Ren - the future of music?

Placidcasual79

Do you guys know about this chap? Has an interesting back story, a sizeable body of work , some serious talent and plenty of. balls...... not difficult to imagine him as a star in the making.....

Maybe you already know? A mate of mine in Brighton told me about the Big Push a while ago - but then I saw this on Justin Hawkins Rides again and realised they are one and the same......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_nc1IVoMxc

Winny_Pooh

Dunno, it's basically Laura Marling pretending to be street innit.

The future of music is more likely to be some dubstep-chill-ambient-dream-K-pop on the one hand and industrial-drill-arse-fuck-gun-crime-spanish-rap on the other.

Sporky

Sounds very much the done-to-death of music. 

Also Google throws up two more successful Rens (excluding Stimpy's chum) so fucked publicity-wise. 

ICBM

Kylo? Didn’t know he was a musician.

euan

I mean he is an unsigned artist who has managed to get 2.6m views for a music video. In that sense. Yes it is. 

And he managed it without that TikTok hook. 

Kittyfrisk

Interesting, clearly talented but a bit too theatrically self indulgent for me.
I reckon he/they'd be a shoe in as support for Polyphia though.

thecolourbox

A street Laura Marling sounds interesting to me but then I don't think my tastes would typically point to the future of music to be fair.

Ren do make a nice face cream as well

Bellycaster

He's certainly got talent. Not all to my taste but I could see plenty of people liking it.

darthed1981

ICBM said:

Kylo? Didn’t know he was a musician.

He played the Lightsaber...

darthed1981

Clearly a talented lad, not necessarily my thing but I'm a middle-aged Britpop fan, so it isn't aimed at me.

I do rather like the "musical version of those Gollum scenes from Lord of the Rings everyone loved..." vibe though.

thecolourbox

I just listened to that, well, some of it. It's certainly a unique sound I'll give him that. Reminded me more of an Eminem Stan/SlimShady with an acoustic guitar type thing. The Gollum comparison is a good one.

Good on the lad doing something different

DiscoStu

I think he's great and I've been sharing this video too. He's clearly talented and focused and is achieving things under his own steam, however the one problem with him (at the moment) is that he is massively watchable but not massively listenable. I'd watch his vids repeatedly but doubt I'd play him on Spotify.

Still cool though. Peaky Blinder Slim Shady Arctic Monkey.

Funkfingers

Wot? No Stimpy?

NelsonP

Just stumbled across Ren, thanks to Justin Hawkins. Amazing!

Placidcasual79

DiscoStu said:

I think he's great and I've been sharing this video too. He's clearly talented and focused and is achieving things under his own steam, however the one problem with him (at the moment) is that he is massively watchable but not massively listenable. I'd watch his vids repeatedly but doubt I'd play him on Spotify.

Still cool though. Peaky Blinder Slim Shady Arctic Monkey.

Think that sums it up for me too @DiscoStu - but I hear ver kidz watch as much listen what with all their social phone media and all that.....  its not my bag but its different and he has a saleable back story too..... Maybe he'll be a bit. difficult to digest but I think if he could break through he could go big.....

monquixote

Clearly a talented chap, but I really struggled to get through more than a couple of minutes of that.

roberty

Billy Bragg posted this the other day and my uncle sent it to me on the same day. I didn't get far before my cringe response overwhelmed me and I had to stop the video unfortunately

Springywheel

That was very original - he's not just a great guitarist but also a fine lyricist... very profound track  

jonnyburgo

Clearly talented but that accent that everyone uses nowadays bugs me.

digitalscream

I'm not convinced that's the future of music, mainly because I'm pretty sure you could remove the musical element (the guitar) and it would have exactly the same effect.

Seems more like the kind of thing that'd go down a blinder at a modern poetry slam to me.

Teetonetal

Think @DiscoStu and @jonnyburgo have summed up pretty well for me. 

It was compelling to watch, annoying to listen to and once was enough.