. On the fateful night, he'd phoned a m8 to say he was up on that bridge again, and that m8 immediately phoned Ren, and Ren dropped everything and legged it towards the bridge . It was a very stormy night, and blowing a hooligan up on the bridge , Ren was trying Joe phone while he was running towards the bridge, and after several tries with a ring tone it went off. When Ren got to the bridge, there was no sign of Joe. Joes m8s concluded that Joe must have been blown off balance and lost his grip and fell into that deep rip current of water. The local lifeboat ( The RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat institution ) crew searched for Joe for 4 days solid but never found him. Some years later, Ren returned to Anglesea with a cheque for 10k pounds for the RNLI their a charity organisation. And he visited Joes mum and gave her the money for her to buy the motorhome she'd always wanted. That's the kind of bloke our Sick boi is. He possesses a very big heart.!!! It's hard to watch that one. You did well. That was a great reaction . 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧👍🤙😁❤️🇺🇲
‘Mackay’ is another video Ren made that’s dedicated to yet another friend he lost. 😢 The crazy thing is -it’s instrumental, but he still manages to tell a story with the music! Incredibly moving and powerful.
There are 4 songs that make up a “series” about his childhood best friend Joe Hughes. “For Joe” was the last one and personally I think that it helped Ren find some psychological closure. RENs first album FRECKLED ANGELS is dedicated to him, as is the Title track “ Freckled Angels” This is what REN wrote in the pinned comments section for this song: I met Joe when I was 8 years old, my friend Josh said I had to meet this guy, so we both walked over to his, it took about 10 minutes from my house. I was greeted by this kid covered head to toe in freckles, he grinned at us, climbed onto the back of his sofa and screamed “Swanton Bomb!” then front flipped off the top and landed right onto his back on a stone floor. He lay still for a moment, twitched a few times, then got up, grinned at us, brushed himself off, and did it again. This was Joe. He’d do anything to make people laugh. He ended up becoming one of my best friends. He was there when we stole our first cigarettes out of his mum’s pack, way too young. He was there when I had my first kiss, with a girl twice my size on the back of the 42 bus. He was there when I first got so drunk I threw up in the woods after drinking as much White Lightning Cider as we could. I was there when he did his first backflip on skates, and saw him do a 720 off of the pier cave, that moment became legendary. Joe was the funny one in our friend group, he’d make us laugh till it hurt. No one had a bad word to say about him. It was impossible not to like him. Usually we put celebrities, athletes and actors on pedestals, turn them into role models and admire them from a far. The person I admired was Joe. He knew every word to the songs I’d write, we’d get drunk at parties and they’d be singing along as loud as they could. It gave me a lot of confidence back then. On Christmas Eve 2010 I was sitting in a pub with Joe, he’d been feeling low after a couple of consecutive break ups. He tried to check himself into a mental health outpatient facility a few weeks earlier but they turned him away because he didn’t have an appointment. He turned to me and said that sometimes he wished he could just walk into the sea and keep walking. He said it in a kind of half joking throw away comment type of way, then took a sip of his drink, walked over to the juke box and put Dig by Incubus on. If I knew that was the last time I’d see Joe I’d have hugged him, told him how much I loved him, how much I looked up to him, how much we all loved him, and I wouldn’t have left that pub. I didn’t know that, so I finished my drink, said Happy Christmas and left. Two nights after Christmas I got woken up by a phone call at 3am, it was my friend Ella. She told me Joe was on the Menai Bridge, a large suspension bridge connecting the main land to the Isle of Anglesey where we lived. He’d been on the phone to her in tears saying goodbye. He told her to tell everyone he loved them. I pulled on my clothes as fast as I could and started running toward the bridge. It was up a hill. I lived about a ten minute walk away, I could run it in five. As I ran I started dialling then redialing his number. The line was busy, which was a good sign, it meant he was still on the phone to someone. As I got about halfway, the busy tone changed. It told me the line was out of service. I got a sinking feeling and picked up my speed. I arrived to the bridge minutes after I left my house. It was deafeningly quiet. I was the first person to arrive. I got there probably about 2 minutes too late. Joe’s body was never found. Initially we refused to believe he was gone. The coastguard came out that night, with boats, and helicopters. Me and my friends spent the next 10 days putting up missing posters everywhere we could, walking up and down beaches with flashlights, getting about 3 hours sleep a night. When you’re walking up and down a beach with a torch when its dark everything looks like a body. We still haven’t found Joe. As his birthday came around, I wrote a song, Freckled Angels, a song I dedicated to Joe which I sang in front of his friends and family. A charity football