I know man. That's literally him telling us "if I could start again..." Then he looking down and closing the piano it's like him saying "but now I know it's over"
Never saw that video until 6 minutes ago Pretty awesome ...I can completely relate knowing even if I last another 40 years, maybe 50 years ....... I'll be a smaller, less important version of the human race saying the same exact thing to myself That "sound" resonates to all of us...but only a few are unfortunate to feel it In order to understand the songs you HAVE to atleast TRY and understand the person saying it ( we are all human,the emotions never get bigger)
Trent Reznor said after hearing this version, he said "this is no longer my song, it now belongs to Johnny." How freakin' lovely and humble. Johnny Cash was a lengend.
I grew up listening to Cash. I loved his American albums, and heard this before the video came out. The video really stabbed an ice pick through my heart. Every time I seen it, I cry. 😭
Absolutely @@IraRobinson This is the only song that makes me tear up right from the start And even more now, seeing my own fathers health starting to go downhill, at the age of 72
I love that the original NIN was about a young man's life with forward momentum, spiraling out of control, where Cash sang from the perspective of a older man knowing his life was ending soon, looking back.
The original by Nine inch nails blew me away when i first heard it, yet when Johnny Cash re recorded it he took it to another level, defo goosebumps, R.I.P
Yeah I really love Trent's response to it. THAT's what art's all about, I think. Sometimes, we creatives make something, and it's special, but we end up just being the vessel for the one it's truly meant for.
@@IraRobinson I think that the difference is that Reznor's version is about a period of time in a person's life, whereas Cash's version was about the totality of a person's life. The difference in effect is equally profound. Even as someone who has never really dealt with substance abuse personally outside of the effects of other people I was close to, there is so much more than that one issue that is utterly relatable in Cash's version and DOES strike a cord with me personally. I tear up everytime I hear this song from Cash.
The video was recorded in February of 2003. His daughter, on seeing a preview of the video, said to him it sounded like he was saying goodbye, he replied that he was. June Carter Cash, his 2nd wife, is the woman sat on the stairs in the video; also a singer in her own right who toured with him and sang with him on several songs. She had come down to check on her husband that day as his health was declining. June Carter Cash passed away a few months after the video recording in May of 2003 and a bereaved Johnny Cash followed her a few months later in the September.
The song is by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and is about his battle with addiction and depression. Cash also an addict and alcoholic for much of his early life, spending time in Jail on half a dozen occasions for possession. The song encompasses the way both musicians life threads are woven together and entangled across the decades between them, so much so that Trent when he saw the video said it was like loosing his Girlfriend, as the song had become Johnny's. Johnny was a campaigner for prison reform and the rights of Native Americans and much of his material reflected his own passions and darker past. It was June that Cash attributed to rescuing him from his drug and Alcohol addiction a theme of the song. Carter is the person played by Reese Witherspoon alongside Joaquin Phoenix, in the biopic of them: Walk the line. Johnny Cash's star had declined in the 80s and the Museum to his life with the smashed Gold Disk on the Floor, used as one of the backdrops to the video, ended up being shuttered. In the 1990s Rick Rubin and American Recordings more of a Rap, Punk and Metal label sought Cash to record for their label, and offered Cash complete artistic freedom. With them his career revived and he brought out his most critically acclaimed albums, the America series, bringing Cash to a new younger audience; starring on The Simpsons and Headlining at Glastonbury in 1994. The 4th and penultimate album of the America series from which this is one of several Hit Singles: American IV: The Man Comes Around, You may recognise the Title Track too, was released in November of 2002, and he was still working on his final Album right up to the end and that was released posthumously.
Hiya, IRA!This has been by far my most favorite espisode you've done! THANK YOU! This means alot to me. This song, "Hurt" is very personal to me because I can relate alot to the lyrics. Back in 1994 , I was a junkie /crackhead and spiraling downward more and more in addiction. The price of my addiction led me to lose custody of my 2 young kids, my son and my daughter, some stints in county jail, homelessness, detoxes,rehabs, whatever else drama and chaos happened . In 1998 , I had to relinquish my parental rights with my daughter. My mother couldn't take care of both of my kids financially and emotionally. It was the most difficult thing ,I had to do in my life but, I loved my daughter very much and I wanted her to have a life that I know in reality couldn't give her. But, after that, I felt like a failure, ashamed , guilty, "HURT". So,that gave me the excuse to keep doing what I was doin'. I pretty much gave up ; I didn't care anymore,escpecially what would happen to me. Also, I just want to say, THANK GOD FOR MY MOTHER because she used alot of "TOUGH LOVE " on me many , many times through my addiction. I truly believe, by her doing that, saved me and my life! God was watching over me too. Back in 2004, I saw on MTV , Johnny's rendition of, "HURT".Even though I was in a haze and a daze, it made such a huge impact on me, that I FINALLY decided to get myself clean and sober, FOR ME,NOT ANYBODY ELSE! ME! It was the 2nd hardest thing I had to do in my life. Getting clean and sober sucks at 1st, for a couple of years even. But, with alot of support and actually doing what I NEEDED TO DO,sticking with it at all costs......HERE I AM! I have been in recovery from crack and heroin since 2004;alcohol since 2011. I feel truly grateful and blessed. I should've been dead yeeeeeeeeeeeears ago! Life isn't perfect but it sure beats the hell of me being 6 feet under! When I still hear this song, I break down and cry. It's very cleansing for me and reminds me just how far I've overcame. Now,my mission is to help those strugglin' with addiction/ alcoholism and/or mental illness . With all, that being said, THANK YOU,IRA FOR SHARING AND DOING THIS EPISODE! I APPRECIATE YOU AND WHAT YOU DO! YOU ROCK! 🤘😎
@@sgholt No, June Carter was his wife, she is standing behind him at certain parts of this video, when they were filming this, she was worried about his health, she came down to watch over him and they kept it in the video. She actually passed away a few months after this video was shot, he died a month or so after that.
