The Nine Inch Nails version is about a young man struggling with life Johnny Cash's version is about an old man reflecting on his life before his death.

@carloslopez-er2yj

4 жыл бұрын

Bro..... 😭

@debbyemerson3877

4 жыл бұрын

So well put

@Surgicalsteel222

4 жыл бұрын

This.

@angelmunoz34

4 жыл бұрын

Damn that cuts deep

@drrllgrss30

4 жыл бұрын

Truth!!!!

Say what you want, but personally, I believe this is the strongest example & evidence that one really can die of a broken heart.

@sherribugd6130

4 жыл бұрын

Yes.. his life was June.

@saintmichaelsmorningstar6451

4 жыл бұрын

Kiefer Thomas absolutely you can. I met my husband because of this song , he was walking behind me (never met him before lol) and for some reason I turned around and said “are you an original Cash fan or NiN fan?” So we got into a conversation about it then he handed me his headphones so I put them on and just chilled out got lost in Johnny’s voice and thinking of things I lost. We went on to get married had a beautiful daughter and Years later he said that was the exact moment he fell in love with me , hearing me sing those lyrics with such emotion. Anyways this relates to what you said because he ended up dying not to long after our daughter was born, and I was dying of a broken heart I really was so I know it’s possible. But I fought after a while , I fought hard and I still fight 9 years later every single day because if I slip up just one day..... (and I don’t mean dying from suicide , I started to legit get health problems , seizures, heart trouble etc.) When you meet you’re other half , you’re soul mate I can’t even explain it . But yes it is possible and I think why you only see it with old people is because they already lived there life , kids are grown. But I’ll tell you one thing , there is a part of me that’s dead , physically I go on for my kid and emotionally I enjoy everything with and about her but outside of that ? Nothing . And everyone knows it. So there’s you’re answer

@kieferthomas985

4 жыл бұрын

@@saintmichaelsmorningstar6451 I'm so sorry to head of your husband's death, your soulmates death. I can't even begin to relate to that amount of pain. Though, it says a lot that you carry on every day for your daughter, and I would assume for your family. To know that was the moment he fell in love with you, I think puts you in a special category that most people will never know. Thanks for taking the times & writing such a beautiful response. ❤

@Locust775

4 жыл бұрын

Kiefer Thomas You can actually. Takotsubo cardiomyopathi. Its nicknamed broken heart syndrom. I am a nurse, and have treated a patient with that condition today actually. Its a heart condition you can get when faced with serious emotional stress. The Prognosis is good, but there have been deaths.

@dylanvieler1806

4 жыл бұрын

Amante Della Morte 66 young savage why u trappin so hard, why u niggas cappin so hard

When you learn about the life of Johnny Cash and everything he went through you realize why this song was so perfect for him.

@devinblaylock8930

3 жыл бұрын

🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

@tylergriffin1436

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure how accurate this is but I read that Trent Reznor said "I was born to write the song but Johnny Cash was born to sing it."

@elizabethseals2001

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't this a Nine Inch Nails song? I love Johnny Cash. He looks a little pitiful in this. People couldn't believe when he died right after June. He couldn't live without her. The picture was his mom. His wife is the one watching him in the video. Im sure someone has already said that.

@elizabethseals2001

3 жыл бұрын

@@tylergriffin1436 I read the same thing.

@jacobbyrd7585

3 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethseals2001 it is a NIN song but they renounced the rights and said it should be remembered as a Johnny Cash song

Closing that piano was like closing his coffin. That is truly one of the most emotional songs ever.

@VCRAGE

4 жыл бұрын

100% the same thought came to mind.

@Spacewolf571

3 жыл бұрын

closing the piano to me seems like he was closing the coffin on his wife

@hcradeur

3 жыл бұрын

logan Grimnar... and himself

@justacatinabath1309

3 жыл бұрын

Yo u posted this same comment on the official video

@red_rakkoon6782

3 жыл бұрын

This comment had 665 likes... My ocd made me make it 666.. sorry... but I do like and agree with the comment

When Cash does a cover of your song. It's no longer yours.

@demonicrebellion6903

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Petty said it best my dude

@sticklait

5 жыл бұрын

Stolen

@Nosferata138

5 жыл бұрын

Trent was honored he wanted to cover it. Who wouldn't be?!?

@cnixish

5 жыл бұрын

It's only yours if you wrote it

@imacahguy

5 жыл бұрын

@@cnixish you dont get it

You showed Johnny Cash a lot of respect in this reaction and I appreciate you more for that. Much love 🙌🏼

@justjoe942

4 жыл бұрын

I think these 'reaction videos' are doing more to unite the races than anything the UN has ever done.

@thatstuff3288

4 жыл бұрын

@@justjoe942 The UN hates white people

@justjoe942

4 жыл бұрын

@@thatstuff3288 Why do you say that, dude? Not disagreeing; just curious.

@merciatreasurehunting6244

4 жыл бұрын

God bless Robert.E.Lee

@merciatreasurehunting6244

4 жыл бұрын

@Duke Fan 4 Life it's a Johnny Cash song for your information. Does this make you dislike Johnny now?

Only lyric changed was “crown of thorns” instead of “crown of shit” This song was chosen because of the fact that it is SO perfect. And it’s not at all what it was written about. Reznor commented about how much it refreshed his understanding that music is a medium that can say the same thing 100 ways by 100 people and mean 100 different things.

@movietimeateds69

3 жыл бұрын

That was my main gripe with this version for years. Crown of shit fits the song much more, imo.