match was put on for him, raising money for the RNLI where I won two bottles of wine in a raffle, I drank them both as quickly as I could, naturally, turned to my friend and probably slurred something along the lines of “This is the last time I ever drink” That was 12 years ago, I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol since. My first ever album I named Freckled Angels in tribute of one of the best people I ever knew. Skip forward some years. I’d been sitting on this song I wrote a few years ago. It always felt a little incomplete. It was going to be my next release, but I was dreading it because of this feeling of incompletion. I decided, very last minute, to do something about it. I sat by my piano, and the rest of the song fell out of me. I hadn’t thought about Joe in a little while, and the song initially wasn’t going to be about him, but the words all fell out of me. I wrote and recorded a whole 2 minutes extra, recording each part as I wrote it. Tears spewing out of my eyes pretty much the whole time, and decided not to do my usual thing of perfecting each line, I just recorded every line as it came. That song is Ren’s latest single Suic*de. During the campaign for the single he raised money for the RNLI, and also donated 50% of the profit on all copies of the ‘Freckled Angels’ album directly to Joe’s family. We managed to raise an incredible £21,000 for the RNLI, an incredible team of volunteers, who risk their lives without pay to aid calls of distress from British shores. The night Joe went missing they were out on the choppy stretch of water between Anglesey and the Mainland, until 5am, looking for Joe, without pay, from the goodness of their hearts. They continued the search efforts for the entire following week until hope dwindled. They owed us nothing, and gave us everything. I decided to pay a visit to Joe’s mum and dad. I was asked to play them the new live session I recorded in Calgary. It was probably the most nervous I’ve been playing someone a video that I’d made. The topic isn’t an easy one, especially for parents who have lost an incredible son. I nervously hit play, and the gravity of what I was showing sunk in and I began to cry. In the end we sat in silence, silently sobbing. Joe’s mum turned to me and smiled and we hugged, and I felt much lighter. It made me really realise I guess what I’ve always known. Music is far more than music. It’s a channel of communication for the things that are impossible to say. It’s a bridge between the living and the dead. It’s a way to stay immortal. It’s a way to resurrect the dead. It’s a universal language. It cuts down barriers of the parts of you which are encapsulated in steel cast iron. It allows frozen rivers to thaw and become un-stagnant. I owe myself, my life, everything I am to music. Music is the closest thing to god I know. I am so grateful to be doing what I do and to tap into this mystic force. My life, my energy, myself, I eternally devote to it. Since you began here I suggest going backwards because you will see and hear how each song ties in together. So…. Su!cide (the end is where “ For Joe” begins) ** HOW TO BE ME with Chinchilla LIVE* [ REN did this alone, sitting on his bed. He broke down before the end verse and stopped but came back to finish.He also wrote as a caption that he considered not posting it because he was crying during it, but not only did he finish it UNEDITED he also wrote WHY he posted it unedited: Because the rate of S among males is 4X higher than that of females BECAUSE OF THE STIGMA ASSOCIATED WITH NOT ONLY EXPRESSING ONES FEELINGS BUT IN ALLOWING YOURSELF TO BE VULNERABLE ENOUGH TO SHOW THEM. BECAUSE IT TAKES STRENGTH AND COURAGE AND HE WANTED TO SHOW THAT. And of course he followed with the hotlines that offer help for those struggling Freckled Angels ( there’s a live version of a very young Ren performing in on stage
Fibonacci sequence is patterns in mathmatics. You look great in a turtleneck, but your emotional IQ shines through with or without the turtleneck ❤ How to Be Me with Chinchilla touches on how we lose ourselves when a loved one dies. Would love to see your reaction to Ren in that piece of art 😊
Welcome to the Ren Rabbit Hole. I’ve been in it for a year and a half and I still find new content. I’ve recently learned his genre is knows as Bardcore, but as you’ve seen he has a million styles, even within a single performance! A few of my lesser-known faves: Humble, ft Eden Nash Voodoo Child, a warm-up he did for a Big Push busking sesh. It is only a partial clip but amazing. Live version of “Dominos”, also only a partial clip.
Please check out 'freckled Angela's the album version. There's no video but you have to close your eyes and listen trying not to pause too much. He wrote the song freckled angels a few months after Joe died. A beautiful song ❤❤❤
I really do enjoy your Ren reactions, as a young man you give me hope that other young men have a chance to be in a better place when it comes to their emotional and mental health... its so good to see more positive role models, we are in need of them, THANK YOU
Tear ducts...lol. Fibonacci sequences and double dutch (in the UK double dutch means gibberish) so it means order and chaos. Freckled Angels was Ren's first album, Joe was covered in freckles. Ren shared his loss, but he also shared Joe with the world. RIP - he is now known (and in a way remembered) by millions.
