In January 2011, Luka Šulić, along with friend and fellow cellist Stjepan H… Read Full Bio ↴In January 2011, Luka Šulić, along with friend and fellow cellist Stjepan Hauser, performed a cover of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal which was played solely on cello. They uploaded it on Youtube under the nickname 2Cellos. In just a few days, the music video became a YouTube sensation. The Smooth Criminal Songfacts states that they appeared on the Michael Jackson-themed January 31, 2012 episode of Glee performing the song with Naya Rivera and Grant Gustin.
Šulić and Hauser's debut album with Sony Music Entertainment was released in mid June, 2011.
On April 25, 2011 Šulić and Hauser appeared live in Ellen DeGeneres Show on which they performed Smooth Criminal. As a result of 2Cellos' newfound success, English singer-songwriter Elton John asked the duo to appear with him on his summer tour, which began in Cardiff on 8 June 2011. John, who personally called Šulić, said that he had watched the "Smooth Criminal" video and wanted 2Cellos to participate in the thirty-city tour. As of March 2012, the duo was still touring with Sir Elton John.
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Šulić and Hauser's debut album with Sony Music Entertainment was released in mid June, 2011.
On April 25, 2011 Šulić and Hauser appeared live in Ellen DeGeneres Show on which they performed Smooth Criminal. As a result of 2Cellos' newfound success, English singer-songwriter Elton John asked the duo to appear with him on his summer tour, which began in Cardiff on 8 June 2011. John, who personally called Šulić, said that he had watched the "Smooth Criminal" video and wanted 2Cellos to participate in the thirty-city tour. As of March 2012, the duo was still touring with Sir Elton John.
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Read more on the Two Cellos official website.
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@Anjalena
The dripping, water on the floor, the breathing, the bereft cello that mourns quietly for a while... It's like a person who's crying alone quietly in the dark after having lost something so painful to them they don't know what else to do and there isn't anything left.
And then the cello builds up a little as he asks.. Why?
Then back to just the sorrow.
But the questioning and anger continue to build toward the end and that's what pulls the emotion out of me. My gods and goddesses that's just so powerful!
And yet at the end, like all of us when we mourn, he's still left feeling empty and alone.....
@FFFbezMiss
I 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
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear my crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stain of time
The feeling disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
@kevinh.danielsen7271
'Hurt' began with Nine Inch Nails as rock, and then it was passed to the late Mr. Cash as country, and now it's come into the hands of 2CELLOS in a simple symphony. There must have been something very human about this song ...eternally, painfully, beautifully human.
@charliedyme2552
you´re so right
@thesneakyapguy7172
There really is something about the music that grabs the attention.
@ornawhyte8340
I think people are drawn to reinventing this song and doing something different with it cause it's so hauntingly beautiful in every style.. It was written with real emotion in relevance to something very REAL that the singer from NIN was dealing with in his personal life. People are always able to relate to something that comes from the heart in every version you hear the emotion that the writer was trying to portray when writing it.
@slick2500
I always find it very interesting to know that at one point in time Johnny Cash listened to Nine In Nails.
@leftyhara3876
slick2500 The interesting thing to me was how much more credible the song felt in the mouth of Cash. It seemed like a totally different stirring song.
@justachick9793
After scrolling through these comments, one thing becomes very clear very quickly. 2CELLOS has some of this wisest and most articulate, thoughtful subscribers on YouTube. The different perspectives, the observations on this song and it's many meanings, this is some of the loveliest conversation I've ever had the pleasure of following. 😊
@lachimiste1
When Reznor sang this, it was about unraveling, desperation.
When Cash sang it, it was about brokenness, regret, and pain.
This time, though, this time Luka and Stjepan make it breathe of grief, keen its quiet anguish, beg for merciful release. How exquisitely, beautifully painful, this modern Lacrimosa.
@SheshagiriPai
Beautifully expressed <3
@wganz
Reznor may have written and sung it first.
But Johnny Cash owns it now.