Johnny Cash - Hurt REACTION!! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!! 

What you're hearing is a man giving the eulogy to his own funeral. Never fails to bring tears to my eyes.

I got up one morning for work and went into the living room to get dressed so as to not wake my wife. I turned on the TV to VH1 to watch some videos as I was getting ready and this was just coming on. I had not seen Cash in years and the way he had aged struck me. Then the song started and I just sat there all the way through it, mesmerized. When it was over I just kept sitting there for a minute, kind of stunned. Now, I'm much older. My wife has passed on and I'm still here and I feel this song even more. The song writer did an amazing job but Cash took it to another level. June, his wife, is the woman standing on the stairs looking at him with concern. That's real, the guy shooting the video caught that and included it. She actually died shortly after this was filmed, before Cash did. God bless the Man in Black.

You guys missed the VERY end where Johnny closes the piano and with a sense of finality and regret brushes his hands across the cover almost as a symbolism of: "Now I'm done.".

Trent Reznor says about the Cash version of Hurt: "I'd been friends with Rick Rubin for several years. He called me to ask how I'd feel if Johnny Cash covered Hurt. I said I'd be very flattered but was given no indication it would actually be recorded. The idea sounded a bit gimmicky. Two weeks went by. Then I got a CD in the post. I listened to it and it was very strange. It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive". Johnny played this song over 100 times before he recorded it. He called it "The best anti-drug song I ever heard." The song was released as a single in 2003. "One Hour Photo" director Mark Romanek said: “I begged Rick Rubin to let me shoot something to that track” being instantly enamored of the rendition, he offered to shoot the video for free. Universal eventually agreed to the music video, but with 71-year-old Cash’s health declining and being unwilling to stay long in the cold Tennessee weather as he was going on holiday to his ranch in Jamaica that coming Saturday, Romanek had only days to make the video and after scouting in Nashville, he decided upon Cash’s home and museum in Hendersonville, Tennessee, The House of Cash. "Arriving on Friday with no idea of what I was going to make" Romanek said. "I looked around the house and made a few suggestions of where we might film Johnny performing. I was making it up off the top of my head. Then I went to the House of Cash Museum and found it in total disrepair. There was no time to clean it up so I decided that I'd just film it, and Johnny, exactly as they were. He was no longer in his prime - he was fading and that was what I wanted to show. The place was in such a state of dereliction. That’s when I got the idea that maybe we could be extremely candid about the state of Johnny’s health - as candid as Johnny has always been in his songs. While I was filming the opening segment of Johnny playing guitar in his living room, his wife, June, came down the stairs and watched. The look on her face was so complex: full of love and pride and concern for her husband. So I asked her if I could film her too and she agreed. But the most important element was when we discovered a film archive in the museum. When we looked back at the rushes we'd filmed at the house we thought they were good but not great. But once we dropped in the archive footage of Johnny we realized that was the soul of the video. The whole thing was so spontaneous. It's made me realize that sometimes you can be too prepared and that there's some value to urgency." The music video speaks about the transience of life, the gracelessness of death, the Ozymandian crumbling of an oeuvre and the decline of a genre, an era and an attitude. The ‘closed to public’ sign on the museum. The cracked platinum records. The caviar and lobster banquet with no diners. The clips from earlier in Johnny’s career. His wife June looking on. The closed piano lid. The video was so intimate that Cash's management didn't think it should be released, and Johnny was leaning in that direction. According to Rick Rubin, it was his daughter, Rosanne Cash, who convinced Johnny to let it go. June died May 15th, 2003, three months after filming, Johnny died September 12, 2003 four months after his wife. Rick Rubin said of the video: “I cried the first time I saw it. If you were moved to that kind of emotion in the course of a two-hour movie, it would be a great accomplishment. To do it in a four-minute music video is shocking. I think the hurt video is a historical document, it's like looking back across a life." Trent Reznor was sent the video while in the studio with Rage Against the Machine’s Zach De La Rocha, and, when the pair sat down to watch it, any doubts he had about the cover were long gone. “We were in the studio, getting ready to work and I popped it in,” said Reznor. "Tears started welling up. I realized it wasn't really my song anymore. It just gave me goose bumps up and down my spine. By the end I was really on the verge of tears…there was just dead silence. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then, ‘Uh, okay, let’s get some coffee.' It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art. I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. It's an unbelievably powerful piece of work. After he passed away I remember feeling saddened, but being honored to have framed the end of his life in something that is very tasteful. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend checking it out. I have goose bumps right now thinking about it. Having Johnny Cash, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time, want to cover your song, that's something that matters to me. It's not so much what other people think, but the fact that this guy felt that it was worthy of interpreting. " By Cody Flanagan

Trent Reznor lead singer of Nine Inch Nails once said Cash did the song so well that it wasn’t his (Trent Reznor) song anymore

He died four months after his wife. It's sad and sweet at the same time.

