Vocal Coach Reacts - Johnny Cash- Hurt

[@kgot7436]

NIN made Hurt depressing, Johnny Cash made it emotionally devastating.

[@leftcoaster67]

Beautiful devastation.

[@ethancooper1560]

He sounds... well, hurt

[@happy13worker]

When Johnny Cash sings Hurt, the song connects with you at a spiritual level. I can't help but cry every time I hear it especially when I watch the video.

[@Mike-01234]

Getting old sucks just being honest totally get what JC is talking about. Health goes, what looks you had go, You gain life experience only highlights the poor decisions you made at a younger age. He had lot to be proud of most of us live in a 9-5 50 hour week job for 30 years life becomes a blur of time wonder what happend to the last 10, 20 years can't even remember one year from another.

[@EugeneVerster]

so true K Got

[@F3AR_DA_REAPER]

His daughters watched it, with him, and started to cry. They said “Dad it’s like your saying goodbye.” He said...”I am.”

[@WarKid-ut8mx]

Damn that hurt

[@PhantomOfTheMall]

Well, damn, I was holding back the tears……..

[@ShortArmStrongArm]

*you’re

[@GabrielRodriguesYT]

Damn

[@GORF_EMPIRE]

@@ShortArmStrongArm You can't be serious.

[@rogerd.miller1095]

I'm a 74 year old man, close to the end of my life. This is my song too.

[@MrCurtis1966]

much peace and blessings to you Mr.Miller

[@Chewyness]

We’re all going somewhere and we will all meet there in the end, you still have a lot of time.

[@jamesrussell3283]

Love and light to you Mr Miller.

[@owenmills3517]

Hello sir

[@ronbrock738]

Me too.

[@visionlandmusic]

Everyone is gangsta until 'Hurt' starts playing.

[@APTheis]

A-fucking-men to that.

[@Back2Humanity]

100% facts

[@GoodKarma1020]

Totally 💯

[@LeglessWonder]

Trent Reznor was born to write “Hurt” ... Johnny Cash was born to sing it

[@brentfugett2700]

☝️ this.

[@billbored8277]

So true....

[@happy13worker]

Amen, that is beyond true. Great comment Cody Aight.

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

Reznor said this song 'belongs to Johnny Cash now.'

[@crystalcoleman1985]

I interpret this as two men, with similar struggles, staring at each other on the timeline of life. Reznor singing to the future; Cash singing to the past. These two men were very much alike.

[@mattwing311]

""Trent Reznor says about the Cash version of Hurt: "I'd been friends with Rick Rubin for several years. He called me to ask how I'd feel if Johnny Cash covered Hurt. I said I'd be very flattered but was given no indication it would actually be recorded. The idea sounded a bit gimmicky. Two weeks went by. Then I got a CD in the post. I listened to it and it was very strange. It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive". Johnny played this song over 100 times before he recorded it. He called it "The best anti-drug song I ever heard." The song was released as a single in 2003. "One Hour Photo" director Mark Romanek said: “I begged Rick Rubin to let me shoot something to that track” being instantly enamored of the rendition, he offered to shoot the video for free. Universal eventually agreed to the music video, but with 71-year-old Cash’s health declining and being unwilling to stay long in the cold Tennessee weather as he was going on holiday to his ranch in Jamaica that coming Saturday, Romanek had only days to make the video and after scouting in Nashville, he decided upon Cash’s home and museum in Hendersonville, Tennessee, The House of Cash. "Arriving on Friday with no idea of what I was going to make" Romanek said. "I looked around the house and made a few suggestions of where we might film Johnny performing. I was making it up off the top of my head. Then I went to the House of Cash Museum and found it in total disrepair. There was no time to clean it up so I decided that I'd just film it, and Johnny, exactly as they were. He was no longer in his prime - he was fading and that was what I wanted to show. The place was in such a state of dereliction. That’s when I got the idea that maybe we could be extremely candid about the state of Johnny’s health - as candid as Johnny has always been in his songs. While I was filming the opening segment of Johnny playing guitar in his living room, his wife, June, came down the stairs and watched. The look on her face was so complex: full of love and pride and concern for her husband. So I asked her if I could film her too and she agreed. But the most important element was when we discovered a film archive in the museum. When we looked back at the rushes we'd filmed at the house we thought they were good but not great. But once we dropped in the archive footage of Johnny we realized that was the soul of the video. The whole thing was so spontaneous. It's made me realize that sometimes you can be too prepared and that there's some value to urgency." The music video speaks about the transience of life, the gracelessness of death, the Ozymandian crumbling of an oeuvre and the decline of a genre, an era and an attitude. The ‘closed to public’ sign on the museum. The cracked platinum records. The caviar and lobster banquet with no diners. The clips from earlier in Johnny’s career. His wife June looking on. The closed piano lid. The video was so intimate that Cash's management didn't think it should be released, and Johnny was leaning in that direction. According to Rick Rubin, it was his daughter, Rosanne Cash, who convinced Johnny to let it go. June died May 15th, 2003, three months after filming, Johnny died September 12, 2003 four months after his wife. Rick Rubin said of the video: “I cried the first time I saw it. If you were moved to that kind of emotion in the course of a two-hour movie, it would be a great accomplishment. To do it in a four-minute music video is shocking. I think the hurt video is a historical document, it's like looking back across a life." Trent Reznor was sent the video while in the studio with Rage Against the Machine’s Zach De La Rocha, and, when the pair sat down to watch it, any doubts he had about the cover were long gone. “We were in the studio, getting ready to work and I popped it in,” said Reznor. "Tears started welling up. I realized it wasn't really my song anymore. It just gave me goose bumps up and down my spine. By the end I was really on the verge of tears…there was just dead silence. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then, ‘Uh, okay, let’s get some coffee.' It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art. I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. It's an unbelievably powerful piece of work. After he passed away I remember feeling saddened, but being honored to have framed the end of his life in something that is very tasteful. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend checking it out. I have goose bumps right now thinking about it. Having Johnny Cash, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time, want to cover your song, that's something that matters to me. It's not so much what other people think, but the fact that this guy felt that it was worthy of interpreting. " There will NEVER be another Johnny Cash, and there will NEVER be another video like this. A sad footnote to a sad story, Cash’s home of nearly 30 years in which the video was shot, burned down in 2007.""

