He was homesick and feeling depressed. However, it was after a phone call with his then-girlfriend that the music began to take shape. According to metallica. He started playing a little bit while talking to her, and soon he had the opening chords for the song. As he spoke to her, the homesickness and how much he loved her grew; when he wrote the lyrics about trust and believing she was staying faithful to him. As the song progresses, he admits how vulnerable he is when he is around her and wanting to be with her and not having to put on a face.
Additionally, the lyrics speak to games people typically play in relationships and how far beyond that, he is with her.
Originally, the song was written only as a musical journal entry. Hetfield was embarrassed about sharing the song with the group since their style always revolved around loud guitar, heavy drums, and anti-establishment thrash metal.
Lars Ulrich helped him finish writing the music. He added the music was intimidating because it was a style he never played before. It went on and off setlists for quite a while before they decided to record it.
Nevertheless, the unique sound charted well, rising to number 6 on the Billboard. James Hetfield broke up with the girlfriend who inspired the famous song.
And, now Metallica dedicates the song to their fans. The group has commented in numerous interviews that it is a song about people connecting more than being a song about a relationship.
When Hetfield realized that the song was less about a girlfriend than about the power behind the lyrics and how it translated to many situations when people put let their genuine emotions shine. However, it was that song that ushered in a more evolved sound for the group.
People started calling us sell-outs and all that type of stuff. Some people were a little bit bewildered by the fact that there was a song that had acoustic guitars. It was on one of their hedonistic jaunts around the world that James Hetfield would write the lyrics to Nothing Else Matters. These are songs about destroying things, head banging, bleeding for the crowd, whatever it is, as long as it wasn't about chicks and fast cars, even though that's what we liked.
The song was about a girlfriend at the time. It turned out to be a pretty big song. Initial reservations aside, Nothing Else Matters was one of four songs the band demoed for their self-titled fifth record on August 13, With composer Michael Kamen taking care of the orchestral arrangements, Nothing Else Matters was now a stirring, potent power ballad with immense emotional depth.
In response to a question asked by a fan in So What! The video premiered on MTV on February 26, It was directed by Adam Dubin; it consists of parts of the "A year and a half One of them shows Hetfield playing the 12 string during one of the choruses.
MTV will not air the video during daytime hours anymore because it features nudity in the form of pin-up posters that are taped up in the studio.
It also has a picture of Kip Winger which Lars Ulrich is seen throwing darts at. There is also an acoustic remix of "Nothing Else Matters" that is called the "elevator version" with no electric guitars replaced by acoustic guitars, even for the solo , Kamen's orchestrations, and Hetfield's voice only; it appears as the b-side to Sad But True.
Because of the song's popularity and ease of play compared to Metallica's other material it has been covered many times, by both artists within and outside the rock genre.
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