Can't watch it more than once every six months. Not watching it now. too soon for me. But if this song and video doesn't affect you strongly, well, greetings from the human race.
@White Devil , both can be true. Trent wrote the song but Johnny Cash's version was so powerful because of the video that he really couldn't compete with it outside of his own audience. The Johnny Cash cover reached a larger audience than his original version because it was done by Johnny Cash, who has a larger fan base than Trent Reznor! I met Trent Reznor and he was a really nice guy so I have no reason to believe that he wouldn't say something about Cash owning the song even if he felt weird about it initially.
@@shawnj1966 my memory of his comments was that he didn't really get it when he first heard it, then they got the video and he watched it with friends and everyone was crying and he felt like it wasn't his song anymore.
I heard 2 stories about it back in 2002. One was that Reznor was honored that Johnny Cash wanted to cover his song and the other was that he was against it since it was his most personal song he'd written but changed his tune after hearing/seeing Johnny's version.
@M 40 It really does make such an impact. For me, those last moments, closing the piano lid with gnarled hands whilst June forlornly looks down at him from the staircase... damn, I might cry all over again. Very powerful imagery. Kudos to the video's director.
This cover is one of the best examples of an artist interpretation changing the meaning of the song. When Trent Reznor wrote it, it was written almost from the viewpoint of a suicidal heroin addict, reaching the low points of their depression. But with Cash it comes across as someone realising they are near the end of their life and looking back on their past with some regrets.
June his wife died a few minths after he made this, and he died a few months after thst! When his children hewrd this they said damn dad it sounds like youre saying goodbye, i am! The video is a MUST with this 1
Man, there are a very few songs where I care or not if you do the music video version, but this is one of them. It just adds so much to the song. Thanks for doing what you're doing, though!
Trent Reznor wrote this song about his Heroin addiction, how it more and more began to win over his life until pain was the only thing which connected him with reality. But when Johnny Cash covered it, Reznor said that it no longer was his song, Cash just owned it so deeply.
I’m sure you’ll hear it, but this is his cover of the original Nine Inch Nails song... It’s one of the best covers I’ve heard... he makes any song he covers his own... Johnny Cash was an icon
I'm not into country. Metal is in my veins like fire. This is one of the very rare circumstances where the remake is better than the original. Like, WAY better.
Should have watched the video. That's what made the song 100x better and more emotional. You don't have to say anything else after it, other than the word "wow". Will leave you speechless.
This is a cover but he recorded it shortly before he died. Checkout the official video. Very touching. His wife June Carter is in the video and she died a few months later and he died about seven months later.
The movie is POWERFUL! I'm not a country guy, either. Joaquin Phoenix WAS Johnny Cash in it though. He just owned it. I highly, highly recommend this and also check out the actual video version. It's even stronger. Oh, and Tasha, you should try some bigger headphones! I quit using earbuds altogether because I was losing hearing from them.
The word that I use for that quality that people like Johnny Cash & Gil Scott Heron have in their voices is "worldly" - as though they've lived a thousand lives and can impart a thousand worlds of experience to you.
In the video, you see Cash's wife, who passed away not long before he did, and there's a picture on the wall of his mother, who had also passed away....And you see his museum, that contained much of his "dirt," and see it destroyed in a devastating flood. He was at the end of his life, and made his perhaps greatest masterpiece, with his cover of this NIN (Trent Reznor) song. It always gets to me. It is so powerful and emotional. But these are a few of the reasons, with this song, that seeing the video is quite important. You can see also clips of him when he was younger.
Yea. You're going to get some flack from people for not watching the video. It's just so visceral and the director really poured his heart into it. Once you understand Cash's story, the song fits his narrative even more. Great reaction as always you two! Hope you're having a great Friday night!
Officer Tatum is trying to explain exactly your way of living and the voice of wisdom that comes with respecting one's elders to young women and men in black communities all over America. Grandpas rule.
As EVERYONE will say, you simply must watch the official music video to get the full impact of this performance. This was basically Johnny's farewell song. His wife June died a few weeks after this and he died a few months later. He was sharing his regret for all the mistakes he made chasing fame instead of treasuring friends and family.
when I was a kid in the 70s I didn't think much of Johnny Cash, I was into rock but my mother was a big fan of the man in black. As I have grown older I have learnt to have so much more repsect for this great artist and Country legend. My mother passed away before this song was recorded and I often wish she had been alive for me to show her the video which I am sure she would have loved As others here have suggested, check out the video. It has a wonderfully edited montage of his life and performances.