[@brianmaher22]

Native Bomblade thanks for this

[@TheSoupdragon1968]

Thank you for sharing this with us...

[@trojanette8345]

Was anything able to be salvaged or did the family -- Rosanne -- lose all the family's belongings, too? Does anybody know.

[@mamatrop]

You've gifted us all with a side of this man's life we may never have known. God bless you for that.

[@TheSoupdragon1968]

@@trojanette8345 take a look on KZbin, the fire never got past the foundation.... The family must of lost everything if it hadn't been cleared!!! 💔

[@strwbrryswisher420]

This was Johnny Cash's goodbye to the world. RIP Johnny your legacy will never be forgotten.

[@Lisa_the_Cottage_Witch]

My thoughts exactly.

[@red_five1542]

RIP Johnny!!

[@derrickconnolly9164]

Goodbye perhaps. But not forgotten. Johnny just wanted to say sorry for all the wrong and hurt he caused those closest to him. And I forgive him.

[@mayoite160]

never manage to listen to this without tearing up

[@deanmellick9187]

He never left he is here everywhere but yes like so many of the greats he is deeply missed.

[@oldmanballer5088]

I heard his daughter listened to this omg and then looked at him and said “Dad it sounds like you’re getting ready to die!” He said “I am.” Wow

[@TheSoupdragon1968]

Wow indeed..

[@757optim]

I thought she said it sounds like goodbye and Johnny said, "It is".

[@mattrogers8280]

And he was gone shortly after this was filmed.

[@johnsydneywright2028]

“ Dad t sounds like you’re saying goodbye, to which he responded, “I am..”

[@inkoinfinity2]

@@johnsydneywright2028 thanks, so many people get the facts mixed up.You are correct.

[@JHargis68]

You missed maybe the most touching part of the video, where Cash closes the piano - symbolically for the last time - and gives it a final loving caress.

[@hectorpadilla6480]

I’m 51 years old now. I’ve lost my grandparents, my dad, my stepdad, my godfather, a very close cousin, many others. This song hits home on so many levels. Wasted time on things that weren’t important, regrets in life that make me cringe when I think of them, hurts that don’t go away. Reznor and Cash paint a picture of things we all go through. Time is fading. Wishing you all well.

[@georgehernandez2156]

Its a sin that Justin Timberlake won video of the year when Johnny should have.

[@TheRobreed3]

Even Justin was pissed that he won. It's specifically why he worked on the video for "God's Gonna Cut You Down".

[@notu9315]

I will never not be pissed at MTV for this.

[@marcochavezjr9180]

This damn generation!

[@bobcobb3654]

Timberlake himself said it was wrong during his acceptance speech.

[@gringopablo]

Justin who?

[@VoidingWarrantiesAgain]

When he shuts that piano, you know its the last time he will ever play it.

[@jessetomahawk2306]

No words

[@kenyonsgirl415]

That's the part that gets me

[@patrickorourke41]

💔💔

[@kenyonsgirl415]

Yes Sir! Do you know why he'd burn it??

[@YakuPhantomhive]

@@kenyonsgirl415 he didnt burn it, well atleast no one really believe he burn it, it just burn, barry and linda bought the house to restore and actually live there to write songs and stuff.

