Johnny knew he was dying, and he was full of remorse for the pain he had caused throughout his younger life to the people who loved him. He was an alcoholic, used drugs, separated from his wife. But they did get back together and stayed together, and he did overcome his addictions. But that is never easy and is never completely done and gone. A daily struggle. Maybe making this video helped him to forgive himself. June had come down the stairs to watch, and the pain and sorrow that she felt for him was so clear in her face and eyes, that the producer included her in the video. She died shortly after this video was made, and Johnny died a few months after her. The woman in the photo was June's mother, whom Johnny had loved very much.
I only heard this song about 5, maybe 6 or 7 years ago........didn't know at the time it was a cover or recorded so differently from the original..........Jesus, the intensity & emotion that came through, from the video, Cash's broken voice AND the arrangement, crescendo-ing towards the end............I was totally immersed in HIS pain & remorse......I felt broken for him, even though I knew very little of his alcohol, drugs or personal life.....you could see & feel what HIS life was bringing to the lyrics!! Tears were streaming.............not 'many' performances can bring that from me!!
@@gerrodmendham461 Trent Reznor's version is also heartbreaking, a genius work. It is a tribute to Reznor's genius that Johnny could also make it personal and heartbreaking.
@@gerrodmendham461 I guess everyone of us (expecially with a certain age) can easily impersonate him, 'cause everyone of us committed, more or less, the same mistakes, with no chance to repair them anymore.
@@giuliogrifi7739 Very true, it's how we cope/deal with them though! Sweep them to the back of our consciousness or confront them to heal..............
This song really hits the emotions, and his voice was still so strong and rich. His version of this song is so powerful, and the video is a retrospective of actual moments from his life (including at least one scene of something he was in as an actor rather than footage of his own life). And the woman in the video was his wife, who died not very long before he did. It's a cover song, but it's one of the most amazing covers I have ever heard in my life. He performed and made music for many decades, so there is a lot more of his music to explore.
Yet another musical genius. The way he refers to his own dementia, and with his addictions and what he put his family through as a result, this song feels like it was written for him. People should watch the movie about him and then listen to this again. Guaranteed tears.
No matter how many times I listen to this song, it makes me cry every time. Also the very first song my guitar teacher showed and teached me, after I was able to play it he showed me Johnny Cashs version - well both of us cried. Great reaction as always guys, keep up the good work!
You can see here on RUclips very, very many reactions to this song from very, very different people from all over the world. To me, these reactions to this musical masterpiece, despite all the sadness, also show something very beautiful and reassuring : The wonderful realization that all people of this earth, from whatever country they come, immediately develop empathetic compassion for the visibly felt suffering of another, foreign person. That is for me the most beautiful thing about this song....
I undersand your sorrow, m dear, that Mr. Cash is no longer with us...but take consolation in his truly mammoth body of work. THere is a Johnnie Cash song for just about every mood you may feel. The man was a gift, for singing to our hearts.
Hemingway spoke of those that could not break and are killed by the world. For the broken, there is Hurt. It seeks out every crevasse of self-hatred, shame, and regret in your soul, solidifies in the broken places, and becomes forever a part of you.
The day I heard that Johnny Cash died, that evening I went to YoouTube and watched many of the old videos of him and I really cried. I grew up with his music.
When my grandpa passed I heard this song 3 mins after I left the hospital I had to pull over and let my wife drive cause it hit me so hard. And I literally had a bald eagle fly over us on the highway I broke down for the hour ride home
Even though it’s a cover of trents song, his voice, the guitar, the video, hits home. We all know exactly what he’s going through and what he feels. A true legend.
I'm just letting you know when the them two black queen reaction to Vicente Fernandez he just die like 2day ago 😢 we love that reaction we all cry rip Vicente Fernandez
He died six weeks later after he filmed this video, his swan song. The picture on the wall was his mother and the woman on the stairs was his only wife and partner June Carter Cash
There's alot of incorrect info about this song so here. 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. " A sad footnote to a sad story, Cash’s home of nearly 30 years in which the video was shot, burned down in 2007. Courtesy of cody Flanagan
Even worse, that was his beloved wife in the video. She died unexpectedly & he quickly followed. He really didn't have the will to live anymore. Her face (according to the director) was genuine concern because they had to shoot multiple times & she was worried about the intensity of emotions he was showing. I cried the first time I saw the video too. It was a cover of a nine inch nails song but he made it entirely his own
He accepted Jesus when he was young but he got hooked on drugs (the needle tears a whole) and the world. It is just my opinion from the video that at the end of his life he came back to Jesus. It to me shows with Jesus and his hand held like he is praying. That is my hope.