@chrismarple

3 жыл бұрын

Joe no it doesn’t crown of thorns is 100 times better

@stevehurst6066

3 жыл бұрын

Thorns was in the radio edit

@jeffdrake5881

3 жыл бұрын

I remember Reznor talking about hearing it and, because of where he was at in his career as well as the place he was in at the time, he didn't care much for it. It was interesting, but it was... not quite the best attempt in his opinion. Then he saw the video a few weeks later... I don't know the exact words, but it was something to the effect of, "It's not my song... not anymore." As if the images and the voice just drove home how very different Reznor thought and felt about it when he wrote it, and how it was somehow transformed into something completely outside of his experience. He would end with, "His version is better."

@mr.z1992

3 жыл бұрын

So to whoever said crown of thorns was in the radio edit you’re wrong, Johnny Cash, after being presented the song as a possible cover by his producer, Rick Rubin, yes that Rick Rubin, if you can believe it, changed only that lyric from crown of shit to crown of thorns. I think it was the right call by Cash when you consider the meaning I’ll tell you about that Trent ascribed to it when he wrote it vs. what it meant from a guy like Johnny’s perspective- at the end of the line, a Godlike figure in his genre. Johnny has been covering songs and doing what he loved most at the very end of his career things to Reuben as his producer, and he remarked that it was all about taking the songs and making them his own and he didn’t feel crown of shit fit. As someone mentioned, Trent Reznor had a very different intention for the meaning of the song. Basically, Trent’s version, which was written by Reznor in his late 20s or early 30s I think, at the time, in his eyes, was about a sort of recluse younger man who was going down a path of self-destruction. It almost had overtones in the meaning similar to that of radio heads creep, but darker, in the way that Trent saw if I understand correctly. If I might make a suggestion, try the song “one“ by Johnny Cash covering the U2 song of the same name of course. He covered it shortly before this song but when he was in better health on the album right before this last one of us. I never cared too too much for the U2 song even though I could see that there was some genius to it, but boy does Johnny make it something special. And this is coming from a guy who respects Johnny Cash a great deal, but isn’t like a diehard fan by any means. I actually just recently watched a documentary laying all this out so it’s fresh in my mind.

Much respect, he died of a broken heart. He loved June more than life

@aj529

Жыл бұрын

He sure did. Loved her more than life.

His wife, saved him from death, of drug addiction. She, was part of his soul. He, went willingly and joyously..... to be with her, again.

@irish73tjk

5 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said Ms Lynch!

@richardzehrung7088

5 жыл бұрын

Well said

@mattdoe2368

5 жыл бұрын

God bless them

@MrNelliboy

5 жыл бұрын

Perfect comment.

@LambentLark

5 жыл бұрын

@James Vani it did feel a little. . . . . . Shatnered.

He changed one lyric. He changed crown of shit to crown of thorns. It's a biblical reference. Johnny was a righteous man.

@countsolomon

4 жыл бұрын

I imagine most people will miss that single changed word.

@C.S.Sperry

4 жыл бұрын

And that one changed lyric made all the difference.

@bluefig797

4 жыл бұрын

I love Personal Jesus

@RhinoAg

4 жыл бұрын

He changed it all by his voice.

@ReiEmeraldTakedo

4 жыл бұрын

It's a little more power than that. I mean, he's actually commenting on how unrighteous he is. The context is pretty important here because he's basically saying that even if he's pious, he'd surrender his personal god for another moment with the people he loved. He definitely believed in God, but I think he, like a lot of people, saw himself as either unwilling or unworthy to accept hit flaws, and thus... Heaven isn't for everyone. I'm an atheist, but I do hope he found some peace in his own memories before he went. The things we lose are more than the sum of their parts.

The video for the single 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, the woman sat on the stairs in the video; also a singer 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 a drug 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. It was June Carter Cash that Johnny attributed to rescuing him from his drug and alcohol addiction a major theme of the song. 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. Carter and is the person played by Reese Witherspoon alongside Joaquin Phoenix, in the film 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 a 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, 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.

@dentonkellyjr8095

2 жыл бұрын

thank you for info

Sitting here in my second treatment facility this year, and this song just smacked me in my face in a whole other way. Respect to the greatest, RIP.

@amybittick7092

2 жыл бұрын

How are you now?

@brittanythompson2793

2 жыл бұрын

@@amybittick7092 doing well!! Still sober, working, got my own place, both my kids, life is good! 💚💚

Cash died of a broken heart....he is a true legend.

@ghostryder94

5 жыл бұрын

yes, and old age.

@Calebrobertson22

5 жыл бұрын

ghostryder94 technically it was diabetes

@Kanjo_Bazooie

5 жыл бұрын

This theead is great lol. Fr though rip man in black

@deannederhoff

5 жыл бұрын

@@Calebrobertson22 omg come off of it already lol.its just a saying.quit being so cynical about it.he just lost june just a few months before that so everything compounded him dying if ya wanna get technical

June Carter his wife forced him to give up drugs to be with her, she was his saving grace. This is Johnny Cash saying he can not live without her

@marcusblackwell2372

4 жыл бұрын

So "everyone I know goes away in the end" meant when he lost June, he lost his purpose, moral compass & best friend?

