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Nine Inch Nails song

"Hurt"
Promotional unmarried past 9 Inch Nails
from the anthology The Down Spiral
Released	April 17, 1995 (1995-04-17)
Studio	A&M Studios, Tape Plant Studios (Hollywood) Le Squealer (Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles)
Genre	Alternative rock[1] industrial stone[two]
Length	6:12
Characterization	Zero TVT Interscope
Songwriter(southward)	Trent Reznor
Producer(south)	Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails singles chronology
"Piggy" (1994) "Injure" (1995) "The Perfect Drug" (1997)
Audio
"Hurt" on YouTube

"Hurt" is a song by American industrial stone band Nine Inch Nails from its second studio anthology, The Downward Screw (1994), written past Trent Reznor. It was released on April 17, 1995, as a promotional single from the album. The song received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song in 1996.

In 2002, Johnny Cash covered "Hurt" to commercial and critical acclaim. The related music video is considered 1 of the greatest of all time past publications such as NME. Reznor praised Cash's interpretation of the song for its "sincerity and meaning," going so far every bit to say "that vocal isn't mine anymore."^[3]

Meaning [edit]

The song includes references to self-impairment and heroin habit, though the overall meaning of the vocal is disputed. Some listeners contend that the song acts as a suicide notation written by the song'due south protagonist, equally a outcome of his depression, while others claim that information technology describes the difficult procedure of finding a reason to alive in spite of depression and pain and does not take much to do with the storyline of The Downward Spiral.^[4]

Music video [edit]

The music video for Ix Inch Nails' original version of "Injure" is a live performance that was recorded before the testify in Omaha, Nebraska, on February xiii, 1995, and can be found on Closure and the DualDisc re-release of The Downward Screw. The audio portion appears on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland version of Further Downwardly the Spiral. The version released on Closure differs slightly from the video originally aired on MTV. In addition to using an uncensored audio track, the Closure edit shows alternate views of the audition and operation at several points during the video.

To film the video, a scrim was dropped in front end of the band on stage, projected onto which were diverse images to add visual symbolism to fit the vocal's subject thing, such as war atrocities, a nuclear flop test, survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad, a serpent staring at the camera, and a time-lapse film of a play a trick on decomposing in contrary. A spotlight was bandage on Reznor so that he can be seen through the images. Compared to the live renditions performed on future tours, this version most resembles the studio recording with its apply of the vocal's original samples.^{[ citation needed ]}

There are also official live recordings on the later releases And All that Could Have Been and Beside You in Fourth dimension. Each version features distinct instrumentation past the varying members of the band in the respective eras.

Live performances [edit]

During the Dissonance tour in 1995, when Nine Inch Nails opened for David Bowie, Bowie sang "Injure" in a duet with Reznor, backed by an original tune and crush. This served as the conclusion to the dual human action that began each Bowie set up.

During the Fragility tours, the progression was performed by Robin Finck on acoustic guitar rather than on piano.

Since the 2005–06 Live: With Teeth tour, Nine Inch Nails has been playing "Hurt" in a more toned-down manner, featuring only Reznor on keyboard and vocals until the last chorus, when the residuum of the band joins in.

The song was brought back to its original form during the Lights In The Heaven tour in 2008, before returning to the toned downwards style on the 2009 Wave Goodbye tour.

Rails listing [edit]

• US promotional CD single ^[v]

1. "Injure" (tranquility version) (clean) – 5:04
2. "Hurt" (live version) (clean) – 5:fifteen
3. "Injure" (album version) (make clean) – 6:xvi
4. "Hurt" (quiet version) (soiled) – five:21
5. "Hurt" (live version) (soiled) – v:15
6. "Hurt" (album version) (soiled) – 6:13

Personnel [edit]

• Trent Reznor – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, pianoforte, synthesizers
• Chris Vrenna – drums

Charts [edit]

In popular culture [edit]

• The song was featured in the season two finale of the developed animated scientific discipline fiction program Rick and Morty, overlaying the series of events in which Rick surrenders to the intergalactic authorities, assuasive his family to render to Earth while simultaneously abandoning them.^[9]

Johnny Cash version [edit]

"Hurt"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the anthology American IV: The Homo Comes Around
B-side	"Personal Jesus" "Wichita Lineman"
Released	March 2003
Recorded	2002
Genre	Alternative rock[10] acoustic rock[11] country[12] Southern gothic[13]
Length	3:38
Label	American Lost Highway
Songwriter(s)	Trent Reznor
Producer(due south)	Rick Rubin
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"The Man Comes Around" (2002) "Injure" (2003) "God's Gonna Cut You Down" (2006)
Music video
"Hurt" on YouTube

In 2002, Johnny Cash covered the vocal for his album, American Four: The Man Comes Effectually. Its accompanying video, featuring images from Cash's life and directed by Mark Romanek, was named the best video of the yr by the Grammy Awards and CMA Awards, and the all-time video of all fourth dimension past NME in July 2011.^[14] The unmarried contains a cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" as a B-side.

Cash's encompass of the vocal had sold two,148,000 downloads in the United States as of March 2017.^[15]

Background [edit]

When Reznor was asked if Greenbacks could comprehend his song, Reznor said he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a fleck contemporary." He became a fan of Cash'due south version, however, one time he saw the music video.

