So Much Pain... First Time Reaction to Johnny Cash - "Hurt"
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This was basically his goodbye to everyone, he passed shortly after. I always felt like that was intentional and he meant for this to be his adios to the world. RIP Johnny Cash.
When his daughter Roseanne saw him close the piano she said its like you're saying goodbye...He said I am.
What was so sad his wife passed away first 😔
@@Heartstrings_Skyla You're thinking of his wife June, who is in the video.
I agree. I think this is a song that all of us may sing eventually most of us get old and lose ppl we love.
@RigiLiquid945 And if you google his reaction to it he says that he doesn't consider it his song anymore it'd JC's
HUGE wrap
This is a cover of a song by Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor wrote it about drug addiction and a life spiralling down the drain. Cash completely reinterpreted the song at the end of a life with a certain degree of regret.
He passed away not long after this. That was the last time he ever closed that piano.
Upon hearing it his daughter remarked that it sounded like he was saying goodbye and he said "I am..."
Also Trent lamented with respect that this song now to him was like an ex girlfriend that had moved on and was Johnny's now.
@@sherpajones Yeah. Especially since it was very personal to him being that he basically bared his heart and soul in that song
@@antivanti Very true. Ironically, Johnny also bared his own heart and soul in that song. Those who knew him longest say he related to every word.
The Cash cover crushed the NIN version. It became Johnny's song, like All Along the Watchtower became Hendrix's song.
@@s3any1977 I prefer the Cash version but they are so different despite having virtually the exact same lyrics that one can't really erase the other for me
Welcome to"The Man in Black" rabbit hole. He is a legend. This is a cover of Trent Reznor of Nine inch nails
Trent Reznor said after watching this video that this is now Johnny's song...
bet he was pissed.
Initially, until he saw the video @@NikkoBellic-sf6bo
@@NikkoBellic-sf6boNah, bet he was proud.
Trent was very proud that icon Johnny Cash wanted to cover his song!
Give Trent a couple more decades, he might be able to reclaim it.
He autographed my arm in 1958. I was 5.
nice , year older than you.
Is it still there? Lol👍✌️
@@kennyhuskisson2684 Yeah. But it HURTS.
Ill never trust anyone who doesnt cry to this song.
Facts!!!
If you can listen to this song without crying, you are as close to the definition of a psychopath as I think you can get.
@@RussellLambeth or you suffer from a depression induced condition called anhedonia like i do, i physically cannot cry, teh condition causes me to have no reaction to negative stimuli such as this song
His wife died shortly after this song was released she is country music royalty, her family was massively popular before anyone had even heard of Johnny.
"This isn't my song anymore but I'm gonna play it anyways." -Trent Reznor introducing Hurt at every show. Can we get you doing "Something I Can Never Have" to give Nine Inch Nails the love they deserve?
He was only being polite..
meh I still think the original is better :)
I 2nd that!
@@asgeirkvitvik6685 me too..
I like to think that between them both , we were given this gem. Take care out there.
Johnny Cash has recorded quite a few covers throughout his recording career since the 1950's... His choice of covering 'Hurt' by Nine Inch Nails was perfect because it was originally written by NIN mainman Trent Reznor about his struggles w/ substance abuse... a familiar topic, given Johnny Cash spent years struggling w/ drug and alcohol addiction.
Johnny Cash was in failing health by 2002 at age 70/ 71 when he recorded and released 'Hurt'... This powerful music video captured his sentiments at the end of his life looking back at his past... His wife June Carter appeared in the clip and it made a huge impact in 2003.
Sadly, shortly after the release of the video, June Carter passed away at age 73 from her own health complications... A heartbroken Johnny Cash speculated he would go soon... He passed away 3 months after June Carter in '03.
Johnny and his wife June both knew they did not have a lot of time left. He was regretting the end. She died a few months later and within a year he was also gone. He quite literally was saying goodbye.
Was lucky to meet and work with John. Never met anyone with so many gifts yet so humble.