@hellhound_ks4559

4 жыл бұрын

@@marcusblackwell2372 yes :(

@0davydebrycke328

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody saw Walk the Line with J. Phoenix?? Not trolling you guys

@marcusblackwell2372

4 жыл бұрын

@@0davydebrycke328 actually I saw some but VERY little

@0davydebrycke328

4 жыл бұрын

@@marcusblackwell2372 it's a true piece of art. Watch the movie and it will stick to you. I am from Belgium and didn't know about Cash before I saw Walk the Line. U can say it sure made a huge impact👍

That was his last recording; June Carter Cash died three months later, and Johnny died a month after that. Thank you for the respect that you showed to them. Try 'The Green Green Grass of Home' from live at Folsom prison; Johnny's voice comes from the tomb. Stuff Tom Jones.

@swampghost8256

Жыл бұрын

Yes, June died May 15 , three months after this video was recorded, Johnny followed her almost four months later on Sept 12

That lady in the picture was his mother, and his wife is the one standing on the steps. i heard he died after he made this song. He knew he was sick.

@kevinhyler2474

3 жыл бұрын

His wife was sick, he died of a broken heart

this song tears me down to the bones. He had money, fame... everything... in the end it was all dirt. he lost the only things in life that matters... love

@morningstar7896

4 жыл бұрын

Nathan Fritz that’s right that proves money can’t make u happy

@jacksisco997

4 жыл бұрын

well stated

@treycushwa4646

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly my guy. No matter what you believe, nothing is going with you.

@davisworth5114

4 жыл бұрын

@@morningstar7896 but it allows you to choose your misery.

@morningstar7896

4 жыл бұрын

David O'Beirn yea

You can listen to the entire album, and you can hear it in his voice. He was done. But, he didn't know how else to live, so he faced death the same way he faced everything else, with music.

@mfollett11

4 жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful comment

@rayloc420

4 жыл бұрын

Amazing comment

@beckytolbert3920

4 жыл бұрын

any Johnny cash is great

@gwarriorfromhell

4 жыл бұрын

He and David Bowie both used their last albums as a way to say goodbye to their loved ones. They lived through music, and they found that it was the only way to end as well.

his wife was on the stairs behind him, she passed just a couple of months after this video, the he passed like 6 months after vthat

I remember the first time this song hit the airwaves. At the very end, even the DJ was silent on the radio. She could barely breathe. "Wow" Jesse eventually did manage to get out.

Shaq, this is me speaking to you brother. Your reactions are not just reactions, your showing the world that there is no color, there is just each other, and no matter where you are from we are still people. Your honest appreciation of the music is beyond just the music, you show respect for the person, there craft, and the world. Your content is revolutionary to me and you should have a show on tv where more people can see you. I love just seeing how excited you get about everything. Thank you. And Johnny cash was a legend, I love and listen to all music as well, and the appreciation is appreciated.

@MackeyWilliams

4 жыл бұрын

Amen, Danielle. Well said. Agree with every word. Thank you, coach! Keep doing what you do and keep on giving our elders their propers. This song makes me tear up every time. God bless you, man.

@rpanonymous3881

4 жыл бұрын

Shaq needs to see this!

@mynameisanimal

3 жыл бұрын

and people like you supporting him gives him the power to do what he does !!!

@ajrangel79

3 жыл бұрын

That’s what I say music is the great equalizer for all people know matter what race or religion

@pierreo33

3 жыл бұрын

@SlavPlaysGames Hello fellow European. If you're a huge Trump supporter and complain about evil people trying to divide people, you're blind as a bat because that's literally what Trump does. "Humans love humans and want to help eachother" unless they're immigrants, right? Nice of Trump to put them in camps, closing borders, building walls etc. You need to rethink your view of life. You write nice things but you want a leader that will do the exact opposite.

The pic was his mom, The house was his childhood home where his brother died.

@obiwanshinobi5631

4 жыл бұрын

The first pic.

@obiwanshinobi5631

4 жыл бұрын

The second and third were June.

@aronmcevoy8450

3 жыл бұрын

@@obiwanshinobi5631 he’s on about the framed picture June is in the video in person

@radagast7200

3 жыл бұрын

That scene in Walk the Line where his brother dies is intense.

@danfisher7856

2 жыл бұрын

The picture was mother Maybell Carter, June's mom.

08:35 The piano being closed and the way he moves his hand gently over it looks the way one would caress a closed coffin lid. I assume that parallel was the intent.

When he says " I am still here " I get shivers man. RIP Johnny Cash

Random fact. The scene where June appears wasn’t suppose to happen. She was upstairs resting and came down because she heard noise but forgot about the shoot. She never wanted to be in the video originally but said to keep the footage because she knew the impact.

@yzdirtbikes144

4 жыл бұрын

Where can I find a source for this with more information? I'd like to know more

@rebelfighter5249

4 жыл бұрын

@@yzdirtbikes144 just Google it man. I'm sure you'll find something. Don't make others do the work for u.

@0davydebrycke328

4 жыл бұрын

@@yzdirtbikes144 euhm, the movie Walk the Line with J. Phoenix.

@0davydebrycke328

4 жыл бұрын

@Andy A Ray is still on my to watch list. Big fan of Foxx acting skills, but what he up to next to filming, revealing last years, got my perception change and I think this will sadly influence me watching his movies nowadays... should not have put Ray on the waiting shelf, mostly from my movie geek point of view, a loss for me

@edminchau811

4 жыл бұрын

To have someone look at me the way she looked at him in that song, I'd trade just about anything

I cried this entire video. Something about an old man in pain and with regrets just crushes my soul to pieces.

@marye3974

5 жыл бұрын

I love the original but totally agree with what you said. This version haunts your soul.