[@janitor6669]

A Finnish music journalist once said about this song: "all you Death Metal and Black Metal bands, listen to this song. This is heavier than anything you'll ever write ."

[@luislptigres]

Of course they know because it was written by an industrial metal band

[@janitor6669]

@@luislptigres I never considered NIN or industrial metal heavier than Death or Black metal but that's just me.

[@janitor6669]

@High_ Voltage Been a Metallica fan since '84 and Ride the Lightning was the very 1st album I ever bought so yes, I have. While I completely agree with what you are saying, the original quote wasn't mine so I really hope this isn't gonna turn into a debate about heavy songs.

[@janitor6669]

@High_ Voltage The said journalist was a metal music journalist and he wore a death metal band t-shirt when he said it but I think his point was that an acoustic song by a country singer, when all stars align, can be heavier than the heaviest of the heaviest. And in this case Johnny's life, his voice along with the meaningful lyrics make this song especially heavy.

[@Mp57navy]

The heaviest Band in the universe is still Electric Wizard. "Funeralopolis" in particular.

[@false-flagburner4184]

Trent Reznor's reaction to this cover says it all. After hearing it, Trent said something along the lines of "this isn't my song anymore, it belongs to Cash. It turns out that I wrote it for him and didn't ever know it"

[@rduke325]

I had heard that he actually hated it. Until he saw the video. The song was very, very personal to both men.

[@eXpriest]

The song is amazing but the visuals in the video are amazing too, he's sitting in a palace of his own making, set before a feast, surrounded by mementos of a rich life and he doesn't care about any of it because everyone he loves is gone. Shit makes me tear up just thinking about it.

[@BunnLilah]

"My empire of dirt". Such a sad song. You can have all the money in the world but money can't bring your friends back.

[@empiremusicpromotions]

This is why music matters, why art matters, and this is absolutely crushing to watch. The worst part is that as I get older, this song is going to get harder and harder to listen to. What a powerful song and video.

[@daisho13]

I thought I understood this song when I was in my twenties and Trent sang it. I'm in my fourties now and it breaks me every time. I try not to regret all the shit and focus on good things and the future but Johnny and this song just shatter me now.

[@aarontippery4176]

The first time he says “everyone I know goes away in the end” and he looks at her picture, it breaks me everytime

[@frankbg1]

It actually kills me every time - the performance is so powerful, I'm in awe of this fantastic artist.....

[@heavymetal19610]

The man in black, what a fantastic career and he left us with a library of music that will never be forgotten.

[@theashrook6129]

Don’t ever stop “feeling” a song. Definitely don’t apologize for it.

[@limerick9047]

No such thing as an ugly cry, it’s a pure expression of emotion. It’s beautiful in its own way

[@Philosopher419]

"I think he's saying he's sorry... " He was saying "Goodbye."

[@7srchoed]

It’s both. Every time you “goodbye” you’re saying “thank you” and “I’m sorry” too

[@popland1977]

He was gravely sick when he recorded this. His wife died soon after and then so did he. This was a perfectly poignant, dark, and real goodbye to a turbulent yet wonderful life.

[@AJ-ms8qv]

God, what feels like a million years ago now, I had a writing teacher who knew them both. I don't remember how it came up, but he said then that he didn't think one would live long without the other.

[@joshmehl6164]

I still remember the day he died and reading the article thinking we just lost one of the greatest musicians to ever live

[@GORF_EMPIRE]

@@joshmehl6164 Facts. He was always and always will be one of my favorites.

[@GhostDrummer]

The closing of the piano lid was so heart wrenching...he knew the end was near for him.

[@SeanKerns]

This was a "raw" song emotionally, as done by Trent, but Johnny really carried it authentically. The pain is palpable in both versions.

[@Lymsley]

Trent wrote it, Mr.Cash perfected this song.

[@liambonham-schriver7713]

Trent even said that he may have wrote the song, but it belongs to Johnny.

[@AndySaenz]

The pin?

[@iantown44]

You need to react to the original NIN version. Reznor is a genius

[@MegaLaban12345]

He made it his own through his performance.

[@dianeupshaw5337]

Johnny's voice was the embodiment of hurt in this cover. Natural..Pure. It's as if he is talking to you as a friend would in a dire time.

[@stevebroughton4787]

If you don't get emotional at this song, you're a cold human being. On watching you, Becks.....I just want to comfort you.....your emotions are so raw.....bless you honey xxx

[@Green-Lyon]

My first thought when I saw the alert for this video pop up was "Oh no! Rebecca is going to melt!" His wife June had come down the stairs to see if he was OK. Her look of concern was genuine. She passed not long after the shoot, before Johnny did a few months later. Sorry if this seems a bit morbid, but when Johnny closes the piano cover I originally had a feeling of Johnny closing his own musical casket.

[@MrBimster]

Exactly my first thought as well.

