"It was a song for myself in my room on tour when I was bumming out about being away from home," he said. "Nothing Else Matters" was then released as a single on April 20, 1992. The frontman had to be persuaded to include the song on the 1991 album "Metallica," also known as "The Black Album" because of its packaging. "It's absolutely crazy: That was the song that I thought was least Metallica, least likely to ever be played by us, the last song anyone would really want to hear," he told the Village Voice weekly a few years later. "At first, I didn't even want to play it for the guys," he told Mojo music magazine in 2008. Written by singer and guitarist James Hetfield in 1990, "Nothing Else Matters" was was an epoch-making song.īut the Metallica frontman never believed that it should be recorded in the first place. "A lot of metal is just metal to be metal - but Metallica write real songs." Metallica started with a bang in the early 1980s but were delivering soulful ballads a decade later Image: Gene Ambo/MPI/Captital Pictures/picture alliance Hetfield hesitant to play song about a girl "I think of Metallica as being a pop band,” Bridgers told Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich in 2020. Metallica's defining power ballad "Nothing Else Matters" has been interpreted live about a thousand times, and more than 110 covers have been recorded. US folk-rock singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers was one of several artists, such as pop star Miley Cyrus - supported by Elton John on piano and Yo-Yo Ma on cello - as well as Darius Rucker and the US band My Morning Jacket who covered the song in 2021 for the 30th anniversary of Metallica's "Metallica" album. So did the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Motörhead frontman Lemmy.
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