Ren exists on a different level compared to other artists. It’s actually not fair to compare other artists to Ren. It’s taking a while for people to find Ren, and that’s not a bad thing. It’s actually going to be hard to share him with the masses. I’m hoping the “Swifties” and such won’t quite “get him”. Ren deserves a following that operates on a different level. I think his raunchy sense of humor will just get him in trouble with people of lesser intelligence. This sounds snobby, and it’s not meant to. I just think that differences in culture and intellect can create trouble sometimes. Loving your reactions. Thanks😉💙✌️
I really enjoy your reactions and say the same as everyone else , you really pay attention and understand what the songs are saying .. keep that joy you radiate 💚
Joe Hughes is his name Ren is singing about, he ended up committing suicide and ren was only about two minutes away from the bridge joe jumped from as well as another of ren friend. They kept searching for joe but they never did, unfortunately Callum he mentioned in the song as well committed suicide. Years afterwards ren met a woman and it was joe Hughes cousin actually. Ren is a welsh artist that suffers from autoimmune disease and Lyme disease. Every song he does youll see he pours his heart into. His story is called chapters 1-9 i believe by Ren. It'll help understand Ren. The song and album freckled angela is dedicated to joe as well i believe every time this song is played it goes towards the Joe Hughes foundation. Ren doesn't make money off this, it all goes to Joe's family. Joe Hughes and Ren gills grew up together since Ren was 9 years old, he's now 31 i believe and this song took a long time for him to make, he is crying as well as in the end of the suicide song by him. He's in a lot of ways like the rapper NF with lyrics and pouring their heart out. The difference between them is one curses the other doesn't but I do believe if ren and NF duo together it would be 🔥 freckled Angels not Angela my bad
Joe was Rens best friend Joe took care of his parents so when Joe died Ren gave them money to help them as well. I was crying you can hear and feel the pain Ren has for Joe. 1K I love the man you are as boyfriend husband and father you would be exceptional. lol
be careful i listen to nothing but Ren, friends of Ren and reactors of Ren. It's easy to slip into his world .😇 this is a PSA announcement! great reactions
Great reactions man..when I discovered this MF I listened to his catalog ONLY for months! He has so many songs and I haven't found 1 that's bad..he is in a category by himself..listen to suicide..it's about joe too
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This is the third or fourth reaction I’ve watched you do with Ren. You are incredibly good at hearing the lyrics and being able to spit them back perfectly, while also understanding the meaning behind it. Enjoying your trip down the Ren rabbit hole. Keep doing what you do.
Sobbed throughout this whole video!! So Beautiful! RIP Joe!!
Me too, me too! 😢
Your reaction made me cry as much as the song does.
Ren was called by a friend in the middle of the night that Joe had called her to say he was on the bridge. Ren lived closest and ran to the bridge but he was minutes too late. Another friend, Callum Mackay, died 6 months later in a tragic accident, Ren composed a piano piece tribute to him too.
Imagine being so ill and carrying all that sadness too, my stomach turns at the thought. 😢
Wow, thank you so much for this background information. I can’t imagine the pain he must still feel from that. This is Such a beautiful way to pay tribute to Joe however.
It gets worse - Ren lost another friend right after Joe - all still in their early 2Os. The track McKay is avtribute to this otger friend, Callum. Suicide vegins witj Ren's own feelings about that act and ends with those about Joe - which is also this 1st section of For Joe. This is a mash up of that section of Suicide with his other song (and album title) Freckled Angels - Joe had a face full of freckles. And another new bit that sandwiches them together.😊
I have been loving your reactions to Ren's music. Your empathy,intelligence,the way you just "get it" is something special to witness young man. You have a beautiful aura that radiates all around you from deep inside, I believe you would really hit it off with Ren. Please keep the Ren reactions coming.....you're a joy to watch ❤
Thank you so much for your positive feedback & support🙏🏾. I truly appreciate great music with substance to it! Every time I listen to ren I feel as if I am a little bit smarter
Agreed!
@@1KZayyI’m in my upper 50s…Ren is the most amazing artist of any kind that I’ve seen in a generation. He, his talent, his life story are otherworldly.
Welcome to the Ren Rabbit hole!
I second this!
Third this 😂❤
You don't need the turtleneck, lol. After seeing several reactions I find you extremely insightful and intelligent.