[@ferox965]

Yep. I think he was saying goodbye.

[@HvyMetal4Ever]

I never saw it as a casket. I saw him wiping the cover down, as if to say "goodbye" to a dear friend while he had the chance. John knew his time was short. He gave all of us one last gift.

[@Green-Lyon]

@@HvyMetal4Ever Yeah, I don't think it was intended to give a "casket" impression, it just brought up that image in my mind. Definitely it felt like a metaphorical "closing". Like a goodbye.

[@sMASHsound]

not musical, but his own. coming to terms with the looming finality. u dont know exactly when, but u do feel its nearby.

[@kentgrady9226]

Johnny's voice is a distant freight train on a clear, dead-silent night.

[@AAARRRGGGHHHHHH]

I absolutely adore this description.

[@GunnarGnu1222]

I hear the train is coming. It rolling round the bend! ;-)

[@_Cato_]

Comforting, in a way, but also haunting.

[@patrickbateman6682]

@@GunnarGnu1222 and I ain’t seen the sunshine since, I don’t know when!

[@2nerC9]

It hurts to listen to such a powerful man break down like that. The song touches me like no other.

[@NealB123]

The tears flow every time I hear this song. He was 70 years old and age and hard living had taking their toll on his voice. But damn what a performance.

[@wrAIth-AI]

I can see it in his face. "Man, that went by quick." Boy, doesnt it.

[@finnmcool2]

And ALWAYS ends suddenly.

[@neilpeartspurplenose8739]

Honestly, he wasn't very old. Hard livin', booze and pills took their toll on Johnny. My father is 77 this November, and he looks 10 years younger than Johnny does here. My father at almost 80 looks 65, tops. When you live hard, you die hard. Nobody regretted the mistakes he made and the pain that he caused others more than him. God rest his soul, he's finally at peace in death. The man was so tormented in life.

[@roblewis3147]

Yup,it seems the older you get,the quicker time passes

[@JuggyFWB]

@@neilpeartspurplenose8739, yes. I don't think Johnny doing this song was so much about saying "sorry" as it was about simply expressing his sorrow and regret.

[@beyond1957]

Life is a fleeting moment for us all.

[@idontgiveaflyinflip]

So, a little trivia about this song: While filming this video, Johnny Cash refused to taka any of his pain medication. He wanted to feel everything for this song.

[@drgibblesgaming7884]

As a veteran... there was a period of time I ended up in a hospital to deal with things. Johnny's sister would visit weekly and tell us about him... and would always bring up this song and how important it was. Of all things she could have been doing, she would spend time and visit with vets and just tell us about herself and Johnny and just try to help people. This song and the Cash family holds a special part in my heart.

[@jaymcwatch4701]

DrGibbles Gaming super cool.

[@thomasmarchese2808]

Talking about her self and Johnny? With no context that sounds super arrogant and egotistical. Which I highly doubt is the truth of the matter though. What would she talk about?

[@themightylamont9744]

Thank you for your service...

[@brettbrinkman4387]

Thank you for your sacrifices!!!! God bless!!!!!

[@GORF_EMPIRE]

God bless you and thank you for your service and sacrifce. We can never possibly repay you.

[@richbaker8211]

First time I've listened to this song in years. I sob every time, but even more so now. I lost my Dad last month, around the time you put this video out. Normally I'll watch immediately, but this one I just couldn't. I found out yesterday that my Dad refused pain medication for the last 3 days of his life. The opening lyrics broke my heart in a way I didn't know it could still break. Wish I could put something positive right now, all I can say is thank you RVA for still being a positive light in the darkness.

[@jakobchristensen2845]

This song always brings tears to my eyes - Johnny Cash being so vulnerable and that voice 😢🥺

[@djm4457]

Pure, gorgeous artistry. Cash leaves us with a stark and simple message about life, egoism, and the fact that in the end, in those last moments, each of us will be left alone to confront who we really are.

[@finstor3386]

it doesnt matter what kind of music you like...when you know the history of this, its one of the most powerful piecies of music ever made. Its damn near impossible not to cry, watching someone say goodbye so beutifully.

[@HvyMetal4Ever]

The two parts of this video that always hit me in the feels Seeing him with June, one last time Him closing the lid on the piano, and wiping it down. He knows his time is short, and he is saying goodbye to an old friend. This has to be one of the greatest covers ever done. Trent wrote this about addiction. Johnny wrote this about his entire existence.

[@PrimusxPilus]

Kinda says something about his existence....

[@jameshill2450]

The visual of him closing the piano evokes the image of closing a casket. On his music career and his life all at once.

[@MrGlock509]

When he closed the piano to me he was saying the shows over goodnight and goodbye. And then June passed not long afterward he couldn’t live without the woman who had saved him.