@davidwood3560

5 жыл бұрын

I break down every time I watch it

@skudlugs

5 жыл бұрын

We all have regrets, age stops us lying to ourselves.

@steeltown825

5 жыл бұрын

Ya and bitches are the cause of the pain and regrets.

@rramirez4444

5 жыл бұрын

I cry every time I hear this version.

I love your reactions, but this one ... I actually cried, listening to the respect in your voice and the insights you brought to the song. I love his music and I was worried you might not get it. But damn ... You nailed it. Thank you.

Johny Cash is both the Country and Rock Music Hall of Fames. He was a unique and extraordinary talent

Cash was metal as fuck. The man made music that transcended genre. Even those who don't like country, love Cash. His body is gone, but his soul lives forever in his musical legacy and in our memory.

@Serenity113

5 жыл бұрын

Johnny Cash is like a separate genre. You can say you listen to rap, rock, country, etc but then you say, you listen to Johnny Cash and it's just different.

@jakekingsbury6961

5 жыл бұрын

I hate country but Johnny Cash is one of my favorite musician s of all time

@1320crusier

5 жыл бұрын

His career was revived near the end by an R&B/HipHop/Rap label too

@SuperSikarlo

5 жыл бұрын

His soul lives in heaven, not in music

@brandenlasley2587

5 жыл бұрын

StCerberusEngel that is deep as fuck but so true

He’s singing for his love June Carter Cash. She was his everything

@heatherbotez

4 жыл бұрын

he died of a broken heart....i have seen it so many times

This is the first reaction where I seen someone understand the lyrics and understand the meaning behind his words. I think you articulated it beautifully man. You got a subscribe and a like from me.

I cry every time i hear this song. It opens my thoughts to my own shortcomings and mortality. It's meant to "jerk us up" and reflect on our lives while there's still time on our experation date.

My grandfather - my hero, and Johnny Cash - his hero, died on the same day. The day before my grandfather in a delirium said, "They won't let me in." I told him what he always told me. "Did ya tell 'em who you are?;"

@legacyofchrist7931

4 жыл бұрын

GOD Bless you

@seanmcclellan358

4 жыл бұрын

Jenn Wysocki god damn right they let him in. 😉

@BlueMrBoo2

3 жыл бұрын

Jonny Cash's death was overshadowed by John Ritters Sudden death the same day... It always has bugged me.

@PodtrashRadio

3 жыл бұрын

​@@BlueMrBoo2 John Ritter died the day before Johnny Cash died, not the same day just FYI

@Ninjapiratecowboy

3 жыл бұрын

Thats.... really fucking beautiful. Happy you had that moment.

He closes the piano like you would close a coffin

@nathansheldonlance

5 жыл бұрын

Wow i never thought about that But your Right

@TheUserid82

4 жыл бұрын

Another video that did a final close well was David Bowie's Lazarus. There is just something in a video from someone that knows this is it rather then someone that passes from a unknown condition or from an accident/murder/suicide.

@kourtjestr552

4 жыл бұрын

couldn't find the words for it but you did. yes

@christinegelabert1651

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheUserid82 You're absolutely right about the way he closes the piano. I'm making my final plans while I'm still able to think for myself. I was given a fatal diagnosis on March 26th by my Neuro. Sometimes ppl play music at wakes and funerals like the bagpipes and other things. I'm being cremated and having my burial ceremony for some of my ashes done on my 1 yr anniversary. So I've decided that I want music that means stuff TO me and also TO my friends. I've been compiling a bunch of songs that my friends will play as instrumentals on a CD on the day of my wake. THIS is one of them because they know I'm a HUGE Johnny Cash fan and I loved this song since it came out. There's only 1 CD that eill have the vocals to all the sings and that will go to a very special person. All the other copies will go to whichever friends want them. My godson is making them for me once I've finished all my selections because he's got a musical engineering degree and does studio work with bands. It IS kinda like what Shaq said, cuz it's kinda hard that you know you've got something going on with that you can't fix and that it's just coming at you. But what are you gonna do but enjoy what youve got left and hang out and listen to ALL THE MUSIC you can in the meantime. I'm really serious cuz it's a known fact that when ppl are in bad mental stages like in comas that music IS what reaches them. Several of my friends have told me that they heard EVERY SONG I'd played at the hospital BUT the only thing was that it sounded like it was being played underwater...like it was in a swimming pool or very far away BUT they heard it before they recovered from their accidents. So I figure IF I can jam my head full of all the cool music memories NOW~then maybe I'll still at least have some of that at the end yk? Peace Out All! 😎

@bassage13

4 жыл бұрын

Putting his music to rest.

I deeply sobbed; my soul was torn to pieces when I listened intently to the words!! POWERFUL!!!!

I didn’t think I would ever cry during a No Life Shaq video 💀

@janetg3984

3 жыл бұрын

This song always makes me cry. I love how Shaq is OPEN to all genre's of music and really listens to the lyrics and connects with them.

Shaq, one of the people out there actually doing something at bringing folks and races and music together.

@edwardmunson3896

5 жыл бұрын

I don't care if Shaq is reviewing the names in a telephone book.....I will watch and listen. And yep, Shaq brings us all together, better than any damn politician.

@apexdemond554

4 жыл бұрын

Like how he try’s to understand other band by looking up their names and songs

@rxnnegan8270

4 жыл бұрын

People like you are the reason it’s like that you shouldn’t view it like that talkin bout bringin races together and shit he ain’t doin nun of that extra shit he just a normal ass person reacting to music lmao

@cheese3416

4 жыл бұрын

Its genuis

The way he touches the piano there at the end, it's like he's saying goodbye to an old friend.

