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  • @screwballprotagonist4381
    @screwballprotagonist4381 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2525

    The Nine Inch Nails version is about a young man struggling with life
    Johnny Cash's version is about an old man reflecting on his life before his death.

  • @kieferthomas985
    @kieferthomas985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2847

    Say what you want, but personally, I believe this is the strongest example & evidence that one really can die of a broken heart.

    • @sherribugd6130
      @sherribugd6130 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Yes.. his life was June.

    • @saintmichaelsmorningstar6451
      @saintmichaelsmorningstar6451 5 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      Kiefer Thomas absolutely you can. I met my husband because of this song , he was walking behind me (never met him before lol) and for some reason I turned around and said “are you an original Cash fan or NiN fan?” So we got into a conversation about it then he handed me his headphones so I put them on and just chilled out got lost in Johnny’s voice and thinking of things I lost. We went on to get married had a beautiful daughter and Years later he said that was the exact moment he fell in love with me , hearing me sing those lyrics with such emotion. Anyways this relates to what you said because he ended up dying not to long after our daughter was born, and I was dying of a broken heart I really was so I know it’s possible. But I fought after a while , I fought hard and I still fight 9 years later every single day because if I slip up just one day..... (and I don’t mean dying from suicide , I started to legit get health problems , seizures, heart trouble etc.) When you meet you’re other half , you’re soul mate I can’t even explain it . But yes it is possible and I think why you only see it with old people is because they already lived there life , kids are grown. But I’ll tell you one thing , there is a part of me that’s dead , physically I go on for my kid and emotionally I enjoy everything with and about her but outside of that ? Nothing . And everyone knows it. So there’s you’re answer

    • @kieferthomas985
      @kieferthomas985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@saintmichaelsmorningstar6451 I'm so sorry to head of your husband's death, your soulmates death. I can't even begin to relate to that amount of pain. Though, it says a lot that you carry on every day for your daughter, and I would assume for your family. To know that was the moment he fell in love with you, I think puts you in a special category that most people will never know. Thanks for taking the times & writing such a beautiful response. ❤

    • @Locust775
      @Locust775 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Kiefer Thomas You can actually. Takotsubo cardiomyopathi. Its nicknamed broken heart syndrom. I am a nurse, and have treated a patient with that condition today actually.
      Its a heart condition you can get when faced with serious emotional stress.
      The Prognosis is good, but there have been deaths.

    • @dylanvieler1806
      @dylanvieler1806 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amante Della Morte 66 young savage why u trappin so hard, why u niggas cappin so hard

  • @jameslanagan8710
    @jameslanagan8710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1539

    When you learn about the life of Johnny Cash and everything he went through you realize why this song was so perfect for him.

    • @devinblaylock8930
      @devinblaylock8930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

    • @tylergriffin1436
      @tylergriffin1436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Not sure how accurate this is but I read that Trent Reznor said "I was born to write the song but Johnny Cash was born to sing it."

    • @elizabethseals2001
      @elizabethseals2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Isn't this a Nine Inch Nails song? I love Johnny Cash. He looks a little pitiful in this. People couldn't believe when he died right after June. He couldn't live without her. The picture was his mom. His wife is the one watching him in the video. Im sure someone has already said that.

    • @elizabethseals2001
      @elizabethseals2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tylergriffin1436 I read the same thing.

    • @jacobbyrd7585
      @jacobbyrd7585 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@elizabethseals2001 it is a NIN song but they renounced the rights and said it should be remembered as a Johnny Cash song

  • @YairSassonArt
    @YairSassonArt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2108

    Closing that piano was like closing his coffin. That is truly one of the most emotional songs ever.

    • @VCRAGE
      @VCRAGE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      100% the same thought came to mind.

    • @Spacewolf571
      @Spacewolf571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      closing the piano to me seems like he was closing the coffin on his wife

    • @hcradeur
      @hcradeur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      logan Grimnar... and himself

    • @justacatinabath1309
      @justacatinabath1309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yo u posted this same comment on the official video

    • @red_rakkoon6782
      @red_rakkoon6782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This comment had 665 likes... My ocd made me make it 666.. sorry... but I do like and agree with the comment

  • @Scellie1
    @Scellie1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +714

    Cash died of a broken heart....he is a true legend.

    • @ghostryder94
      @ghostryder94 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yes, and old age.

    • @Calebrobertson22
      @Calebrobertson22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ghostryder94 technically it was diabetes

    • @Kanjo_Bazooie
      @Kanjo_Bazooie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This theead is great lol. Fr though rip man in black

    • @deannederhoff
      @deannederhoff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Calebrobertson22 omg come off of it already lol.its just a saying.quit being so cynical about it.he just lost june just a few months before that so everything compounded him dying if ya wanna get technical

  • @deweysines3184
    @deweysines3184 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1767

    You showed Johnny Cash a lot of respect in this reaction and I appreciate you more for that. Much love 🙌🏼

    • @justjoe942
      @justjoe942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      I think these 'reaction videos' are doing more to unite the races than anything the UN has ever done.

    • @thatstuff3288
      @thatstuff3288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@justjoe942 The UN hates white people

    • @justjoe942
      @justjoe942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@thatstuff3288 Why do you say that, dude? Not disagreeing; just curious.

    • @merciatreasurehunting6244
      @merciatreasurehunting6244 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      God bless Robert.E.Lee

    • @merciatreasurehunting6244
      @merciatreasurehunting6244 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Duke Fan 4 Life it's a Johnny Cash song for your information. Does this make you dislike Johnny now?

  • @madladnate
    @madladnate 4 ปีที่แล้ว +827

    this song tears me down to the bones. He had money, fame... everything... in the end it was all dirt. he lost the only things in life that matters... love

    • @morningstar7896
      @morningstar7896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Nathan Fritz that’s right that proves money can’t make u happy

    • @jacksisco997
      @jacksisco997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      well stated

    • @treycushwa4646
      @treycushwa4646 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Exactly my guy. No matter what you believe, nothing is going with you.

    • @davisworth5114
      @davisworth5114 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@morningstar7896 but it allows you to choose your misery.

    • @morningstar7896
      @morningstar7896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      David O'Beirn yea

  • @camiewilliams2626
    @camiewilliams2626 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    When Johnny Cash was a kid, his older brother and best friend, Jack, was almost cut in half by a table saw, while he was fishing. He died a week later and his father blamed him for it. He had a toxic marriage to his first wife. He became addicted to drugs and alcohol. His second wife, June Carter Cash, essentially saved his life, but before that, he had hurt her emotionally many times over. She forgave him, they got married, and he eventually became a Christian, and he made amends with everyone he hurt and his father too. This song really is perfect. He died just a few months after his wife. His story is bittersweet. Love your videos!

  • @staceyschwindt4689
    @staceyschwindt4689 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1507

    His wife, saved him from death, of drug addiction. She, was part of his soul.
    He, went willingly and joyously..... to be with her, again.

