Pearl Jam - Jeremy (Official Video) Reaction/Review
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- Pearl Jam - Jeremy (Official Video) Reaction/Review
BizMatik Reviews and Reacts to Pearl Jam - Jeremy (Official Video).
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Ok Biz, this is gonna be a long one and I apologize.😏 This was just such an epic song for the time and written for a specific purpose that is SADLY still relevant today. It was to call attention to abuse, neglect, bullying and the need for better mental health awareness and suicide prevention programs. AND OF GREAT IMPORTANCE..... this song is NOT 15y/o Jeremy Wade Dell's story as far too many think. It was simply inspired by a teeny-tiny little 2 paragraph article in a newspaper about Jeremy and what he did. Eddie Vedder (lead singer) came across the article while reading the newspaper.... he got to the very end of the paper (2nd to last page if memory serves) and there was this tiny article about 15y/o Jeremy Wade Dell killing himself in front of his teacher and 30 of his classmates on Jan 8, 1991. It seriously pissed Eddie off that the entire newspaper, front-to-back, was filled with nothing but Political and celebrity "news" (PFFT.... gossip!) and Jeremy's story was seemingly thrown in as an afterthought. It pissed Eddie off to the point of writing this song and he used Jeremy's first name in remembrance of him.... you know, to make his short life and his struggle count!!😌 I'm gonna do the rest of this this in outline form!! lol!!!
1.) Thank you so very much for doing this one!! I told you Eddie's voice was nuts!! You will never hear another voice like his!! Is it "technically" perfect??? NOPE, but it's as raw and REAL as it gets. He wrote this song from a real place of pain and frustration, and he sings it from his soul and NOT from a place of trying to be the best.... To me, Eddie's voice is PERFECTLY IMPERFECT!! As an aside, Eddie has a 5-octave vocal range (and he's NOT even trying, it's not nor has it ever been his goal!). Just for scale, our beloved Robert Plant can only do 4-octaves!! Just saying...😁
2.) YES!! You got the right video!! YAY!!🤗 This was the uncensored ORIGINAL version. MTV immediately edited this due to flack from the Media and even some parental complaints, about the ending in particular. MTV edited the vid so horribly; it left the viewer thinking Jeremy shot his classmates! UGH!!! I was fortunate enough to see it the day it first aired and saw THIS version.... a week later I was watching MTV and it came on and it was the edited version. I was numb by the way it was edited!! Oh and of course, they also edited out the F word! lol!!
3.) The line "My jaw left hurting, dropped wide open. Just like the day Oh, like the day I heard" is referencing how Eddie had a flashback of a shooting from when he himself was in high school. A classmate of Ed's went to school and shot up an empty classroom which was right next to the room Eddie was in. So years later, when he saw Jeremy's story it immediately reminded him of that experience from his own childhood and it had also left his jaw wide-open. No one ever paid attention to that boy either and he too lost his ish....
4.) You said u didn't understand the line "drawing pictures of mountain tops, arms raised in V and the dead lay in pools of maroon below" that's a nod to there being signs of trouble/children's pain and struggles. Children will typically manifest it outwardly in some way (such as in drawings at school) BEFORE they get to the point that Jeremy did.... you just need to be paying attention to them.🤷♀️
5.) I have to throw this in.... Jeremy "bit the recess ladies' breast" in anger/was a cry for help.... he didn't bite it off!!😅😆He was being reprimanded for punching another student instead of being helped, so he bit her out of sheer frustration. That part of your commentary was funny as hell though!!😂🤣 That's one of the things I love about ya.... you're honest af!!😜
6.) That wasn't the "Hitler" salute, it was a nod to that type of mentality, and they did it during the typical American Pledge Of Allegiance moment we all had to do EVERY MORNING at school..... the point of that moment in the vid was to show the ridiculousness of society putting things like the pledge of allegiance to a government, yet we can't even take a moment to pay attention to our own children!! That's what that was about....
