mynewnameonhere t1_ixxplov wrote
Reply to comment by Notinyourbushes in NIN / Johnny Cash - Hurt by confrita
Someone says this in every thread about this song, but I’ve never seen a single source. Here’s a source of something Trent actually said, though.
>"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."
https://www.musicradar.com/news/johnny-cash-trent-reznor-nine-inch-nails-hurt
-00-- t1_ixxr0n3 wrote
NIN’s songwriter, Trent Reznor prolifically responded to Cash’s “Hurt” cover with: “I wasn’t prepared for what I saw, and it really then, wasn’t my song anymore.” There was no warning that Cash would be covering “Hurt.” Reznor said.
TheOneHundredEmoji t1_ixy5yjd wrote
That's not what prolific means
-00-- t1_iyactas wrote
>prolifically
you should contact the author of the article and let them know.
mynewnameonhere t1_ixxrddk wrote
That article doesn’t provide a source. It simply says that he said it without saying when or where he said it or linking to a source. If you even read the actual article about the interview that article links to, he says the opposite. He says when he was initially asked if Cash could cover one of his songs, he was honored. But then when he heard Hurt, because he didn’t know which song he was going to do, it felt invasive.
-00-- t1_ixxv2yd wrote
Try this one on for size. At the end.
Edit: add a link to the FT. Quote from TR at the end.
https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/hurt.html
"At the end of the video, Cash, silhouetted by a harsh yellow light, closes the lid of the piano and rests his ageing hands on top of it. Reznor’s “valentine to the sufferer” at that point became Cash’s swan song. After watching it, Reznor said: “That song isn’t mine any more.”
The song is haunting. The video is intense.
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