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  • @myself7630
    @myself7630 Před 5 lety +4986

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

  • @screwballprotagonist4381
    @screwballprotagonist4381 Před 4 lety +2500

    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.

  • @YairSassonArt
    @YairSassonArt Před 4 lety +2087

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

    • @VCRAGE
      @VCRAGE Před 3 lety +22

      100% the same thought came to mind.

    • @Spacewolf571
      @Spacewolf571 Před 3 lety +17

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

    • @hcradeur
      @hcradeur Před 3 lety +6

      logan Grimnar... and himself

    • @justacatinabath1309
      @justacatinabath1309 Před 3 lety +11

      Yo u posted this same comment on the official video

    • @red_rakkoon6782
      @red_rakkoon6782 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @jameslanagan8710
    @jameslanagan8710 Před 4 lety +1527

    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
      @devinblaylock8930 Před 3 lety +3

      🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

    • @tylergriffin1436
      @tylergriffin1436 Před 3 lety +74

      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
      @elizabethseals2001 Před 3 lety +22

      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
      @elizabethseals2001 Před 3 lety +1

      @@tylergriffin1436 I read the same thing.

    • @jacobbyrd7585
      @jacobbyrd7585 Před 3 lety +22

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

  • @kieferthomas985
    @kieferthomas985 Před 4 lety +2833

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

    • @sherribugd6130
      @sherribugd6130 Před 4 lety +84

      Yes.. his life was June.

    • @saintmichaelsmorningstar6451
      @saintmichaelsmorningstar6451 Před 4 lety +119

      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
      @kieferthomas985 Před 4 lety +30

      @@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
      @Locust775 Před 4 lety +9

      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
      @dylanvieler1806 Před 4 lety

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

  • @staceyschwindt4689
    @staceyschwindt4689 Před 5 lety +1499

    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.

  • @lofttm969
    @lofttm969 Před 3 lety +546

    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
      @movietimeateds69 Před 3 lety

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

    • @chrismarple
      @chrismarple Před 3 lety +36

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

    • @stevehurst6066
      @stevehurst6066 Před 3 lety +4

      Thorns was in the radio edit

    • @jeffdrake5881
      @jeffdrake5881 Před 3 lety +10

      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
      @mr.z1992 Před 3 lety +3

      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.

  • @michaelmason1580
    @michaelmason1580 Před 3 lety +198

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

    • @aj529
      @aj529 Před rokem +5

      He sure did. Loved her more than life.

  • @moviepositive960
    @moviepositive960 Před 4 lety +1256

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

    • @countsolomon
      @countsolomon Před 4 lety +27

      I imagine most people will miss that single changed word.

    • @C.S.Sperry
      @C.S.Sperry Před 4 lety +82

      And that one changed lyric made all the difference.

    • @bluefig797
      @bluefig797 Před 4 lety +7

      I love Personal Jesus

    • @RhinoAg
      @RhinoAg Před 4 lety +7

      He changed it all by his voice.

    • @ReiEmeraldTakedo
      @ReiEmeraldTakedo Před 4 lety +35

      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.

  • @Scellie1
    @Scellie1 Před 5 lety +713

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

    • @ghostryder94
      @ghostryder94 Před 5 lety +3

      yes, and old age.

    • @oldmusic4ever902
      @oldmusic4ever902 Před 5 lety +6

      ghostryder94 technically it was diabetes

    • @Kanjo_Bazooie
      @Kanjo_Bazooie Před 4 lety +4

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

    • @deannederhoff
      @deannederhoff Před 4 lety +7

      @@oldmusic4ever902 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

  • @paullavan3097
    @paullavan3097 Před rokem +26

    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
      @swampghost8256 Před rokem

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

  • @mikehowell8983
    @mikehowell8983 Před 3 lety +56

    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

  • @deweysines3184
    @deweysines3184 Před 4 lety +1763

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

    • @justjoe942
      @justjoe942 Před 4 lety +79

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

    • @thatstuff3288
      @thatstuff3288 Před 4 lety +5

      @@justjoe942 The UN hates white people

    • @justjoe942
      @justjoe942 Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @merciatreasurehunting6244
      @merciatreasurehunting6244 Před 4 lety +3