I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, considering that song isn't mine anymore... It really fabricated me recall virtually how powerful music is as a medium and art course. I wrote some words and music in my sleeping room as a style of staying sane, nearly 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 – dissimilar, only every flake equally pure.^[16]

Mike Campbell (acoustic guitar) and Benmont Tench (piano, organ, mellotron) of Tom Fiddling and the Heartbreakers played on the track.^[17] Smokey Hormel too played guitar on the track.^[18]

Music video [edit]

The music video was directed by former Nine Inch Nails collaborator Marking Romanek,^[19] who sought to capture the essence of Cash, both in his youth and in his older years. In a montage of shots of Cash's early years, twisted imagery of fruit and flowers in diverse states of disuse, seem to capture both his legendary past and the stark and seemingly savage reality of the present. Much of the video is in a style deliberately reminiscent of vanitas paintings, thus emphasizing the lyrics' mood of the futility and passing nature of man achievements.^{[20] [21]} According to literature professor Leigh H. Edwards, the music video portrays "Cash'due south own paradoxical themes".^[2]

Romanek had this to say nearly his conclusion to focus on the House of Cash museum in Nashville:

It had been closed for a long fourth dimension; the place was in such a state of dereliction. That'southward when I got the idea that peradventure we could exist extremely candid nearly the land of Johnny's health, as candid every bit Johnny has ever been in his songs.^[22]

When the video was filmed in February 2003, Cash was 71 years erstwhile and had serious health problems. His frailty is clearly evident in the video. He died seven months later, on September 12;^[23] his wife, June Carter Cash, who is shown gazing at her husband in two sequences of the video, had died on May 15 of the same yr.

In July 2011, the music video was named one of "The xxx All-time Best Music Videos" past Fourth dimension.^[24] It was ranked the greatest music video of all fourth dimension past NME.^[25]

The house where Cash'south music video for "Hurt" was shot, which was Cash's abode for nearly xxx years, was destroyed in a fire on April 10, 2007.^[26]

Awards [edit]

• The Johnny Cash embrace was given the Land Music Association award for "Single of the Yr" in 2003. Information technology ranked as CMT'southward pinnacle video for 2003, No. 1 on CMT's 100 Greatest Country Music Videos the following year (and over again in 2008), and No. i on the Superlative 40 Most Memorable Music Videos on MuchMoreMusic's Listed in October 2007. Every bit of March 2016, the single occupies the number ix spot on Charge per unit Your Music'due south Top Singles of the 2000s.^[27] The song is besides Greenbacks's sole chart entry on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, where information technology hit No. 33 in 2003.^[28] In June 2009, the vocal was voted No. 1 in UpVenue'due south Superlative x Best Music Covers.^[29]
• "Hurt" was nominated for six awards at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, winning for All-time Cinematography. With the video, Johnny Greenbacks became the oldest artist e'er nominated for an MTV Video Music Honor.^[30] Justin Timberlake, who won Best Male person Video that twelvemonth for "Cry Me a River", said in his credence voice communication that the MTV Video Music Award for All-time Male Video should have gone to Cash.^[31]
• The music video won the 2004 Grammy Accolade for All-time Short Course Music Video.
• In May 2010, 'Hurt' was voted the fifth well-nigh influential video of all time past MySpace.^[32]
• In October 2011, NME placed it at number 35 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past fifteen Years".^[33]
• In a 2022 survey conducted by the BBC the UK public voted the Johnny Cash version the 2nd greatest comprehend version of all time.^[34]

In popular civilisation [edit]

• The Johnny Cash version has appeared in several films, documentaries and Tv set shows including Colombiana, Criminal Minds, Smallville, Within I'thousand Dancing,^[35] Person of Interest and Why Nosotros Fight ^[36] in add-on to the teaser trailer for the Marvel film Logan.^[37] James Mangold, the director of Logan had previously directed the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. The vocal does not appear in the picture show proper, with the film instead opting to use Cash's "The Man Comes Around" over the ending credits.
• ITV Sport used this version in a montage of England'due south exit from the 2006 FIFA World Loving cup afterward losing a penalty shoot-out against Portugal. 1 montage scene showed David Beckham visibly shaken and emotional for not being able to play due to an injury during the lucifer, existence in tears at one indicate .^[38]
• Heaven Sports also used a section of this version in a montage of the 2013–14 Ashes series following England's five–0 defeat past Australia.^[39]
• During the edition of November 14, 2005 of WWE Raw, WWE used the song for their tribute evidence dedicated to Eddie Guerrero following his decease from heart failure.^[forty]

Track listing [edit]

• European CD single

1. "Injure" – 3:38
2. "Personal Jesus" – iii:21
3. "Wichita Lineman" – 3:06
4. "Hurt" (music video)

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Other versions [edit]

The song has been used in the 140-second advertisement "This is Why" created for the SickKids Foundation by Cossette in 2022 equally role of the "SickKids Vs." entrada to support fundraising for The Infirmary for Ill Children in Toronto.^[56]

Cover versions of the song include:

• Leona Lewis covered the vocal in 2011, featured on her extended play Injure: The EP.
• Sevendust's live cover of the vocal was featured on their 2004 live album, Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live. AllMusic said information technology was similar to Staind'due south version, but "tinged with a bittersweet melancholia instead of glowering melodrama."^[57]
• The cello duo 2Cellos released a "sparse" rendition of the song on its self-titled 2011 anthology, based on Johnny Greenbacks's version.^[58]
• In 2022 Mumford & Sons performed a cover version every bit a ballad in their show at Quicken Loans Loonshit in Cleveland, Ohio, Trent Reznor'due south origin city.^[59]

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Sources [edit]

• Edwards, Leigh H. (2009). Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity. Indiana University Printing. ISBN978-0253220615.

Further reading [edit]

• "Digital Tributes Honour Virginia Tech Victims". KDKA-TV. April 18, 2007. Archived from the original on December 22, 2007.
• Anthony DeCurtis (June 7, 2005). "In Other Words: Trent Reznor". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 21, 2006.

External links [edit]

• NiN 1995 live concert video on YouTube
• Johnny Cash - Injure 2003 official music video on YouTube
• Injure at Discogs

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