Johnny i think that was basically singing his own eulogy. also Johnny's voice was no less powerful than it ever was, just aged and yet the same as i remember from my youth
Don't feel bad, I was a heroin addict years ago. My girlfriend that I got clean for 6 years, relapsed and died right here where I'm sitting. This song makes me cry everytime I watch the video. I can listen to the song okay, but the video makes me cry. I'm a man and don't care what anyone thinks. I have watched many reactions to this video and you actually had tears in your eyes when everyone else hides theirs. I have mad respect for that, and telling us you did cry editing the video earned even more respect from me. I'm nobody, but I felt I would tell you anyway. I know it's my age that makes me more emotional than I was when I was younger, it's actually one of the only good things about getting older. Maybe that it's been 20+ years with no drugs, I'm not sure. I do know I'm not dead inside anymore.
Doesn’t matter how many times i watch this video, the final 45 seconds breaks me every time. I remember the first time I saw it, back in 2003 when it was released...shortly after his passing, being completely overwhelmed by his cover and the video itself. I’ve had an attachment to this song since I bought the NIN the downward spiral album in 1994. Crazy that the song was written completely different from johnnys take on it, but it goes to the show the loser of music and that one person can interpret a song completely differently from how it was intended, but can have just as big or bigger impact.
I cant not cry while listening to Johnny Cash sing Hurt. This is what regret sounds like. That's the best way I can describe it, the musical distillation of regret.
"But I remember everything." That's as far as I can get before the water works start. This is the eighth reaction video to this version of this song I have seen tonight. So far everybody tears up. It's an amazing work of art that can ,and does ,conjure the same powerful feelings to anyone with a sole. Trent wrote this when he was in a very dark place of addiction and self loathing. when Johnny covered it a new dimension of struggle took over and not only could you relate to Trent's lyrics but now you could feel all the hardships Johnny had struggled with his whole life and the similarities the two men shared in their battles. Johnny Cash was a life long idol of mine. When he passed I was crushed. When I listen to the song now, for just a few seconds, I can feel him like he never left but then it just becomes an epitaph for a man I held in high regards for so many impressionable years. The song and performance are incredibly powerful to anyone who hears it. It has a way of projecting it's message straight to the sole of those affected by it. Everybody is getting the same picture. The same story. The same connection.
thank you for your very emotional and personal thaughts on this masterpiece; it hurts, but it's supposed to and it has to. the back-view on our lifes is not a question of age. our age is only the moment we live in. Trent and Johnny could not be more far away from each other then they were in age, or time; but they felt the same. We're one, but not the same, one.
Every single time. Every reaction vid to this track. When you know a little of JC's life and the regret that pours out in this song, you can't watch it and not well up.
Going off of the original song, I would not have thought of Johnny's interpretation of this song. With the videos of his life that was playing, we got a visual of what that meant to him.
Trent wrote this as a young man, struggling and depressed but with much life ahead of him... But it takes on a while different meaning when it's coming through a man at the very end of his life. His daughter told him "it sounds like a goodbye" and he replied that it was. His wife June died like 3 months after he recorded this, and he was gone less than a year later... It quite literally was his "goodbye".
Great reaction. The way Johnny Cash winked at the camera reminds me of a moment when my Dad gave me that same look and wink. My Dad only did it once to me but every-time Johnny winks at that moment in this song it makes me think of my Dad , that’s one of the few real special memories of my Dad that really impacts me, that sly little wink and smile.
Your reaction was so pure and genuine💔....and that's how almost everyone reactions to this masterpiece the amazing Johnny Cash gave us before his death. He conveyed such emotion through his voice and the visuals combined, a rare and hauntingly beautiful talent He is still 'The Man In Black' and always will be. R.I.P. Johnny Cash 🖤
I was just a kid growing up with my dad's favorite genre (country/western) music. We took summer trips from PA to Ga to visit relatives, (mom's side), and I remember listening to "A Boy Named Sue" every time we came into a different area of radio signals. We laughed and looked forward to every 'next' time. That said, I never knew about Johnny Cash's military service. At this (not too) late date, I thank him for it. RIP Johnny. You've earned it. Our Lord and Saviour forgives your regrets. Home is where the heart is, and we know you are at peace with God, and He with you.
I agree with your comments. I listened to the HURT song for the first time in 2021. I listened to it several times in a row loud, then I started to cry as well. I called my brother and told him to go to RUclips an play the HURT video, and tell me that's not our Dads life story. I can't get the words out of my mind now. The piano gets real loud, then you see June watching over him and her expressions just seem to say so much. Like you, my dad looks look much like Johnny in that song. This song is powerful, and you cannot watch the video without feeling the power of Johnny's message. It really breaks me up when he closes the piano at the ends and rubs his has across it, almost saying this is my final work. I love this song.
I really enjoyed this reaction, you know how to express thoughts and emotion. Also I loved the facts and quotes you put in it, that's unique. New sub, keep it up.
Its watching a legend die. Like Hamlet, only you're in the room to know that Ophelia was the last person he thought about, and not his father. Its HARD to watch, but everlastingly beautiful.
The video is as powerful as the words and the two together with Johnny cash is just unforgettable and so moving .I have watched this video a hundred times and I tear up every time .
I was SO glad you waited for him to close the piano! Most everyone else turns it off at that pivotal moment! And what she said to in the first comment.... it's his last song.
My mama RIP loved him when she was a young woman. And I love this song it's so real. And when you get to the end we'll sometimes everyone you love is gone and you feel alone. Very sad but beautiful song.