      God bless Robert.E.Lee

    • @merciatreasurehunting6244
      @merciatreasurehunting6244 Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @madladnate
    @madladnate Před 4 lety +824

    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
      @morningstar7896 Před 4 lety +15

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

    • @jacksisco997
      @jacksisco997 Před 4 lety +6

      well stated

    • @treycushwa4646
      @treycushwa4646 Před 4 lety +7

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

    • @davisworth5114
      @davisworth5114 Před 4 lety +8

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

    • @morningstar7896
      @morningstar7896 Před 4 lety +2

      David O'Beirn yea

  • @walkerig1
    @walkerig1 Před 4 lety +37

    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.

  • @gerrym.9354
    @gerrym.9354 Před 3 lety +18

    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.

  • @ryancovington5636
    @ryancovington5636 Před 4 lety +878

    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
      @marcusblackwell2372 Před 4 lety +56

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

    • @hellhound_ks4559
      @hellhound_ks4559 Před 4 lety +9

      @@marcusblackwell2372 yes :(

    • @0davydebrycke328
      @0davydebrycke328 Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @marcusblackwell2372
      @marcusblackwell2372 Před 4 lety

      @@0davydebrycke328 actually I saw some but VERY little

    • @0davydebrycke328
      @0davydebrycke328 Před 4 lety +5

      @@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👍

  • @farvadafatazz2274
    @farvadafatazz2274 Před 4 lety +535

    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
      @mfollett11 Před 4 lety +10

      This is a beautiful comment

    • @rayloc420
      @rayloc420 Před 4 lety +3

      Amazing comment

    • @beckytolbert3920
      @beckytolbert3920 Před 4 lety +1

      any Johnny cash is great

    • @gwarriorfromhell
      @gwarriorfromhell Před 4 lety +2

      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.

  • @slickrr69
    @slickrr69 Před 3 lety +46

    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
      @kevinhyler2474 Před 3 lety +6

      His wife was sick, he died of a broken heart

  • @brittanythompson2793
    @brittanythompson2793 Před 3 lety +41

    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
      @amybittick7092 Před 2 lety +1

      How are you now?

    • @brittanythompson2793
      @brittanythompson2793 Před 2 lety +5

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

  • @StCerberusEngel
    @StCerberusEngel Před 5 lety +358

    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
      @Serenity113 Před 5 lety +11

      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
      @jakekingsbury6961 Před 5 lety +9

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

    • @1320crusier
      @1320crusier Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @SuperSikarlo
      @SuperSikarlo Před 4 lety

      His soul lives in heaven, not in music

    • @brandenlasley2587
      @brandenlasley2587 Před 4 lety

      StCerberusEngel that is deep as fuck but so true

  • @foots-qt4pk
    @foots-qt4pk Před 4 lety +430

    He closes the piano like you would close a coffin

    • @nathansheldonlance
      @nathansheldonlance Před 4 lety +13

      Wow i never thought about that But your Right

    • @TheUserid82
      @TheUserid82 Před 4 lety +13

      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
      @kourtjestr552 Před 4 lety +6

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

    • @christinegelabert1651
      @christinegelabert1651 Před 4 lety +12

      @@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
      @bassage13 Před 4 lety +5

      Putting his music to rest.

  • @45acp
    @45acp Před 8 měsíci +4

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

  • @chikky9865
    @chikky9865 Před 3 lety +20

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

  • @barbaraharris3997
    @barbaraharris3997 Před 4 lety +368

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

    • @heatherbotez
      @heatherbotez Před 4 lety +14

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

  • @elspencer9779
    @elspencer9779 Před 4 lety +392

    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
      @yzdirtbikes144 Před 4 lety +10

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

    • @rebelfighter5249
      @rebelfighter5249 Před 4 lety +2

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

    • @0davydebrycke328
      @0davydebrycke328 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @0davydebrycke328
      @0davydebrycke328 Před 4 lety

      @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
      @edminchau811 Před 4 lety +8

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

  • @disgruntledgrrl
    @disgruntledgrrl Před 4 lety +33

    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.

