“You may well scoff at Christian kitsch, but be on the lookout for “Hurt”; the video is loosely and beautifully made, and, by running the stark song up against set pieces and still-lifes of trinkets, it manages to make perishing kitsch stand in for end-of-life regrets. The song contains the word “focus”; it contains the word “hole.” Cash has “hole” down-it’s a country word, his frown hardly splits to say it-but “focus,” as in, “I focus on the pain,” is a conspicuous trace of the hi-fi songwriter Trent Reznor. In Cash’s awkwardness with the word, he shows a hint of loathing for the song, whose theme is self-loathing. Cash plays the song on the guitar, with mounting panic from the piano. Today is his birthday.” – Virginia Heffernan, Slate.
POSEUR ALERT II: Stringing Rodin up.
The Dish 