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High Cost of Living by Jamey Johnson...not the music video tho!!!!! Brantley Gilbert's music is good too, I love the songs "One hell of an amen" or "You don't know her like I do."
The sad thing is that this was written by a much younger person speaking about his friends dying from drugs, rather than an old guy reflecting on his legacy. Both equally heartbreaking, nonetheless.
@@Evilrose0611 Yes .Drugs and alcohol . He was very regretful of the pain he caused his wife and children over the years.This song speaks very well to Cash, reflecting on his life knowing he was about to leave this world
Trent Reznor says about the Cash version of Hurt: "I'd been friends with Rick Rubin for several years. He called me to ask how I'd feel if Johnny Cash covered Hurt. I said I'd be very flattered but was given no indication it would actually be recorded. The idea sounded a bit gimmicky. Two weeks went by. Then I got a CD in the post. I listened to it and it was very strange. It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive". Johnny played this song over 100 times before he recorded it. He called it "The best anti-drug song I ever heard." The song was released as a single in 2003. "One Hour Photo" director Mark Romanek said: “I begged Rick Rubin to let me shoot something to that track” being instantly enamored of the rendition, he offered to shoot the video for free. Universal eventually agreed to the music video, but with 71-year-old Cash’s health declining and being unwilling to stay long in the cold Tennessee weather as he was going on holiday to his ranch in Jamaica that coming Saturday, Romanek had only days to make the video and after scouting in Nashville, he decided upon Cash’s home and museum in Hendersonville, Tennessee, The House of Cash. "Arriving on Friday with no idea of what I was going to make" Romanek said. "I looked around the house and made a few suggestions of where we might film Johnny performing. I was making it up off the top of my head. Then I went to the House of Cash Museum and found it in total disrepair. There was no time to clean it up so I decided that I'd just film it, and Johnny, exactly as they were. He was no longer in his prime - he was fading and that was what I wanted to show. The place was in such a state of dereliction. That’s when I got the idea that maybe we could be extremely candid about the state of Johnny’s health - as candid as Johnny has always been in his songs. While I was filming the opening segment of Johnny playing guitar in his living room, his wife, June, came down the stairs and watched. The look on her face was so complex: full of love and pride and concern for her husband. So I asked her if I could film her too and she agreed. But the most important element was when we discovered a film archive in the museum. When we looked back at the rushes we'd filmed at the house we thought they were good but not great. But once we dropped in the archive footage of Johnny we realized that was the soul of the video. The whole thing was so spontaneous. It's made me realize that sometimes you can be too prepared and that there's some value to urgency." The music video speaks about the transience of life, the gracelessness of death, the Ozymandian crumbling of an oeuvre and the decline of a genre, an era and an attitude. The ‘closed to public’ sign on the museum. The cracked platinum records. The caviar and lobster banquet with no diners. The clips from earlier in Johnny’s career. His wife June looking on. The closed piano lid. The video was so intimate that Cash's management didn't think it should be released, and Johnny was leaning in that direction. According to Rick Rubin, it was his daughter, Rosanne Cash, who convinced Johnny to let it go. June died May 15th, 2003, three months after filming, Johnny died September 12, 2003 four months after his wife. Rick Rubin said of the video: “I cried the first time I saw it. If you were moved to that kind of emotion in the course of a two-hour movie, it would be a great accomplishment. To do it in a four-minute music video is shocking. I think the hurt video is a historical document, it's like looking back across a life." Trent Reznor was sent the video while in the studio with Rage Against the Machine’s Zach De La Rocha, and, when the pair sat down to watch it, any doubts he had about the cover were long gone. “We were in the studio, getting ready to work and I popped it in,” said Reznor. "Tears started welling up. I realized it wasn't really my song anymore. It just gave me goose bumps up and down my spine. By the end I was really on the verge of tears…there was just dead silence. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then, ‘Uh, okay, let’s get some coffee.' It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art. I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. It's an unbelievably powerful piece of work. After he passed away I remember feeling saddened, but being honored to have framed the end of his life in something that is very tasteful. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend checking it out. I have goose bumps right now thinking about it. Having Johnny Cash, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time, want to cover your song, that's something that matters to me. It's not so much what other people think, but the fact that this guy felt that it was worthy of interpreting. " There will NEVER be another Johnny Cash, and there will NEVER be another video like this. A sad footnote to a sad story, Cash’s home of nearly 30 years in which the video was shot, burned down in 2007.
I don't think it's fair to say he perfected *it*. He made his cover a perfect reflection of his life, but the original was already perfect in its own right.
He didn't perfect it, he changed it's meaning by the way it sounds. The original is of an abused and forgotten child who's given up on everything, Jonny Cash's cover is about how empty he's been left after reaching the point he wanted, the summit of his mountain.
Roseanne Cash said the first time she heard it, she was deeply upset, and told her Dad, "It sounds like you're saying 'Goodbye'. . " to which he replied, "Maybe I *am."*
This is actually a cover song of Nine Inch Nails. The original is about heroin addiction - something Johnny Cash knows plenty about. The music video was recorded a few months before Cash died though, so they made it a reflection of his life.
This was the last song he recorded. The lady standing on the stairs watching him is his wife. She slipped down the stairs just to watch him make this video. She was not suppose to be in it but when they looked at the playback and saw her in it they said leave her in it because of the love for Johnny that you can see in her face. They died about 3mths apart from each other. It shows that they couldn't live without each other.
this is the last video Johnny Cash made with his wife she passed away May 2003 and passed away 4 months later September 2003....The Man in Black is and always will be a legend
A cover song, originally written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. After Reznor heard Cash's rendition, he said it was Cash's song now. It fit his lifestyle well. The bridges he burned during his amazing career, the parts of his life that aren't glamorous and the people he lost that he can't get back due to his behavior.
Actually, when he first heard it (Rick Rubin sent him a demo), Reznor didn't get it. It wasn't until he saw the video that he got what everyone was talking about.
