I’m Welsh, I come from a village 15 miles from where Ren is from, on the island of Anglesey. Welsh is fairly widely spoken still, and there is a push for more people to speak it, to keep the language alive.
This one really touched my son. He has an autoimmune disease and was 33 when he was diagnosed seven years ago. He's in constant pain and has really bad side effects from the medication. He doesnt let it get the better of him and is going to continue to work as long as he's able. He said it struck a note with him, hes a big Ren fan. Thanks for the reaction guys.
BP and Don are my favorite team of Ren reactors. They often quarrel like an old married couple, but the mutual affection still shows. Expect the unexpected, from Don curating the media he ingests, to BP reading the book of Job looking for answers for Ren (I was really touched by that). Thanks for existing, guys.
yeah, kinda bothered me That Don didn't know that to back up the "Random" language answer BP said. but than again who doesn't know Welsh is a language.
Aside from the fact that this song is brilliantly executed, sonically pleasing and of top tier production, it gives you a sense of who Ren is, how much pain he has and how he lives with it! This song is at the same level as Hi Ren! I truly enjoy every beautiful word! Also the switch-ups and wordplay/rhyme schemes are master class! 😊😊😊
I have heard this song over 70 times now. I STILL bob and weave to the beat every time! "Bones are the home where the devil rests" (Lymes disease attacked his bones). "I watched him tie a rope and jump". He cried, begged, pleaded, and eventually gave up on and curse his god/god's (they were dead to him). He then, bowed to his new god (his disease) and begged for mercy..... His bed was both a "tomb" and a "womb"; that births new problems and ailments... Also, "Lucky number 13; just my luck". 13th plays into the song in a few ways I have seen explained but cannot recall. Something about 13 years and side note the album was released on Friday Oct. 13th ("Friday the 13th").
Ironically, I was 33 when I injured my back for the first time. Now almost 15 years later, I would absolutely go back and choose to live without it. Pain absolutely broke me, and I have had to suffer through a nightmarish agony of pain and torture. Yes, I have become stronger due to the pain, stronger than I ever thought possible. But I was always this strong, and just didn't know it. Living with the knowledge that I will live in life-altering pain every day for the rest of my life, until the day I die. I will never do anything to hasten it along, but I will be glad to see death when my time comes. Death became an old friend years ago, because then the pain will finally stop. Sorry if this is too much truth for some, but just had to speak on an issue so deeply personal to me.
Not too much for me i am in the same boat except for the strength part tho i guess just typing this is some sort of strength all i know is it SUX big time especially when you live surrounded by ppl who ignore everything as a way of life complete isolation **Edit** forgot to mention except for the **Magic** of **Music** THAT literally right now in my life anyway IS the ONLY thing that Helps
The truth is hard for some to hear but I admire people who speak their truth and hate that you are suffering like this along with others. Too many questions and not enough answers. I know wishing better things for you will just seem like a patronising dismissal of your suffering but that is not intended 🌹
@@user-qj5lc8bm2m Thank YOU i think it is Beautiful & yep too many Q's not enuff A's indeed Thank YOU once again for caring it means a lot to me anyway
It’s not to much for me. I sometimes cry because I have to live with this awful pain until I die. I keep praying i can manage it till then. I keep fighting.
I think the inherent metaphysical question of whether it's better to become a generational musical talent through his suffering or a healthy pop star is so succinctly expressed in the "Sinner man, sinner man, irony could kill a man, Pain makes money when the music lands". This is an incredibly powerful piece of music to me.
I've often thought there's partly a magic within music... and literally at least 3 of the 5 letters in the spelling of lol but I've ways found music to e my serenity and it is one thing that all seem to find no problem in sharing. It connects imo and to me that's aN awesome thing.✌
The pain ren has is so much more but I feel all the pain we live in life, be it physical or emotional is what shapes us and that's why he says what he does. Pain is the author that directs you life, the teacher that compounds you're lessons and what you were birthed from (mother. Seems she had a tonne of pain)
Irish, Manx, and Scots are Goidelic languages i.e. Gaelic. Breton, Cornish & Welsh are Brythonic languages. All 6 have a common "root" as a Celtic language but evolved in a different way, primarily how they made the "kw" sound. Breton, Cornish & Welsh adopted a "p" sound and they became known as P Celt. Irish, Manx and Scots kept their "q" sound and became known as Q Celt (Sorry I wrote this before I heard Don say part of it)
I like the part about accepting pain as a teacher , and the line about the bruised apprentice. If you can't learn to use the pain to your advantage it will consume you.
The line lights on, lights out. Fade into the background. Always gets me. When in pain for a long time laying in bed, the lights being on or off does fade.
