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  • @nubbypk
    @nubbypk 9 місяців тому +1823

    Trent Reznor wrote this as a young man knowing that his life was falling apart. Johnny sang it as an old man knowing that his life was coming to a close.

    • @jjkehrley
      @jjkehrley 9 місяців тому +84

      And Tent said the song note belongs to Johnny

    • @xaxscratchxax926
      @xaxscratchxax926 9 місяців тому +27

      Bro, proofread before posting.

    • @craigevans8912
      @craigevans8912 9 місяців тому +17

      perfectly described.

    • @JSmart523
      @JSmart523 9 місяців тому +29

      Writer Trent Reznor's experience with Johnny Cash covering this song.
      ua-cam.com/video/GlzjqPGdOSM/v-deo.htmlsi=YdMWVE15nsdFFob7
      Reznor wrote it as a capstone to a pretty dark concept album and the song meant a lot to him.

    • @jasonstewart3996
      @jasonstewart3996 9 місяців тому +12

      Wait I'm confused. Did the tent note the song or did the note tent the song. I don't know what's going on

  • @alexhans1615
    @alexhans1615 Місяць тому +93

    Trent said J did it best, and will never perform it again. That level of respect is unbelievable

  • @robklinky6474
    @robklinky6474 9 місяців тому +54

    Yes, the old lady in the red dress was his mother. The lady standing on the staircase watching him is his wife, June Carter Cash. This song was released in March of 2003. His wife passed away May of 2003 and he died September of 2003. So basically this was his farewell song.

  • @StMidium
    @StMidium 8 місяців тому +325

    No matter how many times I hear this cover. No matter how mentally prepared I think I am. It brings me to tears. Every. Time. Without fail.

    • @wibbledee
      @wibbledee 6 місяців тому +9

      If this comes on in the car, skip it. You will cry. There are only a few songs that do that.

    • @jro341
      @jro341 4 місяці тому +5

      I am with you.

    • @alanjohn6355
      @alanjohn6355 3 місяці тому +5

      I have to skip this song, way too emotional to listen to it, we all can link this to a person where know who has passed.

    • @go2hvn2008
      @go2hvn2008 2 місяці тому +6

      He had just lost his sweet June, four months after she passed, he passed away ❤

    • @franceskelley596
      @franceskelley596 2 місяці тому +7

      His last song he recorded, and he was saying goodbye.❤️

  • @shawnadams1460
    @shawnadams1460 9 місяців тому +887

    Johnny played this for his wife and daughter soon after finishing it. His daughter said "Dad, this sounds like your saying goodbye!" He responded "Well....I am." Both Johnny and his wife left this world less than 6 months after this video was finished.

    • @SleepySuperhero
      @SleepySuperhero 9 місяців тому +18

      It has big poet Dylan Thomas "Rage Against the Dying of the Light" vibes, but as the dying man, not the suffering family around him.

    • @Jude_196
      @Jude_196 9 місяців тому +19

      Just heartbreaking....and, this performance definitely comes-off exactly as she (and we) read it....

    • @TrianglesAndCircles
      @TrianglesAndCircles 9 місяців тому +25

      I cried when I heard this song and when I heard the news about the passing of a legend and his wife. Serendipity? Not in my opinion. Thank you.

    • @Dragon-gs2qy
      @Dragon-gs2qy 8 місяців тому +17

      I've come to a point recently where I've realized my parents have begun to prepare. I've tried not to think about it too much but yeah this is making it hit me hard right now.

    • @kouranko
      @kouranko 8 місяців тому

      ​@@Dragon-gs2qy❤

  • @sarahanderson8635
    @sarahanderson8635 9 місяців тому +625

    This was written by Trent Reznor from NIN and he was the one who said, this isn't my song anymore, after hearing this version. This was Johnny Cash's goodbye. Both him and his wife passed not too long after this video was made. Yes, that picture was his mother! One of my all-time favorite covers!

    • @melissatomlin13
      @melissatomlin13 9 місяців тому +17

      I am glad you told told the story. Johnny was a class act. This man stared down people who took him and his family hostage.

    • @Exocrime
      @Exocrime 9 місяців тому +33

      best reaction to this song was from Cashs daughter. she said: "this sounds like a goodbye" - and Cash answered: "because this is". he passed away less than 2 months later.
      edit: correction: “It sounds like you’re saying goodbye”, and he told her “I am”

    • @ArctophileGA
      @ArctophileGA 9 місяців тому +14

      It's genuinely one of the best covers ever done. Johnny turned it into something so completely new and special.

    • @DavidDArcy1975
      @DavidDArcy1975 9 місяців тому +6

      i'm sick to the back teeth of people claiming Trent said it wasn't his song anymore - he never said that AT ALL... he was misquoted by a music journalist. he didn't even like the version Johnny did for years. he does accept Johnny's version has taken on a life of it's own but it is STILL a NIN song - PERIOD - and as great a version as Johnny's is... it is nowhere close to as good as the original, especially live

    • @emerje0
      @emerje0 9 місяців тому +13

      @@DavidDArcy1975 So you're saying the quote, "Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine any more. Then it all made sense to me. It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form." isn't real? Where did Reznor or the interviewer Geoff Rickly state he was misquoted?

  • @DS94everXev
    @DS94everXev 10 днів тому +1

    "The Man In Black"
    The original performance done live in front of an audience.

  • @siwlasilva
    @siwlasilva 9 місяців тому +228

    He was saying goodbye. The soft way he closes the piano breaks my heart every time.

