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In spring 2017, my now fiancé and I had just started hanging out in college. We had quite a few study nights where we’d listen to music and he introduced me to Jon’s music. As a girl that regularly bumped RHCP in my Jeep (not my Nissan), I’ll never forget him singling along to Overwhelming. Ooh was another song he would sing to me, and as you can see in my username, Christienne is my middle name. So when I saw Christianne Jansen’s name as the feature, it threw me for a loop. To top all this off, Jon Bellion came to our college and did the LDOC concert that spring. I remember finding out, and rushing to tell my (now) fiancé - he literally didn’t believe me. Everything just felt meant to be, and turns out it was.
There’s even more to our story and Jon’s music, but I’ll save that for another forum. I found the love of my life and Jon’s words and music have had such a profound impact on our lives. I hope he reads through these stories and can see how powerful and impactful his beautiful mind truly is.
With love
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I’m putting this here so I can look back bc this just happened. I was in the car with my mother and I decided to play “Mah’s joint” and she asked “What does he mean by when my mother was a mother to her mom?” And I kinda had to explain it to her, and after talking abt it with her I was really listening to the song and was trying my best to not cry. Because I was realizing how beautiful the circle of life was shown in the song.
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I haven’t had social media on my phone for over 6 years. I’ve missed out on interaction and times and tour memories yall held dear. I wanna re connect and hear about times on tour or moments listening to albums for the first time, people you’ve met. What ever here.
Like I said this forum is sort like social media for me. The emails and here is where yall will get everything first.
@User12261990 October 1 2019 in Milan, flew out to Italy on my way back to China just because I refused to miss a tour.
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YOoooo! I saw you live at the University of Delaware back in 2019, it was absolutely electric. I just so happened to talk to someone online who went there and knew about it, which is the only way I would have known it was gonna happen. The venue was so small and I was on the floor maybe 15 feet max from the stage, felt like I was a part of some kind of secret haha. Best part was when you were shocked that you were able to hear the dude in the crowd yell "LONG ISLAND BABYYY" through your in-ear monitors LMAO. Coolest and most fun show I've ever been to.
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YOoooo! I saw you live at the University of Delaware back in 2019, it was absolutely electric. I just so happened to talk to someone online who went there and knew about it, which is the only way I would have known it was gonna happen. The venue was so small and I was on the floor maybe 15 feet max from the stage, felt like I was a part of some kind of secret haha. Best part was when you were shocked that you were able to hear the dude in the crowd yell "LONG ISLAND BABYYY" through your in-ear monitors LMAO. Coolest and most fun show I've ever been to.
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@EScharle i was also there!!!
@Jamesthenerdd Hell yeah dude it was insane
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I haven’t had social media on my phone for over 6 years. I’ve missed out on interaction and times and tour memories yall held dear. I wanna re connect and hear about times on tour or moments listening to albums for the first time, people you’ve met. What ever here.
Like I said this forum is sort like social media for me. The emails and here is where yall will get everything first.
@User12261990 I saw you in Atlanta in the summer of 2019 on the GSP tour. I was losing my MIND to every song, but I cried when you put Stupid Deep in the middle of Adult Swim. Like…..it literally felt like you were sharing the Good News!!!! I mean HOLY COW!!! It was incredible!
I also just loved all the different spins you did on songs. Like when the whole band just jammed during Guillotine??? MAGIC.
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I haven’t had social media on my phone for over 6 years. I’ve missed out on interaction and times and tour memories yall held dear. I wanna re connect and hear about times on tour or moments listening to albums for the first time, people you’ve met. What ever here.
Like I said this forum is sort like social media for me. The emails and here is where yall will get everything first.
@User12261990 I also deleted social media from my phone 6 years ago (with a brief "relapse" of Twitter during Covid unfortunately) and it was one of the best decisions I have made.
I found your music in high school with the release of The Human Condition and Glory Sound Prep. Morning in America, Hand of God, and Stupid Deep became instant favorites of mine.
For some reason, I stopped listening for a few years and rediscovered your music when I was in college when my now fiancee mentioned Hand of God to me with the comment "I heard this song and I think you might like it."
That was the end of 2021. Through 2022 I probably listened through The Human Condition album over 100 times. Through 2023 I did the same thing with Glory Sound Prep. Last year, I gained a newfound respect and appreciation for your acoustic sets on spotify. It is obvious you take a lot of pride in your work and that is something I admire
Anyway, you also released Kid Again on our 2 year anniversary which was so random but such a cool thing for us and we both enjoy that song.