Im from the Isle of man 🇮🇲 UK, the expression about the 1 sin for everyday of the week is has been said for years.😂 ❤😊 love watching you BP, didnt appreciate Dons attitude. Ive got an autoimmune disease called Chrones Disease. I suffer with so much pain on a daily basis since the age of 14. Im not just 42 and I love Rens music, maybe because i know and understand how it feels. xxx ♥️ ❤
I love, love, love when Don is on the show. Such a thinker, I would love to go for a pint, or two, with him. If you boys ever make it to Scotland, I'm buying. One love. 🍺🍺💙
I’ve suffered from chronic illness for the last 3 years. I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease because of a genetic mutation that causes me to get persistent infections, particularly in my chest. Living with nearly constant pain is something that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I know that I have to tough through it because I have to work, make a living, create a life, etc. But damn does it make things exhausting sometimes. So yes, pain is necessary for growth, but even the concept of whether or not that growth is worth it comes into question at times. Love this song, resonates with me on several levels.
Yes! I was disappointed in Black Pegasus: and then he shakes his head when Don was speaking and kind of laughed. Very rude!! REN is not about that kind of bs. Don is great!! I think is very well read and knowledgeable.
If you felt unimaginable pain for a longer time your whole life gets head over heels. Your status quo changes. The view of your world changes. Many people become spiritual after that experience. Your vision and senses become very sharp. You see many connections between causes and events. I think that is why ren became like he is today.
Had to google: "Goidelic languages or Gaelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, including: Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish, the oldest known form of the Goidelic (Gaëlic) languages Old Irish or Old Gaelic, used c. AD 600-900 Middle Irish or Middle Gaelic, used c. AD 900-1200 Irish language (Gaeilge), including Classical Modern Irish and Early Modern Irish, c. 1200-1600) Gaelic type, a typeface used in Ireland Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), historically sometimes called Erse in Scots and English Canadian Gaelic (Gàidhlig Chanada or A' Ghàidhlig Chanadach), a dialect of Scottish Gaelic spoken in the Canadian Maritime region Manx language (Gaelg or Gailck), Gaelic language with Norse elements" So he wasn't so off, though didn't know exactly what it was.
I love your content. I am a vet like Don. I am born in 73. I want to offer some sunshine. Investigate the Cleverly's. Enjoy the ride. Thank you for your energy.
Thanks for a great reaction. Don I really appreciated your thoughts and how this song was for you. I know I feel differently every time I hear it and like BP I just let it take me on a musical journey and enjoy the many parts of it and as also as a whole. It is really intense and in your face but he def conveys his torment. I really liked it when you said you curate your thoughts. (To put your mind in a more positive space I understand from this) I think that is admirable and a great way to deal with things and if bubble gum music works for you at this time I respect that. Sending positive vibes from UK 🎶🧡🔥👩🏻🦰
I love the way he's beautifully expressing his many layers of trauma in public. Personally I'd love to see Ren crank out a series of top ten club bangers, or get with Romain or somebody and give some good rock/reggae fusion . I listened to Seven Sins flat on my back in a hospital bed. I empathized and I love the song. We'll see where he goes on the next album, I think I heard it's supposed to be more guitar and singing, right? And I'm reaally looking forward to the batch of retakes. I gave a couple of suggestions
Great point. Music has a way of being able to affect our mood. We can decide which music we feel like listening to and put it on. Alternately, we could be in a certain mood and a song comes to us in some random way and can then completely alter our mood or even intensify the mood we are in, etc. That's the amazing power of music.
Really got on yalls train while doing my own Ren rabbithole. You are part of his success in his virality (online) and spreading his awareness and art. But now that youve gotten to know him and his art and Ren Gill the person, hearing the way you talk about him and the way his illness / pain shapes his art, I also feel the care you have for him, in addition to the massive respect for who to me is maybe the greatest talent ive ever seen. Basically I love the love you have for him. Next ima dig into your music and look fwd to that rabbithole!
Ready and waiting this is 1 of my favourite ren songs take that back all is song's are my favourites love and respect from the UK 👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍
My favorite Ren's song for sure! Thx for the great reaction! I really recommend to check out MEMORY LAPSE channel as he made his own music video to that song using AI. The images are so spot on!!! Big love to you guys and thank you for ur amazing content!❤
By the way Don is half right even though it’s Welsh…Welsh and Gaelic are very similar, both being Celtic languages in which are thousands of years old and some of the oldest languages still used today. For the U.K. being such a small place (can fit it into Texas 2.8times) it has many languages. Being from Scotland we have 3 languages Scottish Gaelic, Old Scott’s and English. Best way to experience Old Scots is Robert Burns a Scottish Poet that is celebrated around the world on the 25th of January every year @blackpegasusraps here is James Cosmo reciting one of Burns best poems ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q726vJnwKR4.htmlsi=FqfrwhexRix5Mae9 would be great to see you reacting to it
BP I will give context on the language. Welsh is Languague in the celtic language alongside Gaelic (Ireland) and Gaelic (pronounced differently Scottish) Cornish (cornwall) and Breton (Brittany, France. Many of those language are very small or nearly extinct. Welsh was succesfully revived in Wales, and I think a lot of western Ireland speaks Gaelic. Scottish, Breton and Cornish are have very few active users
Pain is a perception. By default, we have no comparative except personal experience. Same problem as my Blue may not be your Blue. Try to relate to another's perception, and we only have to go by their expressions to obtain a sense of it. Ren's art is his expression, and thus, the feel of the music, those deep brass tone hits, the dichotomy of a singing violin, the lyrics, the cadence, the critique of religious faith as compared to the moral lessons that faith contains. These are the conflicts of perception. It is up to you to try to empathize and gain understanding of the message, which (ironically), is your own perception as you experience Ren's art, the expression of his pain.
