That song was “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails.
Cash and Rubin pulled together various songs for the country legend to cover, regardless of genre. Cash would focus on the lyrics of the songs, offering a bare-bones stripped-back take, with an acoustic guitar.
“When I sent [Johnny Cash] the Nine Inch Nails song, he just thought I was crazy,” Rubin shared of his suggestion to reinvent the track from NIN’s 1994 studio album The Downward Spiral, according to Whiskey Riff. “....It’s one of the only songs that I probably sent him three times in these compilations I’d send of songs to consider. I said….’ Just read the lyrics.’ And I think that’s what convinced him. [Johnny] said, ‘I’ll only do it when we’re together.'”
The Music Video Was Also a Success
In addition to the track, Cash released an accompanying music video that has stood out as a success all its own. Directed by Mark Romanek, the clip was shot in Tennessee at his house and the House of Cash Museum with video footage of Cash’s earlier years spliced into various segments. That music video resonated with audiences everywhere and received six MTV Video Music Awards nominations, as well as a Music Video of the Year award in 2003 at the CMA Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 2004.
Of the song itself, he said, per The Alternative Press, via NINHOTLINE, “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. Some-f—ng-how 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.”
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