Thank you for watching the video, It means a lot to me . I will leave this pinned message here to REMIND everyone that i do not have TELEGRAM and there is no GIVEAWAY. Those you see are bot scams . Keep yourself safe and know that I would not ask for your info. ❤ ❤
He never opened that piano again. When his daughter heard this she said “dad, it sounds like you’re saying goodbye” and he said “I am.” Trent Reznor, the original artist, wrote and sang this as a young man dealing with addiction and depression. Johnny sang it as a man who knew he was dying regretting all the things he lost and took for granted because he was so obsessed with fame. When Trent heard this he said he wrote it but it was Johnny’s now.
I repeatedly see people saying his daughter said that, but I can never get anyone to respond where I can find that. I've watched an interview where she told the story about them showing her that video, and her crying, but she didn't say that.. In that interview at least.
One thing i will always appreciate and be grateful for is knowing that this great man and musician is my cousin, I will never stop bragging about it and never stop listening to his music for as long as I live
This version is about regret, whereas NIN’s version is about self-loathing. This video is a masterpiece on top of the amazing message and lyrics. Great, empathetic reactions Bis.
Johnny Cash is a legend and one of my favorite artist. Even though his demons got the best of him at times he was a very religious soul that left his first record label because they wouldn't let him make a gospel album. He had such a powerful voice and was an excellent storyteller and had songs that were serious like Hurt but also light hearted like A Boy Named Sue and One Piece At A time.Walk the Line was a very good movie on the life of Cash. Great job on the video.
The reason this song is so impactful is because the man is channeling the sum total of every decision he's made over his lifetime for better or worse and the consequences of those decisions. This man is singing with all his regrets exposed and the grief of his recently deceased wife. To quote an old movie (his power is pain)
@@johnvanidestine4990 True. But I dont understand how he could show the grief of his passed wife, when she is standing watching him in the video and she died a few months after the video was made.
Such a beautifully amazing broken man since i was kid i always wanted to be him only to realize he would've wanted me and everyone of his fans to be everything he didnt get the chance to in his life such a beautiful man I'll forever love his music
Johnny Cash was a master of making you feel a song whether it was sorrow or happiness. He hurt a lot of people as a young rising star with his drug abuse and womanizing. Then with the help of his second wife, June Carter, he turned his life around. And, he was certainly well aware of what he had done and all that he lost.
Honey cash is a legend and the way he song this song shows no matter who you are we all feel the pain of loss and we are the same at the end of the day, Jonny was humble and when his daughter heard him sing this she knew he was saying good bye
In the video, you see Johnny's wife, and love of his life, June Carter Cash sitting on the stairs watching him record. She had just arrived home from a Dr appnt confirming her cancer and that she only had a short time to live. When June died. Johnny followed her very soon after.
Johnny recorded this video in Feb. 2003. His wife, June came down the stairs as she looked on her husband. Like Johnny, June was very ill and frail. Few months after this recording, June died in 2003. Then few more months in Sept. 2003, Johnny died.....
In Trent Reznor's original version the pain feels much more raw and new, but in Johnny Cash's cover, it's more like a deep, permanent wound that has lasted a lifetime. Both are very powerful.
Excellent reaction. Johnny says it all. "What good did it do to get my Empire, only to lose it all in the end. It's all dirt." When he closes the lid on the piano, it's as if he is closing the lid on his casket, forever, when Music had been his whole life.
Cash played this song as an omission of clarity about what his life was like and that he did regret his decisions in life. This wasn't Trent's vision of this song but Cash took this song to new level.