    • @robertreilly8982
      @robertreilly8982 8 місяців тому +10

      It was like closing a casket

    • @fewetube
      @fewetube 8 місяців тому +8

      The way he caresses the lid after it is closed is like a parent touching their sick but now sleeping child.

    • @mrsd1095
      @mrsd1095 2 місяці тому +2

      That was the last time he played piano. That's why he closed it that way. He knew he was saying goodbye to music and to us.

  • @SparkimusPrime
    @SparkimusPrime 9 місяців тому +389

    One of my favorite covers of all time. I tear up every single time he closes that piano 😞
    RIP Johnny and June 🖤

    • @McLeod2022
      @McLeod2022 9 місяців тому +3

      agreed. every time.

    • @hollydeitch1977
      @hollydeitch1977 9 місяців тому +6

      Just watched a documentary that said “He never opened that piano again…” 💔

    • @McLeod2022
      @McLeod2022 9 місяців тому +3

      @@hollydeitch1977 that closure was perfect

    • @nevyn_karres
      @nevyn_karres 8 місяців тому +1

      Yeah if your eyes do not get teary then there is something wrong with you.

    • @SparkimusPrime
      @SparkimusPrime 8 місяців тому +2

      @@hollydeitch1977Oh i would have been crying my eyes out when they said that. What is that documentary on?

  • @mcalo2000
    @mcalo2000 8 місяців тому +29

    Johnny doesn’t sing to the ear he sings to the soul.

  • @eirrenia
    @eirrenia 8 місяців тому +250

    This song to me is a classic example of how the meaning changes based on perspective. The original was very much talking about drug addiction and what it does to you and your relationships. Johnny Cash takes it and it transforms into a song about the inevitability of loss and death, and regrets for bad decisions.

    • @caroleboren1963
      @caroleboren1963 6 місяців тому +12

      Part of his bad decisions was drug addiction also.

    • @eirrenia
      @eirrenia 6 місяців тому +7

      @@caroleboren1963 True. But the focus of the song is shifted, the drugs are only a part of the full picture in the Cash version.

    • @donnakurtz9293
      @donnakurtz9293 6 місяців тому +8

      that I am sure is an implied part of his life story BUT at the time of this recording he had a terminal cancer diagnosis and I think since this is pretty much a farewell song... there were a lot of needles and the like in his immediate experience.

  • @feliciachaste
    @feliciachaste 9 місяців тому +206

    This is Johnny’s masterpiece. The song is both a testament to Trent Rezner’s ability as a composer, and Cash’s artistry. This was his goodbye and he hit it out of the park.

    • @JBiss83
      @JBiss83 7 місяців тому

      This is a Nine Inch Nails song

    • @feliciachaste
      @feliciachaste 7 місяців тому +7

      @@JBiss83 yes that’s why i said it’s a testament to Trent’s talent

    • @jro341
      @jro341 4 місяці тому

      @@JBiss83 No shit sherlock.

  • @bebic7903
    @bebic7903 9 місяців тому +134

    It's not that Johnny was old. He was only 71 when he passed away...which is Not old. He was diagnosed a few years earlier with Shy-Drager syndrome which is a neurodegenerative disease and a form of multiple system atrophy. Because of many multiple health issues brought on by the disease, including damaged lungs caused by pneumonia, and developing diabetes, he aged considerably. Thereby, giving the impression that he looked to be much older than he actually was. It's sad that he had to live his later years this way. Especially with June passing before him, which broke his heart. RIP, Johnny & June. 🙏 Appreciated your reaction.

    • @johnsambo9379
      @johnsambo9379 2 місяці тому +2

      His heavy drug usage caused all that.

    • @laurathornton1456
      @laurathornton1456 2 місяці тому +5

      You also have to remember what a huge amount of liviing he piled into those 71 years.

    • @BeckyTodd-xy7cd
      @BeckyTodd-xy7cd 2 місяці тому +5

      The lady in the picture is his mother....June, his wife is on the steps....he passed away 3 months after his wife....he was almost blind, if not blind, in this video....I knew him, he was an incredible man

    • @nancywyatt821
      @nancywyatt821 2 місяці тому +4

      He never had his Father's approval, he grew up without a name. It just said J R Cash on his birth certificate. When he joined the Air Force, they told him J R would not do, so he picked Johnny.

  • @boywonderrr71
    @boywonderrr71 10 днів тому +1

    Trent Reznor of NIN wrote it about his heroin addiction, the needle pierce the arm. Everyone leaves is about his buddies ODing.
    Rick Reuben sent this to Johnny and it means so much coming from Johnny as he looks at his life near the end and paints grief, loss of John's wife earlier and a faded rock star.

  • @CHEBACHEBA-rg3ts
    @CHEBACHEBA-rg3ts 8 днів тому +1

    Heart was actually written about him losing his wife the only thing he had left in life

  • @Natasha-ty7oo
    @Natasha-ty7oo 9 місяців тому +326

    I still get goosebumps every time I hear this one. This is originally a Nine Inch Nails song. Trent Reznor(lead singer of NIN) said that is is no longer his song, it's Johnny's now. The song is about self harm and drug use. The empire of dirt is the regrets of life, valuing the wrong things. It is worth checking out the original, It is heavy industrial rock, then you can see how Johnny made it his.

