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Old 03-14-2006, 06:10 PM   #4
Superfraggle
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Yes.

Reznor basically said it's no longer his though. Somebody probably has the quote.
I hadn't heard that before, but after a bit of searching:

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Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_%28song%29

Reznor's reaction

In an interview with Alternative Press, Reznor admitted that when Rubin first asked if Cash could cover his song, he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a bit gimmicky." The power of Cash's song didn't fully hit Reznor until he saw the video:
I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore. … It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. 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. [Somehow] 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. [1] Reznor still occasionally refers to "Hurt" as "a song that isn't mine anymore." (theninhotline.net)
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