

However, Cobain had originally titled the song "Heart-Shaped Coffin". The song's name came from a heart-shaped box Love had given Cobain. Cross noted that Love's songwriting sensibility informed Cobain's on the song. The couple shared a journal in which they would write lyrics Cobain biographer Charles R. She said she asked him if she could use the riff for one of her songs, to which he replied "Fuck you!" and closed the closet door. In a 1994 Rolling Stone interview, Love said she overheard him working on the song's riff in a closet. Cobain forgot about the song for a while, but began working on it again when he and his wife, Courtney Love, moved to a house in the Hollywood Hills. Kurt Cobain wrote "Heart-Shaped Box" in early 1992. "Heart-Shaped Box" was the last song Cobain performed live with Nirvana, on March 1, 1994, in Munich, Germany. The music video, directed by Anton Corbijn, garnered critical plaudits, and won two awards, including Best Alternative Video at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1994. The single made the top 10 in several countries, including Portugal, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland and New Zealand, and the top 40 in numerous other countries. Though Nirvana's record company DGC Records did not release a physical single in the United States, fearing it might damage album sales, "Heart-Shaped Box" received much American radio airplay, reaching number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. It was one of two songs from the album mixed by Scott Litt to augment the original production by producer Steve Albini.

It was released as the lead single from Nirvana's third and final studio album, In Utero, in August 1993, and appears as the third track. " Heart-Shaped Box" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. " Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle".