It was Rick Rubin's idea and when he asked Trent if Cash can do it he wasnt sure if it was a good idea but he still agreed. He was flattered just like any artist would be when a legend asks to cover their song. When he heard the song for the 1st time he said that the song "sounded alien." Not in a negative way but it was just a different sound than what he was used to (rock to country). His feelings changed when he saw the video. He said "the song isn’t mine anymore."
@@mewtwo150clone it's nothing about regret, he's just emphasising that there are more important things in life than his music empire. He refers to family and his faith which was renewed as said in his testimony
I'm definitely all about rap/hip hop but there are a few songs that always pulls me in from other genres, this being one... Another is Lynard Skynard "Simple Man"
@Jeff Fowler See this is was what I hate about comments... People always have to turn it into an argument... What may speak to you doesn't speak to others and rap to me has had way more content i can relate to and has had much more influence on my life then rock... At the same time I completely understand how you could feel the same about rock... What he's trying to do here is to bring people from different genres together so saying one is outright better then the other is counterproductive and closed minded. I've heard amazing soul touching songs in every genre I've listened to and I listen to a lot of music from Dropkick Murphy to Hank Williams to DMX to Steve Miller Band to you name it but my heart and soul will always be rap.
@@capnbubbles5329 Just listened and I tell you one thing I love about rock is its simplistic lyrics... It really leaves a lot for interpretation... This song really embodies that to me in a good way. With a lot of rap they can really really beat you in the head with a specific topic which I enjoy as well. Not to say there's not exceptions on both sides. But thanks for the recommendation I'll listen some more for sure.
My grandmother was an amazing person. Shortly before she passed this song came out, I bought the CD and brought it over and we listened to it start to finish. During this song I looked over and she had tears and a little smirk, she understood his message. I think of that moment everytime I hear this song.
It's amazing that Johnny covered this song and even though he didn't change any words he was able to give the exact same lyrics a completely different meaning. Even this guy thinks the song is about growing old, but when Trent wrote and performed the same song, there was no question it was about heroin addiction. Johnny cash was and will always be a gift to the world. Trent's alright too.
He did change ONE word. In the NIN version it's was "My empire of shit." Our boy Johnny C didn't swear. So he changed the word to "dirt" same meaning, same message.
I absolutely love this song. I just read that Trent Reznor said that Johnny Cash's version is so powerful that he no longer considers it his song. Pretty amazing in my opinion!
You wanna know how you can tell what’s real music and what’s not? This song will still be listened to 100 years from now. Most of the stuff that comes out today won’t be listened to 5 years from now lol. Music is like anything else. The good stuff stands the test of time.
Man this song brings me to tears every single time. I cant listen to it without an emotional response. I am a heroin addict and an alcoholic in recovery...alive today by the grace of GOD and only GOD and this song is so powerful. Also, Johnny Cash is so incredible R.I.P. to him his story is so deep and so relatable, may he rest on the wings of angels my brother my friend.
May you continue to find peace and strength, gonna lift you up in prayers. Cuz you are not alone in your climb, as you know! Just last year a lady in a fb group shared her battle with drug addiction and alcoholism, one day she tells us she'd had the most harrowing experience in the middle of Mass, like nothing she'd ever felt before when triggered for prior relapses, described it as a (painful) battlefield over her soul that seemed to hit out of left field and for some reason *this* time..."it" finally detached its grip, it almost felt physical even. Sounds hooey to some, but she was pretty shook/relieved. This was after like a consistent year of "two steps forward one step back." But really years before leading up. Keep a support group if you can, even online. You were meant to be free. Be strong, warrior!
UMA I’m not super religious but you’re just an asshole And you’re a horrible person God is the hope And love in your heart It doesn’t matter what you believe in
@@joebidenlikeslittlekids5133 I understand that and I apologize for being an asshole but look at the world now, sickness,disease and hundreds of thousands dead. What hope does god bring if he brought all this into the world?
@D'oh! I respect what you believe in, but I do not believe I'm full of hate. If I was full of hate I would always be an asshole to all my friends and family, but I'm not always an asshole to them, just occasionally I was being an ass a 2 months ago. Spread love and positivity everyone✌
"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down/Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town/I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime/But is there because he's a victim of the times."
he is one of the reasons why I like the color black and wear it so often he impacted my life in such a way im a gen z and im glad this beautiful man existed
Johnny cash’s version of the song is about sorrow and Regrets, as he knows he’s nearing his final days, And looks back on his life The original NIN song is about A man slowly falling deeper into depression as he inches closer to ending it all until the final loud ending when he supposedly shoots himself and the static is the sound of his mind being cleared of it all.
This idea is really nice. We see a lot of hip hop and R&B reviewing channels lately, but this idea of branching out and identifying the cultures of a plethora of chapters and experiences is a great spin for your channel. Keep up the good work. Blessings to you, your health and your aspirations.
When Johnny sings about his "Empire of Dirt" I think he's referring to how fame is ultimately an illusion. When he sings "I am still right here." "You are someone else". I think he's talking to himself. He's saying you famous guy, is not the real person. I think this video is so deep. I have tears every time I watch, but they are of joy. Johnny R.I.P. you beautiful soul. You gave me so much. Thank you!
Trent Reznor's original version and this cover to me are equally amazing, moving, and yet different. Trent wrote it about his drug addictions and I feel like Cash used this song to express feelings associated with getting near the end of his life. Brilliant how the same words can tell different stories so perfectly.
"you can have it all my empire of dirt" All the money i've ever made, my empire you can have it. it means nothing in the end. truly sad song, its hella deep
For some reason it reminds me of that Mike Tyson interview where they go to his house and ask him about all the belts he has. "Oh theese, theese are gawbage" and proceeds to throws them off the table.
Dude... I break into tears every damn time I watch or hear this version. I pulled myself together super hard to watch your reaction this song, and I'm glad I did. You really understood the song, in THIS version, sung by THIS artist. You were given a great moment. And so was I.