[@W.edgewargames]

When Johnny Cash preformed this, Trent Reznor said " this is not my song anymore, it's Johnny's"

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

That was a very generous comment by Trent, who's original was a deep and wrenching in it's own way.

[@deadso]

So it's just a written 'reaction' after all.

[@jeremyfitts6802]

Said it was like someone stealing his girlfriend.Google it

[@jeremyfitts6802]

Said it was like someone stealing his girlfriend.Google

[@saschaschneider6355]

It's incredible how Johnny Cash was able to take a song and give it a complete different meaning without really changing anything. That man was a genius. It feels very much like drawing a line under his life. No matter how many times I watch this video it always brings me to tears.

[@2003bigt]

Don’t ever be sorry for a song that illicits emotion! I am nearly 60 and this song resonates in my heart, and I love when somone can show how a song makes them feel. He is a legend, not was! He is still alive with the recordings he left for the world to hear!

[@phils866]

One of the most powerful, moving performances by any artist, ever, coupled with a devastating video. Hard to watch, yet compelling.

[@msredstilettoscraftsshoesc5152]

Johnny led a hard life & he was apologizing & regretting a lot of the choices he made during his life...the drugs, the alcohol, the way he treated June, etc., but he was also very much mourning her inevitable loss in this song as well. You can feel how much he loved her...so much so that it wasn't long after her death that he passed. I fully believe because he couldn't go on here without her...his sweetest friend. 💔 RIP Johnny...you're home with her now 😢

[@jankoskinen3560]

you can just hear the pain in his voice. ”Everyone i know, goes away in the end” always hits me. i have lost my mom, dad and both of all of my grandparents before year 15. I really feel this.

[@benjaminlundback8394]

I will never stop believing this: Johnny Cash is one of the best singers, artists and writers of all time. So unique and so true.

[@A_Final_Hit]

There's no reason to stop believing, because you're right on the money. 👍🏼

[@milkamania69]

So unique?? Ehhh.. Hard to believe that when he said he wanted to be like John Prine. Prine was far better IMO.

[@benjaminlundback8394]

@@milkamania69 They don't seem similar at all. Johnny is very very unique.

[@tyleredwards9382]

He's so sharp, clear and labored at the same time. It's crazy to watch him do a rendition like this and give it even more meaning. Super powerful. If you didn't get choked up you're a sociopath.

[@michaelscott9974]

Never ever say ur sorry for showing ur heart My granddaddy once told a friend of mine Those that are afraid to show their heart to the world Might as well be dead So show the world not only ur beautiful voice, but ur heart as well Amen

[@kurtborchers6178]

the lyric in the orginal is: "i wear this crown of shit, upon my liar's chair." Johnny changed it to "crown of thorns" and there's a video on here of Trent performing the song by himself on the piano for a benefit concert, i believe, and Trent sang "crown of thorns" which i think he still does now as a tribute to Johnny.

[@pyloros6906]

"Crown of thorns" was the radio edit / lyrical censorship of the original NIN song. Not what you're saying.

[@Celatra]

@@pyloros6906 it might as well be tribute by now

[@tonypate9174]

"fat old bikers don't cry" ...that's a lie a big fat one when the man in black gives a good bye to the world....RIP

[@tonybmw5785]

Me too, mate...

[@aredub1847]

no they just go to sturgis and spread covid.

[@tonypate9174]

@@aredub1847 Guess can't all be justified & ancient that roam the land in ice cream vans can we .

[@aredub1847]

@@tonypate9174 dont roam at all.

[@thomasmarchese2808]

@@aredub1847 not everyone at sturgis wore a mask. Not everyone at the violent domestic terrorist riots wear masks. Covid is much bigger than masks. Even if everyone wore a mask it wouldn’t stop it. And I support peaceful protests. The riots and vandalism are counterproductive and a disservice to the movement. Grow up. Troll.

[@andyloy7809]

He was saying goodbye to everyone he held close to his heart, that's why his wife is in the video.

[@cheritripp9470]

@Andy Loy It wasn't planned. She came down to check on him and the director told her to stay.

[@andyloy7809]

She passed away in 2003🤔

[@andyloy7809]

They died in something like 2 or 3 weeks of each other.

[@RLKmedic0315]

@@andyloy7809 "After 35 years of marriage, June Carter Cash passed away on May 15, 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee of complications following heart-valve replacement surgery. Johnny Cash died of complications from diabetes around 2:00 am CT on September 12, 2003, aged 71-less than four months after his wife." While the official cause of death was complications from Type II Diabetes, I prefer to think that he simply wanted to be reunited with the love of his life and there was nothing left in this world for him. Either that, or God himself wanted a private concert.

[@andyloy7809]

Still pretty sad I live in Tennessee.