Interesting fact on Johnny Cash. He was a Morse code operator in the 1950s. Air Force. My father, then I later, both went into the Army as Morse code operators. It was right after WWII in the 50s for Dad and Johnny. We were out there at listening stations all over the world. They would give you a series of things to look for while you were copying Morse. If you saw it you had to call the National Security Agency representatives in. Won't go into details to this day, all classified to a point still and I don't know what remains classified. Anyway, Johnny Cash was the first American to know that Joseph Stalin, head of Soviet Russia was dead. He caught the message first. Through his career, people said his music was the sound of trains running on railroad tracks. I always thought, and later Dad said the same thing, it was the rhythm of Morse code.
This is crazy because I jus found your page the other day with the og dance moves lol. Couple days after a friend sends me the johnny cash HURT vid. Now this vid pops up in recommended. Sheesh.
Normally I'm all for lyric videos but this is one to watch the video. His wife is in it and I want to say it was one of the last times she was ever on video. Plus he looks very old in the video because he is but it makes it hit home even harder.
This song was released November 5, 2002. Six months later his wife June passed. 122 days later Mr. Cash passed. Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor): "I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning - different, but every bit as pure."
Oh, and cash only changed one word. ONE WORD! Original said crown of shit, Johnny changed it to thorns. Otherwise it's a note for note, word for word match.
I loved this when NIN released it, but the way Johnny sings it & the meaning behind the words combined with Johnny's frame of mind at the time just makes it even more beautiful, haunting, & iconic...🤘😎 Another great vid! How about doing a reaction to the NIN version? I'd love to see your thoights about it!
You have to check out the best vocalist from down under John Farnham singing the Beatles song "Help" live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. His vocals are crazy and he's an entertainer, the way he interacts with the crowd is awesome. John Farnham is an Aussie icon.
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You have to watch the video version...it's johnny cash as a dying man (and he was dying of cancer) when he sung it...the video flashes back to his younger days, and his wife, who sadly died before johnny...it a reflection on life really....friends no longer here...it's a very emotional video..give it a look
You should listen to it again with the official video. This is one track where the video means as much as the song. Don't mind admitting that it gets to me every time
If you watch the Johnny Cash movie and get to know what hes been through and then watch the video of this song it will break your heart. Its beautiful and tragic
Love you guys... BUT DAMMIT !! You need to revisit with the actual video version. All the times you said " DAMN " - with the video it's 10 folds. One of the most BASIC but best videos ever. Trust me 🙏🏼👍🏻👊🏼
You guys should watch the movie, Walk the Line if you’re really liking Johnny Cash so much!! Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon are AMAZING as Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash and they both do their own singing in it, which is spot on and sounds just like June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash - it will blow you away! You’ll learn more about Johnny Cash and some of his struggles to why he is the way he was and made the music he did!! I highly recommend!! Love watching your videos!!
If you like any of his songs or even good movies you have to watch “walk the line” starring Joaquin Phoenix, probably the best biopics ever, maybe even my favorite movie.
If you want a good country song for a reaction video, “The Captain’s Daughter”, written by Cash years ago, and performed by Alison Kraus and Union Station (they did the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack).
Country Music may have a certain stereotype attached to it that's unfair and doesn't give the music the credit it deserves but some Country Music will touch your soul. If you're gonna go down the Country rabbit hole may I suggest Merle Haggard, 'Misery and Gin' or 'Easy Come, Easy Go.
This performance makes me cry every time.
The video for this is heartbreaking.
Can't watch it more than once every six months. Not watching it now. too soon for me.
But if this song and video doesn't affect you strongly, well, greetings from the human race.
The video adds a whole other level of meaning to this song
Trent Reznor originally wrote the song.. But was so impressed by Johnny's version he said it was his now...
If I'm not mistaken, Trent only performs it in this style now. At least that's what I've head.
@White Devil , both can be true. Trent wrote the song but Johnny Cash's version was so powerful because of the video that he really couldn't compete with it outside of his own audience. The Johnny Cash cover reached a larger audience than his original version because it was done by Johnny Cash, who has a larger fan base than Trent Reznor! I met Trent Reznor and he was a really nice guy so I have no reason to believe that he wouldn't say something about Cash owning the song even if he felt weird about it initially.