Man you are not alone with this song my late dad loved Johnny Cash and this song was one he liked and when i here it i still think of my dad and yes tears do some time make a appetence with me to.....
One of the most powerful n sad songs ever...it's very moving and real. This song has changed my life around from all the substance abuse I been dealing with in my life. RIP Cash
When you're speechless like that.. you know that you've been poleaxed. I sincerely hope you have addressed the grief you carry with you.. xo I was going through some serious domestic violence situation, in my 30's. I was listening to this song lol. My brother called me, he lived 2 doors down. Asked me what I was doing and told him I was listening to Johnny Cash, Hurt. He started shouting right away, *TURN THAT SH*T OFF! ARE YA NUTS?! GO TAKE A SHOWER AND WE'RE GOING OUT! I"M COMING OVER!* lol.. man that song eh.. lol. It's a tearjerker and can make anyone get in their deeper stuff without much nudging. That's an amazing song.
i only recently discovered this cover when it was played at my late grandpa's funeral recently. he loved cash's music and old films and im not surprised he wanted this song played, he related to it.
Oh the Highwaymen! I do think I have heard a song or two from them, because my dad liked them (Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash were definitely high on his list lol). But if so, it's been a lot of years haha I'll add it to my list!
Great reaction, brings tears to my eyes having the knowledge of him my whole life, his wife and then his daughters reaction to doing this video. I have a singer who at the time the video was done was 14 yrs old. Her name is Diana Ankudinova a Russian superstar now at age 17. On the Russian talent show called “You are super” was a show for children age 8-18 years of age who was orphaned or abused. Diana won the show 2 years in a row. She is a RARE Contralto so her voice is very deep and will grab your soul at the very beginning of the song. To give you a very quick back ground she was one of only 12 children to have survived child birth from a very severe alcoholic mother, she abused and under feed this very young girl. After a failed drowning attempt by her mother she was thrown out in the street like an unwanted kitten at age 3. Relatives happened to come by and saw her, by her looks they thought she was mentally retarded because she did not even speak and had a broken collar bone. They didn’t want to take care of her so they took her to an orphanage. She was adopted by a very loving women who through a lot of time and money soon had a young lady who has won 40-50 national and international competitions before making it to this show. She even mastered yodeling which you will notice as she sings. The song is called “Rechenka” which means River is Russian about a young ladies plea to the spirit world for approval of marriage as she has no living parents. This is her most watched video world wide with over 16 million views. It is an inspiring performance as you will see by her singing, her motions and the stage setup. Enjoy and welcome to Diana’s world. Thank you for your time🙏🏼 ruclips.net/video/35Dwo4QVLqs/видео.html You will want to get the English lyrics printed to understand.
I TOTALLY feel you Brother, with the exception that my Dad didn't have an addiction. My Dad looked like a cross between Johhny Cash and Raymond Burr. He was always a man's man.
My dads favorite artist was Johnnie Cash since as far back as when I was around 5 years old, I moved away in 1983 ....he had a bad accident nearly died, permanent brain damage ... I couldnt connect with him, only saw hime a few times a year & only a few short words ..... in my 40s it started bugging me , the distance, the void . I always wanted to connect with him but never knew how to do it, so I put it off, did this for years. fast forward in my 50s ..... nothing changed, Im busy with life, years go by, one day I want to connect with him, I thought to myself,somehow, someway. ..... One day it hit me pretty solid,I couldnt think of anything other than to try & connect somehow,atleast lket him know I care. ..I remember not knowing how to do that & letting that urge go, for now. I'll figure it out soon, just no soluton right now, I dont have the words right . = 2 days later 7am My mom calls .I cant understand what shes saying, voice is all broken, clearly upset, I asked her please repeat it I cant understand her She said " Hes gone" - I knew what she meant but the words "what" who" came out ,having a gut feeling it was my dad ...& she said " Buddy- Hes gone , Died 2am this morning. Hits like a freighttrain, but until then, its easy to put it off & wait. Anyone out there that reads this, if you have a dad thats up there in age Dont Wait! If theres things that need to be said- Do it , Make the effort , Get it Off your chest & clear the air. There is no gaurentee of tomnorrow. sory for the book here.
Trent's version is incredibly sad, but Johnny's makes me cry. I can't exactly pinpoint why. Maybe because he is emanating an "after the aftermath" vibe, like he's sad for those he hurt even though trent's lyrics never specifically say sorry.
One of my favourite songs and covers! Johnny Cash also looks like my father before he passed as well. He was a very strict man, stubborn man and then when he was on his death bed he apologised for being so stern on us but said tried to be a good father and all that. When I'm in one of my sad moods I tend to put this on on repeat until i get it all out of my system. (usually when I've been drinking with friends and we start to reminisce for friends and family who have passed), even after all these years the song still gets to me.
Great job, a transparent genuine reaction and real good insight into the purpose of music, especially story songs. Sorry to hear about your and and thanks again for keeping it real.
Some people are born to convey , evoke in us , light up the love within our souls for all humanity to know and remember that we are the same that we are one, we feel the same pain same love
Johnny blew this song away. The first time I heard it I literally cried for hours. The most hauntingly tragic rendition of a song I’ve heard in a very long time.
If you haven’t heard the song “When I’m Gone” sung by Joey Feek look the video up. Her and her husband recorded the song on one of their albums in 2012. It was written by a close friend dealing with the death of her mother from cancer. Unbeknownst to anybody Joey would die four years later from cancer. Very emotional video so be forewarned.
As a person who is getting up in years, this song hit home. As I watched the lid close over the piano key at the end one can see it as the end of a life. Only one single word was changed between the NiN version and this one. The NiN version said crown of shit and Cash changed it to crown of thorns.
