OH SNAP.. | R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Official Music Video) REACTION 

“Losing my religion” a Southern term meaning I can’t take any more, there’s nothing left. It’s about a relationship where trust is lost or you’ve lost faith in a persons commitment. “The lengths that I will go to The distance in your eyes”, “Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it”, “Trying to keep an eye on you Like a hurt lost and blinded fool”.

I really like this tune, but "Everybody Hurts" touched me to the core...

According to the singer, the expression 'losing my religion' is from the South. It means giving into your anger, losing your cool, or being at the end of your rope. You're just beyond your endurance. Although some one CAN apply it to a loss of religion that is not the main meaning. It is about being pushed beyond your 'polite public' face. He's standing in corner. He's trying to stay out of it. Then, he's put on the spot (spotlight). He's being pushed. He's tried to stay out it---but you keep shining the light on him. He's losing his ability to put up with this crap. But he's not supposed to get pissed. He should keep his mouth shut before he says too much. Before he says things he can't take back. Yet, he hasn't really said the truth that needs to be said. Is that just a dream where he expresses what he thinks? He has to keep his civility but he can't quite do it. He's 'losing his religion'. Video is weird though. He comes from a Methodist minster background and always had an interest in Buddism which peeks out in the video.

I was never a huge R.E.M. can but I sure do love their song, " Everybody Hurts". That song will make you emo.

Everyone Hurts - video version. You really feel it

Mr. V- “everybody hurts” is a must of theirs! And it’s the acronym R.E.M.. 😊. 💜🧡✌️✨

R.E.M - "The One I Love"....is a must

This one is a classic. Love this song 🥰. R-E-M is also the band that sang Everybody hurts, not sure if you did that yet but thats a HUGE song, absolute MUST

I love R.E.M! Some more R.E.M to check out would be It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine). I know it’s a long title. Lol

It's the End of the World - R.E.M. would be a fitting reaction in 2020

They came out of Athens, GA where they went to University of GA. EVERYBODY HURTS is their greatest hit, but they have some Good Jams !

To "Lose One's Religion" is a southern term of somebody losing his/her temper. "He about lost his religion over that!" R.E.M. has several good songs. My favorites, beside this one: Stand The End of the World (As We Know It) Everybody Hurts

Hey buddy you should also react to these others super songs of them: "Orange crush" , "Shiny happy people" , "Stand" , "Is the End of the world" , "Radio free europe" , "The one i love" , "Everybody hurts" & "Driver 8" , trust me you will go nuts. Ronny

You are literally the only reaction channel whose videos I don't skip around in. I usually skip through the intro to get to the actual reactions, but I don't do that with your videos because they're so enjoyable from start to finish. You're such a light in what's been a really dark year. I appreciate you so much for that. Please keep up the good work, because you're bringing so much joy to so many people. Seriously, thank you so much!

“More than words” by Extreme

"I'm about to lose my religion." Is a southern way of saying I'm about to go off and lose my temper.

LOVE SHACK by B52s

R.E.M are great! Everybody hurts is a great song by them! Loving your reactions!!😁😁💯

If you didn't know, R. E. M. is Rapid Eye Movement, it's what your eyes do when when you're in deep sleep and dreaming. In that sense people sometime say "rem" like a word but the band usually said each letter.

One more vote from me for you to react to "Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M. Michael Stipe is a genius singer-songwriter.

I request ‘Lightning Crashes’ or ‘I Alone’ by Live 🔥🔥🔥👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

R.E.M. - “What’s the Frequency Kenneth”...”Man on the “Moon”....”Everybody Hurts” (sad)...”It’s the End of the World as We Know It”.... Now I have to go to the store to get some DoubleStuffed Oreos! Thanks, Leo 😂🤗

They have many greats. Orange Crush, Everybody Hurts, Shiny Happy People, What's the Frequency Kenneth, and Man on the Moon. Do more

Such a masterpiece!!! ❤️

One of my favorite songs of all time.