If I remember correctly his wife had passed away a short while before he covered the song. Then after performing it like one time, Johnny passed soon after. Absolute legend for any music fan
To clarify, Jonny Cash - Hurt was released in 2002 on the album ‘American IV, the man comes around’. His wife ‘June’ passed away May 15th 2003 and Jonny passed away sadly on September 12th 2003 some 4 months later. The last song Jonny Cash wrote / worked on was the ‘like the 309’ from the American V album which he did to take his mind off / in memory of the passing of his wife.
This is one of the few songs that makes me feel the same every time i listen to it. You can't hear johnny cash's "hurt" and not feel a deep sorrow in your soul.
Johnny was a beautiful soul...and a junky. Although this song is a cover, Johnny is expressing regret for the pain that he has caused others and himself.
@@TheProrage509 You must be fun at parties. Other than you calling me out of my name, nothing you wrote differs from what I wrote. If I didn't mention the when's and the how's that Johnny got cleaned up it is because it wasn't germane to my comment. My comment was in no way a slur on John, but yours suggests that there was no goodness in John until he got clean. I always thought that there was a goodness to the man even when he was using.
@@freyamikilson6511 You're right. Someone being a junky doesn't make them "bad" or a bad soul. There are those, which is likely a good majority, that want so badly to stop, because they see what it's causing those they love. Those that go full tilt their whole lives might end up "bad". But people who always struggle to stop and are able to take "sober breaks" want to stay that way. They try, but addiction is a DNA thing, and once a substance is introduced; the DNA takes over. Johnny tried so hard to be a good Christian. Sang some of the best hymns I've ever heard, and he felt it so deeply, he brought the spirit. You can feel the spirit in your presence when you listen to his hymns. He was a sinner. He admitted it. I truly believe that even he would call himself a junky because he hated that part of his life with passion. So, I don't think saying he was a junky was a bad thing. However, he always had "the light", addiction dimmed it at times, but it was always there.
He wasn't a junky he was addicted to pills not heroin retards, trent Reznor was the junky and this song was about his struggle with it, cash covered it about his struggle with life in general.
This was s cover from “Nine Inch Nails” as stated below but Johnny made it his own by letting us peer into his life. I believe that every song is deciphered by each listener and helps if you know a little about the singer. Johnny was an individual who lived and when I mean lived he took it to the edge and jumped. For me this song was talking about mortality. He was not holding up his accomplishments but instead saying he’d give it all away if he could start over and live again. He knew his time grew close and it makes me sad each time I hear it. He also did a cover of sound gardens “Rusty Cage”. It’s pretty good more like Johnny of old but this one had meaning behind it that everyone will understand one day. If they are lucky enough to reflect. Another good song is “The Man Comes Around” by Cash.
It is a cover of nin, but when the singer from nin heard it for the first time, he said it's not my song anymore, it's his now. He cried when he heard it.
This actually isn’t his song it was a rock song but once he sang it the band that wrote it thought it was so beautiful that they said this is now johnny cashes song.
Don't worry ThatOneGamer, he knew he was dying. That's why this song became so epic. Someone else may have written those lyrics, but he knew it was his own his regret and and his own goodbye. Though I do tear up every time I think about this song, I think we should be glad, rather than sad, that he got in his own last words.
06:05 'as a young dude, I always want to listen to an older person, they got the wisdom.....certain things the can tell you about life that you can't get from a person your age'. That comment shows wisdom!
This is a classic, Johnny Cash is a legend! It's a complete different type of song but do Tennessee Ernie Ford 16 tons. I believe its from the 40s I think
@@thanley99 --- Sorry...the lyrics are the same...still Heroin. I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that's real The needle tears a hole The old familiar sting Try to kill it all away But I remember everything
You have a sooth & fair outlook. Trent Reznor who wrote this wasn’t gone on the idea of Cash doing his song but his manager urged him to give it a listen first, Trent was in awe. He said upon hearing this legend’s powerful voice he almost fell to his knees & said ‘Now it’s Johnny’s song, I defer to the great’
You go back to think like Folsom country blues Johnny was an artist way ahead of his time. He was talking about really intense subjects even in the 50s and 60s. Drug addiction, murder, prison. He was like the OG like the first Gangster Rapper. Lol
My grams parents use to to own the Lone Star Ranch and they would get musicians like Cash and Dolly and Hank Williams and the stories I’ve heard are incredible.
Evidently my roof is leaking while I was listening/pondering this message...it hurts to hear this song. Thank you Johnny for allowing us to share your humanity. Go out today and do a good deed and you will find you do "feel".
Thank You for the honest reaction. Very similar to mine when I first heard this song. I really believe what makes this beautiful song is Johnny's unreal and unearthly voice. You can feel the pain and anguish. Very few people can do that. That is what made him a legend.
Word is he did this song and put the twist of his life to it do to the fact deep.down he knew his time was close to a end . And he was reflecting on him self
You yourself are wise to realize that respecting the wisdom of older people is a smart play. Yes, we've seen more, lived longer, and our BS detectors become more finely tuned. As will yours too, with age. Great honest reaction, keep them coming
Your reaction and perspective on this is refreshing, since you're coming from a place where you didn't know the background on him and this song he covered. It's great to hear!
You are exactly right.Jonny reliezes that riches are nothing in the reality of life.It who you love, family,and his dearest wife June,who stood by his side through all.Rest in peace and may God be comforting the Man in Black😔🇺🇲
This is a deep song. I respect you man cause you feel that even if you may not love the style. It is moving and lots of people do lots of different music. If it is real like that you got to respect it. Thumbs up on the review.
This was actually a cover, the song was originally written and sang by nine inch nails. But Trent Reznor actually said that Johnny cashes version was better
This is one of the BEST covers ever made. I cry every damn time. I miss the man in black. Im a metal head emo for the most part but damn, Johnny had my fucking heart.
