Psychocandy
03-12-2003, 03:22 PM
The following article is from this weeks NME.
"A video by septuagenarian country star Johnny Cash is generating the sort of furore normally reserved for the shock antics of Marilyn Manson or comeback clips of major stars such as Eminem or U2.
The video for "Hurt", lifted from last years "American IV: The Man Comes Around" album, has already reduced Zach De La Rocha, formerly of Rage Against The Machine, and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor to tears.
Shot by director Mark Romanek - best knows for videos such as Scream by Janet and Michael Jackson, and more recently Hollywood movie One Hour Photo - the video is extremely candid and intense. It sees Cash perform the song in his home, with no effort made to hide his age or increasing frailty. The poignancy is increased as the performance shots are cut with old images of a young and vital Cash.
"We were in the studio, getting ready to work, and I popped (the video) in," Reznor told Rolling Stone magazine. "By the end I was really on the verge of tears. I'm working with Zach De La Rocha, and I told him to take a look. At the end of it, there was just a dead silence. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then 'Uh, OK, let's get some coffee.'"
A release date for the song - a cover of a Nine Inch Nails track - has not yet been scheduled.
Cash is in failing health. He suffers from autonomic neuropathy, a disease of the nervous system that makes his susceptable to pneumonia. If 'Hurt' does prove to be his final video, it will be a telling epitaph.
The video will be showcased on NME.COM from this week."
Sad.
"A video by septuagenarian country star Johnny Cash is generating the sort of furore normally reserved for the shock antics of Marilyn Manson or comeback clips of major stars such as Eminem or U2.
The video for "Hurt", lifted from last years "American IV: The Man Comes Around" album, has already reduced Zach De La Rocha, formerly of Rage Against The Machine, and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor to tears.
Shot by director Mark Romanek - best knows for videos such as Scream by Janet and Michael Jackson, and more recently Hollywood movie One Hour Photo - the video is extremely candid and intense. It sees Cash perform the song in his home, with no effort made to hide his age or increasing frailty. The poignancy is increased as the performance shots are cut with old images of a young and vital Cash.
"We were in the studio, getting ready to work, and I popped (the video) in," Reznor told Rolling Stone magazine. "By the end I was really on the verge of tears. I'm working with Zach De La Rocha, and I told him to take a look. At the end of it, there was just a dead silence. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then 'Uh, OK, let's get some coffee.'"
A release date for the song - a cover of a Nine Inch Nails track - has not yet been scheduled.
Cash is in failing health. He suffers from autonomic neuropathy, a disease of the nervous system that makes his susceptable to pneumonia. If 'Hurt' does prove to be his final video, it will be a telling epitaph.
The video will be showcased on NME.COM from this week."
Sad.