    • @irish73tjk
      @irish73tjk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Beautifully said Ms Lynch!

    • @richardzehrung7088
      @richardzehrung7088 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well said

    • @mattdoe2368
      @mattdoe2368 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      God bless them

    • @MrNelliboy
      @MrNelliboy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Perfect comment.

    • @LambentLark
      @LambentLark 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @James Vani it did feel a little. . . . . . Shatnered.

  • @farvadafatazz2274
    @farvadafatazz2274 5 ปีที่แล้ว +535

    You can listen to the entire album, and you can hear it in his voice. He was done. But, he didn't know how else to live, so he faced death the same way he faced everything else, with music.

    • @mfollett11
      @mfollett11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      This is a beautiful comment

    • @rayloc420
      @rayloc420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Amazing comment

    • @beckytolbert3920
      @beckytolbert3920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      any Johnny cash is great

    • @gwarriorfromhell
      @gwarriorfromhell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He and David Bowie both used their last albums as a way to say goodbye to their loved ones. They lived through music, and they found that it was the only way to end as well.

  • @moviepositive960
    @moviepositive960 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1263

    He changed one lyric. He changed crown of shit to crown of thorns. It's a biblical reference. Johnny was a righteous man.

    • @countsolomon
      @countsolomon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I imagine most people will miss that single changed word.

    • @C.S.Sperry
      @C.S.Sperry 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      And that one changed lyric made all the difference.

    • @bluefig797
      @bluefig797 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I love Personal Jesus

    • @RhinoAg
      @RhinoAg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He changed it all by his voice.

    • @ReiEmeraldTakedo
      @ReiEmeraldTakedo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      It's a little more power than that. I mean, he's actually commenting on how unrighteous he is. The context is pretty important here because he's basically saying that even if he's pious, he'd surrender his personal god for another moment with the people he loved.
      He definitely believed in God, but I think he, like a lot of people, saw himself as either unwilling or unworthy to accept hit flaws, and thus... Heaven isn't for everyone. I'm an atheist, but I do hope he found some peace in his own memories before he went. The things we lose are more than the sum of their parts.

  • @michaelmason1580
    @michaelmason1580 4 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    Much respect, he died of a broken heart. He loved June more than life

    • @aj529
      @aj529 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He sure did. Loved her more than life.

    • @NOMnomAPROVED
      @NOMnomAPROVED 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      i mean somewhat right he died cause he did not want to keep working on his diabetic probmels due to his wife not being there

  • @danielleweeks4552
    @danielleweeks4552 4 ปีที่แล้ว +823

    Shaq, this is me speaking to you brother. Your reactions are not just reactions, your showing the world that there is no color, there is just each other, and no matter where you are from we are still people. Your honest appreciation of the music is beyond just the music, you show respect for the person, there craft, and the world. Your content is revolutionary to me and you should have a show on tv where more people can see you. I love just seeing how excited you get about everything. Thank you. And Johnny cash was a legend, I love and listen to all music as well, and the appreciation is appreciated.

    • @MackeyWilliams
      @MackeyWilliams 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Amen, Danielle. Well said. Agree with every word. Thank you, coach! Keep doing what you do and keep on giving our elders their propers. This song makes me tear up every time. God bless you, man.

    • @rpanonymous3881
      @rpanonymous3881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Shaq needs to see this!

    • @mynameisanimal
      @mynameisanimal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      and people like you supporting him gives him the power to do what he does !!!

    • @ajrangel79
      @ajrangel79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That’s what I say music is the great equalizer for all people know matter what race or religion

    • @pierreo33
      @pierreo33 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @SlavPlaysGames Hello fellow European. If you're a huge Trump supporter and complain about evil people trying to divide people, you're blind as a bat because that's literally what Trump does. "Humans love humans and want to help eachother" unless they're immigrants, right? Nice of Trump to put them in camps, closing borders, building walls etc. You need to rethink your view of life. You write nice things but you want a leader that will do the exact opposite.

  • @ryancovington5636
    @ryancovington5636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +876

    June Carter his wife forced him to give up drugs to be with her, she was his saving grace. This is Johnny Cash saying he can not live without her

    • @marcusblackwell2372
      @marcusblackwell2372 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      So "everyone I know goes away in the end" meant when he lost June, he lost his purpose, moral compass & best friend?

    • @hellhound_ks4559
      @hellhound_ks4559 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@marcusblackwell2372 yes :(

    • @0davydebrycke328
      @0davydebrycke328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nobody saw Walk the Line with J. Phoenix?? Not trolling you guys

    • @marcusblackwell2372
      @marcusblackwell2372 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@0davydebrycke328 actually I saw some but VERY little

    • @0davydebrycke328
      @0davydebrycke328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@marcusblackwell2372 it's a true piece of art. Watch the movie and it will stick to you. I am from Belgium and didn't know about Cash before I saw Walk the Line. U can say it sure made a huge impact👍

  • @waysaunut
    @waysaunut 4 ปีที่แล้ว +369

    The pic was his mom, The house was his childhood home where his brother died.

    • @obiwanshinobi5631
      @obiwanshinobi5631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The first pic.

    • @obiwanshinobi5631
      @obiwanshinobi5631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The second and third were June.

    • @aronmcevoy8450
      @aronmcevoy8450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@obiwanshinobi5631 he’s on about the framed picture June is in the video in person

    • @radagast7200
      @radagast7200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That scene in Walk the Line where his brother dies is intense.

    • @danfisher7856
      @danfisher7856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The picture was mother Maybell Carter, June's mom.

  • @lofttm969
    @lofttm969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +551

    Only lyric changed was “crown of thorns” instead of “crown of shit”
    This song was chosen because of the fact that it is SO perfect. And it’s not at all what it was written about. Reznor commented about how much it refreshed his understanding that music is a medium that can say the same thing 100 ways by 100 people and mean 100 different things.

    • @movietimeateds69
      @movietimeateds69 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was my main gripe with this version for years. Crown of shit fits the song much more, imo.

    • @chrismarple
      @chrismarple 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Joe no it doesn’t crown of thorns is 100 times better

    • @stevehurst6066
      @stevehurst6066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thorns was in the radio edit

    • @jeffdrake5881
      @jeffdrake5881 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I remember Reznor talking about hearing it and, because of where he was at in his career as well as the place he was in at the time, he didn't care much for it. It was interesting, but it was... not quite the best attempt in his opinion.
      Then he saw the video a few weeks later...
      I don't know the exact words, but it was something to the effect of, "It's not my song... not anymore." As if the images and the voice just drove home how very different Reznor thought and felt about it when he wrote it, and how it was somehow transformed into something completely outside of his experience.
      He would end with, "His version is better."

