{"id":30247,"date":"2024-11-10T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=30247"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:54:19","slug":"johnny-cash-didnt-want-to-cover-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/11\/johnny-cash-didnt-want-to-cover-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Cash Didn&#8217;t Want To Cover &#8220;Hurt&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Cash&#8217;s version of the Nine Inch Nails song, &#8220;Hurt&#8221;, might be one of the best covers of all time, but it almost didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Producer Rick Rubin was responsible for showing Johnny the song, but Rick had to send it to him THREE times.<\/p>\n<p>Rick would send him a burned CD with a bunch of songs that he thought Johnny should cover, and each time he would put the Nine Inch Nails song FIRST on the CD.<\/p>\n<p>But Johnny didn&#8217;t think he was right for it and kept ignoring the song.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until Rick finally got Johnny into the studio and sang the song to him in person, that Johnny finally understood how good it could be.<\/p>\n<p>The rest is history, and the song, and especially the music video for &#8220;Hurt&#8221;, is so good that Trent Reznor once admitted that it, quote, &#8220;wasn&#8217;t his song anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8AHCfZTRGiI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Cash&#8217;s version of the Nine Inch Nails song, &#8220;Hurt&#8221;, might be one of the best covers of all time, but it almost didn&#8217;t happen.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":30248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[9078,711,9079,9080,9081],"class_list":["post-30247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-hurt","tag-johnny-cash","tag-nine-inch-nails","tag-rick-rubin","tag-trent-reznor"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 15:26:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/11\/johnny-cash-didnt-want-to-cover-hurt\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}