RIP to Jeremy Wade Dell and ALL the "Jeremy's" past, present and sadly, to the future Jeremy's. Also, RIP to your brother Biz, I'm truly so sorry for your loss and his struggles.😢 Again, sorry if this was too long for some, but it was important to me. Thanks fam and love ya Biz!! You rock and you're killing it with the uploads, great pics on ALL OF THEM!!😎❤
P.S. Since you asked us.... freaking "EVEN FLOW" next for Pearl Jam please!!! It's a rocking tune, was their 1st single ever, went to #3 on Billboard charts and it HAS to be the official music video!! PJ stopped making music vids after Jeremy..... they wanted the music to speak for itself (plus they hated the "politics" of the industry!! lol!!) Ans as rocking as "Even Flow" is and as crazy as Eddie gets in the vid (he was affectionately called "crazy Ed" for YEARS because of his antics! lol!!).... the song is about another serious issue and was inspired by the death of a homeless man Eddie Vedder once knew....
Thanks for making it long. Stuff I had never heard before, but it makes a lot of sense.
You broke that down perfectly but im still sticking to he bit the titty off 😂😂... honestly that was grest so much insight. 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
As always, perfectly written, explained and expressed sis!!! All of it!!! 💯🙌💞
I just discovered BisMatik's channel, so I'm a little late on this video, but that was possibly the best break down and explanation of that song, hell, any PJ song, I've ever heard, don't be afraid to make a comment long, especially if it's content is worth reading, and leaves us readers wishing it was longer, great job, #1 is my absolute favorite description I've ever heard of a singer who is by far in my top 3 of all time, and side, note, met him briefly in summer of '93, in St. Louis at LalaPalooza tour.
When I say "met him" it might be a little overstated, my buddies friend, who we were hanging with, was fairly high up in the StL music scene at the time, and I guess was an acquaintance of Eddies. Enough that when Eddie friggin' was just walking through the crowd like a mere mortal among us, this guy said hey Eddie, and Eddie knew my buddie's friend's name, they talked for a second, as they did, all I could hear in my head was OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG----STOP IT----BE COOL--OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. Then the dude goes, well I'll let you go, but hey, these are my two friends, Randy and Jack, Eddie goes, right on, hey guys, and myself and Randy stood there and said exactly nothing except for some guttural noise that vaguely resembled "hey, what's up. love your mus........and faded off into drooling. Eddie was like alrighty then take it easy guys have fun. I think this was right before they released "Vs." which if I remember came out that fall, so PJ was big, but they weren't in the stratosphere they would achieve quite yet, I think that's why Eddie felt comfortable just walking around and wasn't mobbed too bad. just a few "hey, can' I get a pic" Anyway, now you got me rambling going down memory lane. Take care!
Thank you for the detailed explanations. It really helps.
I'm sorry to hear about your brother Biz. We all handle our pain in different ways. Great song, bringing attention about a subject to those who would listen.
Thanks fam
I was bullied as a kid! I came from Finland as a 4 year old to Canada and didn't speak a word of English, in grade 1 through grade 4 my English was not great. It still hurts when those memories come back!
RIP Jeremy.
One of the most powerful song and videos ever.
It's from a true story, with some embellishment. Jeremy Delle, he committed suicide in his classroom on Jan 8, 1991. Dallas TX, I think but not 100% sure on the locale.
Richardson high school
The bellamy salute is what the children were doing. Though it's synonymous with the Nazi party it was actually something originated with the pledge of allegiance. The salute started to be used by the Nazi party and the bellamy salute was replaced with the hand over heart for obvious reasons. Just a little historical context to that part of the video.
P.O.D.'s "Youth of the Nation" is another badass track along this disturbing subject.
VERY GOOD SUGGESTION AND SONG!
I’m so sorry for the loss of your brother 😔
Thank you
Oh Biz I'm crying for you and the loss of your brother. As a person who knows about depression and suicidal thoughts it's a terrible thing and ending your life is never the answer no matter how deep your pain is. Prayers for your brother man.
Thank you that means alot
Your welcome Biz and please take care of your mental health my friend.
That salute was not a Hitler salute.
It was the Bellamy salute, which is how we used to salute the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance.
When Hitler began the Nazi salute we stopped doing the Bellamy salute because it was so similar.
I'm not sure if it was in the video because Eddie Vedder wanted you see if people were paying attention to the video and therefore Jeremy's story.
☮️💙🙏I’m so sorry for the loss of your brother!
Thanks fam
He didn’t “bite titties off”. He bit the recess lady. He didn’t bite anything ’off’. The bullying & neglect made him act out. This song is about a real teen named Jeremy who did this in class in Texas.
It's a good song!
“The dead lay in pools of maroon below “
Maroon is a color. A shade of red.
So “The dead lay in pools of blood below.”
