Ren - The Tale of Jenny & Screech | Reaction 

If you listen to Money Game 2, you will get the answer to sea shells...

Ren is incredibly talented, but I have to give mad props to the cameraman who captured all these performances to perfection in a superbly timed and framed one shot filming style. The level of skill and choreography involved in making these is insane. Focus, framing, timing, exposure, position, sound, grading, editing.. As well as finding the locations, getting permission and not upsetting the neighborhood when making the videos 🤯 It wouldn't surprise me one bit if it was just the two of them, Ren and Samuel. Probably filmed on a budget of a bag of toffees and a goat. I just feel that the background crew is not getting enough appreciation, but most certainly deserves some. Well done my guy(s). 👍😎

Q: "Is Ren a..." A: Yes. I enjoyed your reaction (especially your early empathy for Screech.) ❤

That was a great reaction. But the main reason that I'm commenting is to say thank you for your empathy towards Screech. That really does show your character. I had already decided to subscribe but if I had not then I would have after your comments about you just never know what makes a person the way they are. Thanks for that.

The explanation of the inclusion of "She sells sea shells" is in video "Money games II". Jenny takes after her mother she stays quiet unable to move, Screech is violent like his Father? Ren's Father was a musician, theater director, maker of short films and...... a therapist!

I get frustrated with some reactions when they miss the line "he swung possessed with the devil in his chest"....missing that he killed her. It's surprising how many actually miss that, some never catch it, even through the whole story. Very happy that you caught it. Also, for "Screech's Tale", it seems that almost no one catches that Screech's girlfriend and his friend Patrick, happen to be "busy", or not available, at the same time. Consider why. Maybe they were together? Patrick wasn't home...was he with Screech's girl at her place and that's why she was "busy"? It adds a whole other layer to the story. Also consider that Jenny and Screech were born side by side, and essentially died side by side, one street apart. Born on the same day (2005), died on the same day (2019). An entire family, mother and twins that never knew each other, wiped out by a cycle of violence. An abused mother, a 14 year old prostitute, and a 14 year old thug/murderer. Powerful stuff. Not sure if you caught it or not, but he did all 3 songs in a single take each, just like "Hi Ren". In the "Violet's Tale", the way he uses the acoustics of his environment to accentuate the song is absolute brilliance. The man is truly special.

Great reaction 👍😀 Liked & subscribed in anticipation of you reacting to more Ren Cheers 👍🍻

Nice reaction. The only thing I would say is I dislike when reactors have subtitles on. I get that it's to be inclusive to the hearing impaired, but the hearing impaired would have subtitles/closed captions turned on on their own device, or else they wouldn't know what you were saying as well since subtitles are only for the music. So it's not needed and only distracts from the video. I watched your eyes and you kept looking down to read and then back up to watch. It wouldn't be as bad, but the CC is wrong a lot so you miss things. CC says her father took a tie, but in reality, her father tucked her in at night and never left the room. CC states she grew up with violent stars instead of violent starts. It completely changes the song and if you are reading and not listening you don't get the complete story. Not taking away from your reaction. Just an observation.

So im finally going to comment on one of these here. Because no one has ever mentioned it as a thing. But at the end of Violet's Tale when violet says "Please let my baby stay alive" it keeps the reveal of twins a secret because of the way its said because is that what she said or could she have said "let my babies stay alive"? because with stay the next word it can be heard as both baby or babies. I have always loved that detail. Honestly I don't 100 percent know if Ren meant it that way or not but I always thought it was neat so im hopeful that was his intent with that structure. See if Violet knew she was having twins it doesn't really change much story wise but I like the idea of just a random minor detail like her knowing that she was having twins.

Nice reaction. Great work. I like how you weren’t quick to write off Screech. Says a lot about you as a person. Keep on going ✊ As an aside, I like to think of myself as reasonably well read. Before Ren, (BR) I had never even heard of the word ‘Juxtaposition’ It is now my new favourite word.

I really like the way their story ends the way starts - laying side by side in tragedy - its such a great juxtaposition of their life being saved and lost.

