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      • Love, after their second meeting sent a small heart-shaped box, containing, among other things, a doll's head, to his hotel room. This is believed to have inspired the song's title. Cobain and Love both shared a love and fascination of dolls. The "Heart-Shaped Box" could be a reference to a uterus.
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  2. Apr 19, 2022 · Cobain wrote “Heart-Shaped Box” in the early part of 1992. As legend has it, he forgot about the song for a period but began working on it again when he and his wife, Courtney Love, moved...

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  3. Cobain's relationship with Love, whom he married in February 1992, is believed to have inspired the lyrics of "Heart-Shaped Box". In the 1993 Nirvana biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Cobain told author Michael Azerrad that "Heart-Shaped Box" was written about children with cancer.

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  4. Heart Shaped Box. Analysis. This song is about the love-hate relationship between Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, which some believe is the root cause of Cobain's suicide. Heart Shaped Box is possible a very cryptic suicide note left by Cobain, which can be easily solved with a little insight.

  5. Aug 30, 2023 · While a lot of Cobain’s rock and roll counterparts divulged in more derogatory language when it came to ‘appreciating’ women, Cobain talks about his love eyeing him “like a Pisces when I am weak”, and being “locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks”.

  6. May 25, 2022 · When ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ was released, Cobain claimed the song was inspired by a television report about children suffering from cancer. While this may well have been the catalyst, many argue that the song actually focuses on the author’s fractious relationship with his wife, Courtney Love.

  7. Mar 5, 2024 · The song’s title, Heart-Shaped Box, is believed to have stemmed from a gift that Courtney Love had given Cobain—a box shaped like a heart. Initially, Cobain had reportedly titled the song ‘Heart-Shaped Coffin’.

  8. Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” music video was visually created by singer Kurt Corbain and directed by Anton Corbijn (director of videos for Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” (1990) and U2’s “One – version 1” 1991).

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