[@Allgoodhandlesaretaken81]

Johnny Cash was a rare specimen. Every "trained "Vocalist would call him crap, but he was to special to place in a catagory . He's just good. He's real. His voice speaks to the soul. He's special. He's 1 in a billion that can talk a song and make you feel it. He experienced real pain in life and made it his voice. God bless 🙌

[@suziechapstick8236]

Raw emotion in musical form. Trent was right to basically give away this song....Johnny Cash owned this and nobody will ever do better.

[@MrWardonis]

This was AFTER his stroke by the way, that's why he has a slight lisp

[@havok6703]

But it fits, doesn't it?

[@dantreadwell7421]

It really does. The rasp in his voice, mostly from age, but the stroke did its work on his voice as well. Just about everything that he recorded after that has a little extra somthing to it that just gives shivers.

[@YliyahMessageTime]

Just part of the scars of life.

[@CameronHuff]

makes the song more powerful.

[@tylerrebik7700]

And why his mouth is crooked.

[@dementosa3]

Man, cash was an absolute legend. His voice cuts deep. Rip

[@trevor866]

Johnny Cash's age and haunting tone in his vocals really added levels of depth to this song that Trent couldn't do. What stands out most is that his vocals add a timeline to the song. It gives you a sense of years of pain, struggle and loss. At the end when he starts to pick up the power it almost feels as if it's too late. He brought this song to a level where it will be remembered.

[@murraystewartj]

The difference between young angst and old experience and regrets? I'm an old fart, and the original didn't tear my heart out the way this cover did, especially knowing June and Johnny were so close to their end when this was done. Seeing June's look of love despite all in those brief two moments was perhaps the most powerful visual moments of the video.

[@IntenseAngler]

Johnny Cash owns this song without a doubt. His rendition is just so raw, real, and utterly visceral. Rest peacefully Johnny.

[@dr.k8610]

People defend the NIN version a ton, but they’re completely different songs at this point with two drastically different meanings

[@runthemeows1197]

I prefer the original's sound myself, but as you say, they're basically two different songs. Both brilliant versions, allthough I'd say this one feels heavier to me. Without that taking away from the emotion of the original.

[@JiniriDancer]

The original was a young man, in complete despair and willing to die to get away from the pain. The cover was an old man, looking back on a lifetime of regrets and old wounds, not ready but forced into the confronting that mortality. Very different songs, indeed.

[@frankienoodles0]

A young man trying to cope wth life and an old man trying to cope with death.

[@boomboom418]

This song was Cash's goodbye. I was first confused on why he did a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song then I saw the video. Johnny spent nearly all his life as a larger-than-life figure and when he dropped this single it showed him as an old, broken down man and most importantly ... mortal. I don't know if the video was intended to chronicle his life or to show that death comes for us all no matter how rich or poor. It was sobering to say the least. I believe his wife, June Carter, passed away later that year and Cash followed not too far behind. I think the video leaves a lasting impression on all of us.

[@checampbell9247]

He was actually convinced to by his producer. He listened to the original and said no but when he read the lyrics he later wanted to.

[@deenacolclasure9044]

Well said

[@Duane_Grabert]

Yeah. To be honest, Johnny passed away exactly 6 months after June.

[@sevenjets]

Makes me cry every time. It is such an overwhelming emotional delivery. I love NIN but Johnny Cash took this song to another level, he made it "his" song.

[@joecormier8894]

Trent Reznor has even said multiple times that this is now Johnny cash's song. He made it his own and something special that trent never could.

[@gsx1400madboy]

i cried buckets during this song as it was played at my fathers funeral. Not 6 months ago. Goodbye dad.

[@lonjanis6001]

And this is one of the many reasons I love your channel. You're not biased with musical styles. You appreciate music for what it is. Keep rocking. You're a Queen !! 🙂

[@everett880]

Thank you for bringing this song back, Rebecca. Bless his soul. Legend missed 🙏

[@AxL456]

holy shit I was trying to keep myself together until you said "I think he is saying he is sorry". I love Trent's original version but there is so much power on Johnny Cash cover that he truly made this song his own.

[@michaelradzichovsky9366]

"His voice is like pure golden leather." - what a visceral compliment! Well spoken.

[@MrGalthion]

Johnny's delivery is just brutally honest, open and vulnerable.

[@TheConsciousEvolutionchannel]

Every time I hear this it causes tears. this is how he felt at the time and he took us all there. I know the original well but when I heard this I felt sick in my soul and cried, I was in a dark place in life unannounced to me I was getting ready to embark on a 4-year dark night of the soul. I love it as an empath and artist I want to feel what they felt, that hurt but I am sure many were able to purge listing to this.

[@tswrench]

You had better believe that "The Man in Black" knows something about hurt. Godspeed, Johnny.

[@centenntrucker8496]

R.I.P the man in black. Never will their ever be another.