I've followed Ren for a few years and he is my favourite artist, I am 63 and love all his music, love your reactions great channel thank you ❤

He tells the stories and the filming of the stories are all done so well i found myself looking for the bodies laying on the ground. The saddest thing about this is the fact each of these things are happening in every town, city, and country at this very moment and the cycle continues

Unconscious:"...Schreech" [jaw drops] [brain processing and transporting content from unconscious to consciousness] Conciousness: "whaaa?!?" 😂 A really nice reaction! ❤

Mesmerized has a new definition in the dictionary - "Mesmerized: The mental state most individuals enter when listening to Ren." Your reaction was (as always) very insightful and sincere. I really enjoy your style. Great reaction young lady!!

Imagine being the dude locked in prison and then getting official mail stating that your son was shot down by the police after he stab your daughter

sounds more positive, she said... gave me a right chuckle...

What a great reaction. Thank you ❤️

Definitely want to see you react to illest of our time.

This is very much in the tradition of a Shakespearian tragedy and medieval minstrel/bard. I've heard it's at least loosely based on a true story of a 14 year old on trial for killing a woman. How much of the rest is accurate vs. artistic, I don't know. Ren has apparently setup several videos to be released while he's still in Canada getting treatment for all the damage done by his misdiagnosed Lyme's disease and other health issues. I look forward to seeing those and seeing reactors cover them. If you like rap/hip-hop, he has several videos along those lines. It's not my usual genre, but he's so good, that I've actually enjoyed them as well. There also his old band The Big Push with a lot of their busking videos.

ty for watching

Hiya, Ren puts up the lyrics to his songs so you don't have to rely on the CCs they never match.

Money game part one and two... then youll know all about the She sells seachells reference 🤘😎 I just love this kid

He made a free concert of the Story of Jenny & Screech in full 360, we can move the camera. It's amazing : Ren - The Tale of Jenny and Screech (Full 360 Live Performance) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S_hs8EkWeZg.html Violet was abused by her father and the mom knew. She get pregnant from his father and at her 16y old she quit the house for a bad guy who beat her to death saying she's a liar because he knew the baby was not from him. When she gave birth to the twins , Screech went to Stevie , the Violet's boyfriend.

"It´s such a shame..." it´s traditionally the duty of the storyteller (the bard) to keep a neutral stance and moarning the circumstances that led to the tragedy is the furthest he/she can go.

Makes anyone cry.

You are part of the Sherlockian few that gets it on the 1st run, CHEERS!!. Countless comment-splaining to so many self-proclaimed influencers

More Ren please

oooooo i think someones got a crush xD haha just messing with you. idk if you noticed though but this is done live and i really like how he uses his suroundings in these to add different affects to the sound like when it pans up the stairwell you can here the natural reverb it adds to it or before that going from a small a room and through doorways into hallways which adds almost the same thing to it. its just really thought out and just stupidly impressive lol.

He is a modern day bard

He really is a bard!

Better without subtitles. They're frequently wrong and reading distracts from the performance. This is performance art after all. You really don't want to miss any of his incredible performance. You may miss the odd word but 99% of them are perfectly audibly legible. The subtitles willl mess up many more words than you'll miss by just listening. Focusing on the performance also pulls you in, meaning you miss even less. :)

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He’s phenomenal.

Hi my friend did you do violet's tale at the end to get the full meaning many thanks love and respect from the UK 👍👍👍👍👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍

As I've read it both Jenny and Screech were real people. Ren read the newspaper one day in 2019 and buried on the 6th or 7th page was a short "write-up" [I guess you'd call it] on the tragic death of two teenagers; a girl, Jenny [a young prostitute], and her killer [proper name James somebody] known in the Neiborhood as Screech. [Both 14 or at least Screech was] [the article ended calling it such a shame] He thought that kind of news [of the decay in society that resolves in such ways] deserved more attention. So, he wrote the first two of the trilogy shortly after reading of them. These few years later he took on the task of writing a fictional story to further drive home the point that this continuing cycle of violence and decay in society should be paid attention to. So, the entire Violet story he designed to fit the personalities of those two and how they are made. Very impressive writing [and storytelling] and motivation resulted in Violet's Tale. Easily imagined they were brought up in separate foster homes. Jenny took on the quiet nature [still nature] of her mom [freezing in her tracks, unable to move when commanded to give up her goods] while Screech took on the character of his father. 14 years after two zero zero five they met each other probably for the first time and a newspaper article on the 6th or 7th page is what became of it. [as Ren has imagined it for us] His story telling has purpose. Real purpose. That is what has him stand alone [it seems] in today's society. [unique as an artist]

Great reaction!!!!! You got the story straight no confusion at all! Please do Money Game Part 1 & 2 first!!!

