it's become something I've gotten in the habit of looking forward to a new Wren song coming across
my feed animal flow part of the reason I get so excited to dive into another Ren song is because
not only is the music and the concept going to be fresh in my own mind but the things that he
does with his voice the way he uses it because he's influenced by so many different styles he
can sing he can rap he can do all these other little sound effecty sorts of things and because
his performances are so genuine and his lyrics are often so thought-provoking his vocal performances
act as a hook you can't just listen to these songs once you can't just watch a video and then go away
you have to go over and over and over again and find out how all these things interact with one
another so I'm sure this one will be no different I'm sure I'm gonna miss a bunch of stuff that I'm
gonna look forward to seeing on the second third fourth fifth tenth watch or listen
but join me as we do a vocal analysis during my first time viewing animal flow Bible
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oh okay I want to go back to the very beginning it sounds like he's doing it again he's making these
these neat sort of animal sounds and then at the beginning how it's all pitched here band limited
it's like a baseline animal flow you're in the mind of a Cannibal King my chaos and trouble
is bubbling Under the Skin bubbling Under the Skin this is like a sort of a growl and you
know death metal or Deathcore vocalists do this to an extreme but he's using some of that same
technique where you sort of sigh uh ah skin he's using it very subtly here it's the same sort of
approach used in a different way and it shows whenever I pick up the mic and begin whenever
these words that I write with my pink on my life they ignite like I pulled out the pen same thing
there animal flow try it it's not that hard to do you just have to have this this mentality
that you're not going to be locked into one way that your voice works Ren demonstrates
that over and over again have fun experiment with different sounds with your voice I love hearing
this kind of experimentation I write with my pink on my life they ignite like I pulled out the pin
your brains I'm bored know that the Cannibal's broke [Music]
look at that
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not almost beatboxing but not really the guy you can't help it move [Music] D
there is pitch there though
I'm not getting it anywhere close to what he's doing but as I'm experimenting with that
being in Pitch with the rest of the song and interacting with that
bass line even as you are doing this just rhythmic figure with your voice
super cool difficult to do it [Music] yo I've got mountains hear how he's harmonizing with himself
or is it is it yo I've got mountains of mother breast primes that actually doesn't sound like
he's harmonizing of himself someone may uh correct me on this but it actually sounds
like an an electronic doubler where he's he still is has this sort of pitch going
on but these these other voices that are surrounding his voice are electronically
um digitally manufactured CEO I've got mountains of mother breast primes there's nowhere to run
from my mind I'm an impossible for never slow and just growing and flowing with intricate lines
so sung even though it's not right and flowing
with intricate lines when I bite like a beast blood I drink it like wine
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look at that I love the the surrounding effect that happens with that almost growl animal and
then it expands and I also liked how he was going in and out of pitch as he was rapping
singing But then mine was a complete departure he's so incredibly expressive listen again for
these subtleties [Music] when I bite like a beast blood I drink it in that wine and then
a completely different uh character in his voice comes out here where he lowers his pitch and and
becomes a bit more contemplative and observational he's perfectly riding over the top of the Dynamics
of the music but when with intricate lines when I bite like a beast blood I drink it like wine
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he's right in there with the rest of that bass line I love how that melds [Music]
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how the blood that flows oh man it's it's like so disturbing and unnerving to have these these
nursery rhymes with the complete destruction of the characters in the nursery rhymes of course
A lot of these a lot of these um you know stories nursery rhyme type stories are quite uh Brash and
violent we don't really think about them as being that way and I wonder if he's sort of
digging into that part of it right that these things that are initially quite
um innocent that we sing to our tiny babies are they're not what they're
really in their in their Origins are not what we see on the surface
contrary how the blood it flows horrific explicit I feel parasitic I said that comments
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yes I am yes I am yes I am yes sometimes the things
oh man yes I'm an animal yes I'm irrational yes I will do and admit
to doing these horrible things that I don't necessarily like that I'm doing don't fully
understand why I'm doing them I don't know this is just the things that I'm picking
up from the lyrics but what's wonderful is that lyrics and story means so many different things
to everybody that's another thing I've grown to appreciate about specifically what Ren is
doing you can attach your own baggage to what he's saying and it meets you where you're at
the house
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I don't die did not disappoint keep it up Ren you never know what to
expect I always feel super inspired after digging into a new Ren song
I can't wait to continue down the rabbit hole we'll see it for more