    • @happynancybear8709
      @happynancybear8709 9 місяців тому +5

      Absolutely

    • @lauracarter1618
      @lauracarter1618 8 місяців тому +14

      when trent sings it, it's a scream of rage. when johnny sings it, it's gentle grief. both versions are valid and beautiful.

    • @windyfranks8428
      @windyfranks8428 8 місяців тому +3

      @@lauracarter1618I completely agree. I wish there would have been time for the two of them to turn it into a duet. That would have been the ultimate song.

    • @canadachill5964
      @canadachill5964 2 місяці тому +2

      @@windyfranks8428Interesting thought… but I think I like it better that each version is unique and in a universe of its own. It’s a rare thing where the same song has been split o to two separate and original powerhouses with different meaning and emotions from the same harmony and lyrics. I’m a grown man and I still tear up when I see the Hurt (Cash ver.) video. It’s probably one of the best music videos ever made.

  • @impudentdomain
    @impudentdomain 8 місяців тому +153

    To old guys like me who grew up with Johnny and who knew his melancholy life story this really hit like a ton of bricks. I have seen it maybe a hundred times and it still makes me tear up.

  • @tazabe
    @tazabe 7 місяців тому +7

    Disappointment, regret, pride, arrogance, pain, life, joy, love, happiness. This song covers much of the human experience.

  • @bodihs
    @bodihs 8 місяців тому +10

    The way he closes the piano at the end, like he's closing a casket, haunts me every time I see this.

  • @dmgallibond469
    @dmgallibond469 Місяць тому +6

    Pegasus, I know this video appeared a while back so you may have all these answers already. "Hurt" was originally written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, and it reflected a young artist whose life was spiraling out of control due to the stresses of drugs, fame, anxiety, and all the pressures that go with all of that. As Johnny Cash got toward the end of his life (he was diagnosed with a degenerative disease a few years before he passed) he wanted to do an album of covers, and he worked with none other than legendary hip hop producer Rick Ruben (yes, that Rick Ruben of Def Jam records). Together they selected songs that had been originally recorded by artists from a lot of genres that they both thought might fit Johnny's sparse, authentic style.
    In this particular case, Cash approached the same lyrics of the same song not from the perspective of a young man whose life was falling apart but from a man who knows he is dying looking back on his life. It's incredible how those lyrics that were penned by someone so young could fit so perfectly with an icon who is looking at his final sunset. This also goes to prove that people who know good music cross all genres, all styles, all generations, all ethnicities, and all cultures. I love the idea of producers and artists from different genres collaborating together and finding magic by mixing the best of what they know to create something new and different.
    Fantastic reaction--condolences on the loss of your mom--I lost my mother in 1998 and my father in 2014 so I feel you, bro! Keep up the great reactions.

  • @garrymoore2161
    @garrymoore2161 8 місяців тому +65

    Trent Reznor, a young man, lead singer and songwriter for the hard rock band Nine Inch Nails wrote this song depicting the downward spiral of a hard drug addict.
    Johnny Cash heard the lyrics behind the rock sounds and thought of something entirely different. He thought of a former huge music icon with a myriad number of awards now old and looking back with deep regret at how he spent his life. His version of Hurt was born.
    Trent fact. Told that an aged country star had done a cover of his song was in sensed and raged. But when he saw the Johnny Cash video, he sat silent through it then had it replayed. His words were simple, "I wrote it, but it is Johnny Cash's song now."
    Johnny Cash facts.
    He recorded God's Gonna Cut You Down before this but didn't quite have the production deal in his head. It was released after he and his wife had passed.
    In his house, the living quarters were upstairs and he had a recording studio downstairs. The Gold piano you see at the end has been in his studio for years.
    Hearing the pain in his voice, June Carter Cash his wife since his youth came partway down the stairs. That looks of concern and live as she checks up on him speaks all you need to know about their relationship.
    You can hear how shaky his voice was and see his trembling hands. It was not edited out of the video.
    When he closes and lovingly caresses the piano, he was ending his life long affair with music. He never played a note again. He was diabetic and knew he was nearing life's end.
    The song was produced and released. Four months later, June went to Heaven to rejoin the Carter Family. Three months after she passed, seven months after the release of Hurt, Johnny followed her.

  • @ImFrantic
    @ImFrantic 8 місяців тому +5

    His daughter asked him "This sounds like you were saying goodbye"
    Johhny said "It's because I am"

  • @garysmith3037
    @garysmith3037 2 місяці тому +11

    This is a good example of how a visual medium can really take a song to a whole other level. You can see it in his eyes, mixed with the old videos and images, it just draws you further in.

  • @nickpayne4740
    @nickpayne4740 Місяць тому +2

    Rip Johnny Cash, a great cover just before he passed. Knew he was going..

  • @Rainbow-yh6ov
    @Rainbow-yh6ov Місяць тому +1

    That quiver in his voice, along with Trent’s music and lyrics, scream pain and regret

  • @paullavan3097
    @paullavan3097 7 місяців тому +8

    The piano lid Johnny closed; he never opened it again. Finality.

  • @Night_Parade
    @Night_Parade 9 місяців тому +147

    This song is haunting. Johnny made this song feel like his own. You can hear his soul. The original by Nine Inch Nails is good. This is tragically great and so personal.

    • @tobinmenard3714
      @tobinmenard3714 6 місяців тому

      Cash is the original Nine Inch Nails did their own version based on his.