The pouring of the wine was to show that all the expensive spread of food in front of him (note there was caviar) meant nothing. That all his wealth and his "things" were nothing in the end. That he lost so many during the time he spent being "rich and famous" and in the end all that no longer matters. Johnny had severe alcohol addiction as well as drugs. He lost a lot for fame. He wasn't around for his family, but his wife June stayed by his side til she died. Then he lost her and sadly soon after, we lost him. An icon of Country Music who will never be forgotten. Great reaction to a song that makes me cry every time I hear it. 😎
I don't think it is..youre seeing it that way because he was very ill and and fairly elderly at the time of recording but it was actually written by a young man, Trent Reznor from Nine inch Nails. Record producer, Rick Rubin presented Cash with the song and I believe he rejected it initially.. It's down to Rick Rubin that this masterpiece happened at all
Found this on another video of this. Can't locate the original so here is my copy: ""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.""
In 100 years from. Now the world will still know the man in black..just like.world will remember freddie..and of course the king will never be forgotten Elvis..Johnny Cash is in that category
The tradition of pouring a drink onto the table or ground is very old, and exists in many cultures, even to modern times. The most recent version I can recall, from American gang culture, is expressed as 'pouring one out for my homies'.
Hey Miss Biss an excellent choice first reaction you can't get anymore famous & legendary ,beautifully written masterpiece. June Carter Cash passed away 4 mo.before her husband in03 and Johnny Cash 4 mo later.Go Biss Nation.🤑🎶🎁😁💰
as a person from Arkansas USA and you from Romania Europe I guess it makes me happy that you listen to a song from one of the greatest men of my country was from my state thank you for listening to this song
this is the most ever i witnessed how much you were touched by a song. nice hearing your thoughts. interesting cultural traditions of your people. bless you, Bisscute. go w/ God. shoutout from this old longhaired country boy in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. much peace and love to you and yours.
I'm a life long musician. And as a musician, sometimes the feeling doesn't necessarily follow the music. Life happens. You can get bitter, or fed up, or have some seriously chronic loneliness and depression. And I purposely closed myself off from feeling much from music because every song would remind me of a bad time in my life when I had nobody, and that nobody was there to help me out, talk to me, or even be close to me. But even with as closed off as I have been, I - a grown man nearly 50 - still tear up at times listening to this song. The thing about Johnny Cash, is he's always been sincere. It's as if he knew and was ready to pass on. So he, in his most sincere way possible, went out with the most hard-hitting song he could just to say, "See. I made you FEEL."
i love that for a young lady you have such a great taste in music! and always love your reactions. i have seen many of the bands you review and played in a band for most of your life. alot of people have the same reaction as you do!!!!!
Great reaction. This song was written by trent Reznor of nine inch nails. He said after Johnny cash covered it that it belongs to Johnny cash forever. He knew he was coming to the end of the road and this is basically his farewell.
Excellent reaction - very perceptive and honest. This, for me, is one of the most emotional videos/performances I have yet watched. From the first few bars, it just grabs you. Cash is magnetic, with a face you just know has seen the best and worst in life. The term legend is used too flippantly, at times, but not in the case of Johnny. The man was a legend in life, and is still a legend after his passing.
great reaction. thank you for watching this. he was a superstar had to struggle addiction long time, but was a religious man too. the song is also about regret.
I am super glad you, new generation are discovering all these legends, I am an ole fart that has played in many bands from the 70's thru the 80's and 90's from pop/county/metal/gothic/dark, death metal. I haven't played big shows for awhile, but I am glad you guys are opening your mind and finding the music we grew up with. I enjoy watching all you young people watching for the first time, I am not a huge fan of the newer music, and why to me I call it lazy music. There is only a handful of artists to me that work and thought into their music. Music is a story being told, and some newer singers don't have that talent. Be Safe !
Saying "Let's go finds out who Johnny Cash is" right before the video start was a really proper statement for a first time viewer of this particular music video.
This is a song that I struggle listening to without crying (I am now) and hits hard for personal reasons. It's a cover by Cash. The OG version is by Nine-Inch Nails and it's about heroin addiction and self harm (hence the lyrics that go "the needle tears a hole"). Johnny Cash took it and gave it his own meaning, more of a reflection of life. The OG band even said this is Johnny Cash's song now.