I don't know you and all of this seems weird for me to type out on a screen because I try not to get all parasocial and stuff but I am intrigued with this forum and wanted to come in and check it out.
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I haven’t had social media on my phone for over 6 years. I’ve missed out on interaction and times and tour memories yall held dear. I wanna re connect and hear about times on tour or moments listening to albums for the first time, people you’ve met. What ever here.
Like I said this forum is sort like social media for me. The emails and here is where yall will get everything first.
@User12261990 I never had the opportunity to see you live, I was a kid in 9th grade when I first starting listening to your music. Instantly fell in love. That was 8-9 years ago now. I guess I’m old. At that age, I would grab my longboard after school, put my speaker in my drawstring bag, and go downhill in my little town in Wisconsin. I’d blast shuffle all your songs.
Fast forward now, went to school for welding, failed, went to school for producing(thanks Jon), life got in the way hugely. Almost died mentally and physically. Breakups were met with drowning my sorrows and pain with songs like stupid deep, blu, conversations with my wife, all acoustic, good things fall apart. I didn’t ask you, but I made an edit using stupid deep about my first girlfriend when we broke up to try and win her back.
Still a drummer and have been for about 9-10 years. Jon, your music didn’t just change my life when not making music, allowing me to express those feelings of heart break and true social deprivation, but it helped me also fall so in love with music, just like that girlfriend who shows you true love. Know you’ve got a gift chief. It’s real. Beautiful minds are the minds that thrive by stomping on complacency. Ain’t nobody gone anywhere by sleepwalking to the mundane hopelessness formed from denial of your calling written in your blood, caused by other pained hearts. Depth of thought is key, and the Bible is the key to wisdom of our surroundings, and Jesus is our suffering savior. We relate to him because he is our God. And each foot step of Jesus is felt in every quarter note of your music Jon. At least by me. Even if she’s the reason you’re alone and masterbate lol. Love you man
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@User12261990 you were my first concert. You were the first stone in my foundation I built with God. Your music saved my soul. Thank you for creating this platform. #90s
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I haven’t had social media on my phone for over 6 years. I’ve missed out on interaction and times and tour memories yall held dear. I wanna re connect and hear about times on tour or moments listening to albums for the first time, people you’ve met. What ever here.
Like I said this forum is sort like social media for me. The emails and here is where yall will get everything first.
@User12261990 My first time getting to see a live show was also at the same venue where I first heard “Guillotine.” Whoever the DJ was between sets at the concert I was at played it and when I heard it, I Shazammed the hell out of it and had it on repeat for weeks. Fast forward to the concert at the First Bank center and when Hand of God came on, I felt an overwhelming amount of tears and gratitude. That song hits such a pinnacle and hearing it live for the first time was such a blissful moment that I can truly never forget.
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I remember little 16-year-old me absolutely BAWLING my eyes out after the Glory Sound Prep tour—it was that powerful. To this day, it remains the best concert I have ever been to. Now, at 22, my love for your music has only grown. I have (nearly) all your albums on vinyl, and you’ve been my top Spotify artist every single year since I was about 14. Your music has been the soundtrack to my life, and I can’t thank you enough for that.
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Wow, such a honour to be here. Just thought I'd share my sob story to introduce myself. I became a fan of Jon in 2018 and was supposed to see him in concert in 2019 in Dublin Ireland. I took a bus up from Cork (2 1/2 hours) to meet 10 other friends (who came from Donegal - 3 1/2 hours) who were going to see the concert as well. We go to the ticket office to pick up our tickets and much to our dismay - 9 out of 11 tickets were fakes... There were resellers on the street selling a few more at extortionate prices. 4 people were chosen, I was not one of them. I went to the pub with the others, drank a few pints of water, met up with the 4 after the concert who loved it and got me a t-shirt, got back on the bus to Cork, got into bed at 3 am, got out of bed at 5 am for work, and have patiently waited for the day Jon would come back to Ireland.
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This is just way more fun than social media i love it thankyou for making this!