Yes, but he does deal with the what-ifs through his music, a lot. We all have to process that somehow, bc that kind of reflection for a human is not just wishful thinking, it's assessing your own performance to see if there was something you could have done better, so to keep it in mind for the eventual next time... He does it in music, so we can relate to that in our own ways
yeah, kinda bothered me That Don didn't know that to back up the "Random" language answer BP said. but than again who doesn't know Welsh is a language.
Have you ever reacted to the lockdown live streams from the Big Push? Three of them were living together, Ren included, throughout the pandemic. They did several streams.
Don wasn't far off with Gaelic. Gaelic and Welsh are both Celtic languages with a similar (though definitely not the same) dialect. *Edit* - Resident Welshman
The Welsh language is very much alive, as is Irish Gaelic. My cousin is a Welsh Language Ambassador, their kids go to a Welsh speaking school. I live in Galway... le grá ó Éirinn....
to clarify, Gaelic is the language of the Gaels, typically when people talk about it they are usually referring to Irish Gaelic, although Scottish Gaelic also exists, and Manx (Isle of Mann) is also in the Gaelic family Gaelic itself is a branch of the Celtic language group which also contains the Brittonic languages: Breton (from Brittany, the peninsula on the northwest of France) Cornish (from Cornwall the peninsula on the south-west corner of Briton) and Welsh. The rest of the Celtic language group, Gaulish (i.e. the language of the Gauls), is dead, wiped out by Rome and the Franks. The brittonic languages are not why "they were always beefing"; England beefs with it's neighbors because it was colonized by the Romans, then the Angles, then the Saxons (hey notice those last two it might be where Anglo-Saxon comes from). if you look at a map of where Celtic languages exist today it mostly coincides with places that avoided colonization from the Romans and the Germans. this includes Brittany, France much like Britain was colonized by Romans and then the Franks (another German group)
Welsh IS a Gaelic language. The word Gaelic, comes from the word Guals, which is what the Romans called the people that inhabited most of northern Europe before the Romans took over. Including Britain and Ireland.
🎶Where's your head at.... Where yo head at😂🎶❤ Don, I said the same thing at the same time as you my friend (that I've never met or talked to what's up lol) Edit: 18:14 so I don't sound crazy 😉
The Welsh language as far as I’m aware is a form of Galic language, just like the Irish language. Both I believe originated from Galic language which was spoken by Britons and Celtics way back when.
@@jackieroberts7895 ahhhh right my bad mate, I wasn’t too sure. Thanks for letting me know. 👍🏻 are the two languages comparable at all? Like do they use similar words and ways to build sentences? Or is are they completely different?
Gaelic is the language of Ireland and Scottish Gaelic is from Scotland. Welsh is all together different. For context, the British pretty beat languages out these countries, especially the Scottish after the uprising in 1745 after Culloden.
The one pain that I felt that was the worst was childbirth, twice! Since then other pains plague me, but nothing nearly as close as childbirth. Thankfully it is normally short lived, and for some stupid reason, most women barely remember it. 2nd worse pain I get periodically are cluster tension headaches, sort of like migraines, and last a long time. So yes Ren I did have pain. I still have pain but it's different now.
I am with Don on Gaelic. Its the traditional language of Scotland & moved into Ireland/Canada so to think of it is normal. Sadly the Welsh are weird & despite being a tiny population have had their own language for forever.
The welsh are full of pride and passion for their culture and language who fort tooth and nail to keep it alive unlike the meek Scottish and Irish so if that's weird to you then so be it cymru am byth ❤
Please Sinead o Connor nothing compare to you live you can hear her pain as she sings, she was sexually abused as a child by her mother, a genius an amazing person RIP
BP, why were you being harsh to Don? Sheesh. Don, it's ok to not have a dictionary answer to a question, BP is being unnecessarily harsh. You knew that Gaelic was a language and you associated it with the same region. You knew a little, even if you couldn't verbalize it at the time.