I don’t know how I missed this. This song is everything. There is so much emotion and knowledge and meaning attached to this song and video. He gives such an authentic perspective that touches everyone. 🖤
I get the vibe he is saying goodbye to heroin and the hurt that came a long with it. It controlled his life and he regrets the effect it had on the people he loved. Such a beautiful, everlasting memoir. RIP Johnny.
First time i saw this i was struck by the hypnotically painful quality of this song. And the absolutely surety that this was a man saying his last goodbye to familly friends and fans..😢 He didnt write the song and when he sings it he changes the subject of the song from the original Nine inch nails version. Cash's version is his ... Religion, drugs, alcohol violence and turmoil, failure and success. .. at the end of the day... Its a song of regrets about his behaviour and the way he treated his family and friend.
Obviously, his rendition of this is very poignant because of his age and failing health and that's why is is very painful to watch but he didn't writie the lyrics...people must remember that. They're not Johnny Cashs' words
This song was connective and graphic when it was released by NIN and it resonated with me as I navigated the music scene and drugs and loss. Not so many years later I'm starting to realize that I'm not that young man anymore and Johnny's version brings the sadness of time to bear. It is beautiful.
At least we live in a era where we have the technology to record these performances. Imagine how many legendary musicians and singers we'll never know about because their performances are lost to time. That's been going on for around a century now, so I hope people will still be listening to Johnny in a hundred years the way some of us are still listening to Louis Armstrong. Either way, if you don't get a little misty eyed at Johnny's cover of Hurt, you might not be human; it conveys emotions I think we can all relate to.
His wife is standing on the stair watching him. She died before the song was released. He died a few months after. He had drug and addiction issues through his life. I think the song is more about the hurt he caused others in his life and the regret he has for what he did.
Johnny Cash was one of the Granddads of Rock. He is the only (or at least was the first) artist to ever be inducted to 3 different Hall of Fames, Rock, Country, & Gospel. While a large portion of his music is labeled as Country, it is because some of it pre-dates Rock as a genre from how Billboard tracks it. You can hear in songs like "Folsom Prison Blues" the early days of Rock. This video was shot in Feb of 2003. The picture of the lady was his Mother in Law. The woman on the stairs was his wife, June Carter-Cash, who passed away May 2003, a week after this video was released. Johnny passed away Sept 2003. This was his final music video. The video for "God's Gonna Cut you Down" was produced after his death & stars people who were all at his funeral.
Trent Reznor and Johnny Cash actually have a great deal in common. Cash, like Reznor suffered from serious addiction problems through most of his early life. I like to just picture Cash sitting there rocking out to NIN albums (Halos) and being like "This song.. I have to cover this song!"
You can no longer find out who Johnny Cash is but who he was and this is one of his last works when he was already seriously ill. This is also a very emotional video.
The only people that will be remembered a hundred years from now are of those who are in classic popular movies that are shown every year, or the singers from Christmas songs that we listen to at Christmas time every year, and so, life goes on for us in the present. Love to us All.
I read an article years ago that said he listened to his cover of the song with his daughter and when the song was finished she said to him, it sounds like you're saying goodbye and he replied I am.
Closing the piano lid reminds me of closing a coffin. 😢 Yes a very emotional video and song. I've been a Cash fan since I was 10. "Walk the Line is a great autobiographical film about him. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon are fantastic in it. Home Free (A capela group) did a great cover of their biggest hit "Ring of Fire".
As an amature anthropologist, someone who studies human culture, you blew my mind knowing that a ritual Romanian custom is pouring out liquor for the dead. Same as Asian, African, European and most others.
