For our latest annotated video, we dissect Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” from the band’s third and final album, 1993’s In Utero.
The video was directed by Anton Corbijn and conceptualized by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
The “Heart-Shaped Box” music video was the number one most played music video on MTV in the US as recorded by Billboard magazine on November 20th, 1993. The video won two MTV Video Music Awards in 1994, for Best Alternative Video and for Best Art Direction.