That must have been amazing. My father would have been so jealous of you 😊
The man had a profound self-awareness, and honesty that so many lack. He was willing to see his mistakes, and the damage caused, and feel genuine remorse about it. All signs of true character.
To quote Bono (U2): Trent Reznor was born to write that song, Johnny Cash was born to sing that song, Mark Romanek was born to make that video.
Done in the twighlight of Cash's long and alustrious carrier, the lyric "my empire of dirt" has special meaning to what really is important in the end. After hearing Cash's cover, Trent Reznor said this song now belonged to Johnny.
Well said.
He filmed this music video entirely at his home as he was too ill to film it anywhere else. It's a cover version but he made it his own. He was a genius at covering songs and making them his own. His version of Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode was brilliant.
Johnny passed just 7 months after he released this song along with his wife June who was also famous and in the video.
I’d also highly recommend the biopic movie I WALK THE LINE which tells Johnny story, which will tell you why this song digs so deep
What a wonderful reaction. This may have been a cover, but Johnny definitely made it his own. When you think about how soon he passed after this was released, it becomes even more powerful. What a legend.
This song is such a gut-punch. It was recorded not long before he died. The older lady you keep seeing is his wife June. When she passed, we all knew Johnny wasn't long for the world, and he wasn't. To this day, I haven't and can't listen to his last album in its entirety. Shoot, I get torn up at the thought of losing my wife or vice versa.
This is a cover of a NIN song. Trent Reznor actually was kind of dismissive and a bit of a dick when he learned Johnny covered this. Ultimately, he considered this to be THE version of this tune, sort of like how Bob Dylan wrote All along the watchtower, when he heard Hendrix's version, he "gave" the song to him.
This one hurts a lot. His catalog is very diverse. His lyric writing is very powerful but can also be hilarious (The One on The Left, Oney, One Piece at a Time, A Boy named Sue). There's a 3 album set that sums his music up. It's called "Love, God, Murder." Keep digging!!!
He covered a Nine Inch Nails song, originally about a young man with a heroin addiction, and remade it into a song about an old man looking back at his life.
He actually covered many songs at the end of his life, 5 albums worth. But this is the one everyone reacts to.
This is one of the saddest songs there is.
What's so powerful about this is the combination of the song and the video. It's the summation of a man's life from an artist who knew the end was in sight. It's monumental.
Thank you Stacey! You gave a very heart felt and honorable reaction! Johnny Cash was a large part of my life, I'm closing in on 70 years and lost my wife 5 years ago so I connect in that way. My father was a country musician since the 50's and loved J.C. He has seen all of his fellow musicians pass plus his wife of 75 yrs. (Mom to me) and it tears me up to see the similarities. The Folsom Prison live performance has a treasure of Johnny's song. "A BOY NAMES SUE" was the song that brought me to purchase this album, I think I was 10 yrs. old. Stacey I hope you continue following his catalog.
As a NIN-fan, imagine my surprise when I first listened to this.
I cried again. Great performance.
"Its the age when life stops giving, and starts to take away."
To paraphrase.
Johnny was born to parents who were literally dirt-poor sharecroppers. In the video it shows him going back to boyhood home. After finally breaking into music, first as a pioneer of rock & roll and later country & western music, he gained many riches, but stayed grounded. He may have had his demons with booze and drugs, but he became a born again Christian and did a lot of gospel music. Because of that, this NIN song by Trent Reznor was perfect for him to cover. There's so much more about him it would be difficult to mention it all right now.
I love your format for song reactions by saving most of your analysis for afterward. Some channels pause constantly during the songs, and it kills the momentum and the experience of an organic reaction. Songs like this deserve to breathe without constant interruptions, and you nailed it. I think your process of one or two brief pauses at strategic points and then having a full discussion afterward is perfect. Excellent reaction as always Stacey!
I agree completely, couldn’t have put it better.