“He swung possessed with the devil in his chest” doesn’t mean he killed her, that would be nothing more than an assumption because in no way can one come to the conclusion he killed her from that line. The line that tells the listener that he killed her is actually “and the statue that she was turned to butter in a breath”

I like the fact that your reaction to Screech was to show compassion and wonder what things had led him to that point.

Jenny died frozen in silence like her mother, and Screech was a murderous pr*ck just like his dad. This is a story about generational cycles. If you grow up in the same places and have the same experiences and opportunities, you will most likely have the same outcomes.

Good reaction but like I mentioned to someone in the comments below about the captions. It really wasn't necessary. I'm not sure but I haven't been to a Broadway show in a long time so have they been able to give that option of captions now? I mean this is what this performance felt like. Sorry, it's just a pet peeve of mine when reactors use captions to this and Hi Ren. I still gave you a thumbs up.

At 14 years old Screech kills his sister Jenny also 14, who he never knew! Screech is like his Father Stevie violent! Jenny is like her mom Violet quiet and silent. Stevie kills Violet and goes to jail for the rest of his life. The twins are thrown into the Social Welfare/Foster system! 14 years later Screech comes across Jenny (high heels Prostitute) and murders her! Who comes up with a story like that? I wonder? Did this really happen? Or did Ren come up with this in his mental ill mind?

(ABOUT ILLEST OF OUR TIME) Posted by Ren on his community page: "Overhwlemed by the amount of support for illest Of Our Time. Have been loving watching all the reaction videos and hearing everyone's interpretation. I never usually break down my own words because I love letting people apply their own meaning, but there was one line I wanted to explain. The title of the song. Alot of people took this to mean "The greatest Of Our Time" "Look for all the answers that I never seem to find, Till then I guess I'm still the illest of our time" Its my reluctance to be the illest - the clue is in the word 'guess' - ive spent the better part of a decade looking for solutions to the damage lyme disease dealt with countless doctors visits, and am still in that boat. "Illest" can also mean "dopest" "best" etc. So it's a bit of a double entendre. Same as "Sick boi" This theme is repeated with the line "elementary dear Watson you might find" cause Sherlock Holmes was always searching for the clues to piece the puzzle together, which is very relatable when trying to piece together parts of a very complex health picture, anyone with a very complex illness will relate to almost having to become your own detective. And finally "A pathologic entity - if everything is set in stone then this is how its meant to be" Acceptance that this might just be the cards I've been dealt. To search for answers and simultaneously accept that chronic illness may be your fate is a bit of a paradox because it is the rejection of acceptance that spurs you forward in the pursuit of answers, but it is the acceptance that you may always be sick that let's you lead a more peaceful life... so one must walk this contradictory line between both opposing states to have the motivation to find the answers whilst not being so outcome dependent. Still haven't mastered this, but think it's an interesting concept" posted by Ren Gill (The Illest of the Ill) Me: To me it's like Ren is psyching himself up to get bigger, how much bigger? Big enough to have the power to create a standardized treatment for Lyme Disease & an early detection system... hyuge you gotta be hyuge. That takes millions upon millions upon millions of dollars, but Ren ain't rich never has been most of the money goes to medicine. Some of the reactors have more subscribers than he does. that's why he feels like Atlas sometimes maybe like the weight of the medical world is on his shoulders but he can't shrug it off. he got a go fund me for his medical bills but I doubt it covers much medicine is crazy expensive.