@@shawnj1966 my memory of his comments was that he didn't really get it when he first heard it, then they got the video and he watched it with friends and everyone was crying and he felt like it wasn't his song anymore.
I heard 2 stories about it back in 2002. One was that Reznor was honored that Johnny Cash wanted to cover his song and the other was that he was against it since it was his most personal song he'd written but changed his tune after hearing/seeing Johnny's version.
Cash changed one of the lyrics to the song, instead of "crown of shit" by Tent, Johnny wrote " crown of thorns".
The video for this is _everything._ I'm surprised you ended up with this one. Still powerful, but...
Yeah I wish they would have reacted to the actual video, maybe they’ll watch it later hopefully.
@M 40 It really does make such an impact. For me, those last moments, closing the piano lid with gnarled hands whilst June forlornly looks down at him from the staircase... damn, I might cry all over again. Very powerful imagery. Kudos to the video's director.
100% the video makes this song so much more impactful. It really brings out emotions.
"The video for this is everything." Disagree, it's a very good video but this song stands up great on its own (as songs should).
@@AGDinCA you can really feel his pain and struggle especially knowing he passes a couple of months later.
This cover is one of the best examples of an artist interpretation changing the meaning of the song.
When Trent Reznor wrote it, it was written almost from the viewpoint of a suicidal heroin addict, reaching the low points of their depression.
But with Cash it comes across as someone realising they are near the end of their life and looking back on their past with some regrets.
This was his way of saying goodbye to everyone. It makes me cry everytime I hear it.
You think just listening to it was dark, watch the official video. As Jimmy Mac say's below it's heartbreaking. The video really is his swan song
June his wife died a few minths after he made this, and he died a few months after thst!
When his children hewrd this they said damn dad it sounds like youre saying goodbye, i am!
The video is a MUST with this 1
Man, there are a very few songs where I care or not if you do the music video version, but this is one of them. It just adds so much to the song. Thanks for doing what you're doing, though!
This was recorder by Johnny Cash during his last months before he died
He Knew that he was going to Die! This is his Goodbye to the World and to the Music! This is so Wonderfully done! RIP June and Johnny Cash
@John Smith had the Same Feelings there! It's like a Goodbye to an old friend!
The video is a must watch. Takes this to the a whole other level❤️
Never fails to make me tear up for Old Johnny. Tasha’s facial expression told me she gets it. Beautiful. Loved the Grandpa comment too.
Oh you need the video for this one.....amazing!!!
These songs are worthy of the fame they got it makes you not only remember those who passed but also the good times that are gone with them
Trent Reznor wrote this song about his Heroin addiction, how it more and more began to win over his life until pain was the only thing which connected him with reality.
But when Johnny Cash covered it, Reznor said that it no longer was his song, Cash just owned it so deeply.
I’m sure you’ll hear it, but this is his cover of the original Nine Inch Nails song... It’s one of the best covers I’ve heard... he makes any song he covers his own... Johnny Cash was an icon
I'm not into country. Metal is in my veins like fire. This is one of the very rare circumstances where the remake is better than the original. Like, WAY better.
@@insufferablethrashelitist9305 Johnny was a rock and roll star before they invented the term. Mad respect.
The official video of this song really hits the emotional side of it all
it was a very fitting song as Johnny Cash had a lifelong issue with Heroin and it destroyed parts of his life....and family. Beautiful version.
Drugs and alcohol.
Now watch the video. All the way to the end. The song is powerful, the video makes it almost a religious experience
Should have watched the video. That's what made the song 100x better and more emotional. You don't have to say anything else after it, other than the word "wow". Will leave you speechless.
RIP Johnny Cash
Cool to see Johnnys music touch and move ALL people. Powerful stuff!
Watch the video it’s a heart wrenching look at him from the beginning to the end.
This is a cover but he recorded it shortly before he died. Checkout the official video. Very touching. His wife June Carter is in the video and she died a few months later and he died about seven months later.
Bob, it is was June who died first.
The movie is POWERFUL!
I'm not a country guy, either. Joaquin Phoenix WAS Johnny Cash in it though. He just owned it. I highly, highly recommend this and also check out the actual video version. It's even stronger.
Oh, and Tasha, you should try some bigger headphones! I quit using earbuds altogether because I was losing hearing from them.
Never really recommend watching videos because their too distracting, but this one should definitely be watched.