Johnny recorded his rendition in 2002, both him and his wife passed away in 2003.😢
When Trent wrote this in his Twenties, he felt it and through out his pain, was vulnerable, but Johnny did it with his past behind it that gave these words more gravitas. So much so that Trent said its his song now.
Closing the piano at the end was like him saying goodbye to his career and his life. The piano has never been opened again and his daughter has vowed that it never will be. It will never play another note. Johnny had a rough life. He started working in the cotton fields when he was 5. He wrote a song about it as a kid. "Five feet high and rising". As a young man, he fought drug addiction and alcoholism. He actually fought that most of his adult life. He was an activist for Native Americans. He had Cherokee lineage. He was also descended from slaves. His last wife, June, died a few months before him. She asked him to keep working and not let it get him down. He did. He completed 60 songs in the last 4 months of his life. He had a degenerative neurological disease (can't remember what) but he died from complications from Diabetes and probably grief. This video was shot in his home because he was too sick to travel anywhere to get it done. He and June both died very shortly after shooting the video.
Didn't know that about the piano, thanks! SIXTY songs! Whoa.
A real gut punch. RIP Mr. Cash.......more Ghost please!!!!
@staceyrpg I just watched your reaction and it really touched my heart how moved you are. When I saw your eyes getting watery I just wanted to hug you. I love this song, I love the original one too but as said in the comments, he made it his song and it gives me the shivers every time I listen to it. So I can totally relate to how you felt and it I love how it got you. 😊
-It feels like you're saying goodbye
-I am...
😭
I remember that on the last day of Johnny Cash, the second biggest German news magazine played the entire music video before the show. That brought a big tear to my eye. 😥
Gets me every time....the visual and voice is absolute perfection. Kudos to Rick Rubin for persuading Johnny to go fer it and also Trent for seeing his song re interpreted and saying "its his now"
Johnny passed away in September 2003 and few months before I was born. And I love all of his songs
Closing the piano said it all, that was the last song he made. Beautiful and sad at the same time. He had lived a hard life despite all his successes. Maybe these successes was what hurt him the most. But seeing this last video, everybody could see and feel that pain. By making this video he probably showed us, that he accepted the pain and was ready for the next step. .
Johnny Cash songs are pure classic country/ rockabilly... songs include - 'Ring of fire' ... 'Cry cry cry' ... 'Jackson' (feat. June Carter)... 'I walk the line' ... 'A boy named Sue' ... 'Ballad of a teenage queen'... 🔥🔥
This song means a lot to me and my family. My Grandpa was the heart of our family unit. We grew up on his farm in a trailer. He supported all of us on that land. He passed away suddenly in October 2000 from a heart attack, just a few days before I turned 8. Grandpa was a huge Johnny Cash fan and played the guitar and sung in a Johnny Cash cover band because he sounded very similar to him. The first time I heard this song I heard my Grandpa singing and healing the pain of everyone in my family. To this day this song makes me bawl my eyes out.
A song I like to listen to along with this one is “Ain’t no grave.” I do recommend giving that one a listen as well.
The back-story in this needs be known. He lost his wife June Carter Carter who passed months after this released, and he shortly thereafter, This was his farewell to his loving public.
A legend in every sense of the word. Johnny Cash had a long career before this, having come up around the time of Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis. you should react to his own songs. this was a cover of a band called Nine Inch Nails, the song was written by the lead singer Trent Reznor. He said after the cover was released the song belonged to Johnny Cash now.
Johnny Cash was amazingly talented and successful, but his entire life was laced with tragedy, loss and heartache.
When Johnny Cash showed this video to his daughter, he asked her what she thought. She said "Dad, it sounds like you're saying goodbye"
He said "I am"
Stacey
This version of Hurt gets me very emotional because he was same age as my father month before my father's birthday. In 2003, he was 71 when video recording. He born same day as my birthday. Luckily, my father is still living at the age of 92. His wife, June on the stairs looked concerned as he is singing this song. Song was recorded in February of 2003. Then May of 2003, June died. Few months later in Sept of 2003, Johnny died from health issues and broken heart after loss of his love.