At first, no. But when he watched the video with Zach (RATM) while they were in the studio and he was crying. Sometime after that he said it was no longer his song.
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My dad was all about country music! This song brings back memories. Pass cause of nostalgia and it's a tune!
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Willie Nelson Always on my mind
JB and the moonshine band...sticker peck out...it's country
High Cost of Living by Jamey Johnson...not the music video tho!!!!! Brantley Gilbert's music is good too, I love the songs "One hell of an amen" or "You don't know her like I do."
Johnny Cash is not just a country legend he's just legend period.
I personally think he did more rock music than country...
Fax. I don’t even go near country music but I’ve heard his name like a billion times
Ok I'll just say it, but Johnny Cash was making "gangsta rap " b4 the hip hop crowd even thought of it.
Amen💯💯💯🔥🔥
That part
The sad thing is that this was written by a much younger person speaking about his friends dying from drugs, rather than an old guy reflecting on his legacy. Both equally heartbreaking, nonetheless.
Johnny Cash and Trent Reznor had more in common than just music. Johnny had his own long history of drug abuse.
@@Evilrose0611 long is an understatement man it was a helluva long time
I heard that when TR heard the cover, basically said, “I wrote it, but Johnny owns it.”
@@MrJedimedic true facts I'd say that about most of johnny cash's covers
@@Evilrose0611 Yes .Drugs and alcohol . He was very regretful of the pain he caused his wife and children over the years.This song speaks very well to Cash, reflecting on his life knowing he was about to leave this world
Trent Reznor says about the Cash version of Hurt:
"I'd been friends with Rick Rubin for several years. He called me to ask how I'd feel if Johnny Cash covered Hurt. I said I'd be very flattered but was given no indication it would actually be recorded. The idea sounded a bit gimmicky. Two weeks went by. Then I got a CD in the post. I listened to it and it was very strange. It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive".
Johnny played this song over 100 times before he recorded it. He called it "The best anti-drug song I ever heard."
The song was released as a single in 2003.
"One Hour Photo" director Mark Romanek said:
“I begged Rick Rubin to let me shoot something to that track” being instantly enamored of the rendition, he offered to shoot the video for free.
Universal eventually agreed to the music video, but with 71-year-old Cash’s health declining and being unwilling to stay long in the cold Tennessee weather as he was going on holiday to his ranch in Jamaica that coming Saturday, Romanek had only days to make the video and after scouting in Nashville, he decided upon Cash’s home and museum in Hendersonville, Tennessee, The House of Cash.
"Arriving on Friday with no idea of what I was going to make" Romanek said. "I looked around the house and made a few suggestions of where we might film Johnny performing. I was making it up off the top of my head. Then I went to the House of Cash Museum and found it in total disrepair. There was no time to clean it up so I decided that I'd just film it, and Johnny, exactly as they were. He was no longer in his prime - he was fading and that was what I wanted to show. The place was in such a state of dereliction. That’s when I got the idea that maybe we could be extremely candid about the state of Johnny’s health - as candid as Johnny has always been in his songs. While I was filming the opening segment of Johnny playing guitar in his living room, his wife, June, came down the stairs and watched. The look on her face was so complex: full of love and pride and concern for her husband. So I asked her if I could film her too and she agreed. But the most important element was when we discovered a film archive in the museum. When we looked back at the rushes we'd filmed at the house we thought they were good but not great. But once we dropped in the archive footage of Johnny we realized that was the soul of the video. The whole thing was so spontaneous. It's made me realize that sometimes you can be too prepared and that there's some value to urgency."
The music video speaks about the transience of life, the gracelessness of death, the Ozymandian crumbling of an oeuvre and the decline of a genre, an era and an attitude. The ‘closed to public’ sign on the museum. The cracked platinum records. The caviar and lobster banquet with no diners. The clips from earlier in Johnny’s career. His wife June looking on. The closed piano lid.
The video was so intimate that Cash's management didn't think it should be released, and Johnny was leaning in that direction. According to Rick Rubin, it was his daughter, Rosanne Cash, who convinced Johnny to let it go.
June died May 15th, 2003, three months after filming, Johnny died September 12, 2003 four months after his wife.
Rick Rubin said of the video:
“I cried the first time I saw it. If you were moved to that kind of emotion in the course of a two-hour movie, it would be a great accomplishment. To do it in a four-minute music video is shocking. I think the hurt video is a historical document, it's like looking back across a life."
Trent Reznor was sent the video while in the studio with Rage Against the Machine’s Zach De La Rocha, and, when the pair sat down to watch it, any doubts he had about the cover were long gone.
“We were in the studio, getting ready to work and I popped it in,” said Reznor. "Tears started welling up. I realized it wasn't really my song anymore. It just gave me goose bumps up and down my spine. By the end I was really on the verge of tears…there was just dead silence. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then, ‘Uh, okay, let’s get some coffee.' It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art. I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. It's an unbelievably powerful piece of work. After he passed away I remember feeling saddened, but being honored to have framed the end of his life in something that is very tasteful. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend checking it out. I have goose bumps right now thinking about it. Having Johnny Cash, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time, want to cover your song, that's something that matters to me. It's not so much what other people think, but the fact that this guy felt that it was worthy of interpreting. "
There will NEVER be another Johnny Cash, and there will NEVER be another video like this.
A sad footnote to a sad story, Cash’s home of nearly 30 years in which the video was shot, burned down in 2007.
Damn thanks for posting this, I've never seen it before
This is so beautiful and tragic. Is there a source for this blurb or is this a personal musing from you?
I didn't read the whole thing Lol, but thanks.
Thanks for the detailed background!
i can count on one finger the number of times i've heard reference to ozymandias in the comments section of a youtube video. props to you.
The older I get the sadder this song becomes.
same when the NIN one came out was like cool like it when Cash did it was thinking that is a lot better now will tear up when hearing it.