Do me a favor I love both of you you guys are amazing but think about this if I am clicking on you for the 1st time and I want to see your action the last thing I want to see is a preview of it why do people do that it is so stupid stupid stop doing what the mainstream is doing and follow your hearts love you
Johnny knew he was dying, and he was full of remorse for the pain he had caused throughout his younger life to the people who loved him. He was an alcoholic, used drugs, separated from his wife. But they did get back together and stayed together, and he did overcome his addictions. But that is never easy and is never completely done and gone. A daily struggle. Maybe making this video helped him to forgive himself. June had come down the stairs to watch, and the pain and sorrow that she felt for him was so clear in her face and eyes, that the producer included her in the video. She died shortly after this video was made, and Johnny died a few months after her. The woman in the photo was June's mother, whom Johnny had loved very much.
I only heard this song about 5, maybe 6 or 7 years ago........didn't know at the time it was a cover or recorded so differently from the original..........Jesus, the intensity & emotion that came through, from the video, Cash's broken voice AND the arrangement, crescendo-ing towards the end............I was totally immersed in HIS pain & remorse......I felt broken for him, even though I knew very little of his alcohol, drugs or personal life.....you could see & feel what HIS life was bringing to the lyrics!! Tears were streaming.............not 'many' performances can bring that from me!!
@@gerrodmendham461 Trent Reznor's version is also heartbreaking, a genius work. It is a tribute to Reznor's genius that Johnny could also make it personal and heartbreaking.
@@gerrodmendham461 I guess everyone of us (expecially with a certain age) can easily impersonate him, 'cause everyone of us committed, more or less, the same mistakes, with no chance to repair them anymore.
@@giuliogrifi7739 Very true, it's how we cope/deal with them though! Sweep them to the back of our consciousness or confront them to heal..............
This is a cover.. Johnny did not write this. The lyrics are not his... This is a Nine Inch Nails song..
This song really hits the emotions, and his voice was still so strong and rich. His version of this song is so powerful, and the video is a retrospective of actual moments from his life (including at least one scene of something he was in as an actor rather than footage of his own life). And the woman in the video was his wife, who died not very long before he did. It's a cover song, but it's one of the most amazing covers I have ever heard in my life. He performed and made music for many decades, so there is a lot more of his music to explore.
Yet another musical genius. The way he refers to his own dementia, and with his addictions and what he put his family through as a result, this song feels like it was written for him. People should watch the movie about him and then listen to this again. Guaranteed tears.
The clip was from a movie he did with Kirk Douglas called "A Gunfight". (In case you are interested.)
No matter how many times I listen to this song, it makes me cry every time. Also the very first song my guitar teacher showed and teached me, after I was able to play it he showed me Johnny Cashs version - well both of us cried. Great reaction as always guys, keep up the good work!
I loved watching her sway back and forth as she listened and wept...very touching reaction.
A sweet spirit for sure. Blessings to them both.
She's ACTUALLY crying, finally found a reactor who ACTUALLY cries. Respect.
You can see here on RUclips very, very many reactions to this song from very, very different people from all over the world.
To me, these reactions to this musical masterpiece, despite all the sadness, also show something very beautiful and reassuring :
The wonderful realization that all people of this earth, from whatever country they come, immediately develop empathetic compassion for the visibly felt suffering of another, foreign person.
That is for me the most beautiful thing about this song....
I undersand your sorrow, m dear, that Mr. Cash is no longer with us...but take consolation in his truly mammoth body of work. THere is a Johnnie Cash song for just about every mood you may feel. The man was a gift, for singing to our hearts.
Hemingway spoke of those that could not break and are killed by the world. For the broken, there is Hurt. It seeks out every crevasse of self-hatred, shame, and regret in your soul, solidifies in the broken places, and becomes forever a part of you.