    • @Night_Parade
      @Night_Parade 6 місяців тому +1

      @@tobinmenard3714 nope

    • @blacksheep_edge1412
      @blacksheep_edge1412 5 місяців тому +6

      @@tobinmenard3714 I'm sorry, but you are wrong on that. Trent Reznor wrote that song and recorded it with his band Nine Inch Nails in the 1990s. Cash recorded the song years later as part of his studio series American Recordings. It was on the 4th album in the series recorded in 2002 just before Cash died in 2003.

  • @MindFeather
    @MindFeather 4 дні тому

    big hugs to you, man. big hugs to you. i lost my mom last year, and 42 days later my dad. i year later, my best friend. big hugs to you, man. just big hugs to you.

  • @loujordan4859
    @loujordan4859 8 місяців тому +3

    Trent Reznor was asked what the thought about Johnny Cash singing his song and he replied, "It's his song now."

  • @karlsmith2570
    @karlsmith2570 8 місяців тому +7

    3:27
    Actually, Pegasus, the artist that originally wrote and recorded this was Trent Reznor as a Nine Inch Nails song
    After hearing Johnny's cover he'd said, "I Wrote This Song, But It Belongs To Johnny Now"

  • @wdking8833
    @wdking8833 2 місяці тому +6

    The writer of the song was addicted to drugs which he injected. Johnny was not but he was addicted to pills for many years until he got sober, so he understood just what Trent was feeling. He also spent time in prison in his youth. The clip in this video is from one of his appearances in a movie. The lady in the picture on the wall was his mom and the lady who came to watch was his wife for many decades, June Carter Cash, also a country singer. She passed away in June 2003 and I don't believe he ever recovered from that, he passed away himself in September of that same year. This was the last song he ever recorded, a goodbye to his fans. The closing of the piano at the end breaks my heart. It almost looks as if his hands are resting atop his own coffin. When his daughter heard it she said, "It sounds like you're saying goodbye". He answered, "I am". He passed away shortly after, finally reunited with June.

    • @kellibailey7871
      @kellibailey7871 2 місяці тому

      Johnny was NEVER in prison. He was arrested when he came back from Mexico for bringing back illegal pills in his guitar. Merle Haggard was in San Quentin when he heard Johnny preform. Johnny was in the military when he was a young man. The pic in the video is his mother and the lady in video is his second wife June Carter Cash.

    • @kellibailey7871
      @kellibailey7871 2 місяці тому

      Johnny was sick by the time he covered this Nine Inch Nails song. Their lead singer Trent Reznor wrote it

    • @kellibailey7871
      @kellibailey7871 2 місяці тому

      He was dead in 6 months

    • @kellibailey7871
      @kellibailey7871 2 місяці тому

      Rick Rubin produced this video and several other things Johnny did at this time

  • @annatorres9640
    @annatorres9640 10 днів тому

    This song is about the painful experience of grief the love of his life. His wife passed away May 2003 and he died September 2003

  • @CHEBACHEBA-rg3ts
    @CHEBACHEBA-rg3ts 8 днів тому +1

    You have to listen to everything whether you like it or not take in the full perspective of music.. it's not about you. It's the message inside... Grow my black American Brother!

  • @user-iv7ux8vy3b
    @user-iv7ux8vy3b 12 днів тому

    His daughter introduced him to this song and he immediately fell in love with it.

  • @rebelleparrish4937
    @rebelleparrish4937 9 місяців тому +7

    Today is a good day for the man in black. Every day is really. Glad you're digging into the myth and the legend

  • @JJLovesMusic87
    @JJLovesMusic87 9 місяців тому +45

    You nailed it! It was a goodbye song. From what i heard, his daughter asked him why this sounds like a goodbye song and johnny replied because it is. He died shortly after. He died 4 months after his wife died.

  • @kathryningalls7046
    @kathryningalls7046 Місяць тому +2

    This was the last song Johnny recorded before his death. He finished it just weeks before he died.

  • @andyboog2010
    @andyboog2010 7 днів тому

    He was saying goodbye to go be with his beautiful wife. Together forever.

  • @tobeski
    @tobeski 9 місяців тому +4

    The photo on the wall is of his mother - the woman is his wife June Carter Cash who died between filming the video and the song's release, shortly before Johnny himself died

  • @CHEBACHEBA-rg3ts
    @CHEBACHEBA-rg3ts 8 днів тому +1

    Yeah. He wrote it about loosing his wife and having nothing left to live for

  • @karlsmith2570
    @karlsmith2570 8 місяців тому +5

    6:55
    Actually, Pegasus, the photo on the wall was his mother-in-law, the woman you'll see standing on the stairs in a later scene looking down towards him was his wife, June Carter Cash

  • @kathybell9382
    @kathybell9382 16 днів тому

    I was a very young girl when i first heard Johnny Cash on the radio singing One Piece at a Time. It cracked me up. Next time i heard him i was at Grandmas and she put on a record. I knew the voice because he had a voice that pulled you in and made you listen, rolling along the notes. My boys took one listen and love Johnny Cash's music. How can you not?

  • @CHEBACHEBA-rg3ts
    @CHEBACHEBA-rg3ts 8 днів тому +1

    And he died right after. RIP John

  • @minxiv7
    @minxiv7 Місяць тому

    Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails frontman) wrote it. He originally turned Johnny Cash down when he asked to cover it, but finally said he’d listen to it. After listening to Johnny’s version, he let him perform it. Trent Reznor to this day doesn’t play it anymore and says that it’s Johnny’s song. That’s the highest level of respect, in my opinion, that one artist can give another. The video just highlighted the power of his performance.

