Behind The Song: "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.  

If you lose your religion, you will live an average of 4 years less.

@@Channelscruf Thank God.

​@@Channelscruf I guess God told you that. Or was it a scientific conclusion??

@@rickallen1908 Studies vary, but people who attend religious services regularly live an average of about 4 years longer.

@@Channelscruf So how do they come up with that number? My mother who was very religious died of lung cancer at 49. My father who then became an atheist lived to be 82. Not too impressed with your study...

One of the greatest ever! REAL "art"! Eat THAT, Taylor Not-so-...!

Hi Sherry, Thank You, so much For your comment. We are on the same Page Name age, music Etc etc

And oh my God then did they ever hit hard 😮

33 ✨️⚡️👑

I’m a Gen X now, but when that song first came out I was a 20 something year old living w my much older boyfriend . But my first love before him was speedballs: coke Heroin , or Heroin and meth. He tried and tried to stop me. When we first heard it on the radio we both were in shock. He was from a Catholic family as well, tho a hippie carpenter all around sweet good guy. He said to me” Listen this is how I feel watching you kill yourself , 😢and I cannot stop you. We held each other and just cried. I wanted to know HOW THE FUCK DOES MICHAEL STIPE KNOW US ? Now I have outlived this good man, and he died of cancer. I’m off the needle and in a program. But every time I hear or think of this song I wish I could tell my beloved Eric that I loved him and how sorry I am .

There is that number again 33 fallen 😇

​@@anubisrapture992what a story, I felt moving. I had to struggle with addiction when I was teen, and R.E.M. was there to help me through this ordeal, so in a certain way I feel connected with what you told me by music and life experiences. Hope you're doing well now. Cheers from Brazil

One of the greatest ever! REAL "art"! Eat THAT, Taylor Not-so-...!

@@jeanlloydbradberry9099she’s a good person. But her songs are bubblegum and azz tbh

Michael Stripe said that it's a Southern thing in an interwiew I watched.

“Losing my religion” means in southern shorthand; swearing, cursing, insulting, and complaining frivolously. Life after a break up; complaining into the air about every little thing a person did wrong, when no one is around, just to be angry and let it all out.

Jesus is lord 🙏

If you're in a cult.@@michaelmccarthy2369

Except that’s not what the song is about

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606doesn’t matter, songs and music are meant to be interpreted. No matter what the original artists intent was.

That’s too bad.

One day you are going to be very sorry if you don't comeback of what you were before...

@@GloriaValencia-bm4rzHow bout naaa, You do not need the man made manipulative shaming and hating Church to have a true relationship w the Divine

Pop is short for popular. The song is extremely popular. It's pop.

I'm so happy to see someone saying this. Every single line of this song points to it being about the struggles of coming out as gay in the deep south, and it all makes so much more sense after learning that Michael's father and grandfather were both ministers. Such an emotionally heavy song

Pure nonsense.

Lance...Doesn't da book include something about Judging?....Will never even try to understand Yer trip....Suggest listening to some more music...