You might like to know that Joe's death came when Ren was very sick and ready to give up. After seeing the fallout for Joe's family, Ren decided he could never do that to his.❤
The turtleneck was hilarious though😂
LOL thank you so much for the kind & positive feedback 🥺🙏🏾. Thought the turtleneck would give me a sophisticated look for the video lol😂
Ren filmed this in Calgary Alberta.
Yes, Joe unalived himself. There are a few songs inspired by the event. Freckled Angels and How to be me.
Awesome reaction 🫂💕
The reason he says freckled angels is because Joe was covered in freckles. His face is also on the cover of Ren’s album Freckled Angels which you can see on his YT page. There’s also a restaurant in Ren’s hometown called Freckled Angels in honour of Joe’s memory.
Love your reactions, insights but most of all your smile. Keep up the good work!! Much love from the UK xx
“I am so glad I found out about this {guy} bro this {guy} is amazing” is how we Renegades all feel. So glad I get to live in a time where I watch the appreciation for Ren grow.
Your empathy pours out! Love this reaction ❤️❤️❤️
Not only did his best friend Joe commit suicide but 6 months later his other best friend died in the strong water current too!! The other dedicated song is Mckay and it's a piano piece because this wordsmith couldn't find the words 😢
I just commented about Mackay too. Ren is amazing, even without words!
“Some will die before they live…”
My absolute favorite line.
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Good morning my beautiful RENgades! And the newbies that will be a RENegade once you start diving deep at all. If you aren’t a REN fan, keep listening to new stuff. Just a few more Stuff you haven’t and before you realize it, you willl be stuck wanting to hear more.
If you listened to “Hi Ren ,” jump straight to Ren and Sam Thompkins “Earned it/Mans World,” and crap your self when Ren opens his mouth, and then jump straight to “The Hunger.” Try to wrap your mind around the f act that there is a Human that can do both if those songs. Very few could do that vocal, and none that can do that live vocal. With. Any comparable abilities could turn around an album he. do fThe Hunger Games. No other artist. But then just imagine that you haven’t scraped the surface.
If you listen to those two videos and aren’t holding your breath, waiting to see what else is possible, you literally don’t understand music and respect greatness. And that’s ok. You will grow up and realize now wrong you were
incredible reaction, your words are very wise, you have a good heart, thank you very much!!!!!
Beautiful reaction! I love the way you share your emotions and interpretations. You have become one of my faves! Continued luck and good vibes with your channel!
if ever you listen to the track suic!de by Ren, you can hear the first part of this live performance the way it sounded when he first sang the words as he was writing them. 💔
5:21 I gave myself a hug for you right when you did. Hugs man! 🫂💜
Your reaction is real man. Thats how it hits all of us. Hand shake ! Welcome in!
That is one emotional song, i feel ya bro.
Love your unique reaction. This song always gets to me. Ren was in Calgary, Canada I believe when he filmed this he was in Canada for 18 months getting treated for his illnesses. 👍😊👍❤️
A beautiful tribute🎉 id recommend checking out Fred Again Mashup. Very entertaining and still manages to pull on your heartstrings...in a good way😊
I lost my child. It doesn't matter how old you are or how many years go by, the "what if's" never end. I've actually been avoiding this song, and one other song... holy shit I'm glad I listened, that was good. Now I gotta find out what freckled angels are. I'm saving Suicide for when I'm a little stronger. The breaks you provided in this song made it managable
So sorry for your loss. Just FYI, Joe is the freckled angel. He was covered in freckles.
@@LadyGX oh! Didn't know that, thank you 🧡
Thank you so much for listening to this with me. Sending so much love your way. I don’t even know you but you are such an amazing individual. Thank you so much for sharing, I appreciate your support. Keep being strong🫶🏾
@@EandMLeid Joe's face is on the cover of the Freckled Angels album
@@jacks9624 thank you for the info, honestly I hardly ever pay attention to album covers anymore with all the streaming services, but I will definitely go check this one out
Joe had freckles. There have been plenty of pictures of him. Ren also does big fundraisers every year and donates to the volunteer (?) search and rescue type of unit that searched and searched for Joe. He also donated the Freckled Angels money to Joe's Mom.
You are a special person! Much love to you brother.
1K Z A Y this is an amalgam of 3 songs, 'Freckled Angels', 'Dominoes' and 'Suicide'. Each of those songs you should react to; each is special in a very different way. Great reaction.
Your reaction was beautiful, be proud of yourself for you have that beautiful quality called empathy. You are a pleasure to tune into and your reactions prove that you just get it . Keep going with Ren, loving your reactions ❤
Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤
You get him, feel him.