I was the Team Sniper in Vietnam (Bravo Company, 2/502 Infantry, 101st Airborne) ... Sadly i also have a Fine Art Degree and a teacher's certificate, after 9 years US Army I got an offer to move to Australia as a teacher and took it ... I've exhibited art dealing with the Vietnam War hoping to help educate what it really was without the blood and guts in the works. I've been destroyed by Agent Orange and time is short. All my friends I exhibited with in America and Australia have died ... all to health issues directly related to Dioxin Poisoning. I was originally drafted, finished my college at night classes. I'm alone, l remember all the personal kills in my dreams. I have listened to this song a hundred times ... every day is an effort to keep going. I deal with Doctors who weren't even born during that war. There is NO CURE for Dioxin Poisoning or PTSD, over 400,000 Vietnam Veterans have died after they came home from Vietnam ... JFK started the "Peace Corps" in 1961, the same year he started; "Operation Ranch Hand" ... the spraying of Agent Orange in Vietnam. The VA both in Australia and America fought veterans "tooth and nail" denying any disability payments, responsibility or compensation. Now after 400,000 deaths from Dioxin related health issues, they have finally change direction .... My team spent around 330 days in the jungle, as we didn't operate out of a base camp. Americans today cry over inflation, Donald "The Silver Tailed, Con Artist" (can anyone name any law he passed to help the Average American?) who people still send money to??? ... Religious man? Fake College? Rape charges? Paying for a hooker while his wife was pregnant? Hush money? ..... "GOD BLESS AMERICA and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE".... Sadly those words have no meaning to the youth of today. To stand tall and give everything your country asks of you ...
Another song/video to react to - "Monsters" by James Blunt. He learned about one year ago that his father was dying from stage 4 kidney failure, and no donor could be found for a transplant. This song is his ode to his father (be sure to watch the official video, since his father shows up in it). The good part of the story comes because of the publicity the video created. Within 3 or 4 weeks of its release (January 7, 2020), a donor was found, and the operation was an apparent success.
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When he closes the piano and caresses it, with that small smile, its almost like he is saying, "Well, thats it. Thats the last song."
That's exactly what he was saying. His daughter said he never opened it again.
It was his way of saying my life is done as he closes the cover.
To me it always looked like Johnny was closing the lid of a coffin.
@@TheHockeywitch you are right... you touch coffins that exact same way, the fear/want to touch the coffin for fear that the dream becomes real
@@dragoon347 But alas the dream no longer requires it's dreamer
Closing that piano...guts me. Every. Single. Time.
I know man. That's literally him telling us "if I could start again..." Then he looking down and closing the piano it's like him saying "but now I know it's over"
Never saw that video until 6 minutes ago
Pretty awesome ...I can completely relate knowing even if I last another 40 years, maybe 50 years ....... I'll be a smaller, less important version of the human race saying the same exact thing to myself That "sound" resonates to all of us...but only a few are unfortunate to feel it
In order to understand the songs you HAVE to atleast TRY and understand the person saying it ( we are all human,the emotions never get bigger)
I read that it was the last time he played that piano. Makes it even more powerful. I think this is the most powerful music video ever made.
Especially for a writer, the video is so powerful and just makes the story. His singing is powerful, but the video takes it to the next level.
Yes! It does the same thing to me. Every single time! 😪
Trent Reznor said after hearing this version, he said "this is no longer my song, it now belongs to Johnny." How freakin' lovely and humble. Johnny Cash was a lengend.
I have read that Trent signed over the rights to the song to Johnny.
Actually, he said he heard the cover, and thought...Not bad. Then he saw the video and was amazed.
@@Two4Brew here’s a video of him talking about it. ruclips.net/video/oLqjd01fPpQ/видео.html
How many times do we need to see this same exact comment on both the NIN original and Johnny Cash song? We literally all know this
The picture on the wall was his Mom. His wife is in the video later on. I can never get though this video without tears. So powerful.
June died just a few months later, and he followed her not long after.
Same here it always make me cry. Yes that was the house he grew up in Kingsland Arkansas.
I grew up listening to Cash. I loved his American albums, and heard this before the video came out. The video really stabbed an ice pick through my heart. Every time I seen it, I cry. 😭
This is literally the only piece of media that ever makes me cry
It was the same for me until I discovered Nightwish
I can recommend Opeth - In My Time Of Need .. The lyrics are just way too relatable.
@@Grizzlox dammit y'all .. it got me again
This and a certain episode of full metall alcemist.
Me too bro.... knowing the state of Johnny at this time makes it hit that much harder.
I have watched numerous reaction videos to this song, I still tear up. No shame.
me too
and i'm more metal than country but i loved Johnny and Waylon and it's gonna be a hard day whenever Hank Jr goes too
Omg same 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
Anyone with a soul is going to tear up a little on this one.
*Totally* agree.
yep
i guess i have no soul :
Absolutely @@IraRobinson
This is the only song that makes me tear up right from the start
And even more now, seeing my own fathers health starting to go downhill, at the age of 72
I love that the original NIN was about a young man's life with forward momentum, spiraling out of control, where Cash sang from the perspective of a older man knowing his life was ending soon, looking back.
The original by Nine inch nails blew me away when i first heard it, yet when Johnny Cash re recorded it he took it to another level, defo goosebumps, R.I.P
Yeah I really love Trent's response to it. THAT's what art's all about, I think. Sometimes, we creatives make something, and it's special, but we end up just being the vessel for the one it's truly meant for.
@@IraRobinson I guess as a writer you can relate especially well.
Someone said, “With Nine Inch Nails this song was depressing. With Johnny Cash, it is emotionally devastating.”
