Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box

Again, my video that should have been posted last week is late.  I promise this will not become a habit as I will shortly be posting my video for this week after I have finished with Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana.

http://youtu.be/n6P0SitRwy8

"Heart Shaped Box", released in 1993, had originally been dubbed "Coffin Shaped Box" after a heart shaped box he had received from then girlfriend, Courtney Love.  Although the song itself was a number one on the billboard in the US and number five in the UK, the music video received much criticism.

Obese organ woman with wings

The video begins and ends with the same scene; the members of Nirvana, crowded around the bed of a dying old man in the hospital, hooked up to IV's, with a shadow of a cross across the floor.  Throughout the rest of the video we are introduced to almost hideous characters: a small girl dressed in Ku Klux Klan garb while trying to reach fetuses posted up in a tree, an obese woman with organs painted on the outside of her body and equipped with angel wings, and the bed-ridden old man climbing onto a cross with crows perched on it.

Heart-Shaped Box

It isn't until the end of the video that we actually see a heart shaped box, which is performed on and tossed around by the band members.  Once we have been introduced to all of the characters, the rest of the video focuses on the band playing in an outdoor, trippy setting.  The thing I always notice most is Cobain's eyes; their hue of blue against the colors in the background are something I will never forget.