@TheBlueDogMan

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it also reminded me of closing a casket. Chilling.

@charlesatty

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheBlueDogMan thought the same. Made a big ole tear go down my face.

@26muca07

4 жыл бұрын

@@charlesatty me too man, I f*ing cried like a bitch at the first time.

@HistorydnClarity

4 жыл бұрын

😥

my parents named me after him, thank you for reacting to this song

Johnny owned this song after he did it!! He was so heartbroken after June his wife passed he could not live anymore.

This song was MEANT for Cash. Reznor was right to give it to him. Reznor wrote it for an experience he had once....Cash sang it for a LIFETIME of going through that. Greatest Johnny Cash song ever, and worthy of being called his Swan Song. Also, the last time we ever saw June Carter Cash on camera. Her eyes on him in the video are heartbreaking.

@khurelbatbayanbat7913

4 жыл бұрын

Listened to both versions and they both convey something different but same Trents was from the point of view of a youths feeling of helplessness against the world he sees before him. Cash’s was a man cofessing his sins and mistakes at the end of his life after facing said world and making choices and decisions that can’t be taken back. Both had the same meaning but differing points in time.

@LimmeLimbo

4 жыл бұрын

No. This song was meant for Reznor. He wrote it because of the things he experienced, not Cashes life. You can't dismiss one person's experiences and take what they made about their personal life, and just hand it to someone else just because you like the other person more. That's some corny shit. If Cash wanted to make his own song about his life he would have, but he didn't.

@jamierogers3677

4 жыл бұрын

I feel the pain more in the Cash version. You can literally hear that he was just broken

@cheebees

4 жыл бұрын

Kickbakk best comment, I agree.

@dnsmithnc

4 жыл бұрын

Props to Reznor for giving it to him.

Reznor's reaction was "Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend." He didn't give it to Cash, he lost it to him.

@dnsmithnc

4 жыл бұрын

Well said. Of course Reznor allowed him to cover it but, I get what you mean.

@spidrawebster

3 жыл бұрын

There's a bit of a difference between "lost your girlfriend" and "kissing your girlfriend". The entire quote, according to Wikipedia, is "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.[

@banyarling

3 жыл бұрын

@@spidrawebster "like I was watching my girlfriend f**k somebody else" was what my search engine found

@Bobsyagod

3 жыл бұрын

@@banyarling There's 2 different quotes from Reznor on it, the one you quoted was how he reacted to the song alone at first, the one Spidrawebster quoted was his response later on once he'd accepted it and watched the video as well

@smsmoof8128

4 ай бұрын

it was because of Rick Rubins brilliance ... a master of the matchup. Awesome. kzread.info/dash/bejne/i2Frwc6oodarh7w.html

RIP Mr. Cash. I absolutely love this song and that he sang his own tribute to life.

I can't even front every time I see that video it brings a tear to my eye🙏🏼

The man in black himself.. Legend..

Nine inch nail wrote and sang that song, J cash asked NIN to sing it, NIN said yes, it was so good, NIN released the rights to J Cash cause cash sang it better. True shit

@Whysper420

5 жыл бұрын

Trent said it himself Cash did a better job

@reineh3477

5 жыл бұрын

I heard the interview. Trent listened to Johnnys song on a CD and thought it sounded wrong. Not bad but different, it was his most personal song and then didn't think more about that. A few weeks later he saw the video and said "It isn't my song anymore" m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/eaCuzNOJd8e1g7A.html

Shaq, this was a decent and most interesting reaction. You certainly gave the guy respect. Johnny Cash had much regret. I really think he wanted to show this video to others, that you don't take your empire with you when you die. But you do leave behind all the love and all the hurt. You could see the feelings in his eyes. So deep. Although I am not a big Johnny Cash fan, I do like a couple of his songs and I definitely love this Nine Inch Nails cover. Thank you for this reaction. I loved it.

Johnny Cash spoke from his heart! Said it like it is. Johnny Cash helps me and I'm sure others through tough times. Rest In Paradise Mr. Cash

I've been a Nine Inch Nails fan nearly my whole life. This song has always inspired raw emotion in me, but the Johnny Cash cover video drives me to tears without fail.

@mnix5427

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, to the core...

@michaelagustinsantos3015

5 жыл бұрын

NIN's song haunts me. Cash's cover makes me weepy.

@jamesgorsh5752

5 жыл бұрын

Every time.....

@gorbaggoescamping1329

5 жыл бұрын

Same for me.

@aquamarine0023

5 жыл бұрын

One of the most incredibly powerful songs ever, it tears right through me every time. Both Trent's original and Johnny's cover capture the rawness in their own ways. Johnny understood it perfectly. There is also a live performance you can find on YT with David Bowie performing this with Trent. It is otherworldly!

The woman in the picture on the wall was Johnny Cash's mother. The small white house in the "home movie clips" was the house that Cash was raised in as a young child. The woman on the steps in the 2nd half was his wife June, who Cash always said "watched over him' like an 'angel sent from above', making her standing both "above" and "watching over him" even more impactful when you know how Johnny felt about her both as a wife and a friend that saved his life from drugs and self-destructive tendencies such as fighting and going out and partying. There isn't "another guy" actually in the video..... the "other guy" was the DIRECTOR of the video who used to be in Nine Inch Nails with Trent Reznor and respected BOTH artists enough to ensure that Trent's fears of Cash's version being "gimmicky' never happened through careful editing and planned location shoots such as the "House of Cash".... which is the museum dedicated to Johnny Cash, in order to both highlight Cash's career to his fans, and to show new fans why this particular artist singing THIS song was much deeper than the lyrics would imply

@insanzeforlife5150

5 жыл бұрын

I came to the comments to explain who the lady in the picture was. I found away better answer than I could have ever wrote!!!