Keep on steaming ... sailing ... rowing
This song isn't sung with vocal cords, it's sung by vibrating a bare nerve, emanating the purest of feeling.
Pouring wine on the table and seeing Christ carrying his cross was the most powerful moments in this video. It's an epitaph.
Resnik said;I wrote the song,but Johnny Cash owned it now.
The fact that you had to pause a t the end shows you have a soul.
RIP Johnny Cash.
This song makes me cry every time, his voice you can hear the pain the troubles and it’s just beautiful
This song hits me in the feels every time
Trent Reznor wrote a damned good story and Johnny Cash told an even better one.
I definitely agree.
Trent told a good story, johnny lived a great one
@@IraRobinson
I think that the difference is that Reznor's version is about a period of time in a person's life, whereas Cash's version was about the totality of a person's life. The difference in effect is equally profound. Even as someone who has never really dealt with substance abuse personally outside of the effects of other people I was close to, there is so much more than that one issue that is utterly relatable in Cash's version and DOES strike a cord with me personally. I tear up everytime I hear this song from Cash.
I am the age he was then and I am dying I teared up too
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for you
Damn, I knew I was going to cry but I didn't know I would tear up a lot, Johnny Cash is a legend that will always be remembered forever
I cry every time I hear this song. (Over a thousand times) it never grows old
The video was recorded in February of 2003. His daughter, on seeing a preview of the video, said to him it sounded like he was saying goodbye, he replied that he was. June Carter Cash, his 2nd wife, is the woman sat on the stairs in the video; also a singer in her own right who toured with him and sang with him on several songs. She had come down to check on her husband that day as his health was declining. June Carter Cash passed away a few months after the video recording in May of 2003 and a bereaved Johnny Cash followed her a few months later in the September.
The song is by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and is about his battle with addiction and depression. Cash also an addict and alcoholic for much of his early life, spending time in Jail on half a dozen occasions for possession. The song encompasses the way both musicians life threads are woven together and entangled across the decades between them, so much so that Trent when he saw the video said it was like loosing his Girlfriend, as the song had become Johnny's. Johnny was a campaigner for prison reform and the rights of Native Americans and much of his material reflected his own passions and darker past.
It was June that Cash attributed to rescuing him from his drug and Alcohol addiction a theme of the song. Carter is the person played by Reese Witherspoon alongside Joaquin Phoenix, in the biopic of them: Walk the line.
Johnny Cash's star had declined in the 80s and the Museum to his life with the smashed Gold Disk on the Floor, used as one of the backdrops to the video, ended up being shuttered.
In the 1990s Rick Rubin and American Recordings more of a Rap, Punk and Metal label sought Cash to record for their label, and offered Cash complete artistic freedom. With them his career revived and he brought out his most critically acclaimed albums, the America series, bringing Cash to a new younger audience; starring on The Simpsons and Headlining at Glastonbury in 1994. The 4th and penultimate album of the America series from which this is one of several Hit Singles: American IV: The Man Comes Around, You may recognise the Title Track too, was released in November of 2002, and he was still working on his final Album right up to the end and that was released posthumously.
There are several places in the song that the tears flow for me, and that look of love and concern from June on the stairs is one of them.
Ira that is such a deep song. I teared up with you.
Still giving me goosebumps when I think about it. REALLY great song!
Hiya, IRA!This has been by far my most favorite espisode you've done! THANK YOU! This means alot to me. This song, "Hurt" is very personal to me because I can relate alot to the lyrics. Back in 1994 , I was a junkie /crackhead and spiraling downward more and more in addiction. The price of my addiction led me to lose custody of my 2 young kids, my son and my daughter, some stints in county jail, homelessness, detoxes,rehabs, whatever else drama and chaos happened . In 1998 , I had to relinquish my parental rights with my daughter. My mother couldn't take care of both of my kids financially and emotionally. It was the most difficult thing ,I had to do in my life but, I loved my daughter very much and I wanted her to have a life that I know in reality couldn't give her. But, after that, I felt like a failure, ashamed , guilty, "HURT". So,that gave me the excuse to keep doing what I was doin'. I pretty much gave up ; I didn't care anymore,escpecially what would happen to me. Also, I just want to say, THANK GOD FOR MY MOTHER because she used alot of "TOUGH LOVE " on me many , many times through my addiction. I truly believe, by her doing that, saved me and my life! God was watching over me too. Back in 2004, I saw on MTV , Johnny's rendition of, "HURT".Even though I was in a haze and a daze, it made such a huge impact on me, that I FINALLY decided to get myself clean and sober, FOR ME,NOT ANYBODY ELSE! ME! It was the 2nd hardest thing I had to do in my life. Getting clean and sober sucks at 1st, for a couple of years even. But, with alot of support and actually doing what I NEEDED TO DO,sticking with it at all costs......HERE I AM! I have been in recovery from crack and heroin since 2004;alcohol since 2011. I feel truly grateful and blessed. I should've been dead yeeeeeeeeeeeears ago! Life isn't perfect but it sure beats the hell of me being 6 feet under! When I still hear this song, I break down and cry. It's very cleansing for me and reminds me just how far I've overcame. Now,my mission is to help those strugglin' with addiction/ alcoholism and/or mental illness . With all, that being said, THANK YOU,IRA FOR SHARING AND DOING THIS EPISODE! I APPRECIATE YOU AND WHAT YOU DO! YOU ROCK! 🤘😎
One of the most powerful songs and videos l have ever seen.
Such strong imagery and raw honest vocals...wonderful.
My dad also looked like Johnny. He could play any instrument with strings, but his favorite was the pedal steel.
The woman in the photo wearing the red dress was his mother.
Thank you! That's good to know!