  • @molon_labe_nc9390
    @molon_labe_nc9390 Před rokem +5

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

  • @ashleylawrence3468
    @ashleylawrence3468 Před 5 lety +495

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

    • @marye3974
      @marye3974 Před 5 lety +7

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

    • @davidwood3560
      @davidwood3560 Před 5 lety +10

      I break down every time I watch it

    • @skudlugs
      @skudlugs Před 4 lety +12

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

    • @steeltown825
      @steeltown825 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @rramirez4444
      @rramirez4444 Před 4 lety +1

      I cry every time I hear this version.

  • @danielleweeks4552
    @danielleweeks4552 Před 4 lety +824

    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
      @MackeyWilliams Před 4 lety +23

      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
      @rpanonymous3881 Před 4 lety +5

      Shaq needs to see this!

    • @mynameisanimal
      @mynameisanimal Před 3 lety +5

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

    • @ajrangel79
      @ajrangel79 Před 3 lety +3

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

    • @pierreo33
      @pierreo33 Před 3 lety +1

      @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.

  • @RZK1966
    @RZK1966 Před 3 lety +10

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

  • @nettiestandiford3319
    @nettiestandiford3319 Před 3 lety +17

    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.

  • @waysaunut
    @waysaunut Před 4 lety +369

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

    • @obiwanshinobi5631
      @obiwanshinobi5631 Před 4 lety +5

      The first pic.

    • @obiwanshinobi5631
      @obiwanshinobi5631 Před 4 lety +6

      The second and third were June.

    • @aronmcevoy8450
      @aronmcevoy8450 Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @radagast7200
      @radagast7200 Před 3 lety +6

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

    • @danfisher7856
      @danfisher7856 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @theronmartin260
    @theronmartin260 Před 4 lety +223

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

    • @TheBlueDogMan
      @TheBlueDogMan Před 4 lety +10

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

    • @charlesatty
      @charlesatty Před 4 lety +2

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

    • @26muca07
      @26muca07 Před 4 lety

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

    • @HistorydnClarity
      @HistorydnClarity Před 4 lety

      😥

  • @cash.murettamusic
    @cash.murettamusic Před 4 lety +46

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

  • @RhiannonMcK2011
    @RhiannonMcK2011 Před 3 lety +28

    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.

  • @jennwysocki8825
    @jennwysocki8825 Před 4 lety +484

    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
      @legacyofchrist7931 Před 4 lety +15

      GOD Bless you

    • @seanmcclellan358
      @seanmcclellan358 Před 4 lety +18

      Jenn Wysocki god damn right they let him in. 😉

    • @BlueMrBoo2
      @BlueMrBoo2 Před 3 lety +8

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

    • @PodtrashRadio
      @PodtrashRadio Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @Ninjapiratecowboy
      @Ninjapiratecowboy Před 3 lety +5

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

  • @sfogarty2
    @sfogarty2 Před 4 lety +490

    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
      @dnsmithnc Před 4 lety +18

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

    • @spidrawebster
      @spidrawebster Před 3 lety +62

      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
      @banyarling Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @Bobsyagod
      @Bobsyagod Před 3 lety +5

      @@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
      @smsmoof8128 Před 2 měsíci

      it was because of Rick Rubins brilliance ... a master of the matchup. Awesome.
      czcams.com/video/Y-7_loqsEWY/video.html

  • @darricktv9857
    @darricktv9857 Před 4 lety +52

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

    • @janetg3984
      @janetg3984 Před 2 lety +3

      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.

  • @robertmitcham2427
    @robertmitcham2427 Před 4 lety +18

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

  • @indyracingnut
    @indyracingnut Před 4 lety +376

    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
      @khurelbatbayanbat7913 Před 4 lety +16

      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
      @LimmeLimbo Před 4 lety +4

      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
      @jamierogers3677 Před 4 lety +6

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

    • @cheebees
      @cheebees Před 4 lety

      Kickbakk best comment, I agree.

    • @dnsmithnc
      @dnsmithnc Před 4 lety

      Props to Reznor for giving it to him.