@Jim Caldwell. For me it’s the opposite. Thank God I’m past the devastating place I was in when this song defined me, my life and those around me.
Same. I'm 30 now, not exactly old but listening to this now compared to when i was much younger... wow. I've been balling my eyes out.
I swear the more you notice how fleeting our mortality is, the harder it hits.
I know the feeling...
Honestly this WAS Johnny Cash’s goodbye. His farewell, speaking of his legacy. This is a cover, but he perfected it.
I don't think it's fair to say he perfected *it*. He made his cover a perfect reflection of his life, but the original was already perfect in its own right.
Trent reznor is a great somgwriter and composer
AJ Fawxe yeah ur right , he just gave a perfect song a different meaning , while still keeping it perfect
I Agree Tesla
He didn't perfect it, he changed it's meaning by the way it sounds. The original is of an abused and forgotten child who's given up on everything, Jonny Cash's cover is about how empty he's been left after reaching the point he wanted, the summit of his mountain.
Roseanne Cash said the first time she heard it, she was deeply upset, and told her Dad, "It sounds like you're saying 'Goodbye'. . " to which he replied, "Maybe I *am."*
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Legends never die. RIP man in black
Thats the thing about Johnny cash is that he didn't give a shit
This song fucks me up every time i hear it. So simple and so real.
Same....... The line "Everyone I know goes away in the end...." Gulp a breath of two. Carry on listening..
@@blackcountryme... and he closes the piano. Fade to black.
Yeah, gets me every time.
@@nowakjim he may not of wrote this song, but it certainly feels like it wrote itself for him!
Absolutely, my eyes well up every time. "Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything."
yeah. every single time.
This is actually a cover song of Nine Inch Nails. The original is about heroin addiction - something Johnny Cash knows plenty about. The music video was recorded a few months before Cash died though, so they made it a reflection of his life.
Didn't all of the profits of the Johnny Cash version go to NIN? I thought that I read that somewhere...maybe I'm wrong?
I also thought it was a tribute to she wife that had recently passed away at the time too.
@@kidof0 she died several months prior to this
The song was recorded a year before his death, as was the video, but they added her in spots following his wife's death as a tribute to her.
SistaSol ah! Thanks for the clarification
This was the last song he recorded. The lady standing on the stairs watching him is his wife. She slipped down the stairs just to watch him make this video. She was not suppose to be in it but when they looked at the playback and saw her in it they said leave her in it because of the love for Johnny that you can see in her face. They died about 3mths apart from each other. It shows that they couldn't live without each other.
Ok so we really crying today
@@daniellebolden9712 it happens whenever I hear it
Why tf you thought I needed an ugly cry, huh?
This was his last video not song
When Trent Reznor sings Hurt, it's about drug addiction.
When Johnny Cash sings Hurt... it's about LIFE.
And drug addiction
Johnny Cash did this for his wife
@@matthewcox3563 he did it for multitude of reasons.
Cash was addicted to heroin and also had just lost his wife, poor guy...I feel like he bared it all to us
So true, it's amazing how one song has two different meanings between Trent and Johnny and both have the same results....You feel!
My dad always told me, “He was The Man in Black and that he wore white when the world had peace and black when it did not. He never wore white”
Oh damn
this is the last video Johnny Cash made with his wife she passed away May 2003 and passed away 4 months later September 2003....The Man in Black is and always will be a legend
In the video, his closing of the piano at the end is said to be symbolic of the closing of his career and/or life
Oh so this is what we are doing today; crying.
Every time
My brain be like:
I'm in. 'Everyone i know goes away in the end...'
Actaully...I'm pooping. But fantastic cover Cash was is a legend to any music fan
Me: Listening to hurt.
Life: I said we sad today.
"If its trash we gonna trash it"...
Bruh its JOHNNY CASH.
In the words of samuel L jackson:
"Thats all you need to know."
I believe you mean "Sheeeet Negro. Thats all you had to say!"
Whipline what?
@Maars you don’t get the reference, it’s a line from pulp fiction
A cover song, originally written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. After Reznor heard Cash's rendition, he said it was Cash's song now. It fit his lifestyle well. The bridges he burned during his amazing career, the parts of his life that aren't glamorous and the people he lost that he can't get back due to his behavior.
Actually, when he first heard it (Rick Rubin sent him a demo), Reznor didn't get it. It wasn't until he saw the video that he got what everyone was talking about.
It was Rick Rubin's idea and when he asked Trent if Cash can do it he wasnt sure if it was a good idea but he still agreed. He was flattered just like any artist would be when a legend asks to cover their song. When he heard the song for the 1st time he said that the song "sounded alien." Not in a negative way but it was just a different sound than what he was used to (rock to country). His feelings changed when he saw the video. He said "the song isn’t mine anymore."
@@jeremyebert3309 Trents backstory of Cash's version of the song and music video. th-cam.com/video/GlzjqPGdOSM/w-d-xo.html
Trent gave it up......Who better to give it to...... than Cash
Johnny was a legend more of a legend than nine inch nails will ever be if I where him I would be honored
RIP Johnny Cash
Imagine. One of his most famous songs is him talking about he doesn’t care about the fame, just wants his loved ones back
"You can have it all
My empire of dirt"
Those are words of regret my dude 😢
Facts
This isn't his song, he just did a cover
@@eustacedangle and?
@@mewtwo150clone it's nothing about regret, he's just emphasising that there are more important things in life than his music empire.
He refers to family and his faith which was renewed as said in his testimony
@@kylemathias6335 its the samething. His "music empire" is his regret. He wasted so much time on it, and lost time he could of spent with his family.
When he closed the lid on the piano at the end of the video, he knew it was the last time he would ever play music.
Sad
I'm definitely all about rap/hip hop but there are a few songs that always pulls me in from other genres, this being one... Another is Lynard Skynard "Simple Man"
Not sure how you'll feel about this one. Try Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles.