Even flow official video. I think you would really enjoy it. I'm sorry to hear about your brother. It's hard to loose a sibling. My thoughts are with you
Thank you
I never saw the uncensored version of this video until now. So back then I thought the kid shot the classmates I never knew he had shot and killed himself. Rest easy Jeremy. 🌹
Thank you for saying he lost his life by suicide. I always say he died from suicide or he completed suicide. "Committed" suicide is the same as saying he committed a crime. It's not a crime it's an illness! My condolences to you for your brother. Years ago I was at the edge myself. 2018 my bro-in-law's cause of death. People, please someone cares. If you don't think so...I CARE!!!
Well for Jeremy, that was committing suicide. Because Jeremy didn’t do it alone, he made it an experience he inflicted upon his class. It’s like if you witness a rape or you witness someone killed, the act didn’t happen to you but the violence did harm you. To choose to share the horror, just in Jeremy’s case, is a crime. If it’s alone then yeah lost his life to suicide.
Though honestly I think people say commit suicide because it’s a purposeful action like where they’d say you had an accidental OD and died because that wasn’t your intention but suicide it is your intention to die thus you’re willfully committing it. Like you’re guilty of manslaughter, accidental and not intended, or someone committed murder, not accidental and on purpose
Yup Jeremy Spoke that day. 😭
You know, back when this came out, everyone I knew already knew this song before the video premiered. I can still remember watching it for the first time with friends and we literally all sat there speechless at the end of the video. I don't even remember if it was this uncut version or not. I know MTV didn't play this version very much. Even still, all the imagery is very intense and we were just left to sit there kinda stunned at what we just witnessed. Finding out it was based on a true story always made this video all the more difficult to watch. You could literally react to anything PJ and it will be great. I would love tho to see what you think of Porch, live at Pink Pop in 92.
You should check out some of their MTV Unplugged show. These guys are great.
Overwhelming pain. My cousin jumped off the Delaware Memorial bridge years ago. The people who witnessed it said she never hesitated. She left two very young daughters. She was in trouble but in reality she would not have gone to jail but to rehab. It was incredible amount of pain for her children and family. I just wish I had known her back then to talk sense to her. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Please value your life you have so much to give to the world.
My condolences. So sorry for your loss. 💜
I’m so sorry about your cousin. What you wrote is truth and real, although for some of us the problem isn’t temporary but permanent. I have bipolar disorder and my life is often a living hell. I have gotten help but it only does so much to help. Can’t believe I’m still here. Actually wish I had the guts to self delete.
Love you Jeremy
#Biz I'm so sorry about your brother. I can definitely relate to that because my younger brother died by suicide also. As his older sister, I thought I could protect him from things like that but unfortunately I couldn't. I now suffer from PTSD because of his suicide. No one knows how much I wish I could have stopped him.
Thanks for reacting to this song!
I'm sure others have said this, but the song is based around a real person, Jeremy Wade Delle, who took his own life in front of his English Class.
neglected at home, bullied at school.
The song is a combination of 2 stories. The first and main story of Jeremy Wade dell and him shooting himself in front of his class and the other is of the kid eddie vedder when to school with and had Altercations with with who ended up shooting up a classroom. It's just a powerful and very sad song. And it's even worse because it is the it could have been prevented had people back in 1991 known how to handle mental illness. I mean jeremy had been say he wanted to kill himself and even his math teacher and had spent timecin a Psychiatric ward because they really didn't know as much as I do now Jeremy didnt get the help he actually needed Which resulted in him shooting himself in front of his whole class and its so heartbreak knowing that.
It is a true story about a boy named Jeremy wade Delle
I also lost someone I loved to suicide. I'm sorry for your loss.
ThNk you
"...the dead lay in pools of maroon below..." means dead people lying in their own blood.
"...and the boy was something that mommy wouldn't wear..." said his mom didn't care unless it was all about how she looked.
The lyrics were based on a Texas teen, Jeremy Wade Dell who shot & killed himself in front of his classroom. In the video, it starts w/ the boy in daylight, but as it goes on... it gets darker and more disturbing. When MTV aired the music video in 1992, they had to edit it - the gun in the boy's mouth... the class nazi salute (It might have been a statement that even America is just one step away from the pledge of allegiance to a fascist salute. Back then, Germany was very multi-cultural and many Jews lived there and prospered... then the nazis took over, and good people were suddenly turned into intolerant, fascist monsters. It doesn't take much to unleash the worst of us...)
