Okay okay we all know Johnny cash did his cover of Hurt and we were all like “ok he owns that now” but I watched the music video he made and I’m like “oh he OWNS it owns it”
It’s totally wild to me because most people agree that Trent Reznor is a master of his craft and Hurt is considered one of NIN’s best songs. Imagine having this great hit and 8 years later a musical legend who hasn’t done anything great in a long time and is ostensibly dying takes your song and fucking. Just fucking obliterates you
Taken from the Wikipedia page. Even Trent Reznor said it’s not his song anymore.
in case you hadn’t seen
Holy hell that’s video is…painful and stunning. If you grew up listening to Johnny Cash I think it’ll hit even harder. And June Carter Cash is in the video, which takes hard and doubles it.
I’m glad people who didn’t know who are discovering it’s a cover, not just because Trent Reznor deserves that much, but because I think the fact that Cash did not write it is crucial to the power of his version. This is a young man’s song about suffering, about addiction and self-destruction in youth. And Cash is, in the most majestic possible way, taking that and going “oh kid, you have no idea”, and changes the meaning without changing the lyrics (except for a single word). In his voice, on his face, in his aged hands on the guitar and piano, it becomes about the agonising brevity of life, the irretrievability of mistakes, and the inevitable loss of everything, including a recognisable self. But the creativity of repurposing only shows if you can still see what was originally there.
greta was time’s person of the year a few years ago. she was adored by all liberal world leaders and parties. and when she learnt about people’s struggle under occupation and colonialism, she stood in solidarity with them . she now stands with palestine and armenia and kashmir and every oppressed person in the world. she could have been rich as fuck by simply remaining as a climate activist. yet she chose to do the right thing. i love her for her integrity.
for those who don’t remember, “mole interest” was an experiment I did 2 years ago because I wanted to test what causes tags to go trending on tumblr. My hypothesis was that all it takes is one (1) post blowing up in an established tag to make the entire tag trend.
I had randomly generated 2 words, which is where “mole interest” came from. I failed to consider that by generating a new tag, it wouldn’t have had enough posts already in it to prove what I now call “the mole interest effect”.
But now it does.
In 2023, we said “fuck it” a la mythbusters and ended up doing whatever it took to get #mole interest to trend. And it did. And it happened to be September 11th that day, and we managed to get #mole interest to trend ABOVE #9/11.
So, in the name of science, I ask you to reblog just this post. Let’s put the mole interest effect to the test.
you guys have gotten this to 20k in 2 and a half hours that’s insane
it’s still not trending! so far this could mean:
20k is not enough for one post to make a tag trend, but it could be possible with more notes
All the other trending tags have more activity in general at the moment, but the mole interest effect could work on a particularly slow day
I was wrong, and the mole interest effect isn’t a thing! It happens sometimes. But a disproven hypothesis doesn’t mean the experiment “failed”! Being wrong is still a learning opportunity. You guys are helping me collect (mole) interesting data regardless!
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