part of what draws Us in and helps us relate to another person particularly another artist
is their willingness to be real and vulnerable and especially lately Ren has been drawing Us in
not only with masterful Arrangements incredible performances but in his communication his style
of communication his willingness to be vulnerable up front show it all and if you've read I assume
you have but if you haven't you need to read the write-up in the video description of Ren's
original video or maybe you got it via email if you're part of his list and then when we look
at various societies as a whole and censorship and all these sorts of things not talking about things
like this is the problem we need to talk we need to have open vulnerable discussion presentations
art music that helps us bring these things out in ourselves I have struggled incredibly and continue
to struggle with intense anxiety and depression and one of the best things for my mental health
is to reach out in the midst of what I'm feeling and not recoil to be inspired here
foreign
[Music]
folksy Harmony blend that brings us into this mood uh wow that's really really neat he's he's
using so many different textures uh so many different vocal textures to to bring that
sort of Lucy folksy sound out um not sure it's all him maybe it's it's different people [Music]
I love also how he's singing on the edge of his breath that's
how I've come to describe it uh uh uh there's this sense that
he's not trying to just get through the notes that he he releases he releases his breath
at the end of a lot of those phrases and it it keeps this sort of pent upness while the note is
happening but really steers The Listener to feel relaxed and conflicted at the same time [Music]
it never really felt at the right time suicide suicide suicide I'm so [ __ ] lonely beneath
this narcissistic can't keep a secret Miss count sheep I can't sleep I Misfits some say
trouble but some say so this day [Music] deep resist the feeding when it hits you
falling through the cracks of the night sky a
light goes out on the other side suicide suicide suicide
I love the blend of organic sounding instruments and and non-organic sounding and the AI video
These are these are getting more and more popular and I really like them I really like
the the visual contrasts and and things but but also with this the way artists like Linkin Park
and periphery those are the some of the ones I've seen so far they ground in the reality of
the band or the artist or project so well so if you if you're if you know the artist if you're
familiar you can be like oh all these little things that jump out that they're nuanced and
you wouldn't necessarily catch unless you really know or watch the video a bunch of times [Music]
falling through the cracks this guy
[Music]
treading on the tracks in the night time it never
really felt like the right time suicide suicide suicide [Music]
that is cool oh just the writing the idea is the time side suicide suicide [Music] a line
that was happening earlier uh I gotta go back to it real quick I'm so [ __ ] lonely beneath
this narcissistic can't keep a secret I think I feel my thought patterns changing a little
bit in light of having internalized that line about the narcissist I think sometimes
when I've tried to communicate my pain or whatever I'm going through I have not done it
in empathy I have done it to merely get out what I'm trying to say or get out what I
want to express but not with the awareness that I'm talking to another human being who also has
struggles if I moving forward make a better habit of yes Express share but share be willing to
unload your burden but also be willing to Bear the burdens of those who are close to you then you can
mutually help each other I had to skip back to that line because it kept going through my head
[Music]
I'm so [ __ ] washed up and seasick masochistic kid with a split lip six feet deep I can't eat
I'm nervous won't stay down cause my body purges useless skin so pale cause my cheeks leak color
truth is my father you choose your karma draw for the sword then drive through the armor
[Music]
suicide suicide
suicide suicide [Music] foreign
[Music]
it's hard to take off from the ground when your wings are cut your stomach burns when you're
drinking from an empty cup you know the entire ocean came from my tear ducts I see the world
through Fibonacci sequences and double dutch I guess there's some that's born lucky there's
some that's not I tried to cut away my bitterness that's your job I like my youth inside a trunk
inside the pickup truck then dump the whole thing over that same Bridge the night you jumped I think
about that sometimes vividly what I felt like to look down and see Tranquility once ability
only one movement to expose our fragility I [ __ ] miss you and I miss myself I miss thinking we were
indestructible as well I'm just chilling by the pier cave and kicking back with Callum Hugo Say
You're Just in Stevie in the [ __ ] life I miss missing that I know myself to close the guy but
never even call them up the distance is my plastic ass the truth is to the day you join my childhood
jump too but I still can't find the angle all I find is missing you man I miss you with all
my Rhymes I'll pitch a running five minutes quicker I'm right on time I'll put you pulling
you back over the edge and then we're crying and holding you my brother and telling you this is
not a day where I could find a way to break from the hood your body missing so we never
got to wave in the hood I hope you're listening I love you man I miss you absurd [Music] oh [Music]
musical journaling
may we all be so bold and
pursuing being comfortable enough in our own sense of self-expression
that we are
motivated to share something as real and as vulnerable as we have heard at the end
here thanks Ryan