YouTube - Johnny Cash Hurt: Odd though it may seem when you just listen to the words, Johnny Cash has really done something with both the articulation and the video production of "Hurt".
Compare it (but don't play the video for your kids) to the Nine Inch Nails original "Hurt."
I can't believe I'm doing this, and you should note carefully that this is not a cover of the same song, but you should consider the possibility that Christina Aguilera's "Hurt" is actually on point with the same themes, only in a more simplified, obvious, and prosy way (like so much contemporary pop, it trades on a dressed-up artificial artlessness). But there's really something in this, albet not so much as in Cash's version of the Nine Inch Nails song.
If that's all wearing you out, I'm here for you! Check out this classic performance of "Ring of Fire" from 1968. A lot of what is already in this song, for Cash, is going to be in "Hurt" eventually....
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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When I first saw the Johnny Cash version of "Hurt" I remember thinking two things: first, that Johnny was not going to live much longer and secondly, that his version was not only creepier, but more heartbreaking than the original.
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