    • @mr.z1992
      @mr.z1992 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So to whoever said crown of thorns was in the radio edit you’re wrong, Johnny Cash, after being presented the song as a possible cover by his producer, Rick Rubin, yes that Rick Rubin, if you can believe it, changed only that lyric from crown of shit to crown of thorns. I think it was the right call by Cash when you consider the meaning I’ll tell you about that Trent ascribed to it when he wrote it vs. what it meant from a guy like Johnny’s perspective- at the end of the line, a Godlike figure in his genre.
      Johnny has been covering songs and doing what he loved most at the very end of his career things to Reuben as his producer, and he remarked that it was all about taking the songs and making them his own and he didn’t feel crown of shit fit. As someone mentioned, Trent Reznor had a very different intention for the meaning of the song. Basically, Trent’s version, which was written by Reznor in his late 20s or early 30s I think, at the time, in his eyes, was about a sort of recluse younger man who was going down a path of self-destruction. It almost had overtones in the meaning similar to that of radio heads creep, but darker, in the way that Trent saw if I understand correctly.
      If I might make a suggestion, try the song “one“ by Johnny Cash covering the U2 song of the same name of course. He covered it shortly before this song but when he was in better health on the album right before this last one of us. I never cared too too much for the U2 song even though I could see that there was some genius to it, but boy does Johnny make it something special. And this is coming from a guy who respects Johnny Cash a great deal, but isn’t like a diehard fan by any means. I actually just recently watched a documentary laying all this out so it’s fresh in my mind.

  • @barbaraharris3997
    @barbaraharris3997 5 ปีที่แล้ว +366

    He’s singing for his love June Carter Cash. She was his everything

    • @heatherbotez
      @heatherbotez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      he died of a broken heart....i have seen it so many times

  • @elspencer9779
    @elspencer9779 4 ปีที่แล้ว +393

    Random fact. The scene where June appears wasn’t suppose to happen. She was upstairs resting and came down because she heard noise but forgot about the shoot. She never wanted to be in the video originally but said to keep the footage because she knew the impact.

    • @yzdirtbikes144
      @yzdirtbikes144 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Where can I find a source for this with more information? I'd like to know more

    • @rebelfighter5249
      @rebelfighter5249 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@yzdirtbikes144 just Google it man. I'm sure you'll find something. Don't make others do the work for u.

    • @0davydebrycke328
      @0davydebrycke328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yzdirtbikes144 euhm, the movie Walk the Line with J. Phoenix.

    • @0davydebrycke328
      @0davydebrycke328 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Andy A Ray is still on my to watch list. Big fan of Foxx acting skills, but what he up to next to filming, revealing last years, got my perception change and I think this will sadly influence me watching his movies nowadays... should not have put Ray on the waiting shelf, mostly from my movie geek point of view, a loss for me

    • @edminchau811
      @edminchau811 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      To have someone look at me the way she looked at him in that song, I'd trade just about anything

  • @jennwysocki8825
    @jennwysocki8825 4 ปีที่แล้ว +484

    My grandfather - my hero, and Johnny Cash - his hero, died on the same day. The day before my grandfather in a delirium said, "They won't let me in." I told him what he always told me. "Did ya tell 'em who you are?;"

    • @legacyofchrist7931
      @legacyofchrist7931 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      GOD Bless you

    • @seanmcclellan358
      @seanmcclellan358 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Jenn Wysocki god damn right they let him in. 😉

    • @BlueMrBoo2
      @BlueMrBoo2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Jonny Cash's death was overshadowed by John Ritters Sudden death the same day... It always has bugged me.

    • @PodtrashRadio
      @PodtrashRadio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@BlueMrBoo2 John Ritter died the day before Johnny Cash died, not the same day just FYI

    • @Ninjapiratecowboy
      @Ninjapiratecowboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thats.... really fucking beautiful. Happy you had that moment.

  • @chikky9865
    @chikky9865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    When he says " I am still here " I get shivers man. RIP Johnny Cash

  • @StCerberusEngel
    @StCerberusEngel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +359

    Cash was metal as fuck. The man made music that transcended genre. Even those who don't like country, love Cash. His body is gone, but his soul lives forever in his musical legacy and in our memory.

    • @Serenity113
      @Serenity113 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Johnny Cash is like a separate genre. You can say you listen to rap, rock, country, etc but then you say, you listen to Johnny Cash and it's just different.

    • @jakekingsbury6961
      @jakekingsbury6961 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I hate country but Johnny Cash is one of my favorite musician s of all time

    • @1320crusier
      @1320crusier 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      His career was revived near the end by an R&B/HipHop/Rap label too

    • @SuperSikarlo
      @SuperSikarlo 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      His soul lives in heaven, not in music

    • @brandenlasley2587
      @brandenlasley2587 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      StCerberusEngel that is deep as fuck but so true

  • @ashleylawrence3468
    @ashleylawrence3468 5 ปีที่แล้ว +495

    I cried this entire video. Something about an old man in pain and with regrets just crushes my soul to pieces.

    • @marye3974
      @marye3974 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I love the original but totally agree with what you said. This version haunts your soul.

    • @davidwood3560
      @davidwood3560 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I break down every time I watch it

    • @skudlugs
      @skudlugs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      We all have regrets, age stops us lying to ourselves.

    • @steeltown825
      @steeltown825 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ya and bitches are the cause of the pain and regrets.

    • @rramirez4444
      @rramirez4444 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I cry every time I hear this version.

  • @myself7630
    @myself7630 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5001

    When Cash does a cover of your song. It's no longer yours.

    • @demonicrebellion6903
      @demonicrebellion6903 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Tom Petty said it best my dude

    • @sticklait
      @sticklait 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Stolen

    • @Nosferata138
      @Nosferata138 5 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      Trent was honored he wanted to cover it. Who wouldn't be?!?

    • @cnixish
      @cnixish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's only yours if you wrote it

    • @imacahguy
      @imacahguy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      @@cnixish you dont get it

  • @brittanythompson2793
    @brittanythompson2793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Sitting here in my second treatment facility this year, and this song just smacked me in my face in a whole other way. Respect to the greatest, RIP.

    • @amybittick7092
      @amybittick7092 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How are you now?

    • @brittanythompson2793
      @brittanythompson2793 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@amybittick7092 doing well!! Still sober, working, got my own place, both my kids, life is good! 💚💚

  • @theronmartin260
    @theronmartin260 5 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    The way he touches the piano there at the end, it's like he's saying goodbye to an old friend.

    • @TheBlueDogMan
      @TheBlueDogMan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes, it also reminded me of closing a casket. Chilling.

    • @charlesatty
      @charlesatty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheBlueDogMan thought the same. Made a big ole tear go down my face.

    • @26muca07
      @26muca07 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@charlesatty me too man, I f*ing cried like a bitch at the first time.

    • @HistorydnClarity
      @HistorydnClarity 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😥

  • @palacerevolution2000
    @palacerevolution2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    Shaq, one of the people out there actually doing something at bringing folks and races and music together.

