We react to Ren X Chinchilla - Chalk Outlines (live) | (REACTION!!)

Now you have to watch them performing "How To Be Me" (live)

Stunning reaction. Your understanding, your grasp of metaphor and nuance in what is, after all, a second language is amazing. Your reactions are always so on point. Plus, you are such a ridiculously good looking couple, its not fair on the rest of us mere mortals!

Now THIS is more like it! How could you punish yourselves (and us) by waiting this long to react to this? MORE REN PLEASE!

1:31 "A chair and a guitar. I'm doomed." Wow, what a perfect quip to utter. So very quotable. 😍 As for the track, I think the first two lines are the greatest openers to a song I might have heard. So simple yet so relatable. I mean outside the context of where the song goes. I think almost all of us have experienced those first two lines at some point... be it that devastating feeling as a teenager when your first love experience goes awry, or that time you said or did something so embarrassing you just want to crawl up in a ball and stay that way forever, haha; or the loss of someone very close to you that leaves a empty void. Such delicate and yet enormous opening two lines. It speaks to the human condition. And as if to confirm, your reaction and experience cements that human connection. Wonderful . ❤ Edit: I cannot spell after a few glasses of red wine. :

This is probably my favourite Ren song. When I discovered Ren about 18 months ago I was only really starting my recovery. I've had mental health problems my whole life, mostly PTSD caused by a very nasty childhood illness that had several very good tries at killing me but then went away when I was 18. Since then, I've spent most of my life self-medicating with drugs (mostly cannabis, alcohol when camnabis wasn't available and LSD sometimes too) to try and stem the panic attacks. It never occurred to me that it was PTSD causing these until I was in my 50s. Then about 2 1/2 years ago a friend who is a social worker gave me the insight to realise what the problem was and I started my recovery. Once I realised the cause of the panic attacks I could control them better and even work through the fears causing them. I was doing OK with this but expecting it to be a long process over many years. After a year I was just starting to try and function without being constantly stoned but it was hard. Then I discovered Ren. When I first heard this song it instantly spoke to me and I had it on constant repeat for 3 days, even singing it to myself when I went to bed. I had a brief relapse of drug-taking for those days, but after that I've been much better. Now I rarely take drugs any more, and only still do because I've gained friends in my life who also smoke pot and they expect me to have a smoke with them when I see them. I don't think I'll be smoking it any more though. My lungs are shot, not just from 40 years of smoking. I've had pneumonia more times than I can count, and very severe pneumonia was one of the ways my illness tried to kill me when I was 12. I can't fix the damage done to them but I can stop making them worse, and thanks in large part to Ren I can do that without spending most days in panic attacks. I think to an extent you are both right in your interpretations of this song. When I'm stoned there's only an outline of who I really am showing, even to myself. I'm only now starting to get to know who I really am. I've found I really like myself and I wish I could have known this earlier. But no real regrets. I've had an interesting and eventful life, and although large parts of it have been a bit horrible I've learned a lot and got many good memories as well as bad ones. Now I still have time to make more good memories, and I don't need to be scared that they'll be bad ones instead.

Chair & Guitar...always a warning sign with Ren x

I love how you love our Boi Ren. He is struggling through some craziness this week but your support for him gives us Renegades strength & calmness. Thank you.

Another powerful reaction from you guys. Ren gets to all of us. 😢❤

As someone who live with severe chronic depression and has done so over the last 40 years, i can tell you that from my experience, what Ren is singing here with the chalk outlines is exactly how it feels when u are on medication. You are simple a ghost trying to trace your way back to some resemblance of your real self. Because while on meds, yes they can numb the more intrusive thoughts, but you are just simply not yourself. I think you are both correct in your assessment and experience of what Ren was depicting here. Ren has an uncanny ability to convey emotion and states being into words that really paints a visual for the listener of how exactly a feeling feels.

Another great reaction. I love how you two seem to get the point of the song so well and so quickly. Thank you.

Loved how you got it straight away.

Great reaction, Carol and Elie! Their voices blend so well together. Very insightful comments.

“A chair and a guitar. I’m doomed.” Yup, pretty much. 🤛😎👍🫶

You need to listen to chinchilla 1:5 I'm an old geezer but it made me shed a tear. Must say you two are a perfect couple.... good looking dude and a stunning woman with amazing eyes. Love from England 😊

She is amazing, I love Ren, I love Chinchilla, respect to them both 🙏

love when you guys do Ren. Stay safe over there.

I remember when I first heard this, and he says it so well with the gallows on my toes line. Its like when your heart is breaking that you can't breathe...and all you can do is walk around like a chalk outline of who you used to be when you were alive.

Ren has a way that his voice and emotions demand your attention and draws you in. It is one of his super powers, love Chinchillas voice as well.

Beautiful reaction ❤ they speak to all of us like that.

Great reaction great undertanding. Loved the reaction To me "Erase ourselves in these chalk Outlines" means when we take these pills we are just a chalk outline of ourselves and so we are erasing ourselves. Just like with the line "I'll bury myself with a great big smile" While I am smiling I have taken a pill and I am just a smiling chalk outline of myself, the rest of me has been buried. A very sad song about the effect of pills on people, they can cure us but they can also destroy us.