I never heard about legendary Johnny Cash , until i heard this emotional and truly sad song. 💔 Since then he's my favorite country singer of all time , very quick opinion about this song , during final days of Johnny Cash , he wrote this song about his entire life , everything we can found in this great song , fame , family , love , short downfall during the career as the musician. The most sad part while making this song is that Johny wife passed away in a same year and year later he joins her in heavenly kingdom , that's why the lyrics like - everyone that i know goes away , anyway , it breaks my heart all the time , it reminds me all my loved loved ones , which are already gone , leaving me behind with the memories we created together 💔💔 Thank your dear Bisscute for this emotional reaction , truly love your amazing youtube chanel and all creative reactions that you make all time. ❤ Kepp it up ❤
"Walk the line" is an amazing movie about his life. It is very much worth watching. Thank you for this beautiful heartfelt reaction to the man in black.
Johnny Cash is a legend. He’s the only artist inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, AND the Country Music Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters hall of fame. You should watch the movie “Man in Black”. It’s a movie about Johnny Cash’s younger life.
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails wrote this song about how he felt because his mother left him alone with his grandmother and aunts, who raised and educated him. He appreciates them a lot, they already died over the years, that affected him a lot at the end of the 90's. Johnny Cash was one of the most important country singers in the history of music, as much as Hank Williams. Cash had a super crazy life, he was very controversial, because he went from being a "sinner" to being a "preacher" since he was part of a very Catholic and Religious American community and society, then he was in jail several times, and finally he left religion and went on with his life and music. He was married to another very important female Country singer, June Carter. She appeared on the video. The older woman pictured on the wall was his mother. There is a movie called Walk The Line (2005), played by Joaquín Phoenix where many of the legends and myths about these two characters are seen, and how they helped Country to be recognized worldwide.
A comment for the commenters. While you are all right about Johnny singing it from regret and loss, the music industry is the music industry no matter the genre. Johnny Cash and most other country artists from his era had massive addiction problems, drugs and alcohol, Johnny was hooked on both.
Thank you for watching the video, It means a lot to me .
I will leave this pinned message here to REMIND everyone that i do not have TELEGRAM and there is no GIVEAWAY. Those you see are bot scams . Keep yourself safe and know that I would not ask for your info. ❤ ❤
You know the backside to the whole thing, right. I have a problem with folks not Knowing. Even Johnny Cash.
He never opened that piano again. When his daughter heard this she said “dad, it sounds like you’re saying goodbye” and he said “I am.” Trent Reznor, the original artist, wrote and sang this as a young man dealing with addiction and depression. Johnny sang it as a man who knew he was dying regretting all the things he lost and took for granted because he was so obsessed with fame. When Trent heard this he said he wrote it but it was Johnny’s now.
I repeatedly see people saying his daughter said that, but I can never get anyone to respond where I can find that.
I've watched an interview where she told the story about them showing her that video, and her crying, but she didn't say that.. In that interview at least.
One thing i will always appreciate and be grateful for is knowing that this great man and musician is my cousin, I will never stop bragging about it and never stop listening to his music for as long as I live
The sad thing his wife died 3 months after this song and he died 4 months after.
@@JulioHernandez-chico chasing the dragon, in this case the dragon being June
Fuuuuck. I love and hate it.
Thank you for your thoughtful and respectful reaction. RIP Johnny Cash.
Thank you too ❤
Johnny Cash will never be forgotten, his music and his legacy will live forever.
This version is about regret, whereas NIN’s version is about self-loathing. This video is a masterpiece on top of the amazing message and lyrics. Great, empathetic reactions Bis.
Nine inch nails don't own the song anymore they gave it to Johnny Cash
@@Firefly712 Trent Reznor still owns the composition as he wrote it and Johnny Cash's record label owns the sound recording.
Simply, this is the BEST cover of ALL TIME & the BEST music video of ALL TIME. Nothing else needs to be said.....
Johnny Cash is a legend and one of my favorite artist. Even though his demons got the best of him at times he was a very religious soul that left his first record label because they wouldn't let him make a gospel album. He had such a powerful voice and was an excellent storyteller and had songs that were serious like Hurt but also light hearted like A Boy Named Sue and One Piece At A time.Walk the Line was a very good movie on the life of Cash. Great job on the video.
Thank you for paying respect to the legend John R. Cash. God bless you.