You didn't let the video finish. At the end, Johnny closes the piano, like he is saying g\goodbye to it.

Talk about telling a life story of pain and regret in under 4 minutes and making it one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen and heard. What a legend RIP.

This is the one video I can never watch without tearing up. I lost my wife and my grandmother a month apart. As a 40 year old widower, I felt the loss that Johnny was talking about. When I first heard this song, I knew Trent was talking about how drugs was taking him life. Now this song will be Johnny's forever and now I I don't have the heart to hear this song again. Thanks for the great work Gents!

At 6:37 is the the Tennessee River near my hometown of Chattanooga TN. Johnny tried to kill himself in a cave near that river bend. June found him and helped him get straight.

His hands, gliding across the closed piano, for the last time.

I saw his daughter on "Finding Your Roots" and she said her father was really into genealogy and went to Scotland to find his Scottish roots which he was very proud of. Her DNA was interesting, it reflected her father's heritage.

Hey, guys! Johnny Cash actually put out 6 albums at the end of his life, produced by Rick Rubin. They're called The American Recordings. The last was released posthumously. My favorites are the 3rd and the 4th album Solitary Man and The Man Comes Around. Lots of covers, like this one, and with stellar musicians playing along. Highly recommend.

You have cutted off the closing of the piano lid. It's suppose to represent the end of his career has a living person. Very powerful ending

At the 5:45 mark when Cash walks around that old white house (his birth home) that reminds him of his most tragic event of his life he wrote years later. In 1944 he watched his brother Jack get sawed almost in half while cutting wood . Folks who knew Johnny before the accident all agree that he was a gregarious, cheerful, funny boy and afterwards became introspective and quiet. Many think it's the reason he performed in all black his whole life. Here in Nashville he is up there in greatness with Elvis and George Jones.

They used this song in the trailer for the movie Logan, which fit really well.

i am an old man that can really identify with this song and his rendition of it. due to a combination of circumstance, happenstance, upbringing, environment, and most of all poor choices. i have left a wake of hurt and lost people behind me. there are those that hate me for what i had to do. those that despise me for who i am. and those that loathe me for my sometimes bad decisions. i have found that it's true in my case as well, everyone goes away in the end. so i have realized that it's best that i closed myself off to the vast majority of the world, and finish my life in reflection, "putting my affairs in order", and trying to mend those proverbial fences before i am finally gone. but, not to end on what appears to be a downer, i would like you to give a reaction to another Johnny Cash number called, _"A Boy Named Sue"_ .

I rarely cry, anymore, over anything. I guess I just grew jaded, over time, to the point where I’m almost completely numbed to feelings of pain and loss, but this song,- this VIDEO is one of the few things that causes my breath to hitch. Not gonna regale you with my life, but the only member of my family that I was ever close to, my grandpa (not by blood, but still my grandpa) died when I was 14, and he is the only other person I can still shed a tear for, so when I say that this song and video is the only other thing that can elicit such a reaction, it just shows how much of an impact it has on me.

Cash has always been a family favorite. I'll never forget the day I heard this song after its release. The NIN song was always my favorite of theirs. After I heard Cash's cover, I cried and knew it was always meant for him in some way.

It's a hard song to hear, and it's just a gut wrenching video. Even just down to that look his wife was giving him. She saved him, many times over. And his face. Man. That guy saw a lot, and didn't usually appreciate it. He knows the life he led, and that he hurt many to just amass crap and satiate his ego. We all come to the point where we realize life is truly finite, and it's a hard moment.

Not often cover songs are done better than the original, but this is a prime example of it done right.

One bit of information that I read was that his wife, June Carter Cash, was not originally going to be in this video; but, she came down the stairs after hearing him singing to see what was going on and they incorporated that into the video. The video was made in February of 2003. June Carter Cash passed away on 15 May 2003, and Johnny Cash died on 12 Sept. 2003.

Johnny returned to superstar legend status again because this song introduced him to a whole new generation. As you said it could have been written about him. You should react to him doing "The Man in Black". It describes him and his feelings clearly. Thanks for reacting to this great cover by Johnny!

Dead man singing. I mean that with the utmost respect and admiration. He knew he was close to the end and left it all on stage for this awesome performance.