    • @edwardmunson3896
      @edwardmunson3896 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I don't care if Shaq is reviewing the names in a telephone book.....I will watch and listen. And yep, Shaq brings us all together, better than any damn politician.

    • @apexdemond554
      @apexdemond554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Like how he try’s to understand other band by looking up their names and songs

    • @rxnnegan8270
      @rxnnegan8270 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      People like you are the reason it’s like that you shouldn’t view it like that talkin bout bringin races together and shit he ain’t doin nun of that extra shit he just a normal ass person reacting to music lmao

    • @cheese3416
      @cheese3416 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its genuis

  • @jonahthawne913
    @jonahthawne913 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Johnny Cash was THE MAN. This song is a masterpiece. I’m glad Trent wrote it, I’m even more glad Johnny chose to sing it.

  • @terrys8690
    @terrys8690 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Johny Cash is both the Country and Rock Music Hall
    of Fames. He was a unique and extraordinary talent

  • @rudegoat5706
    @rudegoat5706 5 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    I've been a Nine Inch Nails fan nearly my whole life.
    This song has always inspired raw emotion in me, but the Johnny Cash cover video drives me to tears without fail.

    • @mnix5427
      @mnix5427 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Agreed, to the core...

    • @michaelagustinsantos3015
      @michaelagustinsantos3015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      NIN's song haunts me.
      Cash's cover makes me weepy.

    • @jamesgorsh5752
      @jamesgorsh5752 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Every time.....

    • @gorbaggoescamping1329
      @gorbaggoescamping1329 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same for me.

    • @aquamarine0023
      @aquamarine0023 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      One of the most incredibly powerful songs ever, it tears right through me every time. Both Trent's original and Johnny's cover capture the rawness in their own ways. Johnny understood it perfectly. There is also a live performance you can find on YT with David Bowie performing this with Trent. It is otherworldly!

  • @foots-qt4pk
    @foots-qt4pk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +428

    He closes the piano like you would close a coffin

    • @nathansheldonlance
      @nathansheldonlance 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Wow i never thought about that But your Right

    • @TheUserid82
      @TheUserid82 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Another video that did a final close well was David Bowie's Lazarus. There is just something in a video from someone that knows this is it rather then someone that passes from a unknown condition or from an accident/murder/suicide.

    • @kourtjestr552
      @kourtjestr552 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      couldn't find the words for it but you did. yes

    • @christinegelabert1651
      @christinegelabert1651 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@TheUserid82 You're absolutely right about the way he closes the piano. I'm making my final plans while I'm still able to think for myself. I was given a fatal diagnosis on March 26th by my Neuro. Sometimes ppl play music at wakes and funerals like the bagpipes and other things. I'm being cremated and having my burial ceremony for some of my ashes done on my 1 yr anniversary. So I've decided that I want music that means stuff TO me and also TO my friends. I've been compiling a bunch of songs that my friends will play as instrumentals on a CD on the day of my wake. THIS is one of them because they know I'm a HUGE Johnny Cash fan and I loved this song since it came out. There's only 1 CD that eill have the vocals to all the sings and that will go to a very special person. All the other copies will go to whichever friends want them. My godson is making them for me once I've finished all my selections because he's got a musical engineering degree and does studio work with bands. It IS kinda like what Shaq said, cuz it's kinda hard that you know you've got something going on with that you can't fix and that it's just coming at you. But what are you gonna do but enjoy what youve got left and hang out and listen to ALL THE MUSIC you can in the meantime. I'm really serious cuz it's a known fact that when ppl are in bad mental stages like in comas that music IS what reaches them. Several of my friends have told me that they heard EVERY SONG I'd played at the hospital BUT the only thing was that it sounded like it was being played underwater...like it was in a swimming pool or very far away BUT they heard it before they recovered from their accidents. So I figure IF I can jam my head full of all the cool music memories NOW~then maybe I'll still at least have some of that at the end yk? Peace Out All! 😎

    • @bassage13
      @bassage13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Putting his music to rest.

  • @indyracingnut
    @indyracingnut 5 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    This song was MEANT for Cash. Reznor was right to give it to him. Reznor wrote it for an experience he had once....Cash sang it for a LIFETIME of going through that. Greatest Johnny Cash song ever, and worthy of being called his Swan Song. Also, the last time we ever saw June Carter Cash on camera. Her eyes on him in the video are heartbreaking.

    • @khurelbatbayanbat7913
      @khurelbatbayanbat7913 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Listened to both versions and they both convey something different but same
      Trents was from the point of view of a youths feeling of helplessness against the world he sees before him.
      Cash’s was a man cofessing his sins and mistakes at the end of his life after facing said world and making choices and decisions that can’t be taken back.
      Both had the same meaning but differing points in time.

    • @LimmeLimbo
      @LimmeLimbo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No. This song was meant for Reznor. He wrote it because of the things he experienced, not Cashes life. You can't dismiss one person's experiences and take what they made about their personal life, and just hand it to someone else just because you like the other person more. That's some corny shit.
      If Cash wanted to make his own song about his life he would have, but he didn't.

    • @jamierogers3677
      @jamierogers3677 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I feel the pain more in the Cash version. You can literally hear that he was just broken

    • @cheebees
      @cheebees 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kickbakk best comment, I agree.

    • @dnsmithnc
      @dnsmithnc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Props to Reznor for giving it to him.

  • @45acp
    @45acp ปีที่แล้ว +4

    RIP Mr. Cash. I absolutely love this song and that he sang his own tribute to life.

  • @7mrooks
    @7mrooks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    Johnny Cash- gods gonna cut you down. Great song and the respect of numerous other artists from all genres in the video is nothing but class!!! Please coach!!!!

    • @nancyjackson6584
      @nancyjackson6584 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Aint no grave is another good one

    • @Gutslinger
      @Gutslinger 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Idk about class.. You could say that the majority of the people in that video need to take heed of the message in that song.

    • @melissagraham4117
      @melissagraham4117 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      came here to say this one too

    • @l1ndsey7
      @l1ndsey7 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes! Love both those songs

  • @Monster12367
    @Monster12367 5 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    When he closes the piano and runs his hands across it, I lose it everytime. Great song, great man

  • @sfogarty2
    @sfogarty2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +490

    Reznor's reaction was "Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend." He didn't give it to Cash, he lost it to him.

    • @dnsmithnc
      @dnsmithnc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Well said. Of course Reznor allowed him to cover it but, I get what you mean.

    • @spidrawebster
      @spidrawebster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      There's a bit of a difference between "lost your girlfriend" and "kissing your girlfriend". The entire quote, according to Wikipedia, is "I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning - different, but every bit as pure.[

    • @banyarling
      @banyarling 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@spidrawebster "like I was watching my girlfriend f**k somebody else" was what my search engine found

    • @Bobsyagod
      @Bobsyagod 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@banyarling There's 2 different quotes from Reznor on it, the one you quoted was how he reacted to the song alone at first, the one Spidrawebster quoted was his response later on once he'd accepted it and watched the video as well

    • @smsmoof8128
      @smsmoof8128 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it was because of Rick Rubins brilliance ... a master of the matchup. Awesome.
      th-cam.com/video/Y-7_loqsEWY/w-d-xo.html

  • @RhiannonMcK2011
    @RhiannonMcK2011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I love your reactions, but this one ... I actually cried, listening to the respect in your voice and the insights you brought to the song. I love his music and I was worried you might not get it. But damn ...
    You nailed it. Thank you.