Johnny Cash was one of the all-time great country singers and the original Man in Black.
The reason this song is so impactful is because the man is channeling the sum total of every decision he's made over his lifetime for better or worse and the consequences of those decisions.
This man is singing with all his regrets exposed and the grief of his recently deceased wife.
To quote an old movie (his power is pain)
@@johnvanidestine4990 True. But I dont understand how he could show the grief of his passed wife, when she is standing watching him in the video and she died a few months after the video was made.
@@tobimobiv1 they both knew it was coming
The older I get the more Johnny's version resonates. It helps me prioritize what really matters.
It is amazing❤️
Hes reflecting back on his life and the mistakes he made.....the lady in the picture is his mother and the lady with him in the video is his wife.
He will never be forgotten
Nobody could tell a story like he could. Absolute legend
Such a beautifully amazing broken man since i was kid i always wanted to be him only to realize he would've wanted me and everyone of his fans to be everything he didnt get the chance to in his life such a beautiful man I'll forever love his music
Johnny Cash was a master of making you feel a song whether it was sorrow or happiness.
He hurt a lot of people as a young rising star with his drug abuse and womanizing. Then with the help of his second wife, June Carter, he turned his life around. And, he was certainly well aware of what he had done and all that he lost.
Beautiful song from Mr Cash
So sweet...
Johnny Cash is a country LEGEND! Hes in the top ranks. This was monumental!!!
Honey cash is a legend and the way he song this song shows no matter who you are we all feel the pain of loss and we are the same at the end of the day, Jonny was humble and when his daughter heard him sing this she knew he was saying good bye
In the video, you see Johnny's wife, and love of his life, June Carter Cash sitting on the stairs watching him record. She had just arrived home from a Dr appnt confirming her cancer and that she only had a short time to live.
When June died. Johnny followed her very soon after.
Tears flow from those that are in touch with their soul....Johnny was in touch with our soul, always.
Johnny recorded this video in Feb. 2003. His wife, June came down the stairs as she looked on her husband. Like Johnny, June was very ill and frail. Few months after this recording, June died in 2003. Then few more months in Sept. 2003, Johnny died.....
In Trent Reznor's original version the pain feels much more raw and new, but in Johnny Cash's cover, it's more like a deep, permanent wound that has lasted a lifetime. Both are very powerful.
I’ll have to check Trent Reznor one❤️
Excellent reaction. Johnny says it all. "What good did it do to get my Empire, only to lose it all in the end. It's all dirt."
When he closes the lid on the piano, it's as if he is closing the lid on his casket, forever, when Music had been his whole life.
Thank you, glad you liked it ❤
It's the darkest farewell message i've ever heard
Cash played this song as an omission of clarity about what his life was like and that he did regret his decisions in life. This wasn't Trent's vision of this song but Cash took this song to new level.
The pouring of the wine was to show that all the expensive spread of food in front of him (note there was caviar) meant nothing. That all his wealth and his "things" were nothing in the end. That he lost so many during the time he spent being "rich and famous" and in the end all that no longer matters. Johnny had severe alcohol addiction as well as drugs. He lost a lot for fame. He wasn't around for his family, but his wife June stayed by his side til she died. Then he lost her and sadly soon after, we lost him. An icon of Country Music who will never be forgotten. Great reaction to a song that makes me cry every time I hear it. 😎
It's a sad story of regret and leaving it to late to put right 😞 we all have regrets through life but some things can't be put right and it's haunting
I don't think it is..youre seeing it that way because he was very ill and and fairly elderly at the time of recording but it was actually written by a young man, Trent Reznor from Nine inch Nails. Record producer, Rick Rubin presented Cash with the song and I believe he rejected it initially.. It's down to Rick Rubin that this masterpiece happened at all
Found this on another video of this. Can't locate the original so here is my copy:
""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.""
"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory" (Dr Seuss)
In 100 years from. Now the world will still know the man in black..just like.world will remember freddie..and of course the king will never be forgotten Elvis..Johnny Cash is in that category
The tradition of pouring a drink onto the table or ground is very old, and exists in many cultures, even to modern times.