  • @JohnC-kc5uh
    @JohnC-kc5uh Před 5 lety +75

    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
      @Whysper420 Před 5 lety +1

      Trent said it himself Cash did a better job

    • @reineh3477
      @reineh3477 Před 5 lety +1

      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.czcams.com/video/GlzjqPGdOSM/video.html

  • @JBurr33
    @JBurr33 Před 3 lety +2

    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

  • @jaybabe7767
    @jaybabe7767 Před 3 lety +38

    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.

  • @mr.b501
    @mr.b501 Před 5 lety +222

    The man in black himself..
    Legend..

  • @palacerevolution2000
    @palacerevolution2000 Před 4 lety +329

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

    • @edwardmunson3896
      @edwardmunson3896 Před 4 lety +18

      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
      @apexdemond554 Před 4 lety +2

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

    • @rxnnegan8270
      @rxnnegan8270 Před 4 lety +2

      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
      @cheese3416 Před 4 lety

      Its genuis

  • @ShadowPomona
    @ShadowPomona Před 3 lety +30

    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.

  • @terrys8690
    @terrys8690 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @jonahthawne913
    @jonahthawne913 Před 5 lety +38

    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.

  • @herrzimm
    @herrzimm Před 5 lety +96

    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
      @insanzeforlife5150 Před 5 lety +2

      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
      @rustyrelicsfarm2406 Před 5 lety

      herrzimm Ti was his wife actually.

    • @Razorpig378
      @Razorpig378 Před 5 lety +1

      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
      @markm4033 Před 5 lety

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

    • @Razorpig378
      @Razorpig378 Před 5 lety +3

      @@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.

  • @gusteg4823
    @gusteg4823 Před 4 lety +39

    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.

  • @williamsteiner9445
    @williamsteiner9445 Před 2 lety +7

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

  • @jasonpashley7822
    @jasonpashley7822 Před 5 lety +294

    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
      @nicholasreddin491 Před 5 lety +52

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

    • @jasonpashley7822
      @jasonpashley7822 Před 5 lety +11

      Nicholas reddin , correct ty forgot that cheers bro

    • @rachealmurphy6687
      @rachealmurphy6687 Před 5 lety +7

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

    • @willtheangrydudeist9120
      @willtheangrydudeist9120 Před 5 lety +9

      Trent Reznor is NIN, just fyi

    • @burningstar1793
      @burningstar1793 Před 5 lety +2

      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.

  • @brittanydriver4666
    @brittanydriver4666 Před 4 lety +209

    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
      @brittanydriver4666 Před 4 lety +8

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

    • @memegod6984
      @memegod6984 Před 4 lety +16

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

    • @criswilson6421
      @criswilson6421 Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @mpepp9
      @mpepp9 Před 4 lety +2

      Cris Wilson *thorns

    • @thrashrattlehead4548
      @thrashrattlehead4548 Před 4 lety +1

      yeah...first pic was his mother

  • @angelgr76
    @angelgr76 Před 3 lety +4

    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!

  • @cathymerchant9768
    @cathymerchant9768 Před 3 lety +37

    Different side of Johnny: "A Boy Named Sue"

  • @rudegoat5706
    @rudegoat5706 Před 5 lety +231

    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
      @mnix5427 Před 5 lety +3

      Agreed, to the core...

    • @michaelagustinsantos3015
      @michaelagustinsantos3015 Před 5 lety +10

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

    • @jamesgorsh5752
      @jamesgorsh5752 Před 5 lety +2

      Every time.....

    • @gorbaggoescamping1329
      @gorbaggoescamping1329 Před 5 lety +1

      Same for me.

    • @aquamarine0023
      @aquamarine0023 Před 5 lety +5

      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!

  • @Monster12367
    @Monster12367 Před 5 lety +154

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

  • @Danny_R_
    @Danny_R_ Před 3 lety +9

    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..

  • @deanwitkowski2694
    @deanwitkowski2694 Před 4 lety +6

    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
      @rm3122 Před rokem

      How are you doing now?