  • @b_nes6093
    @b_nes6093 9 місяців тому +3

    "Simple yet Complex" 🔥💯💪✌️

  • @aliceharper707
    @aliceharper707 2 місяці тому +26

    You are so young. You are so young. Don't even have a clue about how it feels when time is slipping away when you are nearly at the end. I will be 70 this year and it life is slipping away from me. And I look back and see the things I've done in my life and I wish that I have done things differently. Cherish your youth. Cherish the chances you have now to make things better for your future. I think that's what Johnny is trying to tell people in this song

    • @zsedcftglkjh
      @zsedcftglkjh 2 місяці тому +3

      "Behold, I make all things new."

  • @nanalol4fun
    @nanalol4fun 27 днів тому

    I’m a country girl living in Kentucky and the Rebel flag has just been a representation of Southern Pride. We love to get together, eat drink and be merry. Lynyrd Skynyrd is a Southern Rock Band. So are The Allman Brothers, ZZ Top, The Outlaws, Marshall Tucker Charlie Daniels to name a few. I just discovered you tonight and I doubt you’ll ever read this comment but I have watched about 10 of your videos tonight and enjoyed them all! Looking forward to watching more. Love your values and your opinions. I appreciate your Dad’s service to our country. Keep sharing the truth!!❤🙏🏼

  • @wdking8833
    @wdking8833 2 місяці тому

    I am 67 now and have listened to Johnny my entire life.

  • @robertbard3165
    @robertbard3165 9 місяців тому +30

    I got to meet him about 30 years ago at a concert, He shook my hand and told me, Never let what you have become, Shadow who you are. God Bless !!!!

  • @davidpowell2356
    @davidpowell2356 9 місяців тому +5

    Johnny Cash A Boy Named Sue! A must.

  • @MutterallerDrachen2087
    @MutterallerDrachen2087 8 місяців тому +30

    Johnny Cash was a true generational voice. Didn’t matter what he sung you knew it was him. As Kris Kristofferson said, “When Johnny sung your song, it became his.” This was his last goodbye before he passed. Ready for it to return, with weight of what he sung

  • @anitaslack9193
    @anitaslack9193 8 місяців тому +2

    I consider this video to be the purest expression of regret I will ever witness. Johnny is an old, sick man at the end of a long, eventful life. He is looking back at everything he's done, everyone he's hurt, and he knows that he is out of time to make amends. He is out of time to create a better legacy to leave behind. And he has to come to terms with the fact that he will die knowing there are mistakes he never set right and wounds he is leaving unhealed. Trent Reznor's version is a young man looking forward at the downward spiral of his life and knowing that he has to pull up, he has to regain control and find a way to change. Johnny's version is a dying man looking back at his life and knowing that there's nothing he can do to change it now.
    It gets me every time. Seven decades of pain and sorrow packed into four minutes of music.

  • @TheBeelzboss
    @TheBeelzboss 9 місяців тому +114

    This song is really incredible especially when paired with the music video. It was written as a song talking about how you lose everything to drugs and Cash turned it into a song about his life, loss, and legacy.

    • @endguardianabuse6817
      @endguardianabuse6817 Місяць тому +1

      Yeah don't forget Johnny did lose everything to drugs once. And it was June that brought him back

  • @macshatchetman13
    @macshatchetman13 3 місяці тому +4

    You'll read so many interesting and touching things about the video and they're amazing. The tidbit that sticks with me is his wife, June, a legend in her own right, standing on the stairs looking at him with so much concern. That was real. She knew how much of a challenge the song and production were for him and she was genuinely worried for Johnny. The cameraman just happened to catch it. 😢

  • @laurathornton1456
    @laurathornton1456 2 місяці тому

    I loved to hear June Carter Cash call her "Jawwn". She adored him. She died and he lasted 4 months after. He cried for her every night.

  • @irishauntie3941
    @irishauntie3941 3 місяці тому

    Sorry BP that you lost your mum in 2010, that was tough. You make her proud. Rest in Peace beautiful lady. RIP.

  • @rebelleparrish4937
    @rebelleparrish4937 9 місяців тому +93

    Hearing you talk about your mom and the blankets....broke me. My mom died in a housefire that was so bad it took everything down to dust. I remember the smell of the ash and the chemicals while my sister and i rummaged through the wreckage teying to salvage something of hers. We didnt. Just our memories of the strong incredible woman she was and raised us to be. That was 4 years ago on march 17th. Happy st. Patricks day. Sarcasm choking down now

    • @rachelcarter5282
      @rachelcarter5282 9 місяців тому +9

      I’m sending you extra hugs today. She’s with you every single time you think of her 💕

    • @limner123
      @limner123 9 місяців тому +5

      That’s a great (and terrible) memory. I’m so glad you had your sister beside you. I don’t know what I would have done if i didn’t have my brother to support and be supported by during the loss of our mother. All the supportive thoughts and internet hugs dealing with your recent loss

    • @thebearmn
      @thebearmn 9 місяців тому +7

      Thoughts and prayers for you going forward every time you remember your mother. My mother's been gone almost 7 years and I still talk to her at least every other day. And I believe in my heart that she knows when I think of her, I hope they all do

    • @rockyroad64
      @rockyroad64 9 місяців тому +7

      I'm so sorry to hear your story. I am a survivor of an urban fire and the survivor's guilt is real. I wish I could help ease your pain. Blessings of peace to you and your family. Your strength is an inspiration.❤

    • @deliciousficticious3150
      @deliciousficticious3150 9 місяців тому +4

      Sending you some extra love today ❤️ x

  • @sorenm.lairdsorries7547
    @sorenm.lairdsorries7547 9 місяців тому +5

    Thank you @BlackPegasusRaps for another great reaction, even though there was no Ren in it :P A cover of a Nine Inch Nails classic, Johnny has appropriated this song, made it is own. The video reflects on Johnny's life, and is shot shortly before his wife June Carter, the even greater country star of her time, and Johnny both passed away.