[@ebruceii]

Rebecca, thank you so much for covering this. Johnny's legacy was honored so well by Rick Rubin and Trent, which I never expected when I first learned of the project. I grew up as a child in the 70's with grandparents who taught me about his music, and it pained me greatly to see him in his decline. There will never be another. Thank you for giving this man the respect that he deserves. Cheers! xoxoxo

[@delawareadams]

Johnny cash did this video and it was released in March of 2003. His wife, June, passed in May 2003 and then he himself passed in September. I know that he loved her with all his heart and probably couldn't live without her. I think that in this song you hear the voice of a man who knows he is near death. I think that might be part of the reason he did this song. This man was a great and good person and did many great things in his life and I think that for most of us when we reach a certain age, it is a bitter pill to swallow the realization that it will end. I feel like that is a part of what I see. And, like all great artists, he is a master at relaying those feeling through his art. He always has been.

[@D0nut42]

Anybody who has heard this song before absolutely came here to watch you cry and to cry with you.

[@bigson1973]

Best cover ever. The emotion. Almost knowing this is his goodbye song.... It can bring a grown man to tears.

[@johndernberger333]

Yeah it does

[@garywillingham3644]

Also Sound of Silence by Disturbed different but also very moving

[@iDEATH]

I'm not really an empath, but this song really gets to me too. It's a great song, and Johnny's version is just...if it doesn't effect you, you're probably a psychopath. Seriously, I think it could be a diagnostic tool.

[@Thatgrumpysnowman]

He was saying goodbye. This song is amazing. Even after all this time it still tugs the heart strings.

[@SteveSmith-os5bs]

I remember when I first heard the Johnny Cash version of Hurt. It was emotional magic, he took a cover and he made it a Cash original, the raw emotion he put into it made it Johnny’’s farewell masterpiece.

[@kanerd5796]

My grandmother died on July 2nd, and it devastated me. But, being the person I am I tried to be strong for my entire family. I didn’t cry about it and I tried my best to ground everyone. But, the day of her funeral, when my family and I were following the hearse to the cemetery, as soon as we were passing by our house, this song started playing on my playlist. Johnny Cash was her favorite. I couldn’t help it and I broke down in the car, I tried to hide it. I took this as some sort of sign. Idk I’m not good with explaining feelings and such, but when this specific song played during that time, everything hit me like a truck. Time goes by in life, people change, people come, people go. And we all take that for granted. I love you grandma and I’m sorry I didn’t get to say goodbye.

[@wordsonice8996]

This song was written by Trent Reznor, who said, after hearing this cover, that this wasn't his song anymore.

[@packofjokers]

Trent said. "When Johnny Cash covers your song, it's no longer yours"

[@wordsonice8996]

@Marcus Smith nope. He wrote it. It's really weird hearing his version of it because the first version I ever did here was Johnny Cash.

[@danbuter]

She even said that in the video...

[@jbasti227]

@@wordsonice8996 It so interesting how despite being the same exact lyrics in both, they seem to take on a meaning of their own depending on the singer. In Trent's case, he wrote it in a time when he struggled with issues like drug addiction and depression. In Cash's case it's more like a reflection on his life, particularly any wrong he's done to others.

[@feliciabuchanan9803]

@Marcus Smith Same here, I heard this one. I have never heard the other one.

[@9UWmember]

This song and especially this version has a tendency to make me quite melancholic and introspective. It also feels like it's poking me in my ribs and telling me to put more work in to being happy. It's difficult, but I'll keep on working on it.

[@Kenny-bj2zq]

Yeah don't feel like your alone I fell the same way right now living in the times we are with this damn virus. All I can do is right a list of what I am going to do as soon as they create a vaccine to this Corona plague and going to live and love as hard as I can.

[@JohnWilson-cs7iq]

RIP Johnny. You are a legend that the world will never see the likes of again. Thank you for what you gave us. I have been learning this song on the guitar. You certainly did make this song your own. Thank you too Trent for your song & Johnny did it proud in a way that only Johnny could. It gave him closer & a fitting end. John from New Zealand

[@JHargis68]

Part of the reason Johnny Cash was in the emotional state he was in at the time, the emotional state that this song and video so starkly projects, is because his best friend Waylon Jennings had recently passed away ("Everyone I know goes away in the end"). Johnny's son said that Cash looked upon Waylon's death as "the end of an age".

[@corbelius6]

His closing of the piano was the last break for my tears. RIP JOHNNY

[@novomusicofficial]

THis goes to the next generation: less Gucci Gang, more Hurt

[@orlock20]

Songs of suicide, murder, domestic violence, depression and child abuse use to be themes of radio played pop songs, but people don't want to listen to that.