The day I heard that Johnny Cash died, that evening I went to YoouTube and watched many of the old videos of him and I really cried. I grew up with his music.
Thank you for this beautiful reaction. I, again, cried a river..
Beautiful reaction! I cannot listen to this without tearing up...
QUESTA CANZONE È UN ADDIO ALLA VITA GRAZIE JHONNY CASH R.I.P. GRANDE
"And I will wipe every tear from their eyes..." Rest in peace, Johnny.
Johnny had an AMAZING and sad life. Don't feel bad for empathizing with his pain.
This reaction was most genuine and the commentary was very touching. Thank you.
Such a a genuine reaction and I’m so glad you are so emotional and understood the pain in this song! 🙏🙏
When my grandpa passed I heard this song 3 mins after I left the hospital I had to pull over and let my wife drive cause it hit me so hard. And I literally had a bald eagle fly over us on the highway I broke down for the hour ride home
Thank you for caring so much
Aww that girl is so sweet
Johnny Cashs💕💕💕
❤️ from 🇦🇺australia . Keep moving forward and positive always
Johnny Cash was a sensitive soul and he did make mistakes in his life. I'm sure this song was really heartfelt
No matter how many times I listen to this I tear up
Even though it’s a cover of trents song, his voice, the guitar, the video, hits home. We all know exactly what he’s going through and what he feels. A true legend.
I wouldn’t leave you guys ever.
I love you guys you keep it REAL.
I'm just letting you know when the them two black queen reaction to Vicente Fernandez he just die like 2day ago 😢 we love that reaction we all cry rip Vicente Fernandez
U are both so beautiful ❤️
Great reaction to this song. Thanks much.
I watch a lot of these and always upvote emotional response to this, you had a wonderful reaction
One of my favorites! Great reaction video! Keep up the good work dudes!
Best exit ever, it was worthy.
He has my daddy’s eyes
Everyone you know goes away in the end ,rest in peace mom dad and Rick
Great reaction!
This is real music.
He died six weeks later after he filmed this video, his swan song. The picture on the wall was his mother and the woman on the stairs was his only wife and partner June Carter Cash
Rip johnny cash
I wanted to watch your reaction so bad and I end up crying… I swear it’s impossible
How beautiful you are in this Cash¨reaction..... I m in love with you little girl from Africa...
Monica Naranjo - Lágrimas de un Ángel
How was that nail through the heart ..#Jonny #trent
The pain you feel is because of the pain he felt when he sang this his wife was dying a cancer everyone he loved was dead
If you know any kind of loss this song will kill you
💕💕💕
This is song from Nine inch nails.
There's alot of incorrect info about this song so here.
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. "
A sad footnote to a sad story, Cash’s home of nearly 30 years in which the video was shot, burned down in 2007.
Courtesy of cody Flanagan
he knew he was dying his wife just passed it was his confessions of his imperfect life as a heavy duty Christian
Even worse, that was his beloved wife in the video. She died unexpectedly & he quickly followed. He really didn't have the will to live anymore. Her face (according to the director) was genuine concern because they had to shoot multiple times & she was worried about the intensity of emotions he was showing. I cried the first time I saw the video too. It was a cover of a nine inch nails song but he made it entirely his own
Can you please react to Robert Palmer song called Know by now
Please
🧂The thing that always gets me, is that he's at a big table with a nice meal, but he's there alone. All those empty chairs.
ROSALÍA - LA FAMA (Official Video) ft. The Weeknd
The first song you heard of his was the last. Its a shame, he used music to cheer himself up
I hurt like this everyday 😞
Jesus Loves You
He closed that piano and he never opened it again.
He accepted Jesus when he was young but he got hooked on drugs (the needle tears a whole) and the world. It is just my opinion from the video that at the end of his life he came back to Jesus. It to me shows with Jesus and his hand held like he is praying. That is my hope.
Do me a favor I love both of you you guys are amazing but think about this if I am clicking on you for the 1st time and I want to see your action the last thing I want to see is a preview of it why do people do that it is so stupid stupid stop doing what the mainstream is doing and follow your hearts love you
You feel hurt.
No human was persecuted n brutally tortured like Jesus
No hate, but that guy was never good at helping you react.