  • @jasonpashley7822
    @jasonpashley7822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +293

    Nine inch nails cover it is , powerful cover, no words not changed but tempo is . He passed just after the recording whilst his love of his life june carter died in the months before , you see the sadness in his eyes still over her loss. This was his way of apologising to his kids for the life he led an the hurt he caused all his fam

    • @nicholasreddin491
      @nicholasreddin491 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Johnny Cash changed one word. From Crown of Shit, to Crown of Thorns.

    • @jasonpashley7822
      @jasonpashley7822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Nicholas reddin , correct ty forgot that cheers bro

    • @rachealmurphy6687
      @rachealmurphy6687 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My empire of dirt was .y empire of shit in the original but yeah it's pretty much the same song

    • @willtheangrydudeist9120
      @willtheangrydudeist9120 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Trent Reznor is NIN, just fyi

    • @burningstar1793
      @burningstar1793 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      NIN also has one disonant note in the main riff that Cash the Great left out. Not sure if that goes along with your point or not.

  • @mr.b501
    @mr.b501 5 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    The man in black himself..
    Legend..

  • @mikemitchell728
    @mikemitchell728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Johny cash started as a country artist but he is one of the godfathers to rock. Him jerry lewis and elvis all toured together. He is and always will be "The Man In Black"

    • @tweeterjack
      @tweeterjack 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think he had somewhat of an influence on early rap too

    • @luckyhero2517
      @luckyhero2517 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Douglas MacArthur he influenced everything that came after him the man in black has a hand in it all.

  • @molon_labe_nc9390
    @molon_labe_nc9390 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I can't even front every time I see that video it brings a tear to my eye🙏🏼

  • @dougmorgan309
    @dougmorgan309 4 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    That was one of the most heart felt touching performances I've ever seen. It's is just absolutely haunting. You you see and feel the emotion in him. He was dying his voice was cracking but still he pulled it off. It should bring a tear to anyone's eye. He sang it with total sincerity. How he had lost the things that mattered most. And how all his money and fame were nothing more than dirt and he would gladly let you have it all if he could start over again knowing full well that he couldn't. It's just an eye opening reality that we all will face someday. He sang it with pain but yet the courage to say that he couldn't change it. Wow just wow. That's an awesome way to end a story book career and life. Being humble.

    • @Daniel-gc3te
      @Daniel-gc3te 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well said Doug. Wow. Nothing more to say. Rest in Peace Mr. Cash

    • @janetg3984
      @janetg3984 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Doug Morgan
      You nailed it.
      This song always makes me cry.
      I still watch Walk The Line to this day. Joaquin truly did become Cash. Such a great movie.

  • @tacobellalugosi2527
    @tacobellalugosi2527 5 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    johnny cash . the man in black. the legend . this man was metal and hard rock .before it came to be . alot of his songs have a dark under tone much like alot of metal songs . thats why he is not only loved in the country world . but all so in the metal world . in the whole music world .....he is truly missed .

    • @burningstar1793
      @burningstar1793 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you. Every time I say he was the first instance of metal people want to argue until they're blue in the face. Glad someone else gets that. I think i even have a comment on this video about just that 😅

    • @papasynsin523
      @papasynsin523 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alot his songs are his testament to the journey of his life and those whom he met

    • @tacobellalugosi2527
      @tacobellalugosi2527 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@papasynsin523 agreed . the man lived a metal lifestyle . he never said im sorry for who i am . he was a junkie for time . and licked it stood up for the little guy trying to make it in this fucked up unfair world,. got the girl he wanted who at first didnt want him became an awesome music artist . then became music legend thats why us metal heads hold johnny so high up there and i dont think he ever knew we held him so dear . he was one us. i mean look at songs like 'ring of fire ' one of my fav,s songs about a dude falling hard for this chick . and its like hell because he doesnt know if she likes him back which many of us have felt in our lifes

    • @paddyr1568
      @paddyr1568 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die", ....he could do gangster pretty good too.

    • @tacobellalugosi2527
      @tacobellalugosi2527 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@paddyr1568 agreed. johnny was just 100 % pure badass .but it was . i shot a man in reno .

  • @herrzimm
    @herrzimm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    The woman in the picture on the wall was Johnny Cash's mother.
    The small white house in the "home movie clips" was the house that Cash was raised in as a young child.
    The woman on the steps in the 2nd half was his wife June, who Cash always said "watched over him' like an 'angel sent from above', making her standing both "above" and "watching over him" even more impactful when you know how Johnny felt about her both as a wife and a friend that saved his life from drugs and self-destructive tendencies such as fighting and going out and partying.
    There isn't "another guy" actually in the video..... the "other guy" was the DIRECTOR of the video who used to be in Nine Inch Nails with Trent Reznor and respected BOTH artists enough to ensure that Trent's fears of Cash's version being "gimmicky' never happened through careful editing and planned location shoots such as the "House of Cash".... which is the museum dedicated to Johnny Cash, in order to both highlight Cash's career to his fans, and to show new fans why this particular artist singing THIS song was much deeper than the lyrics would imply

    • @insanzeforlife5150
      @insanzeforlife5150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I came to the comments to explain who the lady in the picture was. I found away better answer than I could have ever wrote!!!

    • @rustyrelicsfarm2406
      @rustyrelicsfarm2406 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      herrzimm Ti was his wife actually.

    • @Razorpig378
      @Razorpig378 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In Kiser, Arkansas. He and my dad grew up together. My dad lived in Dyess. Small town east of Kiser. Johnny and his family picked my grandfather's cotton.

    • @markm4033
      @markm4033 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Razorpig378 wow, that's pretty cool. Did you ever get a chance to meet Cash at all?

    • @Razorpig378
      @Razorpig378 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@markm4033 Yes. When I was 9. Met him Jerry Reed, Conway Tweety, Merl Haggard and Waylon Jennings after school they were in my house in Jacksonville Arkansas. I remember thinking why are these old guys in my house. Now that I appreciate it they'rere all gone.

  • @gerrym.9354
    @gerrym.9354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    08:35 The piano being closed and the way he moves his hand gently over it looks the way one would caress a closed coffin lid.
    I assume that parallel was the intent.

  • @paulhelberg5269
    @paulhelberg5269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Mr. Cash stated that when he closed the cover on the piano, it reminded him of closing the casket at a funeral. It gets me every time I see it. I was never a big fan of his, but over the years Johnny put out some good tunes and brought joy to millions of people. God Bless you and Rest in Peace Johnny Cash.