My brother struggled with mental health issues and this song was the first thing that really helped me understand a little about his battle with depression. Emotion is always my companion when I hear this song. The video is good, and I find it distracting, I enjoy just listening to the song itself. I liked the song so much I bought the entire album. This is a great song thanks for watching it.

It’s astounding and tailor made for him. I honestly wouldn’t doubt if he could do it all over he may not choose the same path. This song always reminds me of how short life is.

The little white house shown, was where he grew up in the great depression. His father got a poverty grant of 40 acres to farm on and Johnny was picking cotton by hand at age six. His brother died in a horrible mill accident at age thirteen. It was a hard life.

My dad died the week that song came out. I had to be stong. Didn't cry. But a couple weeks later I heard this and I was alone and cried like a baby. My dad loved him

He always supported talented young artists especially the outsiders. He went to be with his beloved June right after this.

You missed him closing his own coffin at the end!

After Trent Rezner heard Cash’s cover, he said *_"That song isn’t even mine anymore”._*

I cry every single time I watch this music video.

Ended it to soon! So very heartbreaking!

It’s worth pointing out that Johnny recorded this at the beginning of 2002 and he died in September of 2003. In that 18 months he recorded another 3 albums worth of material. Mostly released posthumously. Johnny lived for two things. His wife, and his music. Once she went he finished the songs he had left to record and went too.

whenever I hear this song I always think how will I be remembered, then I try to live my best life. When we die we live on in the memories of those we leave behind so it’s up to us if those memories are good or bad.

This song is so beautiful I cry every time. Johnny is amazing

Hey I requested this song awhile ago lol. FINALLY

Very somber and haunting song, and yet still beautiful and powerful. The true voice of an old and broken man who knew he wasn't much longer for this world and that his time here was ending soon. Always gets me every time I hear this song.

This is one of a very few songs that I feel the original and the cover are equally brilliant. On the one hand you have a young man thinking about how he has already ruined his life, and on the other an old man near the end, reflecting on his life and his regrets. It's perfectly bookends to life. Let's face it, we'll all have something or somethings to regret when it's all said and done. To not have any regrets by the end of this journey would be inhuman.

You are correct Trent Rezner wrote this and recorded it as NIN. However, after he heard Johnny’s cover he said that it was no longer his song.

I love his rendition of this song. Amazing!

This song and video break me every time 😭🖤 I love the Nine Inch Nails version but it became Johnny’s song.

I am very thankful that you guys don't pretend to have not seen videos. So many reaction channels just feel like lies for views. Always looking forward to your stuff, even if all three of you have already seen the clip before (though hopefully not).

JC never recovered from the loss of June. Makes me sad as Hell, but happy, too, in a sense. Love like that is given only a few. We should cherish more.

Johnny Cash had a wild life of misery, then found his peace in Jesus.

What a legend! He recorded this in 2002. June passed away in 2003. Johnny passed away four months later 💔.

I get goosebumps every time I hear this song. I love it.

The imagery of the video always gets me... and of course its not often an artist covers a song and the original artist say its not their song anymore.

I have heard this song about three times start to finish. I really can't do it again. It's just so raw and personal, as if we're listening to Johnny's last thoughts. The opening bars are enough to start me crying.

The video was filmed in February 2003, June died in May that year, and Johnny followed in September. Interestingly, before he passed he had recorded a song with his daughter Rosanne called "September When It Comes". It has a similar theme of aging and mortality. Give it a listen sometime. The House of Cash museum burned down in 2007. It had been sold to a new owner and was being renovated, so I'm not sure how much (if any) memorabilia was there.

I can't watch this video without immediately bursting into tears. This man was a fucking legend.

Best song ever in my opinion. At least in my top 3. Glad to see the blokes do more country.

As much as I love Trent Reznor (he wrote this song)from Nine Inch Nails; I think I prefer Johnny Cash version. 😊😌

I first saw/heard this moments after hearing of his passing. It felt like a lifelong hero of mine was saying goodbye and I'm not ashamed to say that it reduced me to tears.

As others commented... you missed the most poignant moment of the video. His closing of the piano was the symbolic closing of his career and his life.

Trent reznor, the original author of the song said after hearing Cash's rendition, it's Cash's song now.

This song is absolutely chilling...it makes me very aware of my own mortality.

He never played that guitar or piano again!!! Hope this man finally has peace Legends never die

You cut off the ending of the video. It was the most emotional part of it (the video).

Cheers from Arkansauce, birthplace of Johnny Cash!

Did you just say he didn't have much success until this album? He is literally one of the most legendary artists of all time.

Johnny Cash is the only artist to be enshrined in the rock and roll, country, and gospel halls of fame. LEGEND

Love this song. Johnny Cash really eclipsed the NIN version.