There are few songs which are covers of other artists works that become iconic, that become associated with the cover artist rather than its originator.
When you think of the song 'I Will Always Love You' you think of Whitney Houston, not Dolly Parton.
David Draimon / Disturbed's cover of 'The Sound Of Silence' has done the same with a Simon & Garfunkle song.
Johnny Cash's cover of 'Hurt' sung not by a 29 year old Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, but an old man nearing the end of his life is now the iconic version of this song.
When Johnny Cash's daughter heard this song she said 'it sounds like you're saying goodbye,' he replied 'I am.'
Johnny Cash's last album that included this song was released November 5, 2002, June his wife would die only 6 months later, Johnny 4 months later. His stepdaughter the following month.
June Carter Cash May 15, 2003 age 73
Johnny Cash September 12, 2003 age 71
Rosie Nix Adams October 24, 2003 age 45 died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
It’s a song for us all, everyone goes in the end.
Enjoy it and be kind 🙏
There are three eras to dive into just to get started on Johnny Cash, this one, near the end, the recordings he made with Rick Rubin, the very beginning on Sun Records, and in the middle, the late 60s and the absolutely must-listen "Live At Folsom Prison" album. My first concert ever was Johnny Cash and June Carter in 1989, and it still stands as one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. June's daughter Rosey Carter had a featured spot, and she sang like Janis Joplin. All three passed away within six months of each other in 2003.
RIP Man In Black.
You will be missed forever.
For those that don't know why Mr. Cash always wore black; please enlighten yourselves. He fought so many demons personally; but he ALWAYS had humanity in his forefront of thought.
You were one of a kind Mr. Cash. I'm so grateful for 40+ years of your matery.
When he wiped his hands across the piano key cover at the end; that was his way of saying "I'm done now"
The one thing many people miss in the video at the very end he closes the piano like a casket, running his hands across the edge .
Hello Stacey 😊oh Johnny Cash that's a great choice 💪😊
As others have noted, this great song was a cover of a song by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails about his own personal problems, to which Johnny Cash could easily relate. Reznor has since improved his situation considerably and I sometimes think Cash's cover of this song was somehow good for Reznor emotionally..
You show your feelings and that is wonderful. I think you are the most genuine of all song reactors on yt. Thank you!!!
I first heard this only a couple of weeks after he passed. I can still tear up, hearing it now, 20 plus years later
Trent Reznor (of nine inch nails who wrote the song) said 'this song isn't mine anymore' as he liked this cover so much.
The thing about this song and video is that they go together. They are ART. They provoke a reaction. That is the purpose of art. It's to cause a transformation, even if but small. Never be afraid of it. Embrace it.
The story behind the albums that Johnny Cash recorded at the end of his career have an interesting story. Johnny was abandoned by his record label, believing that nobody really wanted to hear any more from "The Man in Black." Rick Rubin, a famous producer, known more for Rap, certainly not country music, believed that Johnny had more music in him, and he invited him to record in Rick Rubin's living room not even a "real" recording studio. He just wanted Johnny to record whatever he felt like performing, with nothing more that a guitar and microphone. Later on, Rick would add in additional parts to the music, but at the core of those recordings were just Johnny singing with his guitar, playing what he felt. The woman in the video, was his wife, June Carter Cash and Johnny had been in poor health leading up to the video recording, and June died shortly after. Johnny followed her, not long after.
When I think of musicians who had it rough, I think of guys like Johnny Cash and Michael Jackson, they had wonderful careers, marred by constant limelight. Everything they did, everywhere they went, every step they took, fans, media, their presence was known. Before this, famous people, had lives, I think, they had the capability of going out, sure they’d be recognized but it wasn’t militant harassing and stalking. This was the era where it was becoming popular to follow the popular person around, take their pictures, harass them. And sure it happens today, moreso, but, I think it was those two who took that initial plunge.
