Hurt (Nine Inch Nails song)
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| Promotional single by Nine Inch Nails from the album The Downward Spiral | ||
| Released | April 17, 1995 | |
| Format | CD | |
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| Length | 6:12 | |
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| Writer(s) | Trent Reznor | |
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| Single by Johnny Cash | ||||
| from the album American IV: The Man Comes Around | ||||
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| Released | March 2003 | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
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| Length | 3:38 | |||
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| Writer(s) | Trent Reznor | |||
| Producer(s) | Rick Rubin | |||
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"Hurt" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994). 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, but ultimately lost to Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know".
In 2002, "Hurt" was covered by Johnny Cash to commercial and critical acclaim. Reznor praised Cash's interpretation of the song for its "sincerity and meaning," which was one of Cash's final hits released before his death, the related music video being considered one of the greatest of all time by publications such as NME.
Originally recorded by Nine Inch Nails, the song "Hurt" has been adapted and covered by several artists, including Johnny Cash and Leona Lewis. The song includes references to self-harm and heroin addiction, although the overall meaning of the song is disputed. Some listeners contend that the song acts as a suicide note written by the album's protagonist, as a result of his depression, while others claim that it describes the difficult process of finding a reason to live in spite of depression and pain.
The music video for Nine Inch Nails' original version of "Hurt" is a live performance that was recorded before the show in Omaha, Nebraska on February 13, 1995 and can be found on Closure and the DualDisc re-release of The Downward Spiral. The audio portion appears on the UK version of Further Down 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 audience and performance at several points during the video.
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