Suicide and How to be Me (live version) go hand in hand with this song.
I cried all over again watching your reaction. Big heart you have ❤
Every song Ren drops is more amazing than the last. This man is a legend. We are witnessing the birth of a star :)
Thank you so much for sharing this reaction ... one of my favorites ... and one of my favorite Ren songs! More Ren please :)
Quickly becoming my favorite reactor. The empathy flowing through you is contagious my guy. Big brother love for you.
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Crying!!!!! Ren's honesty,authenticity is exquisitely beautiful!!!! Deep respect,love to Ren & everyone reading this!!!!! 😢😭🙏🥰🫶💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🧡🩷❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️
This always brings tears. Such powerful words. Please go back and listen to Freckled Angels. Joe had freckles and I believe he wrote it soon after he passed. So good❤❤❤ great reaction again😊❤️ oh and this was filmed in Calgary Canada, where he was getting his treatments.
😥😥💔 The section of "Freckled Angels" is my breaking point. Thanks for your empathy.
Beautiful, thank you 💜
Thank you so much for your support, I appreciate you🫶🏾
Thank you for your beautiful, heartfelt reaction. Subbed for your Ren journey.
Such a wise head on young shoulders loving your ren reactions bro 🇬🇧😊
Great reaction, one of the best I've seen.. Ren can make you laugh, cry, and every other emotion. Keep it up , its great to have a reactor to look to for Ren reactions. ❤
Great reaction man 👍❤🫂
The beginning of this song is the end of his song Suis!de. Ren as well incorporated parts of his songs Freckled Angels and Dominos.
Joe Hughes jumped off the Menai Bridge in Wales in December 2010. If you wanna know the whole story, check out chapter 1 - an autobiographical reading by Ren - other his channel RenMakesStuff. Joe's face was covered in freckles. You can see them on the cover of Ren's album Freckled Angels. In June 2023 Ren donated 21K Pounds he had raised to the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) on Anglesey, who helped find Joe in that night and the following days. Another friend of Joe's opened a restaurant later and named it Freckled Angels as well.
Ren Genesis, you'll know why when you've watched it... "Some that's born lucky, there's some that's not".
Saddledome in Calgary-
My Canada 🇨🇦 buddy 🍻🙂
Love your reactions bro
Much love and respect.
REN is ace 👍🏼🇬🇧
Loved your reaction, thank you ❤️
Such a beautiful song. Thank you so much for your support 🫶🏾
LOOKING SMART BROTHER, GO YANKS!
Thank YOU brother 🙏🏾🔥. Go YANKEES💪🏽
Really enjoying your Ren reactions. Thanks!
I'm not crying, you're cr... OK, I'm crying. 💜
Such a beautiful song😭🫶🏾
Double Dutch in the UK means gibberish, not a skipping game as in the US. Fibonacci sequences are mathematical patterns, orderly. So he sees the world as disorderly and orderly.
That’s so interesting, because as an American who thought he meant our version of double Dutch, I took it to mean complex rhythm. Double Dutch is a real art form in that way.
Thank you for your beautiful heart- felt reaction!!!🫶🫶🥰🥰🫂🫂☮️☮️
Loving all the reactions. The more you learn about Rens backstory the more you’ll love and marvel at his music. Just randomly pick anything to react to and it’s all great
Damn I am loving your reactions. You are so respectful to the artist, and you take your time to understand what the artist is saying. So glad I subbed.
Thank you so much for the positive feedback !!! I truly appreciate your support 🙏🏾🫶🏾
Ren and Joe lived on Anglesey,an island connected to the mainland by the menai bridge, he ran to the bridge but Joe was gone. He also has another song freckled angels. Joe was covered in freckles, apparently, and there's a cafe near the spot named after the song. I think freckled angels is a better song. I don't think I've seen another reactor do this one. So what next? Genesis? Murderer? I don't think you've done kujo beat down But,BUT before you watch it ,watch rens video where he explains what happened. Loving your learning curve 1k🇬🇧💙
Ren and Joe, we're childhood m8 they met through their parents in the late 90s as their parents were into going to music festivals, and they took the kids with them.
They both grew up in Anglesea Wales. Anglesea is on an island at the northwestern tip of Wales. It's connected to the mainland via a very high bridge over a very deep fast tide rip stretch of the Irish sea.
Joe had been struggling with mental problems and had been up on that bridge many times before, but he always got back down from the railings and went home.
On the fateful night, he'd phoned a m8 to say he was up on that bridge again, and that m8 immediately phoned Ren, and Ren dropped everything and legged it towards the bridge .