The word that I use for that quality that people like Johnny Cash & Gil Scott Heron have in their voices is "worldly" - as though they've lived a thousand lives and can impart a thousand worlds of experience to you.
Stunning. Heartbreaking. Real. Defiant. Johnny Cash makes this song his own.
This is a great song. It’s originally by NIN. That version was really good but Cash’s version is something else
❤❤❤ your reaction to this! Can't wait to watch your follow up on the music video of this.
In the video, you see Cash's wife, who passed away not long before he did, and there's a picture on the wall of his mother, who had also passed away....And you see his museum, that contained much of his "dirt," and see it destroyed in a devastating flood. He was at the end of his life, and made his perhaps greatest masterpiece, with his cover of this NIN (Trent Reznor) song. It always gets to me. It is so powerful and emotional. But these are a few of the reasons, with this song, that seeing the video is quite important. You can see also clips of him when he was younger.
Yea. You're going to get some flack from people for not watching the video. It's just so visceral and the director really poured his heart into it. Once you understand Cash's story, the song fits his narrative even more.
Great reaction as always you two! Hope you're having a great Friday night!
Officer Tatum is trying to explain exactly your way of living and the voice of wisdom that comes with respecting one's elders to young women and men in black communities all over America. Grandpas rule.
As EVERYONE will say, you simply must watch the official music video to get the full impact of this performance. This was basically Johnny's farewell song. His wife June died a few weeks after this and he died a few months later. He was sharing his regret for all the mistakes he made chasing fame instead of treasuring friends and family.
Not having the video while listening to this is like watching cooking shows and not being able to eat
when I was a kid in the 70s I didn't think much of Johnny Cash, I was into rock but my mother was a big fan of the man in black. As I have grown older I have learnt to have so much more repsect for this great artist and Country legend. My mother passed away before this song was recorded and I often wish she had been alive for me to show her the video which I am sure she would have loved As others here have suggested, check out the video. It has a wonderfully edited montage of his life and performances.
You need to do a repeat reaction where you do the actual music video featuring Johnny Cash. It dials it from 10 to 10,000
Interesting fact on Johnny Cash. He was a Morse code operator in the 1950s. Air Force. My father, then I later, both went into the Army as Morse code operators. It was right after WWII in the 50s for Dad and Johnny. We were out there at listening stations all over the world. They would give you a series of things to look for while you were copying Morse. If you saw it you had to call the National Security Agency representatives in. Won't go into details to this day, all classified to a point still and I don't know what remains classified. Anyway, Johnny Cash was the first American to know that Joseph Stalin, head of Soviet Russia was dead. He caught the message first. Through his career, people said his music was the sound of trains running on railroad tracks. I always thought, and later Dad said the same thing, it was the rhythm of Morse code.
You REALLY need to watch the actual video. It's heartbreaking.
Definitely need to watch the video. Makes it that much more emotional.
Another amazing story telling legend is Marty Robbins❤️
This is crazy because I jus found your page the other day with the og dance moves lol. Couple days after a friend sends me the johnny cash HURT vid. Now this vid pops up in recommended. Sheesh.
Normally I'm all for lyric videos but this is one to watch the video. His wife is in it and I want to say it was one of the last times she was ever on video. Plus he looks very old in the video because he is but it makes it hit home even harder.
This song was released November 5, 2002. Six months later his wife June passed. 122 days later Mr. Cash passed.
Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor):
"I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning - different, but every bit as pure."
Yeah the feeling comes thru way more powerful in the actual video version.
Oh, and cash only changed one word. ONE WORD! Original said crown of shit, Johnny changed it to thorns. Otherwise it's a note for note, word for word match.
Definitely catch the movie! It’s great. It opened me up to listening to some Johnny cash music.
I hate to say it but you made a critical mistake....this song MUST be experienced with the video. It's beyond powerful.
The video is EVERY bit as powerful as the lyrics, actually even more so when you realize he's singing his actual life story.
It's SO Powerful it blows you out of the room
I loved this when NIN released it, but the way Johnny sings it & the meaning behind the words combined with Johnny's frame of mind at the time just makes it even more beautiful, haunting, & iconic...🤘😎
Another great vid!
How about doing a reaction to the NIN version? I'd love to see your thoights about it!
You have to check out the best vocalist from down under John Farnham singing the Beatles song "Help" live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. His vocals are crazy and he's an entertainer, the way he interacts with the crowd is awesome. John Farnham is an Aussie icon.