So many great R. E. M. songs. Try "Radio Free Europe" "Stand" or "What's The Frequency, Kenneth". BTW, you have something waiting at your PO Box.... 😁

Re: all the imagery...a lot of the scenes are references to famous artworks and classical stories

Like your Grandma might say."You go pick a switch,I'm about to lose my religion" 😅

I think this is probably one of my all time favourite videos. It's so captivating.

I was just listening to REM's Orange Crush a little bit ago. Definitely check out It's the End Of the World, I think you will like it, but you'll need the lyrics!

R.E.M was the first concert I went to. Rapid Eye Movement.

R.E.M. is deep. You probably don't wanna know what they're talking about.

Love R.E.M...This and "The One I Love" are my Faves!

My son who’s 31 now could sing this word for word when he was 2 . One of my favorites.

Please react to REM Everybody Hurts.

What I absolutely adore about songs like this, is there are so many ways we can interpret the lyrics, & it is really up to us, as how we feel the song relates to us! **Great reaction**

This takes me back to being little in my grandma's living room watching MTV when they still had music videos damn I feel old😂❤

song makes me cry reminds me of very sad times when I was younger the yr this was released was hard 😔😔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

My first concert was R.E.M 25 years ago when I was 15. Saw them in Milwaukee with my Dad! One of my favorite bands!!!

I love the dance moves of the singer. It looks a bit like an everyday person just dancing out to the music he's privately listening to :D

Now , you gotta try thier masterpiece " Everybody hurts "

The video was inspired by the paintings of Caravaggio, one of the most important italian painters of the Renaissance. Look at his masterpieces. They are breathtakingly beautiful.

Losing My Religion, released as the first single from the R.E.M.’s 1991 album Out of Time is definitely a remarkable song. With its beautiful, and rather surreal music video, it listed 4th on The Billboard Hot 100, was nominated for several Grammy Awards from which won two, and was constantly spun on the MTV. The music video was directed by an Indian director - Trasem Singh, who admitted that it was modeled after the Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings in which an angel crashes into a town and the villagers have varied reactions to him. The clip has a moody art house feeling to it, and was created in a style of a type of Indian filmmaking, where according to Stipe everything would be “melodramatic and very dreamlike”. The video was also based on the inspirations drawn from an Italian painter Caravaggio, as the scenes from the clip strongly resemble the style of the painter’s work, and filled with religious motives and tableaux, or, so called “living images” portraying Indian deities. Many controversies occurred with the song’s questioning of faith, however unlike it may seem, it actually is about unrequited love. The phrase “losing my religion” is an expression from the southern region of the US, that means “at my wit’s end,” meaning as if things were going so bad you could lose your faith in God

I love how hesitant Leo was when he was trying to figure out if he should be dancing, and exactly how he wanted to! Authentic

One of my favourite songs...have loved this since the first time I heard it...Thanks for doing it!!! 🖖🏻🇨🇦😊

I like this song a lot but have always been confused by the video. Try “everybody hurts” next. Great song and much easier to understand! 🔥🔥

This song always brings back memories of college. On the radio all the time then. I remember liking somebody then whom I did not know well, someone rather mysterious, and I related the song to that situation so much...

I love watching your videos and sparking up right along with you it's so much fun

Musically, this song is a masterpiece. So much complexity going on. In the music and lyrics. Just brilliant.

Ohh dude, you are doing my favorites todaaaay. R.E.M. (said as separate letters) was my obsession in my teenage years. You are right about Michael Stipe's voice! It is unique and instantly draws you in, and the band has a signature sound once you get to know them. You might fall down another rabbit hole as the band has a very deep catalogue--they didn't start out mainstream, in fact when they did get more acclaim they fell into the "alternative rock" category. Losing My Religion was their biggest hit and the video won an MTV award. The director was an avant garde filmmaker, so what she envisioned might not have been what the band was actually singing about, but it worked! On the whole, their videos are pretty arty anyway. But sooo many great songs to check out: Radio Song (nobody has reacted to this yet!! it's SO GOOD! maybe do it with Queen's Radio Ga Ga, lol), The One I Love, It's The End of the World as We Know It, Stand, Fall On Me, and be prepared to cry during Everybody Hurts. It's incredibly moving and the video is breathtaking.