Martin Gill his rens father and has his own RU-vid channel I think ren gets a lot of influences from his dad what a gift to the world love and respect from the UK 👍👍👍👍👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍

That final line where everyone dies a little on the inside

BARDCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You try to say that you do not know what to expect but then you know all

Sea Shells on the sea shore in high Ren is a reference to money game part 2 The Accuser Ren uses it against Ren The Hope mockingly you might like Money Game especially part 2. I think he wanted to use the song against the love of money, it is after all the root of all evil the thing is just a tool but the game is a dirty dirty game.

Awesome reaction! Thanks for sharing it with us!

You Must Do his "Crutch" video!!!

Please take no notice of my last comment just seen the picture on the front of your video sorry love and respect from the UK 👍👍👍👍👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍

I believe you asked us if the word you were looking for was: "Mesmerize" No .. i believe you were looking for 2 words "In + Love" A funny shot would be to pan left to reveal a bf who is just deflated, carving i" hate ren" into his journal. ty for the great video 8-)

It’s a terrible story (the outcome) that’s written in such a compelling way. Then you get to the performance part of it and, again, Ren kills it. I enjoyed your reaction, so I’m +1 on the sub list and looking forward to what you do next.

I dont get it, you seem to genuinely be a fan of Ren, but then you have only reacted to a couple of his videos 🤔 or am i missing them ? Im sorry if im wrong, i just couldnt see them. He is so unique and has a huge amount of content out on youtube. Hes a genius despite all that he suffers with. Anyway, great reaction. Take care.

Please react to money game (1&2)

Didn’t know they were siblings. As orphans, they were separated at birth.

12:16 Sounds more positive? It was at this moment... I knew, you were gonna find out real soon.

No reaction from you when screech is in trouble!

Awhhh

She sells sea shells…was something Eminem did.

Huge mistake to read through auto-generated and butchered up subtitles during the whole thing, instead of watching and listening to this piece of art the way it was meant to be, in your own native language.

Get the tissues out of the drawer!

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He's shining a light on generational violence and really really bad parenting, not to mention society's failings in the form of children lost and forgotten by the system. He does not shy away from dealing with subjects many would just as soon ignore, as we go whistling through the graveyard.

Ren❤❤❤❤❤

🥺🙏💖

The "she sells sea shells on the sea shore" bit in Hi Ren was making fun of himself because he used that nursery rhyme as part of an explanation of economic theory in Money Game, part II. I strongly recommend Money Game, and Money Game, part II. The first part is ... difficult to watch at times, but the payoff is there for watching both parts.

I know 11yr olds that carry guns, they are just a product of their environment. They aren't bad kids, I don't believe there are any bad kids, just hurt, broken & abandon ones

Is that a Smoko Plush behind you ? :)

Omg I can't take closed captioning, not only can it ruin songs and videos but like in this case it gets things wrong 😂😅

Try Immortal Technic. The devil

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Don't pay too much attention to the captions, they are almost always wrong a lot of the time.

I recommend you turn Close Captioning off in the future. It's another filter that distracts from the art.

I've said it before, I'm an atheist, I always have been but if this guy starts a cult, I'm getting a robe. Lol.

Did she just miss that Jenny and Screech were, yes, brother and sister, and yes, Screech murdered his sister Jenny!! I mean, this stuff is 21 century Shakespeare!!!!

Of course Screech is a bad kid, he just murdered a girl. Being nonjudgmental isn’t a virtue, you know.

The (very, very wrong) subtitles are nothing but a distraction. You shouldn't need them, and we definitely don't. If you want the real lyrics, read them afterwards. He posts them under every one of his videos.

Turn the subtitles off ... his singing is very articulate, they are wrong and pointless ❤

Try uninvited by ren

Having CC on ruins the whole experience since that thing can't get the lyrics right. I just turn off every reaction when I see that they have it on.

A big lip awww

Those subtitles are so wrong heh

God those messed up captions really take a lot away from this. Letting AI do that is just dumb... or if it's a human who did the transcription they seriously need to try a different career!

Nice guitarists, bad music and singing and no value form the reaction on this. really not much there

You should leave closed captions off...they are never right anyway, and can confuse you to as what he is saying. Just listen carefully.