Im sorry for your loss brother
Thank you
@@watchbizmatik we are always here for ya!
RIP Jeremy Wade Delle
The inspiration for this song. Eddie’s Vedder, the singer here, read a newspaper article about a boy who killed himself.
Agree.
Based on a true story. Eddie Vedor, the lead singer of Pearl Jam, that’s him in this video, wrote this song after reading a newspaper article about Texas sophomore, Jeremy Dell, 15, who had shot himself in class in 1991..
Not to worry I do it sometimes too. I usually think wtf was that? 😄
That's rough sorry about your bro 🤟
Thanks fam
🖤
Raw emotion in his voice. A tough video to watch and tough song. Sorry about your family member. Sucks.
Maybe Rearview Mirror next. Or Given to Fly.
Thanks
The flag was upside down also. Awe....I'm sorry ⚘⚘⚘
Check out the backstory
Based on true events
The "Nazi" salute represented how the other children bullied and disdained Jeremy. So in effect in the song, he was suffering the same neglect and loneliness that he felt he was suffering at home. He felt worthless and unwanted. The song is based on a real boy who killed himself in front of his classmates somewhere in Texas in the late 80's or early 90's. I'm not sure how much of the song is accurate,( if I'm not mistaken, Jeremy's family, particularly his mother protested the song and I think even sued or tried to sue Pearl Jam over inaccuracies, saying that Jeremy Delle, who was in part the actual young man that the song was written about ,had a good life at home and was treated well,) but even that aside, there were rumors of his being bullied and neglected at school. There is no doubt that this boy felt alone and alienated somehow. Also, the fact remains that bullying is a horror and can lead to more and more terrible horrors. As one who was relentlessly bullied in school as a child, I can say honestly that I was one of the fortunate ones that was able to push through for the most part. I did quit school (bad decision) but I sure af never missed it and then I nearly drank and drugged and womanized myself to death. I stopped but now I have many serious health issues because of all those bad decisions. And I HAD help. I had great friends. I had, and still have, great family, especially my Dad and Stepmother. If not for them I would be dead, and even with them, I still carried my anger and mental problems almost to the brink of destruction. I had a nervous breakdown several months ago. These things may kill me yet, but hopefully even if they do I can die clean, sober and able to forgive and hopefully be forgiven, because for a long time I turned into a bully my self. There's not a day that goes by that I do not hope for forgiveness for that. I'm in my 50's now and all those things seem so foolish, so stupid, and I always ask myself "Why did you do such awful things to other people?" every hour. I apologize to everyone I can that I ever treated badly. My Lord I hope it's enough. I wish I could change it all, go back and do my life over but I know I can't.
I'm grateful to God that He has allowed me a chance to be a better person, at least now.
I'm really sorry about your brother, man, for what that's worth from a complete stranger. A terrible thing indeed... which just goes to show that we as humans become so used to other humans walking and talking and going to school and paying bills and going about our daily lives that we fail to see what some people are going through within their innermost thoughts. The terrible thing about life is tragedy. No one ever really knows what another is going through. And even if we do see and try to help, sometimes the problem is just too big. Sometimes we can't see just how big. Some people are just simply in such a dark place inside that they can't see any other way out. My heartfelt best wishes and prayers go out to all such people.
This may sound cliche', but we need to be kind to each other. In doing so we may help a people like Jeremy to re-think doing such a terrible thing to themselves, or to seek help for themselves.
I don't know if Jeremy did seek help, but personally, I really believe somebody failed this kid. Not trying to point fingers at all, but that has always been my thoughts on this.
Great reaction man.
They Lucky Jeremy didn't kill the whole class like what goes on now 😒.
Problem child were ya BIZ, ac/dc has a song for you
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One thing i don’t understand is why are the kids giving Nazi Salutes?
Giving thr Hitler pledge......hate, and not caring to satisfy their cruelness.
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Before WWII, kids saluted the flag in America the same way the Nazis did, because of nationalism. Nazis had support in America until Pearl Harbor. Nationalists are no different than Nazis. Conservatism is no different than Nazism. It isn't. Conservatism has always been on the wrong side of history.
You are an absolute muppet.
It's rare that I see so many poorly executed logical leaps in one paragraph. Best part is, the irony of your style of "thinking" and where it leads will be forever lost on you.