    • @movietimeateds69
      @movietimeateds69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Like bowie going into the armoire at the end of "lazarus". Its the close of his chapter, but were still here.

  • @MVD.
    @MVD. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Seeing his entire life flash by at the end and then him closing the piano is just beautiful

  • @brittanydriver4666
    @brittanydriver4666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +209

    The lady in the picture was his mom
    The lady on the stairs was his wife she passed before it aired
    The lyrics weren’t changed

    • @brittanydriver4666
      @brittanydriver4666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I said she passed before the airing of the video on tv

    • @memegod6984
      @memegod6984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@brittanydriver4666 one lyric was changed crown of shit to crown of thorns

    • @criswilson6421
      @criswilson6421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He changed crown of shit to crown of third to make it biblical

    • @mpepp9
      @mpepp9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cris Wilson *thorns

    • @thrashrattlehead4548
      @thrashrattlehead4548 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah...first pic was his mother

  • @robertmitcham2427
    @robertmitcham2427 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I deeply sobbed; my soul was torn to pieces when I listened intently to the words!! POWERFUL!!!!

  • @JohnC-kc5uh
    @JohnC-kc5uh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Nine inch nail wrote and sang that song, J cash asked NIN to sing it, NIN said yes, it was so good, NIN released the rights to J Cash cause cash sang it better. True shit

    • @Whysper420
      @Whysper420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Trent said it himself Cash did a better job

    • @reineh3477
      @reineh3477 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I heard the interview. Trent listened to Johnnys song on a CD and thought it sounded wrong. Not bad but different, it was his most personal song and then didn't think more about that. A few weeks later he saw the video and said "It isn't my song anymore"
      m.th-cam.com/video/GlzjqPGdOSM/w-d-xo.html

  • @jannettestetson-buck5103
    @jannettestetson-buck5103 5 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    Shaq, I love your sensitivity to this performance.

  • @AKICITA
    @AKICITA 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Johnny Cash Died of a broken heart after he lost his wife June Carter Cash...
    I'm more of a classic rock, blues kind of guy, but this video never fails to bring out more powerful emotions in me than any song I've ever heard.
    REALEST of the REAL!
    Johnny is LEGENDARY!
    The eyes get pretty misty...
    Thank you Shaq

    • @StonerSteve97
      @StonerSteve97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This hurts like hell couldn't imagine!

  • @JBurr33
    @JBurr33 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Johnny Cash spoke from his heart! Said it like it is. Johnny Cash helps me and I'm sure others through tough times.
    Rest In Paradise Mr. Cash

  • @cleanergreenslawnandlandsc8842
    @cleanergreenslawnandlandsc8842 5 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    Now u hit it my boy.... this my go to song man great song

  • @slimstak
    @slimstak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    Thanks for showing the diversity in music!!! Don't matter what color you are it only matters if you can feel the music!!! #respect #bruh

  • @darthjoosboxx6267
    @darthjoosboxx6267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    The piano closing at the end gave me goosebumps, too!
    The imagery is so powerful.

    • @hobbitpeddler4267
      @hobbitpeddler4267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And also young Johnny on the stage as the lights go down...

  • @jaybabe7767
    @jaybabe7767 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    This is the first reaction where I seen someone understand the lyrics and understand the meaning behind his words. I think you articulated it beautifully man. You got a subscribe and a like from me.

  • @johnathandolenz8426
    @johnathandolenz8426 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    He left to follow his girl, went out on a high note with this cover and cemented his legacy. How sad can that really be? RIP GOAT

  • @eddymadison9655
    @eddymadison9655 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    4:27
    No that's Carrie, Johnny Cash's mother. The woman who always appear in the video is his wife June

  • @scottaarnold
    @scottaarnold 5 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    Dang man, i love your reactions. Songs I have listened 100 or 1000 times before, your analysis brings me back to the first time. Thank you.

    • @johnthegiant320
      @johnthegiant320 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That beautifully says how I feel watching his reactions!!

    • @connich8996
      @connich8996 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes I feel the Same he really reminds you of what it all means

    • @katie6044
      @katie6044 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's exactly how I feel!

    • @nathansheldonlance
      @nathansheldonlance 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Awesome reaction to the legends song

  • @nettiestandiford3319
    @nettiestandiford3319 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I cry every time i hear this song. It opens my thoughts to my own shortcomings and mortality. It's meant to "jerk us up" and reflect on our lives while there's still time on our experation date.

  • @S.Parrow
    @S.Parrow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    The picture you asked if it was his wife, that's his mother who he was very very close with. His wife comes later @6:30 and @7:06.
    The only lyrics Johnny changed from Trent was "I wear this crown of shit" to "I wear this crown of thorns" because he didn't like to curse in his music.

    • @joshuaking7470
      @joshuaking7470 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think the lyric change also fit into the fact Cash had his battles with God as well that may have been on his mind

    • @rancidcrabtree.
      @rancidcrabtree. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@joshuaking7470 Johnny was deeply religious.

    • @Gutslinger
      @Gutslinger 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Johnny had a very close relationship with God, especially towards the end. Do people not at least watch documentaries about anything they lay claim of?

    • @brandonhinrichs8657
      @brandonhinrichs8657 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Wrath's Heinous Anus Was Devoured by Happy Scrappy a boy named sue was like 40+years before this. He didn't curse in his songs later in his career he would sing his old songs with the curse words but bitch isn't a major curse word.

    • @brandonhinrichs8657
      @brandonhinrichs8657 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Gutslinger what are you saying? Nobody said he didn't have a relationship with God they just said he didn't like to curse which is especially true later in his life.

  • @christopherhancock1723
    @christopherhancock1723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Most singers talk about keeping it real, well this song is as real as it gets.

  • @jeremyknight4315
    @jeremyknight4315 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I love watching and hearing you Shaq. This is a perfect gig for you I think. A man with heart willing to enjoy opening new doors of music. Keep at it, bro.

  • @disgruntledgrrl
    @disgruntledgrrl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I remember the first time this song hit the airwaves. At the very end, even the DJ was silent on the radio. She could barely breathe. "Wow" Jesse eventually did manage to get out.

  • @mzliz1249
    @mzliz1249 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Johnny Cash performed just a few feet away from the inmates in San Quinton prison with No barrier between him and the inmates. You can find the video of it.

    • @dawnkeener9836
      @dawnkeener9836 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thats cause he was a prison inmate for a long time.
      My bad he was never really in prison..that was a myth that was passed around when I was a kid.

    • @xMtF54x
      @xMtF54x 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dawn Keener merle haggard and coe were

  • @VelezBiH
    @VelezBiH 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "Everyone i know, goes away, in the end..." man that line hits like a truck. Great song.

  • @metalgearmaddness5097
    @metalgearmaddness5097 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    This song gives me chills matter how many times i hear it.