[@reddgambit2216]

@@orlock20 yet there satisfied listening to songs about adultery, betrayal, disregarding relationships, takeing the piss out of others, and bragging about how much material wealth they have? Ill take the latter option myself, sure shits dark but its also the most human themes about us, can respect that discussing heavy themes like mortality aint everyone's cup of tea but for folks like me, songs like these were real heartfelt, gave us alot of revelation too, taught us theres more to life then the value of a person or what they have to their name 😑

[@waldoman7]

@@orlock20 i mean, songs of joy can be amazing. Gucci gang ain't that.

[@gryphonkin]

The American Recordings were an attempt to revitalize Johnny Cash one more time, but the farther into it you get, the more clear it becomes that, whatever Rubin's intentions, it had morphed into the journey of an old man preparing to die. "Hurt" was, for me, his apology to everyone he wounded during his drug-fueled days, and his expression of regret for all he missed during that time.

[@AM-br4ix]

Very emotional and chilling song.... his voice still brings a great story to us ! Touching

[@jlogan2228]

Knowing abt Johnny Cash's life and hearing him sing this so mellow almost like he's reflecting on experience vs singing a cover is what makes this so damn powerful no matter how many times you hear it

[@suzanna6]

I miss Johnny... so much. My best friend growing up had me over a lot. Her dad was a huge Cash fan so I heard it all the time. I remember singing along to one of his songs with my dad who was also a Cash fan. My friend's parents are both gone now as is my dad, as is Johnny Cash. I can't listen to this without crying. I miss them all and the simple, wonderful life we had. I thank God for it. WE WERE BLESSED

[@danstasi1867]

That song is absolutely incredible. One of the greatest to ever live. RIP John and June Carter Cash.

[@QdotZdot]

"Golden leather" is the perfect way to describe what Cash's voice became over time! If this song doesn't make you emotional, doesn't give you the chills, then I'm pretty sure you're already dead.

[@franka2743]

This video/song literally makes almost everyone cry, or want to, at some point . Big ups to whomever made the video - you nailed it. 👍

[@brentfugett2700]

Beautiful review/reaction Miss Rebecca, so beautiful to see what you're feeling as we watch this together. Never apologize for the tears! They're a precious reflection of your heart. Love this. Love this. Such a pure masterpiece Johnny leaves us with, and a poignant reminder to not waste a single day. Time is the real gold in this life. Love this, even though it "hurt" to watch.

[@eddiewilkinson9794]

17 years and it still brings tears to the eye.

[@BumKnuckle]

"Golden leather" ...wow ...you are so good at articulating feelings and moods that are seemingly indescribable.

[@rva]

Thank you. I'm glad it makes sense!💚

[@Cashcrop54]

No apologies needed if this reaches into your heart and snaps a chord hard. This proves that everyone can identify with these emotions but seeing the Johnny lived them on a grand scale unknown to most people makes it such an emotional experience to hear and see. Great reaction..thank you!

[@wordsonice8996]

He died just months after filming this.

[@rva]

So very sad

[@aryanbianca3189]

I do think he was saying sorry but he also knew 'his time' was near so I felt like he was saying Goodbye for the last time too. And I believe Johnny passed not long after June. RIP June Carter & Johnny Cash

[@1971tallica]

@@aryanbianca3189 June passed then Johnny passed 4 months later , he just couldn't live without her and he recorded this shortly after she passed . Hence the raw emotion .

[@unholysaint1987]

they didnt initally know june was in the shot... but they left it in... very emotional

[@ironwolfgaming9632]

@@aryanbianca3189 The song says in the final verses - if I could go a million miles away where he is unknown and start again without all the pain he brought to others he would love it. Not for the new start but to remove the pain.

[@whiskyrow]

The emotional build up throughout the song... drawing from his life experience is just awesome. The ending, when he closes the piano and rubs his hands across it, just kills me every time.

[@MICjordanTPR]

I just watched the video, then like five reactions in a row, and I STILL have goosebumps by the end of the song EVERY TIME. This is pretty much the realest song, and performance OF a song, ever.

[@soulsnatcher5408]

No ones going to judge you if this song makes you cry. Its gets me everytime.

[@hunterepsi]

Every time I listen to this song, I ball my eyes out

[@JR_406]

First time I heard this song, I couldn't tell you the emotions it stirred up. I really miss The Man in Black (which is another song of his you should listen to). And yes, Trent Reznor said something like when Johnny made this cover, it became his song. Great video Rebecca! Glad you gave it a listen.

[@Kronko_0]

This song is almost played every time I'm celebrating with the boys. It's transcendence and beautiful. Thank you for doing a reaction

[@jrobertlysaght]

To me, it's like the original is your early 20's, that first train wreak, your first failure, or first love lost, maybe the first time you messed up and were the bad guy, how dramatic and painful everything is at that age. Then you hear this version, and it's 70 years of weight behind it, a full weary life of the failures, the mistakes, regrets for who you've wronged, loves you lost. So powerful.