Omg you never ever heard this song before? I love this song since 15 years 😍 I not living in the US at all :) But really good that you explore it now.

That mandolin specifically and the overall instrumental is exquisite...peak R.E.M. territory

1992/93.... 3 cds I listened to the most.... REM 'Automatic for the People' Dr. Dre 'The Chronic', and Pearl Jam 'Ten'. I feel very fortunate to be a teen in the late 80s early 90s... we truly had the best of every type of music!!

This band is from Athens Georgia. I have always loved them. I think the meaning of this song could be so many things.. thanks for playing them. Love you!

Some 90's suggestions: Scatman John - Scatman Mr Big - To be with you Snap! - Rythm is a dancer Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise Toni Braxton - Unbreak my heart Aqua - Barbie Girl And an 80's: John Farnham - You're the voice

Whenever I hear this song, I can’t NOT think of the scene in BH 90210, when Brenda is laying in her bed all depressed bc her parents wouldn’t let her see Dylan anymore. This song was playing in the background.

I love R.E.M. please please please keep reacting to them! Shiny Happy People, Everybody Hurts and well all the other songs everybody else is suggesting!

Can’t believe i got here this early! Yeee MVP!💙💙🙌🏼🙌🏼

You just stay killing it. Keep it going bro. Love it.

Absolute classic song loving how u are discovering all this music uve never heard before we all on ride with you.. u will blow up soon mate with your REAL ASS reactions i can say that 100% facts..

'Drive' is a freaking awesome song and video, 'Stand' and 'Radio Free Europe' will have you dancing, and 'What's the Frequency Kenneth' rocks.

I was born and grew up in Georgia (Atlanta, Athens, etc) and remember this song being MASSIVE when it came out in the late 80s - as a little kid, I was hooked on it. 'Losing my religion' is a very old southern saying when you're fed up with something/someone, as in 'boy if you don't behave, I'm gonna lose my religion with you!' (and proceed to whoop the devil outta him!! LOL ;)

R.E.M. Oh yeah, another great band. 💜

I wish I could go back in time to when I heard these songs for the first time. Glory days

I heard this song over and over again in the 90's. It sounds so fresh today 25 yrs later! Thanks for the video, and the people who analyze it, it still confuses me

This is one of my favorite songs from the 90s. I get super hype when it comes on. Lol.

Beautiful classic song!🙌🏾

Thank you for feeling the lyrics...the sympathetics are classical works of art brought to life

The saying I'm about to lose my religion is equal to saying I'm about to lose my shit. Love R.E.M.!

This is the best thing I’ll see today. I was hoping you’d start with R.E.M. soon. I suggest Everybody Hurts, It’s the End of the World As We Know It, Shiny Happy People, Drive, The One I Love.

He's pulling some shaman shit with his dancing.....absolutely adore your joining in with all you videos! Love ya man! 😽💘

One my favorite REM songs! Everybody Hurts is another!

This won 6 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Video,Best Direction,as well as the Grammy for Best Form Video in 1992.😃

This song/video are so legendary. Thom Yorke from Radiohead did a video for Lotus Flower where you can clearly see some of these dance moves from this video going on.

This songs lyrics, always just spoke to me of someone who was questioning everything, who was trying to be honest but the “oh no I’ve said too much” feels like a condemnation. If you are too honest of a person, you are going to be condemned x

My absolute favorite song of theirs.