@@IraRobinson You are welcome.
Almost every reactor that is unfamiliar with Johnny & June makes the same mistake.
@@sgholt No, June Carter was his wife, she is standing behind him at certain parts of this video, when they were filming this, she was worried about his health, she came down to watch over him and they kept it in the video. She actually passed away a few months after this video was shot, he died a month or so after that.
This work hits people hard because of Who Cash brings with him to this performance. It ain't complicated folks.
Johnny i think that was basically singing his own eulogy. also Johnny's voice was no less powerful than it ever was, just aged and yet the same as i remember from my youth
I think its the "aged" sound in his voice that really makes this song
He was singing his eulogy. His son said something like "it sounds like youre saying goodbye dad" and johnny said "I am"
Don't feel bad, I was a heroin addict years ago. My girlfriend that I got clean for 6 years, relapsed and died right here where I'm sitting. This song makes me cry everytime I watch the video. I can listen to the song okay, but the video makes me cry. I'm a man and don't care what anyone thinks. I have watched many reactions to this video and you actually had tears in your eyes when everyone else hides theirs. I have mad respect for that, and telling us you did cry editing the video earned even more respect from me. I'm nobody, but I felt I would tell you anyway. I know it's my age that makes me more emotional than I was when I was younger, it's actually one of the only good things about getting older. Maybe that it's been 20+ years with no drugs, I'm not sure. I do know I'm not dead inside anymore.
Doesn’t matter how many times i watch this video, the final 45 seconds breaks me every time. I remember the first time I saw it, back in 2003 when it was released...shortly after his passing, being completely overwhelmed by his cover and the video itself. I’ve had an attachment to this song since I bought the NIN the downward spiral album in 1994. Crazy that the song was written completely different from johnnys take on it, but it goes to the show the loser of music and that one person can interpret a song completely differently from how it was intended, but can have just as big or bigger impact.
I cant not cry while listening to Johnny Cash sing Hurt.
This is what regret sounds like. That's the best way I can describe it, the musical distillation of regret.
"But I remember everything." That's as far as I can get before the water works start.
This is the eighth reaction video to this version of this song I have seen tonight.
So far everybody tears up. It's an amazing work of art that can ,and does ,conjure the same powerful feelings to anyone with a sole.
Trent wrote this when he was in a very dark place of addiction and self loathing. when Johnny covered it a new dimension of struggle took over and not only could you relate to Trent's lyrics but now you could feel all the hardships Johnny had struggled with his whole life and the similarities the two men shared in their battles.
Johnny Cash was a life long idol of mine. When he passed I was crushed. When I listen to the song now, for just a few seconds, I can feel him like he never left but then it just becomes an epitaph for a man I held in high regards for so many impressionable years.
The song and performance are incredibly powerful to anyone who hears it. It has a way of projecting it's message straight to the sole of those affected by it. Everybody is getting the same picture. The same story. The same connection.
That is something special. That is art. He didn’t even write it, but his interpretation is one of the most powerful pieces of music I’ve ever heard.
thank you for your very emotional and personal thaughts on this masterpiece; it hurts, but it's supposed to and it has to. the back-view on our lifes is not a question of age. our age is only the moment we live in. Trent and Johnny could not be more far away from each other then they were in age, or time; but they felt the same. We're one, but not the same, one.
Every single time. Every reaction vid to this track. When you know a little of JC's life and the regret that pours out in this song, you can't watch it and not well up.
As a man , if you don’t tear up watching this video, there is something wrong with you
Going off of the original song, I would not have thought of Johnny's interpretation of this song. With the videos of his life that was playing, we got a visual of what that meant to him.
The video is a MasterPiece of visual art.
Trent wrote this as a young man, struggling and depressed but with much life ahead of him... But it takes on a while different meaning when it's coming through a man at the very end of his life. His daughter told him "it sounds like a goodbye" and he replied that it was. His wife June died like 3 months after he recorded this, and he was gone less than a year later... It quite literally was his "goodbye".
It was Johnnys swan song. Pure emotion!
What a wonderful reaction to this masterful work by Cash at the end of his life. Enjoyed it so much. Thank you for sharing.
I’ve watched 5 reactions to this song/video by John Cash and it moves me every time. He was an inspiration for me since childhood. 😢🙏☘️
Yes ...how could you NOT cry when this is just so powerful? Heartbreaking and brutal.
Had to cry I cry every time I watched it... Your reactions like everybody they don't even know what to say because it's such a powerful song!
Great reaction. The way Johnny Cash winked at the camera reminds me of a moment when my Dad gave me that same look and wink. My Dad only did it once to me but every-time Johnny winks at that moment in this song it makes me think of my Dad , that’s one of the few real special memories of my Dad that really impacts me, that sly little wink and smile.
Your reaction was so pure and genuine💔....and that's how almost everyone reactions to this masterpiece the amazing Johnny Cash gave us before his death. He conveyed such emotion through his voice and the visuals combined, a rare and hauntingly beautiful talent He is still 'The Man In Black' and always will be. R.I.P. Johnny Cash 🖤
I was just a kid growing up with my dad's favorite genre (country/western) music. We took summer trips from PA to Ga to visit relatives, (mom's side), and I remember listening to "A Boy Named Sue" every time we came into a different area of radio signals. We laughed and looked forward to every 'next' time.
That said, I never knew about Johnny Cash's military service. At this (not too) late date, I thank him for it. RIP Johnny. You've earned it. Our Lord and Saviour forgives your regrets. Home is where the heart is, and we know you are at peace with God, and He with you.
The lady in the photo wearing red was his late mother,who lived across the street from him.