If there’s a cliff everyone jumps off of into some water below, it’s a, “well c’mon, everyone does it” sorta thing, but I think these two, were the first to, stand up on the cliffs edge, not on their own volition, mind you, and forced to jump, and others following learned from them, in some capacity. Some embrace being stars, others hate it, but it’s a cliff they all must jump from.
Awww your kitty could tell mom was getting sad❤
He is the best kitty❤️
Those damn onions. Every time.
The line "If I could start again, a million miles away..." always gets me.
RIP "Man in Black." We lost a legend with Johnny's passing...and, we're all the worse off for it. You're sorely missed...and, save me a seat in the "smoking section" for when it's my turn to be called home. It'll be cool to see you, Hendrix, Stevie Ray, and Neil jam out on the same stage. I mean, God loves great music too right?
My favorite line in this song is "If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep my self, I would find a way."
It is such a deep line, and for me, I feel they are the moments that make you who you are, good or bad, are necessary to who you are. In my life, there are obviously things I wish I could change. But, If I did, would I be who I am now?
This is a Trent Reznor song written about heroin. For those who don’t know, the man in black was addicted to Percocet, and apparently hurt everyone in his life.
Stacey, this is a cover of Trent Reznor’s song for NIN, it’s original about drug addiction and death. If you enjoyed this version please take a look at a cover by a fellow TH-camr Lolli Wren aka The Fairy Voice Mother; she made it her own with her own experience of life. It’s a great cover and invokes just as much emotion as Jonny’s version.
Lolli not only covered this song with exquisite sensitivity but also reacted to Cash’s cover appropriately - unlike The Charismatic Voice. Cash agreed with his daughter when she noted that the song was his goodbye. To me, he’s saying that the awards and things achieved during his life mean nothing as he faces death. He died shortly afterwards
June, his wife died 6 months b4 he died in 2003 this is his goodbye he died shortly after this Video. It makes me think of my grandfather after my grandmother died.
I've noticed whenever you get emotional when listening to a song one of your cats shows up. My cats were in tune to my emotions.
Cash obviously identified with Reznors song. So much he did it his way. Now you know why he wore black
This song was made and written by Nine Inch Nails Lead singer Trent Reznor. The leader singer made this song about a middle aged mans life spiraling out of control and losing the ones around him due to death and drugs/ overdoses'. Johnny Cash took the song changed one word and made it about and old man looking back on his life losing those around him due to age and what year to year can do to a friendship. Nine Inch Nails lead singer wasn't happy about this because the song was soooo personal to him. Once he heard the song he said, "this is now cash's song". Cash when he passed, was the ONLY person in the Country Hall of Fame, Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame, AND the Songwriters Hallo of Fame. You could literally write a Harry Potter 10 book story about this man's life and still have chapters left out... During this song his wife passed away. His daughter told him that this song sounds like he is saying goodbye... Johnny replied, "I am saying goodbye; I miss my June (wife June Carter)". Johnny passed away like 4 months after releasing this song.... RIP Legend.
For me, at the end of the song, when Johnny closed the piano. It looked like he was saying goodbye to an old friend... 6:05 He sang about his "Empire of dirt" (as he sat in the Johnny Cash Hall of Fame)... I wrote this line before I watched 12:50 and how you said it really stuck with you. I have never forgot that part of the song...
A perfect imperfection masterpiece!
This is born of Rick Rubin’s mental musical mind and it’s up there with his best conceptualist work
Johnny passed about 7 months after he recorded this son, June Carter Cash, his wife, passed on about 3 months after the song wa recorded. They both passed in the same year. The interesting thing about the song was written by the lead singer of the "Nine Inch Nails". By the way, I love your cat, I miss mine.
True song...with werry distinctive true to life path lyrics
Trent Reznor singer of Nine Inch Nails who wrote this song said that this song now belongs to Johnny after this cover was made. Shortly after this video was shot June, his wife passed away and Johnny followed a few months after. RIP Man in Black
Perhaps the greatest song cover ever.