  • @walkerig1
    @walkerig1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    The video for the single was recorded in February of 2003. His daughter on seeing a preview of the video said to him it sounded like he was saying goodbye, he replied that he was. June Carter Cash, his 2nd wife, the woman sat on the stairs in the video; also a singer who toured with him and sang with him on several songs. She had come down to check on her husband that day as his health was declining. June Carter Cash passed away a few months after the video recording in May of 2003 and a bereaved Johnny Cash followed her a few months later in the September.

    The song is by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and is about his battle with addiction and depression. Cash also a drug addict and alcoholic for much of his early life, spending time in Jail on half a dozen occasions for possession. The song encompasses the way both musicians life threads are woven together and entangled across the decades between them, so much so that Trent, when he saw the video, said it was like loosing his Girlfriend as the song had become Johnny's. It was June Carter Cash that Johnny attributed to rescuing him from his drug and alcohol addiction a major theme of the song. Johnny was a campaigner for prison reform and the rights of Native Americans and much of his material reflected his own passions and darker past. Carter and is the person played by Reese Witherspoon alongside Joaquin Phoenix, in the film Walk the line.
    Johnny Cash's star had declined in the 80s and the Museum to his life with the smashed Gold Disk on the Floor, used as one of the backdrops to the video, ended up being shuttered.
    In the 1990s Rick Rubin and American Recordings more of a Rap, Punk and Metal label sought Cash to record for their label, and offered Cash complete artistic freedom. With them his career revived and he brought out a his most critically acclaimed albums, the America series, bringing Cash to a new younger audience starring on The Simpsons and Headlining at Glastonbury in 1994. The 4th and penultimate album of the America series from which this is one of several Hit Singles: American IV: The Man Comes Around, was released in November of 2002, and he was still working on his final Album right up to the end and that was released posthumously.

    • @JrKdM
      @JrKdM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thank you for info

  • @pellinorden
    @pellinorden 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    it made me cry the first time i heard it... and it still does.

  • @richardgrimes2225
    @richardgrimes2225 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    He closes and caresses that piano you can almost see him caressing the coffin of his wife and the hurt and pain still lingered with him.

    • @omicron2018
      @omicron2018 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's a beautiful interpretation of that image.

  • @thegoomba6183
    @thegoomba6183 5 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    He changed one word for his cover. Cash sings "I wear this crown of thorns" the original lyric is "I wear this crown of shit" that's the only lyric change.

    • @Stumbo99
      @Stumbo99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      But honestly, he probably did the song a favor by changing that 1 wors

    • @ArchieGoodwin71
      @ArchieGoodwin71 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@Stumbo99 I agree it was best for Cash.
      Trent was a young man dealing with addiction so shit worked well for him.
      Johnny was an ordained minister dealing with the weight of life, so thorns works best for him.

    • @w.w.marchi1677
      @w.w.marchi1677 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ArchieGoodwin71 and he was a christian so that's meaningful

    • @iangodwin478
      @iangodwin478 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Stumbo99 so fucking true

    • @ryanarbogast6141
      @ryanarbogast6141 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Johnny cash ghost wrote the song for the other artists. He came out with it himself when he got big enough to have a voice

  • @paullavan3097
    @paullavan3097 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    That was his last recording; June Carter Cash died three months later, and Johnny died a month after that. Thank you for the respect that you showed to them. Try 'The Green Green Grass of Home' from live at Folsom prison; Johnny's voice comes from the tomb. Stuff Tom Jones.

    • @swampghost8256
      @swampghost8256 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, June died May 15 , three months after this video was recorded, Johnny followed her almost four months later on Sept 12

  • @staindoswald4515
    @staindoswald4515 5 ปีที่แล้ว +515

    Shaq, you should react to Johnny Cash's song "A boy named Sue" it is hilarious

  • @karlkuttup
    @karlkuttup 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    STUNNING LYRICS SO TRUE IM A HAIRY ASS BIKER AND THIS SONG AS ME IN TEARS EVERY TIME I SEE AND HEAR IT ,CAN CONNECT TO THE FULL SONG AND KNOWNING IT WAS HIS LAST PERFORMANCE ,YOU DID IT PROUD SHAQ RESPECT BRO

  • @traviss9583
    @traviss9583 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    It’s like he laid everything he had into this song and closed the piano for the final time. He was ready to go....

  • @Danny_R_
    @Danny_R_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wow... Iv heard this song a couple of times. But never lissened... U right this was perfect.. Perfect song perfect video... Thank u for reacting to this... Only one word pop into my head... Wow... R. I. P..

  • @kaydee63
    @kaydee63 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    One thing that is for sure about Mr. Cash is that every artist, no matter the genre, knew about Johnny and his music. He was a influence on so many people throughout the years. I also feel that the last part where he closed the lid on the piano was a message saying "I'm done and ready to go". The man lived a full and interesting life and will never be forgotten.

  • @lindaspencer5887
    @lindaspencer5887 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Everytime he closes the piano lid I get chills

  • @dumbeldore9067
    @dumbeldore9067 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This song bring tears to my eyes every time man... Damn

  • @cash.murettamusic
    @cash.murettamusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    my parents named me after him, thank you for reacting to this song

  • @ratboiarchive
    @ratboiarchive 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    ring of fire for sure classic johnny cash

    • @kencramer1697
      @kencramer1697 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love ring of fire. Only problem is I am never sure if he is singing about love or getting an STD from a groupie. :P

  • @joshschroeder3157
    @joshschroeder3157 5 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Johnny was a herion addict and June Carter is wife pulled him out of it and got him clean and sober and then once she died He remade the song and then he passed. Away. Soon after

    • @Sho81
      @Sho81 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      June was alive and in the video. She died 3 months after filming, Johnny passed 7 months after the filming. The woman in the photo was Johnny's mother.

    • @MegiddoTheImmaculate
      @MegiddoTheImmaculate 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      As far as I know, Johnny Cash wasn't a heroin addict. He did have drug problems but I've never heard of heroin being one.

    • @davidmitchell7526
      @davidmitchell7526 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He maybe dabbled in H but it was amphetamine pills he popped like crazy. 1 of a kind JC

    • @waywardtaylor87
      @waywardtaylor87 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He wasn’t a heroin addict get ur game up

    • @stevereynolds8812
      @stevereynolds8812 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol no he wasnt a heroine addict idiot. Reznor wrote the song, cash simply covered it. Read more

  • @leoangulo4288
    @leoangulo4288 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Johnny cash legend!!

  • @ShadowPomona
    @ShadowPomona 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Shaq, this was a decent and most interesting reaction. You certainly gave the guy respect. Johnny Cash had much regret. I really think he wanted to show this video to others, that you don't take your empire with you when you die. But you do leave behind all the love and all the hurt. You could see the feelings in his eyes. So deep. Although I am not a big Johnny Cash fan, I do like a couple of his songs and I definitely love this Nine Inch Nails cover. Thank you for this reaction. I loved it.