  • @GuitarGirl
    @GuitarGirl 4 місяці тому +1

    After this cover Trent Resnor said it was officially Johnny’s song now. Two fucking legends. ❤

  • @audreythepoet
    @audreythepoet Місяць тому

    Johnny knew both sides of life. He got to everyone who chose to LISTEN to what he had to say.
    He was indeed, a legend.😊

  • @jwarrior852
    @jwarrior852 9 місяців тому +27

    That was his beautiful wife June looking on, and his mother in the portrait. She was a huge influence on johnny's love of hymns and music. This song just rips your soul, especially as we get older.
    Johnny was know as "The Man in Black", i recommend you react to his song of the same title in front of some college students. It's a live version. If you wanna know who the man was and what he was about in a summary, thats the song. The man always fought for what he saw as injustices. Fighting the labels all the way. True musical legend, true humanitarian. He was a living, breathing middle finger🤭

  • @xkrickett
    @xkrickett 8 місяців тому +3

    I think the woman wearing red in the portrait, is Johnny Cash's mother-in-law, Maybelle Carter. She was a member of the famous pioneers of country/folk music, The Carter Family. Maybelle created her own guitar picking style that included bass and melody at the same time.
    Cash was a drug addict way back in the 60s.. I heard a story that he supposedly wanted to die and walked into cave near a show he played. He said it was pitch black and he laid down and wanted to just die there. He claimed to hear God tell him to get up and leave the cave. After that he got treatment for his drug use and beat it for good.. People who knew him later in life said he was the kindest most giving person they had ever met. His biggest success came after that moment in his life. He recorded the the Live at Folsom Prison that same year, which has sold over 3 million albums, which doesn't count streaming.
    Cash spent months living in Colorado looking after Hank Williams Jr. after he fell off a cliff. He was in a full body cast when John and June showed up within days and never left him. Lenny Kravitz met him minutes after he found out his mother passed away. John and June comforted him and stayed in contact in the weeks that followed. Lenny said he had never experienced such love from someone he didn't even know. I'm sure there are dozens of stories like this that we will never hear about.

  • @user-kn5pd6my8t
    @user-kn5pd6my8t 6 місяців тому

    Mrs. June Carter-Cash, she saved him from himself. He loved her dearly.

  • @MathewBall
    @MathewBall 6 місяців тому

    Hurt was originally sung by Nine Inch Nails in 1995 and rereleased in 2002 by Johnny Cash.
    Cash's version is considered possibly the best-rereleased song ever by another artist and even better than the original version by Nine Inch Nails.
    Johnny Cash was suffering from autonomic neuropathy brought on by diabetes and by the time he recorded Hurt, his health was failing. Johnny Cash covered the song Hurt for his album, American IV: The Man Comes Around.
    Three months later, after Hurt was released June Carter Cash, the musician's wife of 35 years, died, after which Johnny Cash passed away on September 12, 2003,
    just under a year after the release of his album American IV: The Man Comes Around. Johnny Cash's wife, June Carter Cash is seen alongside him in the music video for Hurt.
    The Music video for Hurt was filmed at the House Of Cash which doubled as a Museum for his musical career and was closed to the public for years because of the lack of visitors.
    Johnny's old home/museum was falling apart it was in such a state of dereliction and filming there would be a candid way to show Johnny's life and health struggles late in his life and it was a great place to show Johnny's mental baggage on top of a deep and intense song.
    The video itself amplified the themes of the song's bleak outlook on life and the sad inevitability of death, themes of regret and joylessness of possessions as Johnny's house and museum of lifetime achievements crumbled and fell around him.
    It was the perfect heart-wrenching backdrop for an already intensely sad song the video included as many symbolic moments as possible.
    Showing off a lavish/Decadence feast with only Johnny around to eat it with many clips of Johnny's early career placed close together throughout the video for contrasting effect.
    He's cracked platinum records along with his pouring away red wine.
    Pouring one out refers to “the act of pouring a liquid (usually an alcoholic beverage) on the ground as a sign of reverence for friends or relatives that have passed away.
    It also can symbolize the Holy Spirit Wine traditionally is the central symbol for transformation.
    Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives. Wine is a mirror held up to nature.
    Closing a piano lid showing the end of his career/life tragically the song itself embodied an omen of what was to come when June is seen standing over Johnny
    and June's death 3 months after the music video was released would recontextualize the music video as it looks as if June is watching over Johnny from above in the video.
    Four years after the passing of Johnny Cash his dilapidated home the House Of Cash which doubled as a Museum in which he lived for 30 years burned to the ground which eerily Symbolises the music video for Hurt.

  • @lclemm
    @lclemm 9 місяців тому +47

    Walk the Line is worth a watch. It's the Biopic about him. Even if the music isn't right up your alley his life is a compelling story on its own.

    • @screwylooygaming
      @screwylooygaming 8 місяців тому

      I do love the parody of "Walk Hard: They Dewey Cox Story" but I'm more of a comedy fan.