It was a very stormy night, and blowing a hooligan up on the bridge , Ren was trying Joe phone while he was running towards the bridge, and after several tries with a ring tone it went off.
When Ren got to the bridge, there was no sign of Joe.
Joes m8s concluded that Joe must have been blown off balance and lost his grip and fell into that deep rip current of water.
The local lifeboat ( The RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat institution ) crew searched for Joe for 4 days solid but never found him.
Some years later, Ren returned to Anglesea with a cheque for 10k pounds for the RNLI their a charity organisation.
And he visited Joes mum and gave her the money for her to buy the motorhome she'd always wanted.
That's the kind of bloke our Sick boi is. He possesses a very big heart.!!!
It's hard to watch that one. You did well. That was a great reaction .
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Thank you for this one. It's amazing too see your raw emotions and I appreciate you g💜🔥much love g
Love watching with you. Ren reminds us to feel deeply.
Much love ❤️ Sue
‘Mackay’ is another video Ren made that’s dedicated to yet another friend he lost. 😢 The crazy thing is -it’s instrumental, but he still manages to tell a story with the music! Incredibly moving and powerful.
Ren reminds us to feel what we're feeling and don't shy away from it. He's out there being real as hell.
Loved this! You have become a part of my morning routine. Keep them coming!! ❤
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There are 4 songs that make up a “series” about his childhood best friend Joe Hughes. “For Joe” was the last one and personally I think that it helped Ren find some psychological closure. RENs first album FRECKLED ANGELS is dedicated to him, as is the Title track “ Freckled Angels”
This is what REN wrote in the pinned comments section for this song:
I met Joe when I was 8 years old, my friend Josh said I had to meet this guy, so we both walked over to his, it took about 10 minutes from my house. I was greeted by this kid covered head to toe in freckles, he grinned at us, climbed onto the back of his sofa and screamed “Swanton Bomb!” then front flipped off the top and landed right onto his back on a stone floor. He lay still for a moment, twitched a few times, then got up, grinned at us, brushed himself off, and did it again.
This was Joe. He’d do anything to make people laugh. He ended up becoming one of my best friends. He was there when we stole our first cigarettes out of his mum’s pack, way too young. He was there when I had my first kiss, with a girl twice my size on the back of the 42 bus. He was there when I first got so drunk I threw up in the woods after drinking as much White Lightning Cider as we could. I was there when he did his first backflip on skates, and saw him do a 720 off of the pier cave, that moment became legendary.
Joe was the funny one in our friend group, he’d make us laugh till it hurt. No one had a bad word to say about him. It was impossible not to like him. Usually we put celebrities, athletes and actors on pedestals, turn them into role models and admire them from a far. The person I admired was Joe.
He knew every word to the songs I’d write, we’d get drunk at parties and they’d be singing along as loud as they could. It gave me a lot of confidence back then.
On Christmas Eve 2010 I was sitting in a pub with Joe, he’d been feeling low after a couple of consecutive break ups. He tried to check himself into a mental health outpatient facility a few weeks earlier but they turned him away because he didn’t have an appointment. He turned to me and said that sometimes he wished he could just walk into the sea and keep walking. He said it in a kind of half joking throw away comment type of way, then took a sip of his drink, walked over to the juke box and put Dig by Incubus on.
If I knew that was the last time I’d see Joe I’d have hugged him, told him how much I loved him, how much I looked up to him, how much we all loved him, and I wouldn’t have left that pub. I didn’t know that, so I finished my drink, said Happy Christmas and left.
Two nights after Christmas I got woken up by a phone call at 3am, it was my friend Ella. She told me Joe was on the Menai Bridge, a large suspension bridge connecting the main land to the Isle of Anglesey where we lived. He’d been on the phone to her in tears saying goodbye. He told her to tell everyone he loved them. I pulled on my clothes as fast as I could and started running toward the bridge. It was up a hill. I lived about a ten minute walk away, I could run it in five. As I ran I started dialling then redialing his number. The line was busy, which was a good sign, it meant he was still on the phone to someone.
As I got about halfway, the busy tone changed. It told me the line was out of service. I got a sinking feeling and picked up my speed. I arrived to the bridge minutes after I left my house. It was deafeningly quiet. I was the first person to arrive. I got there probably about 2 minutes too late.
Joe’s body was never found.
Initially we refused to believe he was gone. The coastguard came out that night, with boats, and helicopters. Me and my friends spent the next 10 days putting up missing posters everywhere we could, walking up and down beaches with flashlights, getting about 3 hours sleep a night. When you’re walking up and down a beach with a torch when its dark everything looks like a body. We still haven’t found Joe.