  • @me-hk6hj
    @me-hk6hj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Johnny and his beautiful wife June are together in Paradise singing for the King of Kings! RIP.. I'm 59 and can relate to this song but have never enjoyed life more. Life is short so enjoy the simple things and LOVE!

  • @notjustforme
    @notjustforme 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    That freaking song has the power to make me cry. Have to fight it almost ever time. And i LOVE it.

  • @joedogmckeel
    @joedogmckeel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    They lady in the picture was his mother. The lady standing with him was his wife.

    • @MrClobbertime
      @MrClobbertime 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      His wife died shortly after the video was made. After that he just gave up on life.

  • @alissonjalil228
    @alissonjalil228 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Still cried my eyes out! I will never forget a big bunch of us on a Pontoon boat coming n out of the Florida springs on the West Coast of Florida out into gulf when they announced he had passed away & started playing this song. What a freaking moment!!! We all toasted his memory & sang along as we drive into the beautiful sunset

  • @johnparks4345
    @johnparks4345 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    This literally showed up when I was watching your vid on Christ Stapleton when you said “we got Johnny cash coming right after this”
    The timing 😂

    • @jeremylilly1054
      @jeremylilly1054 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just came from that video too!

  • @virgildantefrazier1
    @virgildantefrazier1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    He didnt change the lyrics, he just changed the overall interpretation of the way the song is played. When Trent Reznor ( Nine Inch Nails) did it... the song was more like the stupor of a drug high high and the lostness of the dreamscape kind of feel while you're awake and somewhat incoherent. But Johnny did it in a way that was kind of the curtain call of a life full of battle scars (some forced and some self-inflicted)and emotional wear and tear that have done the damage that is final. It's like taking that one last look in the mirror of life as you realize you're about to fade away. Imagine the shot of thanos contemplating his life and final actions at the conclusion of Endgame just before he dusts off.

    • @Valkian6734
      @Valkian6734 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      He did change 1 word; in the NiN version Trent sings "I wear this crown of shit" where Johnny says "crown of thorns" instead.

    • @corrinnegarfield2460
      @corrinnegarfield2460 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And he shared it with the world.. !

    • @jeffbaker634
      @jeffbaker634 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Valkian6734 you're right he did. Sorry. I heard him say in an interview that nobody really truly cared whether he lived or died with the drug and alcohol problems except for two. His wife and Jesus. That's powerful there.

    • @jeffbaker634
      @jeffbaker634 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@corrinnegarfield2460 amen!

    • @beentheredonethat90stopped69
      @beentheredonethat90stopped69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Trent wrote this also to his own experiences to all you know it alls ! Johnny cash also did drugs , was in Jail! That’s what drew him into Trent Reznors song in the first place ! They shared the same experience’s ! Trent was much younger when he wrote it , Johnny Cash was an his death bed when he covered it! Who would say something other than Trent did when the guy who covered your song, died a month later! I’ve always been a fan of NIN but I really loved him when he was the one who helped raise money for Hurricane Katrina!

  • @Hpencer
    @Hpencer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’ve cried so many times watching this Johnny cash’s video of hurt. I’ve suffered many things. I’ve had good in my life and blessings. But it’s been a hard life and I’ve felt alone and misunderstood a lot. I have been misunderstood a lot, not just felt it.
    Anyway, this whole music video, lyrics, everything about it is so powerful to me.

  • @JumpDaddy70
    @JumpDaddy70 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Rest in Piece to one of the best blues artist in history. He will always be missed, thank you for everything you've done Mr. Cash, you helped quite a few members of my family through our troubles

  • @lyric651
    @lyric651 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    It gets me every time. I love NIN but this is like a completely different song. I just want someone to love me like Johnny loved June.

    • @jeremyconnor9918
      @jeremyconnor9918 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I felt that.

    • @MackeyWilliams
      @MackeyWilliams 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm sure someone does or they will, Robin. Peace to you.

  • @EVENINGWOLF666
    @EVENINGWOLF666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Yeah...look in those eyes. Here's a man that knows what his life was. You can see he carries with him, every love, and ever loss, every moment of joy and every moment of sorrow, every success and every failure, every triumph and every tragedy, every satisfaction and every regret. And as he sings this song...he passes those feelings on to everyone listening so for those three and a half minutes...you feel everything he does...

  • @judithshorey2137
    @judithshorey2137 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    The pic in the frame was his Mom. His wife shows up later in the video

    • @grilledspaghetti
      @grilledspaghetti 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, June Carter Cash stands beside him.

    • @docjohnson1
      @docjohnson1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes she died soon after this video and johnny shortly after that

  • @mikehowell8983
    @mikehowell8983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    his wife was on the stairs behind him, she passed just a couple of months after this video, the he passed like 6 months after vthat

    • @NOMnomAPROVED
      @NOMnomAPROVED 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      she passed 2 months after vid was released he passed 4 after her

  • @sebastiangresala5787
    @sebastiangresala5787 5 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    Credits to nine inch nails for creating this beautiful song

    • @flaquis2729
      @flaquis2729 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Crazy thing is, Trent Reznor created this song for Johnny Cash and didn't even know it at the time.

    • @michaelvega4050
      @michaelvega4050 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He stole it do the research

    • @flaquis2729
      @flaquis2729 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@michaelvega4050 who stole it? Trent Reznor wrote it, and is credited as such.

    • @humanperson2205
      @humanperson2205 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@michaelvega4050 He covered it.

    • @reaperwb39
      @reaperwb39 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Trent himself said that after cash covered it he felt like he wrote the song for cash and nine inch nails retired their version of it

  • @jeremylilly1054
    @jeremylilly1054 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Your comments were on point. He put his whole life an heart into this song. After his wife June Carter died, he had nothing left to live for. This is the song of a man who knew he was going to die, and this was his way of telling his story one more time and reminiscing on the hardships in his life.

    • @McSham1811
      @McSham1811 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Brilliantly put!!!

    • @jeremylilly1054
      @jeremylilly1054 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@McSham1811 Thank you 😀

    • @johnfive2440
      @johnfive2440 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But it isn't even his song....he covered one he knew was how he was feeling

    • @jeremylilly1054
      @jeremylilly1054 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@johnfive2440 I never said he owned the rights to the song, I just said exactly what you said. It's a song that represents everything in his life and a song that he put every emotion in it that he could

    • @TheOrlandoTrustfull
      @TheOrlandoTrustfull 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's a song about heroin addiction, people just take it's meaning differently in this version

  • @KennyWhyDoIHaveNumersNow
    @KennyWhyDoIHaveNumersNow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A boy called sue, is my favourite Johnny Cash song and San Quentin and walk the line and ring of fire...

  • @angelgr76
    @angelgr76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was the song played at my best friend's wake. He passed unexpectedly 6 yrs ago when he was 37. I miss him everyday & know that I will as long as I'm on this earth!