I agree with your comments. I listened to the HURT song for the first time in 2021. I listened to it several times in a row loud, then I started to cry as well. I called my brother and told him to go to RUclips an play the HURT video, and tell me that's not our Dads life story. I can't get the words out of my mind now. The piano gets real loud, then you see June watching over him and her expressions just seem to say so much. Like you, my dad looks look much like Johnny in that song. This song is powerful, and you cannot watch the video without feeling the power of Johnny's message. It really breaks me up when he closes the piano at the ends and rubs his has across it, almost saying this is my final work. I love this song.
I really enjoyed this reaction, you know how to express thoughts and emotion. Also I loved the facts and quotes you put in it, that's unique. New sub, keep it up.
Thank you so much! I am so glad to be of service. :)
Johnny Cash lives on in my heart, I hope there are people who will continue feeling the same way.
Its watching a legend die. Like Hamlet, only you're in the room to know that Ophelia was the last person he thought about, and not his father.
Its HARD to watch, but everlastingly beautiful.
His closing the piano at the end gets me every time, so symbolic.
Not really an emotional person but this song gets me every time, just so much meaning behind it.
This was huge when I was in high school. I was a junior when he did this album. This is the best of the one. The video makes it more visual for me
The video is as powerful as the words and the two together with Johnny cash is just unforgettable and so moving .I have watched this video a hundred times and I tear up every time .
I can never make it past June watching over him, like a guardian, without tearing up.
Thank you. I'm 73 and a recent widower. The emotions this song evokes are so powerful.
Sorry for your loss. Prayers for you ❤ yes this song is very powerful, really hits very deep feelings that are hard to verbalise sometimes.
I was SO glad you waited for him to close the piano! Most everyone else turns it off at that pivotal moment! And what she said to in the first comment.... it's his last song.
Anyone who is not brought to tears by this video has no soul.
Every time I hear this song is a gut punch. The emotional.impact just doesn't fade.
My mama RIP loved him when she was a young woman. And I love this song it's so real. And when you get to the end we'll sometimes everyone you love is gone and you feel alone. Very sad but beautiful song.
I never ask anyone to see this video, while I'm there! R.I.P. Johnny and June.
Many Thanks for your sweet high sensibility!
My father and uncle both looked like Cash. I can relate. This song and video is one of my favorites. Reminds me of my father.
“Well that’s the highest praise, so I have nothing more to say. Goodnight, folks.”
Man you are not alone with this song my late dad loved Johnny Cash and this song was one he liked and when i here it i still think of my dad and yes tears do some time make a appetence with me to.....
Rip to your dad. He raised you right. I never met mine.
One of the most powerful n sad songs ever...it's very moving and real. This song has changed my life around from all the substance abuse I been dealing with in my life. RIP Cash
When you're speechless like that.. you know that you've been poleaxed. I sincerely hope you have addressed the grief you carry with you.. xo I was going through some serious domestic violence situation, in my 30's. I was listening to this song lol. My brother called me, he lived 2 doors down. Asked me what I was doing and told him I was listening to Johnny Cash, Hurt. He started shouting right away, *TURN THAT SH*T OFF! ARE YA NUTS?! GO TAKE A SHOWER AND WE'RE GOING OUT! I"M COMING OVER!* lol.. man that song eh.. lol. It's a tearjerker and can make anyone get in their deeper stuff without much nudging. That's an amazing song.
i only recently discovered this cover when it was played at my late grandpa's funeral recently. he loved cash's music and old films and im not surprised he wanted this song played, he related to it.
I really enjoyed the song I'm still alive by The Highwaymen, which Johnny Cash was a part of.
Oh the Highwaymen! I do think I have heard a song or two from them, because my dad liked them (Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash were definitely high on his list lol). But if so, it's been a lot of years haha
I'll add it to my list!
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Great reaction, brings tears to my eyes having the knowledge of him my whole life, his wife and then his daughters reaction to doing this video. I have a singer who at the time the video was done was 14 yrs old. Her name is Diana Ankudinova a Russian superstar now at age 17. On the Russian talent show called “You are super” was a show for children age 8-18 years of age who was orphaned or abused. Diana won the show 2 years in a row. She is a RARE Contralto so her voice is very deep and will grab your soul at the very beginning of the song. To give you a very quick back ground she was one of only 12 children to have survived child birth from a very severe alcoholic mother, she abused and under feed this very young girl. After a failed drowning attempt by her mother she was thrown out in the street like an unwanted kitten at age 3. Relatives happened to come by and saw her, by her looks they thought she was mentally retarded because she did not even speak and had a broken collar bone. They didn’t want to take care of her so they took her to an orphanage. She was adopted by a very loving women who through a lot of time and money soon had a young lady who has won 40-50 national and international competitions before making it to this show. She even mastered yodeling which you will notice as she sings. The song is called “Rechenka” which means River is Russian about a young ladies plea to the spirit world for approval of marriage as she has no living parents. This is her most watched video world wide with over 16 million views. It is an inspiring performance as you will see by her singing, her motions and the stage setup. Enjoy and welcome to Diana’s world. Thank you for your time🙏🏼
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You will want to get the English lyrics printed to understand.
Great reaction to a great video, song & man. Your dad with Johnny in Heaven.
Wow I could relate on the whole dad thing. It does bring tears.
Beautiful reaction. Thank you. ❤
How was that nail on the heart…. Dies 3 months later R.I.P. Jonny!!
Beautiful, authentic reaction. Powerful video.
i had to do injections daily for ms that was hell,this was my daily injection song...it gave me so much power.
Your reaction was so authentic. Thank you for sharing.
Trent & Johnny are amazing artist's,I tear up every time I watch it! Very powerful song.
"My empire of dirt" man.... that really does resignate, even if you don't have an empire.