@Jeff Fowler See this is was what I hate about comments... People always have to turn it into an argument... What may speak to you doesn't speak to others and rap to me has had way more content i can relate to and has had much more influence on my life then rock... At the same time I completely understand how you could feel the same about rock... What he's trying to do here is to bring people from different genres together so saying one is outright better then the other is counterproductive and closed minded. I've heard amazing soul touching songs in every genre I've listened to and I listen to a lot of music from Dropkick Murphy to Hank Williams to DMX to Steve Miller Band to you name it but my heart and soul will always be rap.
@@capnbubbles5329 I'll check that... That's a band I've always told myself I need to really give a proper listening to.
@@capnbubbles5329 Just listened and I tell you one thing I love about rock is its simplistic lyrics... It really leaves a lot for interpretation... This song really embodies that to me in a good way. With a lot of rap they can really really beat you in the head with a specific topic which I enjoy as well. Not to say there's not exceptions on both sides. But thanks for the recommendation I'll listen some more for sure.
@@keithlabeau8790 Shinedown has a good cover of Simple Man
My grandmother was an amazing person. Shortly before she passed this song came out, I bought the CD and brought it over and we listened to it start to finish. During this song I looked over and she had tears and a little smirk, she understood his message. I think of that moment everytime I hear this song.
It's amazing that Johnny covered this song and even though he didn't change any words he was able to give the exact same lyrics a completely different meaning. Even this guy thinks the song is about growing old, but when Trent wrote and performed the same song, there was no question it was about heroin addiction. Johnny cash was and will always be a gift to the world. Trent's alright too.
He did change ONE word. In the NIN version it's was "My empire of shit."
Our boy Johnny C didn't swear. So he changed the word to "dirt" same meaning, same message.
I absolutely love this song. I just read that Trent Reznor said that Johnny Cash's version is so powerful that he no longer considers it his song. Pretty amazing in my opinion!
You wanna know how you can tell what’s real music and what’s not? This song will still be listened to 100 years from now. Most of the stuff that comes out today won’t be listened to 5 years from now lol. Music is like anything else. The good stuff stands the test of time.
Man this song brings me to tears every single time. I cant listen to it without an emotional response. I am a heroin addict and an alcoholic in recovery...alive today by the grace of GOD and only GOD and this song is so powerful. Also, Johnny Cash is so incredible R.I.P. to him his story is so deep and so relatable, may he rest on the wings of angels my brother my friend.
May you continue to find peace and strength, gonna lift you up in prayers. Cuz you are not alone in your climb, as you know! Just last year a lady in a fb group shared her battle with drug addiction and alcoholism, one day she tells us she'd had the most harrowing experience in the middle of Mass, like nothing she'd ever felt before when triggered for prior relapses, described it as a (painful) battlefield over her soul that seemed to hit out of left field and for some reason *this* time..."it" finally detached its grip, it almost felt physical even. Sounds hooey to some, but she was pretty shook/relieved. This was after like a consistent year of "two steps forward one step back." But really years before leading up.
Keep a support group if you can, even online. You were meant to be free. Be strong, warrior!
UMA I’m not super religious but you’re just an asshole And you’re a horrible person God is the hope And love in your heart It doesn’t matter what you believe in
@@joebidenlikeslittlekids5133 u gotta @ him for him to see it im pretty sure
@@joebidenlikeslittlekids5133 I understand that and I apologize for being an asshole but look at the world now, sickness,disease and hundreds of thousands dead. What hope does god bring if he brought all this into the world?
@D'oh! I respect what you believe in, but I do not believe I'm full of hate. If I was full of hate I would always be an asshole to all my friends and family, but I'm not always an asshole to them, just occasionally I was being an ass a 2 months ago. Spread love and positivity everyone✌
Get goosebumps everytime i hear this song. The fact that Johnny and his wife passed away few months after the song release just makes it more powerful
Arthur Lima Johnny died a year after this video, his wife June died months after
"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down/Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town/I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime/But is there because he's a victim of the times."
he is one of the reasons why I like the color black and wear it so often he impacted my life in such a way im a gen z and im glad this beautiful man existed
I can't hear this song and not cry. This song brings back so many memories of my grandpaw. I miss him so much.
Johnny cash’s version of the song is about sorrow and Regrets, as he knows he’s nearing his final days, And looks back on his life
The original NIN song is about A man slowly falling deeper into depression as he inches closer to ending it all until the final loud ending when he supposedly shoots himself and the static is the sound of his mind being cleared of it all.
This idea is really nice. We see a lot of hip hop and R&B reviewing channels lately, but this idea of branching out and identifying the cultures of a plethora of chapters and experiences is a great spin for your channel. Keep up the good work. Blessings to you, your health and your aspirations.
Check out Lost in Vegas if you haven't already. Or Modern Renaissance Man. They both do a variety of genres
It gets you at the end when he closes the cover over the keys... it hit me hard.
The Highwayman by Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Amazing story telling
monikadavis1031 true
THIS!!!
Country music as a style that is hard for me to get into, but the story telling is amazing.
Eines der besten Songs die ich je gehört habe
Jens Liebram genau, ich liebe der Song !
When Johnny sings about his "Empire of Dirt" I think he's referring to how fame is ultimately an illusion. When he sings "I am still right here." "You are someone else". I think he's talking to himself. He's saying you famous guy, is not the real person. I think this video is so deep. I have tears every time I watch, but they are of joy. Johnny R.I.P. you beautiful soul. You gave me so much. Thank you!
Benn almost 2 decades since I first heard this song and it still gives me goosebumps every time
Been about two weeks for me I had no idea he died before I was born
Trent Reznor's original version and this cover to me are equally amazing, moving, and yet different. Trent wrote it about his drug addictions and I feel like Cash used this song to express feelings associated with getting near the end of his life. Brilliant how the same words can tell different stories so perfectly.