@rustyrelicsfarm2406

5 жыл бұрын

herrzimm Ti was his wife actually.

@Razorpig378

5 жыл бұрын

In Kiser, Arkansas. He and my dad grew up together. My dad lived in Dyess. Small town east of Kiser. Johnny and his family picked my grandfather's cotton.

@markm4033

5 жыл бұрын

@@Razorpig378 wow, that's pretty cool. Did you ever get a chance to meet Cash at all?

@Razorpig378

5 жыл бұрын

@@markm4033 Yes. When I was 9. Met him Jerry Reed, Conway Tweety, Merl Haggard and Waylon Jennings after school they were in my house in Jacksonville Arkansas. I remember thinking why are these old guys in my house. Now that I appreciate it they'rere all gone.

Wow I used to watch you react to Bad Meets Evil, Eminem, Pantera, and you even react to country music like this.? You're so versitile dude, I like that.

When Johnny Cash was a kid, his older brother and best friend, Jack, was almost cut in half by a table saw, while he was fishing. He died a week later and his father blamed him for it. He had a toxic marriage to his first wife. He became addicted to drugs and alcohol. His second wife, June Carter Cash, essentially saved his life, but before that, he had hurt her emotionally many times over. She forgave him, they got married, and he eventually became a Christian, and he made amends with everyone he hurt and his father too. This song really is perfect. He died just a few months after his wife. His story is bittersweet. Love your videos!

Nine inch nails cover it is , powerful cover, no words not changed but tempo is . He passed just after the recording whilst his love of his life june carter died in the months before , you see the sadness in his eyes still over her loss. This was his way of apologising to his kids for the life he led an the hurt he caused all his fam

@nicholasreddin491

5 жыл бұрын

Johnny Cash changed one word. From Crown of Shit, to Crown of Thorns.

@jasonpashley7822

5 жыл бұрын

Nicholas reddin , correct ty forgot that cheers bro

@rachealmurphy6687

5 жыл бұрын

My empire of dirt was .y empire of shit in the original but yeah it's pretty much the same song

@willtheangrydudeist9120

5 жыл бұрын

Trent Reznor is NIN, just fyi

@burningstar1793

5 жыл бұрын

NIN also has one disonant note in the main riff that Cash the Great left out. Not sure if that goes along with your point or not.

The lady in the picture was his mom The lady on the stairs was his wife she passed before it aired The lyrics weren’t changed

@brittanydriver4666

4 жыл бұрын

I said she passed before the airing of the video on tv

@memegod6984

4 жыл бұрын

@@brittanydriver4666 one lyric was changed crown of shit to crown of thorns

@criswilson6421

4 жыл бұрын

He changed crown of shit to crown of third to make it biblical

@mpepp9

4 жыл бұрын

Cris Wilson *thorns

@thrashrattlehead4548

4 жыл бұрын

yeah...first pic was his mother

This was the song played at my best friend's wake. He passed unexpectedly 6 yrs ago when he was 37. I miss him everyday & know that I will as long as I'm on this earth!

I am 56 years old and as a young boy my dad listen to Johnny Cash. He never really told me why he like Johnny Cash so I guess he had a connection what was going on in his life culminated with his. Thanks for your reaction. You showed him a lot of respect as I know you do with all of your artist that you react to

@rm3122

2 жыл бұрын

How are you doing now?

When he closes the piano and runs his hands across it, I lose it everytime. Great song, great man

@jackyhulst6669

5 жыл бұрын

made me cry man! :( realy!

That was one of the most heart felt touching performances I've ever seen. It's is just absolutely haunting. You you see and feel the emotion in him. He was dying his voice was cracking but still he pulled it off. It should bring a tear to anyone's eye. He sang it with total sincerity. How he had lost the things that mattered most. And how all his money and fame were nothing more than dirt and he would gladly let you have it all if he could start over again knowing full well that he couldn't. It's just an eye opening reality that we all will face someday. He sang it with pain but yet the courage to say that he couldn't change it. Wow just wow. That's an awesome way to end a story book career and life. Being humble.

@Daniel-gc3te

3 жыл бұрын

Well said Doug. Wow. Nothing more to say. Rest in Peace Mr. Cash

@janetg3984

3 жыл бұрын

@Doug Morgan You nailed it. This song always makes me cry. I still watch Walk The Line to this day. Joaquin truly did become Cash. Such a great movie.

Wow... Iv heard this song a couple of times. But never lissened... U right this was perfect.. Perfect song perfect video... Thank u for reacting to this... Only one word pop into my head... Wow... R. I. P..

Rest in Piece to one of the best blues artist in history. He will always be missed, thank you for everything you've done Mr. Cash, you helped quite a few members of my family through our troubles

Shaq, you should react to Johnny Cash's song "A boy named Sue" it is hilarious

@johnthegiant320

5 жыл бұрын

Why are more people not into this happening!?!?!?;?

@weezy-_-chubs1849

5 жыл бұрын

funny and badass song

@LittlemanDetails

5 жыл бұрын

Staind Oswald hell yeah

@benduran3907

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck yea man!!