Absolutely love this song!! Thank you!! 🙏🏽💜💜🙏🏽

The dance came in last minute, they had an original concept, it wasnt working, so Michael Stipe said hey just let me dance. He was inspired by the talking heads and his weird sporadic dance moves lol

Oh snap. You gonna have a good time analyzing this band. They are deep and very talented. I think your gonna dig all the music you hear from these guys. They've got depth that a lot of bands don't make you think that hard for. Great pick Leo

Brings me back in time..love it!!! Great music 🔥❤🎸

I actually lived this song. Thanks to all for the explanation. Mr V you always seem to get it. Best reactor on the tube. Thank you ❤️

Great song,definitely worth checking out a few more of their songs. Love their melodies and harmonies. 🎼🎶🎸🎤🔥😎

The lead singer smirked and said "Don't read too much into it, it's about a crush..."

Ooooh! "Lightning crashes" would be something you would love!

Still one of my all time favs!! Thanks for the reaction. Keep up the great work!! Love your stuff!

Their song "Everybody Hurts" will tug at your emotions ❤️

The song is about an Unrequited love but I think we all found deeper meaning in this gem of a song.

The inspiration of the video is a story from Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez a.k.a Gabo. The english name of the story is 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings'. That's why the man in the video has bird's wings and is getting older passing time.

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According to Wiki: The music video for "Losing My Religion" was directed by Tarsem Singh. As opposed to previous R.E.M. videos, Michael Stipe agreed to lip sync the lyrics. The video originated as a combination of ideas envisioned by Stipe and Singh. Stipe wanted the promo to be a straightforward performance video, akin to Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U". Singh wanted to create a video in the style of a certain type of Indian filmmaking, where everything would be "melodramatic and very dreamlike", according to Stipe. Singh has said the video is modeled after the Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" in which an angel crashes into a town and the villagers have varied reactions to him. Director Singh also drew inspiration from the Italian painter Caravaggio and the video is laden with religious imagery such as Saint Sebastian, the Biblical episode of the Incredulity of Thomas and Hindu deities, portrayed in a series of tableaux. The music video was nominated in nine categories at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. The video won six awards, including Video of the Year, Best Group Video, Breakthrough Video, Best Art Direction, Best Direction, and Best Editing.

R E M...they played many little bars in my college town. Roll Tide. Always put on a great show!

I always enjoy watching videos with you. Keep it up. Cheers!

Video, The title of the video refers to an old expression, often used by Grandma's in the deep South, when someone makes them so mad they almost forget who's they are, lose their religion, and say something they'll have to ask forgiveness for later. It's a song about frustration, living in the unknown, and existential crisis. If you notice, scattered throughout the video are numerous religious and mythological references, including Icarus from Greek mythology and Doubting Thomas from the Christian Bible. REM (pronounced like an acronym: r e m), started in the early 80s in Athens, Georgia. With a foundation of southern culture and roots music, "Losing My Religion" typifies the band's early '90s sound. Compare "Losing My Religion" to 1994's, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" It's a huge shift from one album to the next, but this has always been my favorite track, after "You Are the Everything," from their 1988 album "Green." Dr.L

This is a beautifully filmed video. They are recreating famous paintings, several by the Italian painter Caravaggio and at least one by Vermeer (he was Dutch) with religious and Classical Greek themes (such as the story of the inventor Daedalus' son Icarus, who tried to fly to the sun with wings attached to his body with wax). Keep your reviews coming--you are really fun and spontaneous!

Wow this song take me back, I miss those times...

Your observation of this song is exactly right-- losing your faith in life, falling from grace, being disillusioned with everything you ever believed. I love the imagery in this video, though I don't completely understand everything it's showing. I appreciate all that you do on this channel-- keep doing what you do!

First time hearing this from the name of the song losing my religion sounds like his patience has run out and he's had enough can't put up with whatever he was putting up with anymore we've all felt like this before🎶🔥

One of my top ten songs and videos! Enjoyed your reaction.

All of their videos are like “wtf”. Don’t worry about it! This is a great tune, though. It’s first up on our drunk video night playlist. So is Halestorm. But that’s a whole other conversation. ✌🏻

This video has won many awards, and has been regarded as one of the best.