The most recent version I can recall, from American gang culture, is expressed as 'pouring one out for my homies'.
Hey Miss Biss an excellent choice first reaction you can't get anymore famous & legendary ,beautifully written masterpiece. June Carter Cash passed away 4 mo.before her husband in03 and Johnny Cash 4 mo later.Go Biss Nation.🤑🎶🎁😁💰
as a person from Arkansas USA and you from Romania Europe I guess it makes me happy that you listen to a song from one of the greatest men of my country was from my state thank you for listening to this song
this is the most ever i witnessed how much you were touched by a song. nice hearing your thoughts. interesting cultural traditions of your people. bless you, Bisscute. go w/ God. shoutout from this old longhaired country boy in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. much peace and love to you and yours.
This song makes me cry every time I hear it or see the video.
I'm a life long musician. And as a musician, sometimes the feeling doesn't necessarily follow the music. Life happens. You can get bitter, or fed up, or have some seriously chronic loneliness and depression. And I purposely closed myself off from feeling much from music because every song would remind me of a bad time in my life when I had nobody, and that nobody was there to help me out, talk to me, or even be close to me. But even with as closed off as I have been, I - a grown man nearly 50 - still tear up at times listening to this song. The thing about Johnny Cash, is he's always been sincere. It's as if he knew and was ready to pass on. So he, in his most sincere way possible, went out with the most hard-hitting song he could just to say, "See. I made you FEEL."
i love that for a young lady you have such a great taste in music! and always love your reactions. i have seen many of the bands you review and played in a band for most of your life. alot of people have the same reaction as you do!!!!!
Congratulations to 10k subscribers 😍
This song is the testimony of Mr Cash... His way to make peace with the ones he loves and himself.
Great reaction. This song was written by trent Reznor of nine inch nails. He said after Johnny cash covered it that it belongs to Johnny cash forever. He knew he was coming to the end of the road and this is basically his farewell.
It wasn't the closing of a chapter, it was the closing of his book.
Excellent reaction - very perceptive and honest. This, for me, is one of the most emotional videos/performances I have yet watched. From the first few bars, it just grabs you. Cash is magnetic, with a face you just know has seen the best and worst in life. The term legend is used too flippantly, at times, but not in the case of Johnny. The man was a legend in life, and is still a legend after his passing.
Trent Reznor's original version (Nine Inch Nail) is about addiction. Johnny Cash's cover is about regret.
why is it? If Johnny Cash is singing Trent Reznor's lyrics, how do you reach that conclusion??
@@laurasinfield2431 the interpretation may change, but both ultimately are about regret
great reaction. thank you for watching this. he was a superstar had to struggle addiction long time, but was a religious man too. the song is also about regret.
You are not old enough to truly understand this song or video. You will one day and the tears will flow.
I highly recommend deep diving into his catalog. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
I am super glad you, new generation are discovering all these legends, I am an ole fart that has played in many bands from the 70's thru the 80's and 90's from pop/county/metal/gothic/dark, death metal. I haven't played big shows for awhile, but I am glad you guys are opening your mind and finding the music we grew up with. I enjoy watching all you young people watching for the first time, I am not a huge fan of the newer music, and why to me I call it lazy music. There is only a handful of artists to me that work and thought into their music. Music is a story being told, and some newer singers don't have that talent. Be Safe !
😍😍 love your point of view to this song and i agree with all you say. keep up the good work
Saying "Let's go finds out who Johnny Cash is" right before the video start was a really proper statement for a first time viewer of this particular music video.
He is speaking to your soul music that you can feel is what I call art
This is a song that I struggle listening to without crying (I am now) and hits hard for personal reasons. It's a cover by Cash. The OG version is by Nine-Inch Nails and it's about heroin addiction and self harm (hence the lyrics that go "the needle tears a hole"). Johnny Cash took it and gave it his own meaning, more of a reflection of life. The OG band even said this is Johnny Cash's song now.