  • @mikemitchell728
    @mikemitchell728 Před 5 lety +81

    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
      @tweeterjack Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @luckyhero2517
      @luckyhero2517 Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @MVD.
    @MVD. Před 5 lety +46

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

  • @alissonjalil228
    @alissonjalil228 Před 4 lety +2

    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

  • @JumpDaddy70
    @JumpDaddy70 Před 3 lety +3

    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

  • @paulhelberg5269
    @paulhelberg5269 Před 4 lety +59

    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
      @movietimeateds69 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @tacobellalugosi2527
    @tacobellalugosi2527 Před 5 lety +228

    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
      @burningstar1793 Před 5 lety +6

      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
      @papasynsin523 Před 5 lety +1

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

    • @tacobellalugosi2527
      @tacobellalugosi2527 Před 5 lety +3

      @@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
      @paddyr1568 Před 5 lety +7

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

    • @tacobellalugosi2527
      @tacobellalugosi2527 Před 5 lety +6

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

  • @emilyc7369
    @emilyc7369 Před 3 lety +6

    Johnny Cash “Hurt” completely wrecks me every time.

  • @tatumdarnell2441
    @tatumdarnell2441 Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @thegoomba6183
    @thegoomba6183 Před 5 lety +301

    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
      @Rob-hb7wh Před 5 lety +42

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

    • @ArchieGoodwin71
      @ArchieGoodwin71 Před 5 lety +38

      @@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
      @w.w.marchi1677 Před 5 lety +4

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

    • @iangodwin478
      @iangodwin478 Před 5 lety

      @@Rob-hb7wh so fucking true

    • @ryanarbogast6141
      @ryanarbogast6141 Před 5 lety

      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

  • @dougmorgan309
    @dougmorgan309 Před 4 lety +202

    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
      @Daniel-gc3te Před 3 lety +5

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

    • @janetg3984
      @janetg3984 Před 2 lety

      @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.

  • @sin4144
    @sin4144 Před 4 lety +8

    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.

  • @odins.beard79
    @odins.beard79 Před 3 lety +5

    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

  • @richardgrimes2225
    @richardgrimes2225 Před 5 lety +20

    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
      @omicron2018 Před 4 lety

      That's a beautiful interpretation of that image.

  • @7mrooks
    @7mrooks Před 5 lety +147

    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
      @nancyjackson6584 Před 5 lety +7

      Aint no grave is another good one

    • @Gutslinger
      @Gutslinger Před 5 lety +3

      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
      @melissagraham4117 Před 5 lety

      came here to say this one too

    • @l1ndsey7
      @l1ndsey7 Před 4 lety

      Yes! Love both those songs

  • @meganmatousek6041
    @meganmatousek6041 Před 3 lety +7

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

  • @upyours4979
    @upyours4979 Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @staindoswald4515
    @staindoswald4515 Před 5 lety +516

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

  • @sebastiangresala5787
    @sebastiangresala5787 Před 4 lety +184

    Credits to nine inch nails for creating this beautiful song

    • @flaquis2729
      @flaquis2729 Před 4 lety +24

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

    • @michaelvega4050
      @michaelvega4050 Před 4 lety

      He stole it do the research

    • @flaquis2729
      @flaquis2729 Před 4 lety +8

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

    • @humanperson2205
      @humanperson2205 Před 4 lety +1

      @@michaelvega4050 He covered it.

    • @reaperwb39
      @reaperwb39 Před 4 lety +6

      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

  • @sethmichael3352
    @sethmichael3352 Před 4 lety +3

    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.

  • @dereckclem
    @dereckclem Před 4 lety +6

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

  • @AKICITA
    @AKICITA Před 4 lety +89

    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

  • @S.Parrow
    @S.Parrow Před 5 lety +80

    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
      @joshuaking7470 Před 5 lety +5

      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.
      @rancidcrabtree. Před 5 lety +3

      @@joshuaking7470 Johnny was deeply religious.

    • @Gutslinger
      @Gutslinger Před 5 lety +3

      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
      @brandonhinrichs8657 Před 5 lety

      @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
      @brandonhinrichs8657 Před 5 lety +1

      @@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.