JellyBean from space
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I found you & your music through Twenty One Pilots & was immediately drawn in. Your music helped me get through some of the worst seasons of my life (I had been diagnosed w some pretty scary/heavy stuff & it took a MAJOR toll on not just my body but my mind). As I was healing, I used your music as a way to express things I didn't have words for. Then I saw you were extending your Human Condition tour & had a show in my town (no one ever comes to Idaho so it was a BIG deal lol) & IMMEDIATELY went to buy tickets but everywhere was sold out or had crazy high resales - just when I thought there wouldn't be a chance, a local radio station announced a giveaway (for a week) - two tickets & preshow passes. I tried all day every day (so much so, all the DJs knew me by name/number
). I had one day left to try & decided to make a post on IG, tagging the radio station & expressing AGAIN how badly I wanted to go... The week came & went & I didn't win. I was so bummed, so To take my mind off of it, I logged on to IG to doom scroll lol & saw my video gained A LOT of attention - Andy Grammer saw it & jokingly told the station they should help me go to the show - I opened my DMs & saw the station has messaged me. The DJs knew how badly I wanted it & said I had been the only one who tried every day/all week to win , so they held back 2 tickets & 2 preshow passes just in case I didn't win.
The show was absolutely iconic. You played little samples of songs you'd been working on - it felt so surreal to watch your creative process happen in real time, right in front of us (and still desperately want to know if the clips were YOUR songs for GSP or if it was for other artists lol). I really hope I have the opportunity to see you live again, but if I don't, I have some iconic memories to look back on from the 2017 show.Sorry for typing out a short book lol but when am I ever going to get another opportunity to tell a musical genius that his music made such a profound impact in my life? -- for real though, your music has been so important and therapeutic in my life.. I really hope you know you've made such a beautiful impact on ALL of our lives
•There's bones in my closet, but you hang stuff anyway• (YEE!)
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I first saw Jon at Firefly Festival in Dover, Delaware. I want to say it was 2015? I had never heard his music until right before the festival when I was trying to learn the artists more.
I have a love for songwriting but had stopped writing because lyricism in the industry felt ingenuine and I honestly didn’t feel like there was a space for me in. Then I saw JB perform Pre-Occupied to a crowd of mollied up rich white kids (no judgement to them, ya girl made her share of memories too lol)
Seeing an artist clear a path for himself through the insincere thicket of a copy/paste musicians was thrilling and inspiring. I picked music back up and while I never pursued it as a career, it’s been my safe space all these years to express myself.
Thank you for reminding a (then) 19 year old chick that music can be, HAS to be, whatever we need it to be, and that the right people will always listen. Please come back to the wild so we can stop looking like crazy gremlin fans constantly over explaining your writing credits to our friends at dinner and prophesizing your return.
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I haven’t had social media on my phone for over 6 years. I’ve missed out on interaction and times and tour memories yall held dear. I wanna re connect and hear about times on tour or moments listening to albums for the first time, people you’ve met. What ever here.
Like I said this forum is sort like social media for me. The emails and here is where yall will get everything first.
@User12261990 i just wanna thank you for being a genuine human being. i truly appreciate this forum and will forever do my best to keep the peace in whatever way i can. you hold a special place in my heart jon because my little brother and i would and still do listen to you and dance around our living room.
i’ve been to one of your shows i believe back in 2018 in indianapolis in the egyptian room (i believe that’s what’s it’s called) !!! it was a birthday gift from a good friend at the time. she had these sparkly vip tickets so we were on this platform the whole time and could see you oh so clearly!!! i’m a short girl so being up higher than everyone else was pretty cool! another little story of that night was even tho we had vip tickets we still wanted to ~try~ and get closer but this big tall(6ft) man named chad wasn’t too happy about a (5ft) girly stepping in front of him so we had to go back to our spot. now i know that probably wasn’t the nicest thing to do, we had our spots we should be happy to have them right? and i totally was that minor moment did not ruin the night but can you blame a girl for trying to see her favorite artist up close?
anyways thank you for everything jon you’re the true beautiful mind🩷
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The first time I saw Jon was in Dallas, TX. Deep Ellum. Me and my childhood best friend were super excited for the show. It was such a great day. We went to eat before the show and ended up being seated next to all the guys who performed with Jon. My friend ended up knowing one of Jon’s childhood friends which was cool so we hung out and met Jon. Sweet down to earth guy. I then had the pleasure of seeing Jon and the guys perform in Nashville a week later. I met him again and he did remember me lol
10 years down, many more to go!