It is ultimately a love song. Its heart wrenching.
Many Thanks for your sweet high sensibility, Bisscute! ...
I don’t know how I missed this. This song is everything. There is so much emotion and knowledge and meaning attached to this song and video. He gives such an authentic perspective that touches everyone. 🖤
I get the vibe he is saying goodbye to heroin and the hurt that came a long with it. It controlled his life and he regrets the effect it had on the people he loved. Such a beautiful, everlasting memoir. RIP Johnny.
This song helps me to cry and flow out the pain I have inside. 🙏🏻
When he closed the piano he was closing his life. 😥😥
First time i saw this i was struck by the hypnotically painful quality of this song.
And the absolutely surety that this was a man saying his last goodbye to familly friends and fans..😢
He didnt write the song and when he sings it he changes the subject of the song from the original Nine inch nails version.
Cash's version is his ... Religion, drugs, alcohol violence and turmoil, failure and success. .. at the end of the day... Its a song of regrets about his behaviour and the way he treated his family and friend.
Obviously, his rendition of this is very poignant because of his age and failing health and that's why is is very painful to watch but he didn't writie the lyrics...people must remember that. They're not Johnny Cashs' words
This song was connective and graphic when it was released by NIN and it resonated with me as I navigated the music scene and drugs and loss. Not so many years later I'm starting to realize that I'm not that young man anymore and Johnny's version brings the sadness of time to bear. It is beautiful.
I am glad you watched this one. It is such an emotional tribute to his life and career. Thank you
my gosh .. what a sweetheart you are
At least we live in a era where we have the technology to record these performances. Imagine how many legendary musicians and singers we'll never know about because their performances are lost to time. That's been going on for around a century now, so I hope people will still be listening to Johnny in a hundred years the way some of us are still listening to Louis Armstrong. Either way, if you don't get a little misty eyed at Johnny's cover of Hurt, you might not be human; it conveys emotions I think we can all relate to.
His wife is standing on the stair watching him. She died before the song was released. He died a few months after.
He had drug and addiction issues through his life.
I think the song is more about the hurt he caused others in his life and the regret he has for what he did.
That had nothing to do with it he died because he lost June and let himself go let all his illnesses take over
@@Firefly712 ?
Johnny Cash was a Legend still is rip 🙏🖤love his music
A Swan Song...
Translation...
A song saying goodbye at life's end...
Johnny Cash was one of the Granddads of Rock. He is the only (or at least was the first) artist to ever be inducted to 3 different Hall of Fames, Rock, Country, & Gospel. While a large portion of his music is labeled as Country, it is because some of it pre-dates Rock as a genre from how Billboard tracks it. You can hear in songs like "Folsom Prison Blues" the early days of Rock.
This video was shot in Feb of 2003. The picture of the lady was his Mother in Law. The woman on the stairs was his wife, June Carter-Cash, who passed away May 2003, a week after this video was released. Johnny passed away Sept 2003. This was his final music video. The video for "God's Gonna Cut you Down" was produced after his death & stars people who were all at his funeral.
Trent Reznor and Johnny Cash actually have a great deal in common. Cash, like Reznor suffered from serious addiction problems through most of his early life. I like to just picture Cash sitting there rocking out to NIN albums (Halos) and being like "This song.. I have to cover this song!"
I see, thanks ❤️
You are still close to the meaning here!! He is actually outliving everyone, including his wife!! 🎉🎉🎉
For me it is a rebel song.
Johnny is an artist, and he is playing the role of his life
You can no longer find out who Johnny Cash is
but who he was and this is one of his last works when he was already seriously ill.
This is also a very emotional video.
The only people that will be remembered a hundred years from now are of those who are in classic popular movies that are shown every year, or the singers from Christmas songs that we listen to at Christmas time every year, and so, life goes on for us in the present. Love to us All.
