Johnny Cash 'Hurt'

Johnny Cashes music video 'Hurt' is a very personal and meaningful video. Throughout the video we see images cutting in and out of Johnny's past, his family, his friends and his business. this video focuses very strongly on religion. With the religion side to the video it could be portrayed as positive or negative depending on the viewer, but i believe he was trying to show a more positive side it almost that her respects religion so much. He is trying to reminisce from his life and we see this throughout the music video, hence the religion, he wants to repent. We also see a shot of his museum (House Of Cash) with a closed sign, this symbolises that his life id slipping away also his records all smashed and the final shot of him closing the piano to show that's the end of his career and in fact that was the last song he ever wrote before he dies. His target audience would be the people who have grown up with him and love his music. His music videos have a lot of fast cuts, close ups and establishing shots to focus on the raw talent of his song writing and his life story.

Lyrics to Johnny Cash 'Hurt'

 hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way