Jeremy Renner Writing Songs About Getting Run Over By A Snowplow
In the world of Marvel movies, it feels like Jeremy Renner’s character is often reinventing himself: Hawkeye has gone from badass archer to mind-controlled minion to murderous Ronin and back again. In a strange case of life imitating art, Renner has followed in Hawkeye’s footsteps ever since getting into a snowplow accident in January of this year. No, he’s not putting on black leather and menacing the Japanese underworld, but he’s doing something almost equally surprising: he has created a music album titled Love and Titanium filled with songs inspired by the accident.
Jeremy Renner takes to social media to announce the release of his upcoming album Love and Titanium.
If you’re hoping to jam out to Jeremy Renner’s musical stylings right away, then we have some bad news. So far, the actor hasn’t announced any kind of release date, and he hasn’t even offered a guarantee that the music will ever be released to the public. According to Renner, that’s because he does not yet have “the courage to share with you all” but hopes that this someday changes.
“I’ve lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience, but I’ve been refueled and refilled with love and titanium.”
-Jeremy Renner on his accident
At this point, the cynics reading this might have a simple question: why would Jeremy Renner create an entire album of music inspired by his snowplow accident if he didn’t want anyone to hear it?
According to the actor’s Instagram post, creating the album was very therapeutic for him, particularly because it helped him celebrate “different milestones in my journey of recovery.” At times, Renner says that the process “has been painful” but that he later felt the entire creative process to be “deeply healing, and ultimately cathartic.”
While Jeremy Renner hasn’t spoken about exactly when he decided to create this album, the work takes its title from something the actor said in his interview with Diane Sawyer much earlier this year.
Earlier in the year, Disney+ released the TV show Rennervations, and it focused on Renner helping create custom vehicles for communities around the country.
As reported by Good Morning America, Renner told Sawyer “I’ve lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience, but I’ve been refueled and refilled with love and titanium.” Clearly, the actor eventually realized this would be a solid name for his musical debut, and he’s also using #loveandtitanium as a hashtag to help spread the word about the album.
Interestingly, this turn into creating music isn’t even the first time we’ve seen Jeremy Renner reinvent himself this year. Earlier in the year, Disney+ released the TV show Rennervations, and it focused on Renner helping create custom vehicles for communities around the country.
All of the footage was shot before Renner’s accident, and it was admittedly fascinating to see a major Hollywood actor pivoting into the kind of content we’d normally see on TLC or the Discovery Home Channel.
It’s easy to be cynical whenever movie stars decide to create music, and it’s entirely possible that the album will flop even harder than his social media app did. But for every few failed Hollywood transitions into music (like what happened with fellow MCU star Robert Downey Jr.), there is the occasional success story (Donald Glover, for example, is arguably more famous now for his music than his acting).
If Jeremy Renner is hoping to replace his acting career altogether with a musical one, though, let’s just hope it goes better than that time he was supposed to replace Tom Cruise as the lead for future Mission: Impossible movies.