As his birthday came around, I wrote a song, Freckled Angels, a song I dedicated to Joe which I sang in front of his friends and family. A charity football match was put on for him, raising money for the RNLI where I won two bottles of wine in a raffle, I drank them both as quickly as I could, naturally, turned to my friend and probably slurred something along the lines of “This is the last time I ever drink” That was 12 years ago, I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol since.
My first ever album I named Freckled Angels in tribute of one of the best people I ever knew.
Skip forward some years. I’d been sitting on this song I wrote a few years ago. It always felt a little incomplete. It was going to be my next release, but I was dreading it because of this feeling of incompletion. I decided, very last minute, to do something about it.
I sat by my piano, and the rest of the song fell out of me. I hadn’t thought about Joe in a little while, and the song initially wasn’t going to be about him, but the words all fell out of me. I wrote and recorded a whole 2 minutes extra, recording each part as I wrote it. Tears spewing out of my eyes pretty much the whole time, and decided not to do my usual thing of perfecting each line, I just recorded every line as it came.
That song is Ren’s latest single Suic*de. During the campaign for the single he raised money for the RNLI, and also donated 50% of the profit on all copies of the ‘Freckled Angels’ album directly to Joe’s family.
We managed to raise an incredible £21,000 for the RNLI, an incredible team of volunteers, who risk their lives without pay to aid calls of distress from British shores. The night Joe went missing they were out on the choppy stretch of water between Anglesey and the Mainland, until 5am, looking for Joe, without pay, from the goodness of their hearts. They continued the search efforts for the entire following week until hope dwindled. They owed us nothing, and gave us everything.
I decided to pay a visit to Joe’s mum and dad. I was asked to play them the new live session I recorded in Calgary. It was probably the most nervous I’ve been playing someone a video that I’d made. The topic isn’t an easy one, especially for parents who have lost an incredible son. I nervously hit play, and the gravity of what I was showing sunk in and I began to cry. In the end we sat in silence, silently sobbing. Joe’s mum turned to me and smiled and we hugged, and I felt much lighter.
It made me really realise I guess what I’ve always known. Music is far more than music. It’s a channel of communication for the things that are impossible to say. It’s a bridge between the living and the dead. It’s a way to stay immortal. It’s a way to resurrect the dead. It’s a universal language. It cuts down barriers of the parts of you which are encapsulated in steel cast iron. It allows frozen rivers to thaw and become un-stagnant. I owe myself, my life, everything I am to music. Music is the closest thing to god I know. I am so grateful to be doing what I do and to tap into this mystic force. My life, my energy, myself, I eternally devote to it.
Since you began here I suggest going backwards because you will see and hear how each song ties in together. So….
Su!cide (the end is where “ For Joe” begins)
** HOW TO BE ME with Chinchilla LIVE* [ REN did this alone, sitting on his bed. He broke down before the end verse and stopped but came back to finish.He also wrote as a caption that he considered not posting it because he was crying during it, but not only did he finish it UNEDITED he also wrote WHY he posted it unedited: Because the rate of S among males is 4X higher than that of females BECAUSE OF THE STIGMA ASSOCIATED WITH NOT ONLY EXPRESSING ONES FEELINGS BUT IN ALLOWING YOURSELF TO BE VULNERABLE ENOUGH TO SHOW THEM. BECAUSE IT TAKES STRENGTH AND COURAGE AND HE WANTED TO SHOW THAT. And of course he followed with the hotlines that offer help for those struggling
Freckled Angels ( there’s a live version of a very young Ren performing in on stage
Fibonacci sequence is patterns in mathmatics. You look great in a turtleneck, but your emotional IQ shines through with or without the turtleneck ❤ How to Be Me with Chinchilla touches on how we lose ourselves when a loved one dies. Would love to see your reaction to Ren in that piece of art 😊
Welcome to the Ren Rabbit Hole. I’ve been in it for a year and a half and I still find new content. I’ve recently learned his genre is knows as Bardcore, but as you’ve seen he has a million styles, even within a single performance!
A few of my lesser-known faves:
Humble, ft Eden Nash
Voodoo Child, a warm-up he did for a Big Push busking sesh. It is only a partial clip but amazing.
Live version of “Dominos”, also only a partial clip.
Please check out 'freckled Angela's the album version. There's no video but you have to close your eyes and listen trying not to pause too much. He wrote the song freckled angels a few months after Joe died. A beautiful song ❤❤❤
There is a live version on video..