@brandons.6394

5 жыл бұрын

this one is legit

Johnny Cash was THE MAN. This song is a masterpiece. I’m glad Trent wrote it, I’m even more glad Johnny chose to sing it.

I've been a fan of Johnny cash my whole life. I grew up listening to him with my family. So every time I watch this music video or hear this song it nearly brings me to tears. Not only because he was a great man that this lost but because it also brings back memories of a simpler time in life that I'll never be able to go back to. It makes me reflect on all the people that have hurt me and the people I've hurt as well. The range of emotions I feel listening to this blows my mind. The nine inch nails version of it is haunting in it's own right but when Johnny Cash covered it, it's almost like he brought ghosts from the past as well.

My eyes watered when he said, "everyone I know, goes away".

Johnny Cash- gods gonna cut you down. Great song and the respect of numerous other artists from all genres in the video is nothing but class!!! Please coach!!!!

@nancyjackson6584

5 жыл бұрын

Aint no grave is another good one

@Gutslinger

5 жыл бұрын

Idk about class.. You could say that the majority of the people in that video need to take heed of the message in that song.

@melissagraham4117

5 жыл бұрын

came here to say this one too

@l1ndsey7

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! Love both those songs

johnny cash . the man in black. the legend . this man was metal and hard rock .before it came to be . alot of his songs have a dark under tone much like alot of metal songs . thats why he is not only loved in the country world . but all so in the metal world . in the whole music world .....he is truly missed .

@burningstar1793

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Every time I say he was the first instance of metal people want to argue until they're blue in the face. Glad someone else gets that. I think i even have a comment on this video about just that 😅

@papasynsin523

5 жыл бұрын

Alot his songs are his testament to the journey of his life and those whom he met

@tacobellalugosi2527

5 жыл бұрын

@@papasynsin523 agreed . the man lived a metal lifestyle . he never said im sorry for who i am . he was a junkie for time . and licked it stood up for the little guy trying to make it in this fucked up unfair world,. got the girl he wanted who at first didnt want him became an awesome music artist . then became music legend thats why us metal heads hold johnny so high up there and i dont think he ever knew we held him so dear . he was one us. i mean look at songs like 'ring of fire ' one of my fav,s songs about a dude falling hard for this chick . and its like hell because he doesnt know if she likes him back which many of us have felt in our lifes

@paddyr1568

5 жыл бұрын

"I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die", ....he could do gangster pretty good too.

@tacobellalugosi2527

5 жыл бұрын

@@paddyr1568 agreed. johnny was just 100 % pure badass .but it was . i shot a man in reno .

Still cried my eyes out! I will never forget a big bunch of us on a Pontoon boat coming n out of the Florida springs on the West Coast of Florida out into gulf when they announced he had passed away & started playing this song. What a freaking moment!!! We all toasted his memory & sang along as we drive into the beautiful sunset

And this man will be around forever! He’s the country GOAT! This reaction was great!

Johnny Cash Died of a broken heart after he lost his wife June Carter Cash... I'm more of a classic rock, blues kind of guy, but this video never fails to bring out more powerful emotions in me than any song I've ever heard. REALEST of the REAL! Johnny is LEGENDARY! The eyes get pretty misty... Thank you Shaq

@StonerSteve97

4 жыл бұрын

This hurts like hell couldn't imagine!

He changed one word for his cover. Cash sings "I wear this crown of thorns" the original lyric is "I wear this crown of shit" that's the only lyric change.

@Rob-hb7wh

5 жыл бұрын

But honestly, he probably did the song a favor by changing that 1 wors

@ArchieGoodwin71

5 жыл бұрын

@@Rob-hb7wh I agree it was best for Cash. Trent was a young man dealing with addiction so shit worked well for him. Johnny was an ordained minister dealing with the weight of life, so thorns works best for him.

@w.w.marchi1677

5 жыл бұрын

@@ArchieGoodwin71 and he was a christian so that's meaningful

@iangodwin478

5 жыл бұрын

@@Rob-hb7wh so fucking true

@ryanarbogast6141

5 жыл бұрын

Johnny cash ghost wrote the song for the other artists. He came out with it himself when he got big enough to have a voice

Different side of Johnny: "A Boy Named Sue"

@isiaharreguin3787

3 жыл бұрын

Yessssssssss

@nickferries2777

3 жыл бұрын

A really different side of Johnny cash was chicken in black

Johnny Cash “Hurt” completely wrecks me every time.

Seeing his entire life flash by at the end and then him closing the piano is just beautiful

Johny cash started as a country artist but he is one of the godfathers to rock. Him jerry lewis and elvis all toured together. He is and always will be "The Man In Black"

@tweeterjack

5 жыл бұрын

I think he had somewhat of an influence on early rap too

@luckyhero2517

4 жыл бұрын

Douglas MacArthur he influenced everything that came after him the man in black has a hand in it all.

The power of "The Man In Blacks" voice was so powerful. NIN's version was a bit more dark and melancholy where as Johnny's was just... emotionally immersive

Thats his mother in the picture. His wife, June, was in the video. I remember my grandmother had took me to see him at the Carter Fold in Hiltons, VA. I lived in Gate City which is 10 minutes away. We got there and there was a limo parked in front with velvet ropes around it. I was like who here???? Lol and it was him and June. We met them both that day.