    • @jacklynjohnson9359
      @jacklynjohnson9359 8 місяців тому

      My husband was raised in Dyess (Johnny Cash hometown) I grew up not far from there

  • @susanconstable2113
    @susanconstable2113 8 місяців тому +20

    This video makes me cry every time I see it. The legendary “man in black” I do t care what genre you like- every one likes Johnny.

  • @robbob5302
    @robbob5302 8 місяців тому +2

    According to legend, as a swan lays dying, it will sing a song. And it will be the most beautiful song you have ever heard in your life.
    Which is exactly what Johnny Cash did for us here.

  • @JasonGroom
    @JasonGroom Місяць тому

    Trent Reznor wrote it, they performed it often. After he heard Johnny Cash version he symbolically said it was now Johnny's song

  • @jonathanscherer8567
    @jonathanscherer8567 8 місяців тому +46

    This song hurts, every time you hear it. Years later. Seemingly more with each loss you experience. As you feel the pain begin to resonate more and more in your life.

  • @PBaka13
    @PBaka13 9 місяців тому +27

    In the 2000s Johnny Cash did a whole album of covers produced by Rick Rubin. This is one of the songs from that album. It was written by Trent Reznor and originally performed by Nine Inch Nails, his band.

  • @alexhans1615
    @alexhans1615 Місяць тому

    Trent Reznor is a genius. He’ll never allow anyone else to perform this song and Johnny fuckin Cash means everything. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for that awesome god fearing gentlemen…You just wanna sit by an old pond and hold his hand…be happily depressed. Trent Rez is a lyrical genius

  • @Melly01
    @Melly01 9 місяців тому +68

    I think this hits people differently at different ages in their life. It absolutely impacts young people, but not in the same manner it does someone older, who is closer to this place in life. Just as much impact, two different feelings. Watching the juxtaposition between young, health Johnny and old Johnny coming face-to-face with mortality does have a way of making you feel ... interesting.

  • @Kessogsasaina
    @Kessogsasaina 6 місяців тому +18

    You had the proper reaction to this song brother. Life ends, love those you care about while they are still here. God bless☦️

  • @varashamus7633
    @varashamus7633 Місяць тому

    'Broken thoughts you can't repair' to me is about lies you internalise. Stuff like 'you are worthless' and 'you will never be good enough' or 'they are better off without you'.

  • @terri8988
    @terri8988 13 днів тому

    I fill your pain my mom died 7months ago I miss her so much 😢

  • @maakshif
    @maakshif 9 місяців тому +40

    This was written and performed by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails first...when he first heard the cover he didn't like it because of the sentimental value it had to him for why he wrote it, but he eventually stated in an interview that this version was so good he considers this Johnny's song as much as it is his

    • @McLeod2022
      @McLeod2022 9 місяців тому +3

      a young man's life out of control vs a an old man facing the end.... I love both

    • @chrisperreten8065
      @chrisperreten8065 8 місяців тому +1

      💯 love this the song is about struggle with heroin both had a problem in their life with

  • @emerje0
    @emerje0 9 місяців тому +52

    This song was followed up by God's Gonna Cut You Down, the music video has a ton of cameos that you wouldn't believe. Country, rock, rap and hip hop stars, actors, models, it's really incredible all the people his music has touched. I've also mentioned before that the closest thing to rapping that Cash ever did was a song called "Get Rhythm", it's one of the fastest songs he performed.

  • @gaelicgirl1021
    @gaelicgirl1021 8 місяців тому

    Cash recorded this song at the end of his life. Cash was convinced by Rubin's belief in the song and agreed to try recording it at the producer's home in LA. The musician was suffering from autonomic neuropathy brought on by diabetes and by the time he recorded Hurt, his health was failing.

  • @frankoriordan4424
    @frankoriordan4424 2 місяці тому +1

    ​​I grew up with the Nine Inch Nails version, but even Trent Reznor said that this song belongs to Johnny now

  • @BalbazaktheGreat
    @BalbazaktheGreat 3 місяці тому +5

    "It speaks volumes." It does doesn't it? That one man can write a song that so perfectly describes another man's life, and that that song can so perfectly transmit that understanding to the listener. It speaks to the universality of the human experience. Excellent reaction.

  • @DrSkeff
    @DrSkeff 9 місяців тому +36

    Trent Reznor wrote this as a song of self-loathing whereas Johnny’s version is a song of regret.
    It is his last testament as you see from the closing of the piano lid and stroking it lovingly. Plus the cinematography, weaving past and present makes it even more poignant. Appreciate your honesty and the story of you mother my man. Please and love from the UK

  • @rhondawalker6773
    @rhondawalker6773 3 місяці тому +2

    Johnnys wife was June Carter Cash. She first performed with her family The Carter Family. Her mother wasMother Maybelke Carter. This family was very instrumental in helping Johnny get off drugs and get his life turned around. The Carter Fsmily sang songs from Appalachia, which may not be your cup of tea, but that music has some very rich history. Look them up.

  • @meltaylor2810
    @meltaylor2810 Місяць тому

    He's saying goodbye.. Makes me cry

  • @lesliezerkel9719
    @lesliezerkel9719 2 місяці тому +3

    Your analogy is so touching. You're great and your Mama is SO PROUD ❤

  • @D3ADPO3TRY
    @D3ADPO3TRY 9 місяців тому +35

    I used to always say that I don't listen to country, but that Johnny Cash is his own genre. I inherited my love of JC after Grandma died and I knew that he was her favorite artist. I was 17 then, 47 now. This is a cover by NineInchNails, and made him popular to a new generation.