I really do enjoy your Ren reactions, as a young man you give me hope that other young men have a chance to be in a better place when it comes to their emotional and mental health... its so good to see more positive role models, we are in need of them, THANK YOU
💟💟💟💟🖤🖤🖤🖤 thank you for the lovely reaction
I actually stayed up all night watching your Ren reactions.They were awesome!Loved it!!!!!
Bro your reaction did this song justice. ❤ you just earned another renegade sub
Tear ducts...lol. Fibonacci sequences and double dutch (in the UK double dutch means gibberish) so it means order and chaos. Freckled Angels was Ren's first album, Joe was covered in freckles. Ren shared his loss, but he also shared Joe with the world. RIP - he is now known (and in a way remembered) by millions.
He this song is beautiful & heartbreaking. Ren pours his soul out over those keyboards! Yet another great Ren reaction @1KZAY
Maybe check out Ren and Orlean - Jessica. Also looking forward to you getting Chinchilla on the channel. Much love and respect from The UK.
Ren exists on a different level compared to other artists. It’s actually not fair to compare other artists to Ren. It’s taking a while for people to find Ren, and that’s not a bad thing. It’s actually going to be hard to share him with the masses. I’m hoping the “Swifties” and such won’t quite “get him”. Ren deserves a following that operates on a different level. I think his raunchy sense of humor will just get him in trouble with people of lesser intelligence. This sounds snobby, and it’s not meant to. I just think that differences in culture and intellect can create trouble sometimes. Loving your reactions. Thanks😉💙✌️
I really enjoy your reactions and say the same as everyone else , you really pay attention and understand what the songs are saying .. keep that joy you radiate 💚
Four Words, my fellow RENegade..
'How To Be Me'. 😊
I really enjoy your reactions. You are obviously a smart and caring person and you can be proud of yourself for being someone who truly listens.
I am so impressed by your reactions. You have such insight and empathy for a person your age. Keep doing what you're doing. 💜
Wow! That was beautiful! I’m speechless… ty for sharing this beautiful reaction & oh my do I appreciate u💐🥹
The turtleneck comment had me 😂&❤!! 😊
he just keeps getting better and better
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Joe Hughes is his name Ren is singing about, he ended up committing suicide and ren was only about two minutes away from the bridge joe jumped from as well as another of ren friend. They kept searching for joe but they never did, unfortunately Callum he mentioned in the song as well committed suicide. Years afterwards ren met a woman and it was joe Hughes cousin actually. Ren is a welsh artist that suffers from autoimmune disease and Lyme disease. Every song he does youll see he pours his heart into. His story is called chapters 1-9 i believe by Ren. It'll help understand Ren. The song and album freckled angela is dedicated to joe as well i believe every time this song is played it goes towards the Joe Hughes foundation. Ren doesn't make money off this, it all goes to Joe's family. Joe Hughes and Ren gills grew up together since Ren was 9 years old, he's now 31 i believe and this song took a long time for him to make, he is crying as well as in the end of the suicide song by him. He's in a lot of ways like the rapper NF with lyrics and pouring their heart out. The difference between them is one curses the other doesn't but I do believe if ren and NF duo together it would be 🔥 freckled Angels not Angela my bad
Give “Losing it” by Ren a spin. Another flavour!
Joe was Rens best friend Joe took care of his parents so when Joe died Ren gave them money to help them as well. I was crying you can hear and feel the pain Ren has for Joe. 1K I love the man you are as boyfriend husband and father you would be exceptional. lol
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Yall are ON IT🙏🏾🫶🏾
That’s the LA skyline. He filmed a bunch of stuff while he was near while doing his treatments.
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"No Homo!"😂😂😂 that got me bro. His voice is beautiful though, you're right.
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Man that all hits hard.
Such a deep song man
Damn, love your authentic reaction man. Take care, greetings from Germany. Check out "7 sins" and "wicked ways", trust me.
Another great reaction!!❤
Enjoy your reactions man!
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Awesome reaction bro ❤
Thank you so much for the kind words & support!! I truly appreciate you🙏🏾. More Ren to come!!
Joe was his childhood friend. Offed himself at 20y old.
That red light is on the Calgary saddledome. Hockey arena in city of Calgary, Canada
A++ reaction my guy 💯🫶🏼
Great reaction
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Loved your reaction. 💛💛💛
be careful i listen to nothing but Ren, friends of Ren and reactors of Ren. It's easy to slip into his world .😇 this is a PSA announcement! great reactions
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Great reactions man..when I discovered this MF I listened to his catalog ONLY for months! He has so many songs and I haven't found 1 that's bad..he is in a category by himself..listen to suicide..it's about joe too