Back in the 1990s, I spent 6 weeks on the road with Tommy Cash, Johnny's little brother. Very nice people, very religious, but very friendly. This was John's last year of life, right after he lost his wife.
Definitely check out the original. Trent Reznor is a genius.
A song called wine into water by T. Graham Brown is an amazing song
"The old familiar sting" references his heroin addiction, The sting is the needle
His wife died right after this video. Then he shortly died. After that. It was the last song and video he ever did absolutely crazy it’s like he knew.
Kitty came to see if you were OK. Tell Kitty no one is OK after hearing that song.
Johnny Cash chose a very powerful song for his swan song. This was his last recording.
June his wife, behind him in this video passed away briefly after he did, less than a year after this video was released.
If you want to have an idea of his story, there is a good biopic, "Walk the line". Regardless of how accurate is, it shows the general events of his life and portraits a lot of his music.
Fun fact... Johnny's wife, June Carter Cash is a close relative of former President Jimmy Carter.
I loved how they used "Solitary Man" as pretty much the final good bye in the penultimate episode of Stargate Atlantis.
"All you arrive at in the end
is a sad, washed-out, sandy plain,
you gaze about, take it in, bend
a wise head, nod; hope is in vain.
Myself, I try to look about
nonchalantly, without pretence.
Axe-arcs shake their silver out
rippling where the aspens dance.
My heart sits on the twig of nothing,
its little body shivering, dumb.
In calm unbroken gathering,
staring, staring, the stars come."
(Attila Jozsef, 1933., - transl: Edwin Morgan)
aww kitty wanted to cheer you up
So the lady in the background on the stairs was his wife June Carter (She was a musician as well) who would pass away like 3 months after this song was recorded and then Johnny joined her like 6 months later. As others have said this is a cover of a song by Nine Inch Nails and every time Trent Reznor introduces the song he says “It’s not mine anymore but let’s play it anyways”. I hope you react to Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, etc by Johnny Cash. You are spot on in your analysis of the lyrics, Even though he didn’t write it this song was deeply personal for Johnny Cash cause he felt like it spoke to how his life had gone and it’s why he sings it with such emotion. I see you only do music reactions but I wouldn’t mind if you reacted to Walk The Line. It’s probably the best way to listen to his music and get to know him, June, etc.
Greatest performances by him!!!!.
The mount rushmore of country singers was the highway men. That's why Johnny Cash is one of the four members. ❤
Dont care who wrote it .Johnny owned it & brought it to the world,imo
This song reminds me of the Beatles 'A Day In The Life', with the increasing and intense pounding of the piano getting louder and louder being reminiscent of the escalating crescendo in the Beatles song.
Now do A BOY NAMED SUE by Johnny Cash, the words were written by Shel Silverstein, the fella who wrote the children's books, "THE GIVING TREE" and "WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS".
This was a great reaction to a brilliant song. Im going to echo what @DarrellW_UK said. Lolli Wren (The Fairy Voice Mother) also does an incredibly haunting cover of Hurt if you're interested
This is a great Song
Love your channel. Your review video of wrong side of heaven is what got you my subscription.
Legends always have a way of saying goodbye. Johnny Cash with Hurt. Johnny Paycheck with Old Violin. An so on.
It’s even sadder that he passed away not long after 😢
You should also check out Johnny's daughter Rosanne Cash. An excellent singer-songwriter in her own right. Her duet with her dad in September When It Comes was his last duet with her.
This song, immortal by evanesence. and falling in reverse reimaged of both the drug in me is you and last resort made me cry. constance by spiritbox also. that one was rough as hell, cried like a baby
the reimaged of the drug in me in you had me bawling
To live a life without regret....tough call.
Beautiful reaction. I think you might like Zombie by the Cranberries
Yay - Johnny Cash is the king of the cover version. He was "washed up" in the 90s and then got the record deal he dreamed of...."record whatever you like"....so he did. Covers of songs he loved all the way. "Mercy Seat" tells the story way better than Nick Cave. The very last line is the killer.