    • @Shriike2001
      @Shriike2001 8 місяців тому +2

      Truth. I mean Johnny was his own thing and it was amazing. Still is.

  • @adamsowers8957
    @adamsowers8957 5 місяців тому

    This was written by Trent Reznor and originally performed by 9 Inch Nails. In an interview with Trent after Johnny released this he said in an interview "Hurt is now Johnny's song".

  • @ronaldsellers3717
    @ronaldsellers3717 4 місяці тому

    That's what his daughter said when she first heard the song, "It sounds like you're saying goodbye". Johnny said, "I am".

  • @RolvSkjrpe
    @RolvSkjrpe 9 місяців тому +5

    Next Cash song to react to could be God’s gonna cut you down

    • @RolvSkjrpe
      @RolvSkjrpe 9 місяців тому

      ua-cam.com/video/eJlN9jdQFSc/v-deo.html

  • @lawrencesmith6536
    @lawrencesmith6536 9 місяців тому +36

    Brilliantly produced by Rick Rubin. For Johnny to be teamed up with him for what turned out to be his swansong, is a gift to all music lovers

  • @direlyon
    @direlyon 2 місяці тому

    he covered the song at the dusk of his life....a real resume of his life

  • @Not-Aesop
    @Not-Aesop 8 місяців тому +1

    If you listen to all six records he created on American Recordings, it will CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

  • @jeanisephillips6885
    @jeanisephillips6885 8 місяців тому +10

    I'm a rock/metal lover. In my playlist, I actually have Johnny's version of this song not NIN. There is so much raw emotion in this song. Really punches you in your gut and makes you think about how your life is going.

  • @chelseahaley8350
    @chelseahaley8350 9 місяців тому +5

    You do you BP! We will always rock with the vibe!! And please do yourself a favor and listen to Trent Reznor's version, as he is the 1 who wrote it!

  • @Blarney77-ef2wp
    @Blarney77-ef2wp 8 місяців тому +2

    He WAS at the end of his life. He passed away not long after. Trent Reznor wrote this, but it was meant differently. Cash sang it in a way that it was for more powerful and meaningful.

  • @woolph58
    @woolph58 8 місяців тому

    I've seen people call this Cash's masterpiece because they don't know that a masterpiece is the piece of work good enough to show other masters you are worthy of joining their ranks.
    In my opinion, Johnny Cash's masterpiece was Folsom Prison Blues. "When I was just a baby my mama told me, "Son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns." But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry."
    This was Johnny's swan song. The woman standing on the stairs behind him was the love of his life, June Carter Cash. She died in May, 2003 and Johnny followed a few months later in September, 2003. Salud!

  • @jacks9624
    @jacks9624 9 місяців тому +20

    You got it right, brother, the message received loud and clear: go hug your family, show love to people you do love, time just flies by too fast...
    And you are right, this performance sounds like a goodbye, because it is. This was the last thing he ever recorded, and he passed away shortly after.
    People already said here that the song was written by Trent Reznor (9 inch nails), and what initially was a song of a young man fighting addiction, took a whole new meaning when Johnny sang it. Music has it's own ways which can not be fully understood by reason.
    Oh, that relentless piano note, just hammering so...
    Edit: suggestion for the next Johnny's song - I won't back down

  • @Jude_196
    @Jude_196 9 місяців тому +11

    Appreciate your reaction!! Johnny OWNED this song...but, so did Trent Reznor (who wrote it and originally performed it with Nine Inch Nails). The performances are so juxtaposed in meaning, in my mind, yet so similar in many ways. Aging is NOT for the weak: that is for sure. They both spoke to me in COMPLETELY different terms, each version...and, BOTH: SO IMPACTFUL. I still cannot make it through either performance without crying. It is amazing what music can make you feel: especially paired with the talented performers...not only for those who feel the EMPATHY of the performances, for those of us who have or are experiencing each meaning...but, also for those who may NEVER have experienced the conveyance of EITHER meaning; yet, as a human, one would hope that we would feel at LEAST the SYMPATHY of the two separate meanings - and they are both still so impactful - and both just tear at your soul: no matter what. HUGS, MAN!! Keep being the GOOD HUMAN THAT YOU ARE! ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @wickedtme
    @wickedtme Місяць тому

    This song was written by nine inch nails, and they were pissed at first that Johnny was going to sing it, then the lead singer heard the Johnny cash version, and he was so impressed, it changed him.

  • @BeckyTodd-xy7cd
    @BeckyTodd-xy7cd 21 день тому

    His wife June was the lady standing behind him. She passed away like 3 months later

  • @greeneyelove2003
    @greeneyelove2003 8 місяців тому +14

    The part that always gets me is at the end, when he closes the piano and runs his hands over it, there's such a sense of finality in that action. I've heard his daughter listened to this and said something about how it felt like he was saying goodbye and he said he was. His wife was the woman on the stairs. She passed no long after and I believe he passed three or four months later. It's a powerful song and his performance was amazing.
    There are so many songs by the legendary Mc. Cash.
    He has some songs that really showcase his sense of humor as well. "A Boy Named Sue" and "One Piece At A Time" are two I suggest.
    And one that will give you a showing of some truly amazing country artist and one of my all time favorite videos is "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Johnny Cash, Ricky Skaggs and a quite a few others.