Mr. Cash stated that when he closed the cover on the piano, it reminded him of closing the casket at a funeral. It gets me every time I see it. I was never a big fan of his, but over the years Johnny put out some good tunes and brought joy to millions of people. God Bless you and Rest in Peace Johnny Cash.

@movietimeateds69

3 жыл бұрын

Like bowie going into the armoire at the end of "lazarus". Its the close of his chapter, but were still here.

The picture you asked if it was his wife, that's his mother who he was very very close with. His wife comes later @6:30 and @7:06. The only lyrics Johnny changed from Trent was "I wear this crown of shit" to "I wear this crown of thorns" because he didn't like to curse in his music.

@joshuaking7470

5 жыл бұрын

I think the lyric change also fit into the fact Cash had his battles with God as well that may have been on his mind

@rancidcrabtree.

5 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaking7470 Johnny was deeply religious.

@Gutslinger

5 жыл бұрын

Johnny had a very close relationship with God, especially towards the end. Do people not at least watch documentaries about anything they lay claim of?

@brandonhinrichs8657

5 жыл бұрын

@Wrath's Heinous Anus Was Devoured by Happy Scrappy a boy named sue was like 40+years before this. He didn't curse in his songs later in his career he would sing his old songs with the curse words but bitch isn't a major curse word.

@brandonhinrichs8657

5 жыл бұрын

@@Gutslinger what are you saying? Nobody said he didn't have a relationship with God they just said he didn't like to curse which is especially true later in his life.

He knew he was dying and he was telling his life story through this song. Yes it does give me chills at the end too. Fly High Johnny Cash!!

The Man knew his time was coming. Perfect ending to an amazing life.

4:27 No that's Carrie, Johnny Cash's mother. The woman who always appear in the video is his wife June

Shaq, I love your sensitivity to this performance.

Learn something new every day. I just always assumed Nine Inch Nails covered Johnny Cash.

You should listen to Johnny Cash When The Man Comes around

@joekenn4768

3 жыл бұрын

Susan Fast probably my favorite Man in Black song.

Johnny Cash performed just a few feet away from the inmates in San Quinton prison with No barrier between him and the inmates. You can find the video of it.

@dawnkeener9836

5 жыл бұрын

Thats cause he was a prison inmate for a long time. My bad he was never really in prison..that was a myth that was passed around when I was a kid.

@xMtF54x

5 жыл бұрын

Dawn Keener merle haggard and coe were

Credits to nine inch nails for creating this beautiful song

@flaquis2729

4 жыл бұрын

Crazy thing is, Trent Reznor created this song for Johnny Cash and didn't even know it at the time.

@michaelvega4050

4 жыл бұрын

He stole it do the research

@flaquis2729

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelvega4050 who stole it? Trent Reznor wrote it, and is credited as such.

@humanperson2205

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelvega4050 He covered it.

@reaperwb39

4 жыл бұрын

Trent himself said that after cash covered it he felt like he wrote the song for cash and nine inch nails retired their version of it

Cash was one of those rare musicians that can transcend people’s preferences in genre

Johnny Cash was the Original Gangster, he's the first country artist to say in a song that "he killed a man just to watch him die." Before him no one in country music had been that hardcore with their lyrics. When June, Johnny's 2nd wife, died they said that Johnny stopped taking all his medications, diabetics and all. He didn't want to go on without June.

He left to follow his girl, went out on a high note with this cover and cemented his legacy. How sad can that really be? RIP GOAT

He closes and caresses that piano you can almost see him caressing the coffin of his wife and the hurt and pain still lingered with him.

@omicron2018

5 жыл бұрын

That's a beautiful interpretation of that image.

I love your reactions, Shaq. I love how you honestly listen to the words and feel them!

This is a classic! Johnny cash drums is another good song and a tribute to my native brothers and singers. 🙂

The piano closing at the end gave me goosebumps, too! The imagery is so powerful.

@hobbitpeddler4267

4 жыл бұрын

And also young Johnny on the stage as the lights go down...

Thanks for showing the diversity in music!!! Don't matter what color you are it only matters if you can feel the music!!! #respect #bruh

The woman in the picture was Johnny's mom. The woman standing in the video was June Carter Cash, his wife, who saved him by making him quit heroin to be with her, & stuck by him. Before releasing this song June sat all their kids down to watch the final cut. They were all upset & thought it was horrible to portray him like that. June told them "we cut out much worse." She died 4 days after the video was released, Johnny followed a few months later. Having seen videos of them, I think it's safe to say Johnny would have said "She always was quicker to get it than me." about her knowing it was time to go. The closing of the piano like a casket at the end always gets me.

This is by far, possibly officially, the saddest video of all time. I truly believe Johnny died of a broken heart. Crazy thing, he didnt change any of Reznors lyrics. Goes to show just how much music can mean to people.

@wrldisyours3328

2 жыл бұрын

Yea he did. He changed "crown of shit" to "crown of thorns" but that's literally it I believe lol

They lady in the picture was his mother. The lady standing with him was his wife.

@MrClobbertime

5 жыл бұрын

His wife died shortly after the video was made. After that he just gave up on life.

It’s like he laid everything he had into this song and closed the piano for the final time. He was ready to go....

I'm native American indian.thank you. Shaqu.we are listening.im native American indian from Arizona.tjanks bro.much love 💖💙💙

This is one of the only songs I've ever heard that can still bring those tough emotions out of me. I can go years without hearing it but it'll all come back the second I do. Johnny Cash is one of the best to ever do it and this really felt like a finale. Very somber and final. I had to revisit this reaction when I saw it recommended. Man this was a good video!