I'm crying again. This is so powerful and beautifully emotional. R.I.P Johnny and June 💗

Guys, That was Folsom Prison that him and his wife, June were walking into. They were both really worried about her safety as they would be playing right in front of the inmates. (It was recorded and I think is on RU-vid.) It's worth a watch. John gives the guards a hard time and is quite funny. The prisoner they show in his cell passed a song he wrote up to the stage at the end of the show and John dang it for him! Then John befriended him, helping him to get out of prison. But life on the outside proved too much for him and he committed suicide. John blamed himself for the rest of his life. The house he goes to look at was his childhood home. They worked the land there and we're dirt poor. Keep up the great reactions guys! Cheers, Bruce Dayton, Ohio

Even Reznor said this is his song now.

Heard this song and seen this video countless times and it still makes me emotional.

I was a lucky man because back in 1995 I got to see the highwaymen in cadott Wisconsin and got a picture with Johnny cash. While I was deer hunting my roommate threw a party because the city bought the place we lived in and said they were going to demolish it. When I got home everything was ruined along with the picture of me and Johnny cash on the refrigerator!!!

Johnny Cash died just 4 months after June. He redid this song in Feb of the same year. She died in May he died in September

R.i.P Legend 🙏🏻🎶

Would the person you were, when you were young, recognize the person you've become. When you look back on your life, are you proud of the decisions you made and wish you hade done it different. Hurt someone and didn't realize it till now. When he says "you are someone else, I am still rite here." Is he saying, he's still in there somewhere, but, lost his way? Now look what he's become.

1 of the best covers ever, if not the best cover

Thanks for doing this guys, such a great song

You cut it off. You cut off the end. It was important

Johnny Cash may have covered it but he did it so well that NIN gave him that song. It belonged to him in the end.

Awww, you missed a dramatic part at the end. When he closes the piano cover

Thanks for covering this guys. There is a lot going on here under the surface (obviously), but one thing that any addiction specialist will tell you is that when one is in the thralls of hard drugs as a lifestyle, they cease to mature psychologically along with their friends and peers and are almost in a state of continuous limbo. I think that is what was meant by "You are someone else.... I am still right here. What have I become?" Just something to think about.

he died a year and a half after this song was released. this was the last video he did before his passing

Appreciate your reacting to this one. The clips of younger Johnny and June just kill me 😢💕

my favorite of song all time.. i did a cover on my channel but it does it does it no justice

"Empire of Dirt" is so metal

One of the best videos ever. Legend. RIP✨❤️

Suuuup blessings from Puerto Rico homies.

Powerful. Thanks for reacting

Can't say I'm a Justin Timberlake fan,but I'll respect the man for this statement he made.He won MTV video of the year and,I paraphrase,said him winning was a tradgedy because everyone knew Johhny Cash Hurt was the greatest video of the year

His wife, June Carter Cash, passed away just after this video was made. Johnny passed a few months after she did. Trent Reznor was reluctant at first to give his permission to remake the song but he now admits it was great. Johnny changed one word in the song. Trent originally had "my crown of sh*t" instead of "crown of thorns." IMHO, possibly the best of Cash's songs! I cry everytime I watch it!

I only wish that you had played it to it's end when he closed his piano (for the last time) and caressed it.

i can't believe the last few seconds of the video isn't included! it's like a story with no closure! aahhh! you guys missed an important part of the video. as others have already said, the closing of the piano was (and Johnny actually confirmed in an interview), his goodbye. he had lost his wife, the one thing, really, that kept him alive, and he knew he was leaving us soon.

He knew his end was near. This was the LAST recording he made.

This is older, but I love how much reverence you all displayed.

Legit recommended this two days ago

Reminds me of my grandma after my grandpa died, everyone and everything you know will eventually leave this world I guess is the message till you yourself leave this world along with all your memories incredibly painful to see your world be taken away from you slowly as you age and you become irreverent to all matters and slip away.

Great message.....

What a way to go out

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Gin devils be playin me tricks.

You stopped it before he closed the piano lid, which seemed like he was closing the coffin lid.

Trent Reznor initially refused to let Johnny cover the song because he thought it wasn’t good enough. Total respect.

His daughter was at the recording and said "dad, it sounds like you're saying goodbye,". He said he was. His beloved wife died within months of the recording. When he closed the piano after you cut it, he never opened it again.

I'm a recovering addict and this song always hits me hard and makes me feel so bad and guilty about my past. It doesn't matter if an addict is clean, or not because we are always still thought of as dirty junkies.