I thoroughly enjoyed your insights and I actually learned something new (the June Carter words about being older than Johnny). You are a cool dude
An Icon. The voice of father time.
I TOTALLY feel you Brother, with the exception that my Dad didn't have an addiction. My Dad looked like a cross between Johhny Cash and Raymond Burr. He was always a man's man.
My dads favorite artist was Johnnie Cash since as far back as when I was around 5 years old, I moved away in 1983 ....he had a bad accident nearly died, permanent brain damage ... I couldnt connect with him, only saw hime a few times a year & only a few short words ..... in my 40s it started bugging me , the distance, the void . I always wanted to connect with him but never knew how to do it, so I put it off, did this for years. fast forward in my 50s ..... nothing changed, Im busy with life, years go by, one day I want to connect with him, I thought to myself,somehow, someway. ..... One day it hit me pretty solid,I couldnt think of anything other than to try & connect somehow,atleast lket him know I care. ..I remember not knowing how to do that & letting that urge go, for now. I'll figure it out soon, just no soluton right now, I dont have the words right . = 2 days later 7am My mom calls .I cant understand what shes saying, voice is all broken, clearly upset, I asked her please repeat it I cant understand her She said " Hes gone" - I knew what she meant but the words "what" who" came out ,having a gut feeling it was my dad ...& she said " Buddy- Hes gone , Died 2am this morning. Hits like a freighttrain, but until then, its easy to put it off & wait. Anyone out there that reads this, if you have a dad thats up there in age Dont Wait! If theres things that need to be said- Do it , Make the effort , Get it Off your chest & clear the air. There is no gaurentee of tomnorrow. sory for the book here.
Heard this song a hundred times and I still tear up.
Trent's version is incredibly sad, but Johnny's makes me cry. I can't exactly pinpoint why. Maybe because he is emanating an "after the aftermath" vibe, like he's sad for those he hurt even though trent's lyrics never specifically say sorry.
One of my favourite songs and covers! Johnny Cash also looks like my father before he passed as well. He was a very strict man, stubborn man and then when he was on his death bed he apologised for being so stern on us but said tried to be a good father and all that.
When I'm in one of my sad moods I tend to put this on on repeat until i get it all out of my system. (usually when I've been drinking with friends and we start to reminisce for friends and family who have passed), even after all these years the song still gets to me.
Great job, a transparent genuine reaction and real good insight into the purpose of music, especially story songs. Sorry to hear about your and and thanks again for keeping it real.
Some people are born to convey , evoke in us , light up the love within our souls for all humanity to know and remember that we are the same that we are one, we feel the same pain same love
Johnny blew this song away. The first time I heard it I literally cried for hours. The most hauntingly tragic rendition of a song I’ve heard in a very long time.
If you haven’t heard the song “When I’m Gone” sung by Joey Feek look the video up. Her and her husband recorded the song on one of their albums in 2012. It was written by a close friend dealing with the death of her mother from cancer. Unbeknownst to anybody Joey would die four years later from cancer. Very emotional video so be forewarned.
As a person who is getting up in years, this song hit home. As I watched the lid close over the piano key at the end one can see it as the end of a life. Only one single word was changed between the NiN version and this one. The NiN version said crown of shit and Cash changed it to crown of thorns.
At 8:40 when you released your emotions i watched your cat react to something above and behind you, could be a spirit ❤️
Awesom no one will ever upstage his presentation
I was the Team Sniper in Vietnam (Bravo Company, 2/502 Infantry, 101st Airborne) ... Sadly i also have a Fine Art Degree and a teacher's certificate, after 9 years US Army I got an offer to move to Australia as a teacher and took it ... I've exhibited art dealing with the Vietnam War hoping to help educate what it really was without the blood and guts in the works. I've been destroyed by Agent Orange and time is short. All my friends I exhibited with in America and Australia have died ... all to health issues directly related to Dioxin Poisoning. I was originally drafted, finished my college at night classes.
I'm alone, l remember all the personal kills in my dreams. I have listened to this song a hundred times ... every day is an effort to keep going. I deal with Doctors who weren't even born during that war. There is NO CURE for Dioxin Poisoning or PTSD, over 400,000 Vietnam Veterans have died after they came home from Vietnam ... JFK started the "Peace Corps" in 1961, the same year he started; "Operation Ranch Hand" ... the spraying of Agent Orange in Vietnam.
The VA both in Australia and America fought veterans "tooth and nail" denying any disability payments, responsibility or compensation. Now after 400,000 deaths from Dioxin related health issues, they have finally change direction .... My team spent around 330 days in the jungle, as we didn't operate out of a base camp. Americans today cry over inflation, Donald "The Silver Tailed, Con Artist" (can anyone name any law he passed to help the Average American?) who people still send money to??? ... Religious man? Fake College? Rape charges? Paying for a hooker while his wife was pregnant? Hush money?
..... "GOD BLESS AMERICA and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE".... Sadly those words have no meaning to the youth of today. To stand tall and give everything your country asks of you ...
I consider this song by Johnny and the wonderful video paired with it as ART.
Jonny has always been a story teller in his music.
This shows that the exact same words can create two completely different stories
This is one of those songs that if you don't at the very least tear up or feel a lump in your throat, there's something wrong with you
Another song/video to react to - "Monsters" by James Blunt. He learned about one year ago that his father was dying from stage 4 kidney failure, and no donor could be found for a transplant. This song is his ode to his father (be sure to watch the official video, since his father shows up in it). The good part of the story comes because of the publicity the video created. Within 3 or 4 weeks of its release (January 7, 2020), a donor was found, and the operation was an apparent success.
Oh wow that sounds amazing! I'll definitely check it out then. I appreciate the information!
I like how you put the history things up during it. Double plus good