This was a NIN song and Cash covered it so well that Trent Reznor stated the song
You MUST watch the video. It makes so much more of an impact.
If your liking tjis path, you should try Boy Named Sue. Johnny Cash doing a little comedy
I believe it was the last song he recorded before he passed away. I know it's a cover but check out the music video. It makes it more unbelievable
Watch the video for this!!!!!! A really fun song of his is “ a boy named sue” or “Jackson “
Awwww you should have done the official video it’s powerful all on its own
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A great song. My reaction is pure raw emotion.
The man in black is soooooo metal... Always loved him.
You have to watch the video version...it's johnny cash as a dying man (and he was dying of cancer) when he sung it...the video flashes back to his younger days, and his wife, who sadly died before johnny...it a reflection on life really....friends no longer here...it's a very emotional video..give it a look
Can't listen to this or see the video without getting emotional. Especially during that buildup to the crescendo at the end.
You should listen to it again with the official video. This is one track where the video means as much as the song. Don't mind admitting that it gets to me every time
The voice inside of every addicts head drowned out by the other one wanting the next high.
I love Johnnys version, love the original too it’s something in concerts he likes to play it last. It’s a zippo waving time
Cool reaction. Whether as a reaction or just on your own the video is a must-see.
This is one of those rare times I'll say watching the music video is preferable to a lyric video.
You need to watch the video of this, VERY powerful and raw
If you watch the Johnny Cash movie and get to know what hes been through and then watch the video of this song it will break your heart. Its beautiful and tragic
The video will make you cry I watched 5 times and cried everytime
More Johnny Cash!!! "One Piece At A Time" is a hilarious song. "A Boy Named Sue" is probably his most well known song.
Love the reaction...from Ireland 🍀💚
You need to watch the video, it gives the whole story, and if you don't cry...you're a stronger person than I.
All the stuff Johnny Cash did with Rick Rubin is amazing.
For God so loved you! That He gave ..His only Son that whoever would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life..!🤗🤗🎆🌏🌏
Love you guys... BUT DAMMIT !! You need to revisit with the actual video version. All the times you said " DAMN " - with the video it's 10 folds. One of the most BASIC but best videos ever. Trust me 🙏🏼👍🏻👊🏼
You guys should watch the movie, Walk the Line if you’re really liking Johnny Cash so much!! Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon are AMAZING as Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash and they both do their own singing in it, which is spot on and sounds just like June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash - it will blow you away! You’ll learn more about Johnny Cash and some of his struggles to why he is the way he was and made the music he did!! I highly recommend!! Love watching your videos!!
This is one of those covers that's better than the original.
Incredible song. But the VIDEO is a national treasure.
This is one of those rare times where you HAVE TO watch the official video
This song made me cry
Check out the video. It’s a must. As powerful as this was the video is just heartbreaking in its honesty and sadness. 😢
Folsom Prison Blues is a good one,he performed it at San Quentin.
The movie is called "Walk the Line" I think you should do a movie reaction
The video really makes this more powerful
You need to watch video, and get ready to tear up.
Nine Inch Nails cover, guys. Trent Reznor loved Johnny’s cover. It’s AMAZING and it was how the song was meant to be heard. Great reaction!
Watch the OFFICIAL VIDEO!!!!!
You really need to do another reaction while watching the video, the song is powerful but the video takes it to another level!
We did 2 days ago. It’s up now
If you like any of his songs or even good movies you have to watch “walk the line” starring Joaquin Phoenix, probably the best biopics ever, maybe even my favorite movie.
If you want a good country song for a reaction video, “The Captain’s Daughter”, written by Cash years ago, and performed by Alison Kraus and Union Station (they did the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack).
Johnny Cash the original outlaw
I think you would have been in tears had you watched the official video
I could have listened talk forever too
I really hope you guys check out the video, it makes this a much more powerful song. A video has never added to the emotion like this one for me 🤙
Great pick. But you MUST watch the video to this. Trust me and anyone else who agrees.
This song is al about the vid that accompanies it. it puts Johnnys version of the song into perspective.
you have to watch the video for this song its unbelievable
Country Music may have a certain stereotype attached to it that's unfair and doesn't give the music the credit it deserves but some Country Music will touch your soul.
If you're gonna go down the Country rabbit hole may I suggest Merle Haggard, 'Misery and Gin' or 'Easy Come, Easy Go.
Very powerful! However the video is a must see! ☮️💟✌️