  • @andrewreynolds8100
    @andrewreynolds8100 Před 3 lety +7

    The only lyrics Johnny Cash changed were "I wear this crown of thorns." In the original song, the lyric is "I wear this crown of shit."

  • @inupik23
    @inupik23 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @eddymadison9655
    @eddymadison9655 Před 5 lety +77

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

  • @mzliz1249
    @mzliz1249 Před 5 lety +43

    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
      @dawnkeener9836 Před 5 lety +3

      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
      @xMtF54x Před 4 lety +2

      Dawn Keener merle haggard and coe were

  • @brendan9868
    @brendan9868 Před 4 lety +5

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

  • @camiewilliams2626
    @camiewilliams2626 Před rokem +1

    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!

  • @VelezBiH
    @VelezBiH Před 5 lety +26

    "Everyone i know, goes away, in the end..." man that line hits like a truck. Great song.

  • @traviss9583
    @traviss9583 Před 4 lety +42

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

  • @randyruble5903
    @randyruble5903 Před rokem +1

    johny knew- he did gods gonna cut u down with manson too-he kew it was his end- 47 albums man-LEGEND

  • @JackiesKk
    @JackiesKk Před 3 lety +4

    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!!

  • @virgildantefrazier1
    @virgildantefrazier1 Před 4 lety +147

    He didnt change the lyrics, he just changed the overall interpretation of the way the song is played. When Trent Reznor ( Nine Inch Nails) did it... the song was more like the stupor of a drug high high and the lostness of the dreamscape kind of feel while you're awake and somewhat incoherent. But Johnny did it in a way that was kind of the curtain call of a life full of battle scars (some forced and some self-inflicted)and emotional wear and tear that have done the damage that is final. It's like taking that one last look in the mirror of life as you realize you're about to fade away. Imagine the shot of thanos contemplating his life and final actions at the conclusion of Endgame just before he dusts off.

    • @Valkian6734
      @Valkian6734 Před 4 lety +15

      He did change 1 word; in the NiN version Trent sings "I wear this crown of shit" where Johnny says "crown of thorns" instead.

    • @corrinnegarfield2460
      @corrinnegarfield2460 Před 4 lety +1

      And he shared it with the world.. !

    • @jeffbaker634
      @jeffbaker634 Před 4 lety +5

      @@Valkian6734 you're right he did. Sorry. I heard him say in an interview that nobody really truly cared whether he lived or died with the drug and alcohol problems except for two. His wife and Jesus. That's powerful there.

    • @jeffbaker634
      @jeffbaker634 Před 4 lety

      @@corrinnegarfield2460 amen!

    • @beentheredonethat90stopped69
      @beentheredonethat90stopped69 Před 4 lety +1

      Trent wrote this also to his own experiences to all you know it alls ! Johnny cash also did drugs , was in Jail! That’s what drew him into Trent Reznors song in the first place ! They shared the same experience’s ! Trent was much younger when he wrote it , Johnny Cash was an his death bed when he covered it! Who would say something other than Trent did when the guy who covered your song, died a month later! I’ve always been a fan of NIN but I really loved him when he was the one who helped raise money for Hurricane Katrina!

  • @joedogmckeel
    @joedogmckeel Před 5 lety +62

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

    • @MrClobbertime
      @MrClobbertime Před 4 lety +5

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

  • @DonLuc23
    @DonLuc23 Před 3 lety +1

    Reminds me of seeing old people at a family member's coffin, sliding their hands along the edge.....brings back a lot of images...

  • @AztecHusBone
    @AztecHusBone Před 3 lety +4

    "and you can have it all, my empire of dirt". Devastating lyric

  • @jannettestetson-buck5103
    @jannettestetson-buck5103 Před 5 lety +149

    Shaq, I love your sensitivity to this performance.

  • @darthjoosboxx6267
    @darthjoosboxx6267 Před 5 lety +35

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

    • @hobbitpeddler4267
      @hobbitpeddler4267 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @knubinc
    @knubinc Před 3 lety +6

    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
      @wrldisyours3328 Před 2 lety

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

  • @rescue2283
    @rescue2283 Před 2 lety +3

    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!