by OntiqoHurt by Nine Inch Nails and Hurt by Johnny Cash: how alike are they?
Sonalize compared the two recordings: 97%, near-identical or shared recording.
| Harmony | 100% |
|---|---|
| Melody | 100% |
| Sound | 81% |
| Rhythm | 68% |
Consistent with the same recording being reused (a sample) or a faithful cover or re-recording.
| Hurt | Hurt | |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Nine Inch Nails | Johnny Cash |
| Key | A Major | G Major |
| Tempo | 80 BPM | 184 BPM |
| Most alike passage | 1:40–4:26 | 0:52–3:15 |
Track B moved up 2 semitones (G Major to A Major)
On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is close: as alike as other versions, or as songs very much in the same style (distance 0.72; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).
Why this pair
This is a cover version. Public background: industrial to sparse acoustic; cover. Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.
How this was measured
Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.
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