"you can have it all my empire of dirt"
All the money i've ever made, my empire you can have it. it means nothing in the end.
truly sad song, its hella deep
For some reason it reminds me of that Mike Tyson interview where they go to his house and ask him about all the belts he has.
"Oh theese, theese are gawbage" and proceeds to throws them off the table.
Dude... I break into tears every damn time I watch or hear this version. I pulled myself together super hard to watch your reaction this song, and I'm glad I did. You really understood the song, in THIS version, sung by THIS artist. You were given a great moment. And so was I.
Johnny cash is a rock and country mix that’s why he blew up so much because he was the main person that made this type music
This song is so emotional and hits even harder the more you know about it story. Definitely recommend the movie about is life called Walk the Line
If I remember correctly his wife had passed away a short while before he covered the song. Then after performing it like one time, Johnny passed soon after. Absolute legend for any music fan
She's literally in the video, she died a few months later and him a few months after her
To clarify, Jonny Cash - Hurt was released in 2002 on the album ‘American IV, the man comes around’. His wife ‘June’ passed away May 15th 2003 and Jonny passed away sadly on September 12th 2003 some 4 months later. The last song Jonny Cash wrote / worked on was the ‘like the 309’ from the American V album which he did to take his mind off / in memory of the passing of his wife.
This is one of the few songs that makes me feel the same every time i listen to it. You can't hear johnny cash's "hurt" and not feel a deep sorrow in your soul.
This is the kind of song that makes you take a deep breath and makes you think about your life.
Drinking fireball “whiskey” while listening to Johnny Cash 😂
I suspect that would have made Johnny Cash smile at least.
Righteous 🔥🔥🔥
my thoughts when he downed the shot 'perfect for the moment, cash would approve'
The man in black will always be a legend!! Even though Trent wrote the song he said himself it’s not his anymore it’s johnnys RIP to the legends
My favorite cover of all time. I still get chills when this song.❤🎶🎶
“It’s not my song anymore “ - Trent Reznor. It’s cash’s song now !
They are completely different songs
@@lolforlife2487 wow you need to do a little research there bud. Cash asked Trent if he can make his own version of the song.
@@davea8814 yeah I know I meant they have completely different meanings
Love both
Reznor/Bowie on stage
And Johnny Cash
The greatest cover of a song and the greatest way to appreciate a man's life ever.
This song chills me to the bone. It's so beautiful and solemn.
Johnny was a beautiful soul...and a junky. Although this song is a cover, Johnny is expressing regret for the pain that he has caused others and himself.
Freya Mikilson he died a sober..
You a piece of shit he cleaned up near the end sure he was a junky but found the light
@@TheProrage509 You must be fun at parties. Other than you calling me out of my name, nothing you wrote differs from what I wrote. If I didn't mention the when's and the how's that Johnny got cleaned up it is because it wasn't germane to my comment. My comment was in no way a slur on John, but yours suggests that there was no goodness in John until he got clean. I always thought that there was a goodness to the man even when he was using.
@@freyamikilson6511 You're right. Someone being a junky doesn't make them "bad" or a bad soul. There are those, which is likely a good majority, that want so badly to stop, because they see what it's causing those they love. Those that go full tilt their whole lives might end up "bad". But people who always struggle to stop and are able to take "sober breaks" want to stay that way. They try, but addiction is a DNA thing, and once a substance is introduced; the DNA takes over. Johnny tried so hard to be a good Christian. Sang some of the best hymns I've ever heard, and he felt it so deeply, he brought the spirit. You can feel the spirit in your presence when you listen to his hymns. He was a sinner. He admitted it. I truly believe that even he would call himself a junky because he hated that part of his life with passion. So, I don't think saying he was a junky was a bad thing. However, he always had "the light", addiction dimmed it at times, but it was always there.
He wasn't a junky he was addicted to pills not heroin retards, trent Reznor was the junky and this song was about his struggle with it, cash covered it about his struggle with life in general.
Pass all day long. It’s even deeper if you know the circumstances around it
To know the man, watch the movie about his life, "walk the line" performed by Joaquin phoenix, it's amazing
Yeah but to get the full picture of cash's life, like listening to a documentary makes this song better
The movie sucked IMO!!
My man doin fireball shots & listening to Johnny Cash...he just entered the rabbit hole 🙎♀️
This was s cover from “Nine Inch Nails” as stated below but Johnny made it his own by letting us peer into his life. I believe that every song is deciphered by each listener and helps if you know a little about the singer. Johnny was an individual who lived and when I mean lived he took it to the edge and jumped. For me this song was talking about mortality. He was not holding up his accomplishments but instead saying he’d give it all away if he could start over and live again. He knew his time grew close and it makes me sad each time I hear it. He also did a cover of sound gardens “Rusty Cage”. It’s pretty good more like Johnny of old but this one had meaning behind it that everyone will understand one day. If they are lucky enough to reflect.
Another good song is “The Man Comes Around” by Cash.
You are so right, Johnny. What does it matter if you get a whole empire, when you are going to lose it in the end?
It is a cover of nin, but when the singer from nin heard it for the first time, he said it's not my song anymore, it's his now. He cried when he heard it.
I've listened to this version many many times, and I get goosebumps everytime.
Tears from this damn near every time! Johnny owned Trents song cause he lived that life too. He knew how it should go and just took control.
This actually isn’t his song it was a rock song but once he sang it the band that wrote it thought it was so beautiful that they said this is now johnny cashes song.
Just imagine having a song covered by Johnny Cash
The sad part wad that he died 6 months after this song
Don't worry ThatOneGamer, he knew he was dying. That's why this song became so epic.
Someone else may have written those lyrics, but he knew it was his own his regret and and his own goodbye.
Though I do tear up every time I think about this song, I think we should be glad, rather than sad, that he got in his own last words.
I think that was part of the plan. His or a higher power. Would you really want to seem him try and top this?