I read an article years ago that said he listened to his cover of the song with his daughter and when the song was finished she said to him, it sounds like you're saying goodbye and he replied I am.
This video with touch your heart. The last days Johnny and his wife his last video he ever made. Lets watch.
Closing the piano lid reminds me of closing a coffin. 😢
Yes a very emotional video and song. I've been a Cash fan since I was 10.
"Walk the Line is a great autobiographical film about him. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon are fantastic in it.
Home Free (A capela group) did a great cover of their biggest hit "Ring of Fire".
As an amature anthropologist, someone who studies human culture, you blew my mind knowing that a ritual Romanian custom is pouring out liquor for the dead. Same as Asian, African, European and most others.
He's telling his life story
I never heard about legendary Johnny Cash , until i heard this emotional and truly sad song. 💔 Since then he's my favorite country singer of all time , very quick opinion about this song , during final days of Johnny Cash , he wrote this song about his entire life , everything we can found in this great song , fame , family , love , short downfall during the career as the musician. The most sad part while making this song is that Johny wife passed away in a same year and year later he joins her in heavenly kingdom , that's why the lyrics like - everyone that i know goes away , anyway , it breaks my heart all the time , it reminds me all my loved loved ones , which are already gone , leaving me behind with the memories we created together 💔💔 Thank your dear Bisscute for this emotional reaction , truly love your amazing youtube chanel and all creative reactions that you make all time. ❤ Kepp it up ❤
I'm glad he found peace with Jesus in the end 🙏
Life is nothing but all we ever have. Love it like crazy
"Walk the line" is an amazing movie about his life. It is very much worth watching. Thank you for this beautiful heartfelt reaction to the man in black.
Can't help to be moved. He had a rough life and a great life and great wife.
Nine inch nails gave johnny cash all rights to the song because it fit him perfectly and he sung it better
You should listen to his "A Boy Named Sue". Another song with a deeper meaning, but told much more lightheartedly.
6:30- This song does that to everybody lady. Makes you feel regret and YOU didn't even do anything. That's how heavy the song is.
Another very powerful Country song you might want to react to is George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today".
Johnny Cash is a legend. He’s the only artist inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, AND the Country Music Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters hall of fame. You should watch the movie “Man in Black”. It’s a movie about Johnny Cash’s younger life.
Please don't stop during choruses and solos. That's the Golden Rule of reactions. 😉
always cry when i hear this song..
Love both versions of this song. And i appreciate your reaction and thoughts on the song.
You never should STOP Johnny Cash songs...
Great reaction... love your channel.. I had a chance to see his burned down house in Tennessee..
RIP Mr. Cash.
The MAN IN BLACK He's a legend!
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails wrote this song about how he felt because his mother left him alone with his grandmother and aunts, who raised and educated him. He appreciates them a lot, they already died over the years, that affected him a lot at the end of the 90's.
Johnny Cash was one of the most important country singers in the history of music, as much as Hank Williams.
Cash had a super crazy life, he was very controversial, because he went from being a "sinner" to being a "preacher" since he was part of a very Catholic and Religious American community and society, then he was in jail several times, and finally he left religion and went on with his life and music.
He was married to another very important female Country singer, June Carter. She appeared on the video. The older woman pictured on the wall was his mother.
There is a movie called Walk The Line (2005), played by Joaquín Phoenix where many of the legends and myths about these two characters are seen, and how they helped Country to be recognized worldwide.
That was his wife on the stairs!! She died and he died a few months later!! ❤
Memento Mori,
Biss, I believe you got what he was trying to convey with this video.
You should do the Nine Inch Nails version. Its a different vibe but very powerful. Trent poured his soul into writing this song.
I’m so happy that you have discovered Johnny Cash
A comment for the commenters. While you are all right about Johnny singing it from regret and loss, the music industry is the music industry no matter the genre. Johnny Cash and most other country artists from his era had massive addiction problems, drugs and alcohol, Johnny was hooked on both.
The last time he haven't played that piano😮