@@rodneysmith9177 when his daughter heard this she said to him that it sounds like he's saying good bye he told her he was
What’s makes it sadder that his wife died before the music video came out. The ending was a re-edited from what I heard. Idk if it’s true.
When he closed that piano it was like closing his coffin, a legend
06:05 'as a young dude, I always want to listen to an older person, they got the wisdom.....certain things the can tell you about life that you can't get from a person your age'.
That comment shows wisdom!
This is a classic, Johnny Cash is a legend! It's a complete different type of song but do Tennessee Ernie Ford 16 tons. I believe its from the 40s I think
Johnny Cash also covered that. 😉
@@michaelschmitz35 yea I like Ernie Ford as well. Just another artist!
This song is about Heroin addiction. It's also a cover to the original by NIN.
Michael Bennett The original version was, this version is not
@@thanley99 --- Sorry...the lyrics are the same...still Heroin. I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
@@maninblack1091 he did a cover when his wife started to die. Yeah the lyrics are the same but he got real bad after his wife
Johny Cash was such a good artist you dont just hear about pain, you feel the pain as you reflect on your heartbreaking life experiences.
You have a sooth & fair outlook. Trent Reznor who wrote this wasn’t gone on the idea of Cash doing his song but his manager urged him to give it a listen first, Trent was in awe. He said upon hearing this legend’s powerful voice he almost fell to his knees & said ‘Now it’s Johnny’s song, I defer to the great’
You go back to think like Folsom country blues Johnny was an artist way ahead of his time. He was talking about really intense subjects even in the 50s and 60s. Drug addiction, murder, prison. He was like the OG like the first Gangster Rapper. Lol
He was the first white country star to talk about racism and anti-Vietnam
props to all veterans much respect
My grams parents use to to own the Lone Star Ranch and they would get musicians like Cash and Dolly and Hank Williams and the stories I’ve heard are incredible.
Write 'em down, maybe, and call it 'Lone Star'??
@@caracara7063 yeah I’ve written some of it down
@@TheHeadlessCreator
👍If you feel like it, I hope you make a book 📚 out of it 👍
@@caracara7063 I’ve always wanted to
@@TheHeadlessCreator
It's history, too...
Maybe your past and your future.
If you can get enough data.
Good luck with it.
Evidently my roof is leaking while I was listening/pondering this message...it hurts to hear this song.
Thank you Johnny for allowing us to share your humanity. Go out today and do a good deed and you will find you do "feel".
I always start to tear up at the end when he goes “ if I could start again, a million miles away”
Thank You for the honest reaction. Very similar to mine when I first heard this song. I really believe what makes this beautiful song is Johnny's unreal and unearthly voice. You can feel the pain and anguish. Very few people can do that. That is what made him a legend.
who tf disliked this vid?? like why?
Vishnu Simmar a nine inch nails fan boy...... they come in and shit all over cash
@@mikemclaughlin3306 Actually most NIN fanboys like this version just as much or more.
They were probably bored after they ate all of their Tide Pods and disliked it
Bitch boys thays who. Trent even said its Johnnys song now
Because the guys an idiot thats why
Jamey Johnson seen it in color it’s a classic
Young Hoenig High Cost of Living hits the nail on the head, man.
Word is he did this song and put the twist of his life to it do to the fact deep.down he knew his time was close to a end . And he was reflecting on him self
You're a beast for not crying during this one, this one always makes me burst out 😥
This songs hella depressing. Gets me every time tbh
You should do The man comes around by johnny cash.. another deep song
Indeed! Nice call. When "The Man Comes Around" 🌎
And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder
And I heard the beast say “come and see”
And I saw
And behold ... a white horse.
Ooo... that's a good one
I first heard that song on the Sarah Connor Chronicles. WOW!!! It made that scene!
The #1 song that gives me chills every time I listen to it one of the best covers ever ( nine inch nails preformed the original)
This song touchs the soul❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
A one of a kind! There will never be another Johnny Cash.
You yourself are wise to realize that respecting the wisdom of older people is a smart play. Yes, we've seen more, lived longer, and our BS detectors become more finely tuned. As will yours too, with age. Great honest reaction, keep them coming
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel that's dope
No, it’s dope that so trying to do. Lol.
The Animals -house of the rising Sun
This song breaks my heart, everytime I hear it
Your reaction and perspective on this is refreshing, since you're coming from a place where you didn't know the background on him and this song he covered. It's great to hear!
You need to read not just the backstory of this song but more specifically the recording of this music video.
Loved the video bro. U should react to Old Man by Neil Young next. Definitely worth the listen.😎🔥
listen to LIVING COLOUR song CULT OF PERSONALITY
Good song!
You are exactly right.Jonny reliezes that riches are nothing in the reality of life.It who you love, family,and his dearest wife June,who stood by his side through all.Rest in peace and may God be comforting the Man in Black😔🇺🇲
This is a deep song. I respect you man cause you feel that even if you may not love the style. It is moving and lots of people do lots of different music. If it is real like that you got to respect it. Thumbs up on the review.
This was actually a cover, the song was originally written and sang by nine inch nails. But Trent Reznor actually said that Johnny cashes version was better
The only cover song I've ever seen the original artist say "that's his song now"
bob dylan also said basically that about the all along the watchtower cover from jimmi hendrix
Simon said the same thing about sound of silence cover by disturbed.
Paul Simon said that about Elvis’s bridge over troubled water
@@matthiashejlskov5008 LMFAO no
One of my favourite cash songs. So powerful
This is one of the BEST covers ever made. I cry every damn time. I miss the man in black. Im a metal head emo for the most part but damn, Johnny had my fucking heart.
I won’t back down by Johnny cash.
Trent Reznor famously said that after he heard Jonny's cover, that it was no longer his song.
He also said he wants his epitaph to read "said 'fist fuck' and won a grammy".
At first, no. But when he watched the video with Zach (RATM) while they were in the studio and he was crying. Sometime after that he said it was no longer his song.