Understanding Heart-Shaped Box

When it came time to write the follow-up album to Nevermind, Nirvana decided they were done playing games. In Utero is a hard-hitting, vulnerable, angry, noisy, personal album, one that couldn't care less about marketability, and one of its most intimate songs is also one of its most well-known: Heart-Shaped Box. It tells a pretty bleak story, but it's an incredibly powerful song, using every single tool in its compositional toolbox to make that story stick. National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273 TALK (8255) Global suicide hotlines: https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos Merch: http://standard.tv/12tone Discord: https://discord.gg/yTGvQ4P Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/12tonevideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/12tonevideos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/12tonevideos/ Email: [email protected] Last: https://youtu.be/PRjvp0SPa4s Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HTHDs9fBZ9X5d2OteIWIc9DMP1wJT-RZccD935r4LRo/edit?usp=sharing Huge thanks to our Elephant of the Month Club members: Susan Jones Jill Jones Duck Ron Jones Howard Levine Brian Etheredge Gabi Ghita Khristofor Saraga Elaine Pratt Ken Arnold Len Lanphar Paul Ward Benjamin DeLillo Love2Learn Mitchell Fund William (Bill) Boston Owen Campbell-Moore Anton Smyk Chris Prentice Jack Carlson Dov Zazkis James Treacy Bagshaw Christopher Lucas Hendrik Payer Andrew Beals Thomas Morley Jacob Helwig Duncan Dempsey Patrick James Morley Tyler Leite Cattus_ex_Machina David Rapoport Braum Meakes Derek Parnell And thanks as well to Corvi, Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Logan Jones, Abram Thiessen, Anna Work, Oliver, Jc Bq, Adam Neely, nico, Michael Fieseler, Rick Lees, Ben LaRose, Justin Donnell, Dave Mayer, Thomás, rhandhom1, Davis Sprague, Paul Quine, Alex, Harold Gonzales, CodenaCrow, Nikolay Semyonov, Arnas, Sarah Spath, Skylar J Eckdahl, Marc Himmelberger, Chris Borland, Caroline Simpson, Daniel Gilchrist, Michael Alan Dorman, billy roberts, Elliot Burke, Alex Atanasyan, Alex Knauth, Greg Borenstein, Tim S., David Tocknell, Elias Simon, Nathan Petchell, Blake Boyd, Trevor, Michael McCormick, Lilith Dawn, Dmitry Jemerov, Ian Seymour, Charles Gaskell, Luke Rihn, Rob Holton, Elliot Jay O'Neill, Elliot Winkler, Tom Evans, Jerry D. Brown, Fabian, Ohad Lutzky, Kurtis Commanda, James A. Thornton, Benjamin Cooper, Kevin, Max Wanderman, Ken Bauso, Brian Dinger, Hape Company, Stefan Strohmaier, Adam Wurstmann, Kelsey Freese, Shadow Kat, Adam Kent, Matt Giallourakis, JH, Lee Rennie, Richard T. Anderson, Angela Flierman, Paul Grieselhuber, David Conrad, Jake Lizzio, Mark Feaver, Kevin Johnson, Brian McCue, Stephan Broek, ml cohen, Sylvain Chevalier, Darzzr, Roger Grosse, Rodrigo Roman, Francois LaPlante, Jeremy Zolner, Rowan Fox, Paper Coelacanth, Britt Ratliff, Eddie O'Rourke, Ryan, Jon Bauman, John July, Volker Wegert, Danny, Matthew Kallend, Patrick Callier, Joshua Gleitze, Chris Chapin, Emilio Assteves, Alex Keeny, Alexey Fedotov, Charles Hill, Valentin Lupachev, Joshua La Macchia, DSM, Ben in RI, Gary Butterfield, Niko Albertus, Luke Wever, Elizabeth von Teig, Steve Brand, Rene Miklas, Connor Shannon, max thomas, Jamie Price, Kennedy Morrison, Red Uncle, Todd Davidson, David Christensen, Doug Nottingham, Paul Guziewski, Scott Howarth, Barendo, Smackdab, Nicholas Wolf, Ben Phillips, Alex Larking, Greg Hodgdon, Scott Nystrom, Douglas Anderson, ZagOnEm, Robert Beach, Peter Leventis, Lamadesbois, veleum, Kevin Boyce, Blake White, Michal Mikolaj Maslowski, Phillip D Neal, Aaron Epstein, Chris Connett, Scott Frazer, Aaron Zhu Freedman, Hexa Midine, Nicholas Steicke, John Polgreen, Tuna, Mathew Wolak, Mark Sibly, Killian Hackenschmidt, T, Lincoln Mendell, Vincent Engler, Noam Fields-Meyer, Luke, h2g2guy, Kenneth Kousen, James, Skyler, W. Dennis Sorrell, Mordredd, salman karout, Carsten Lechte, Sam Rezek, Lucas Augusto, Matt McKegg, Dominic Montanez, Marcus Doyle, Beth Martyn, Caitlin Olsen, Taylor Martin, Melvin Martis, NoticeMK, Natalie Ferraro, Hubert Ulber, Hikaru Katayamma, Adeline Mueller, Sarah Sutton, Doug Lantz, Evan Satinsky, Strattara, Stephen Shephard, Anna, Brian Cohen, James Little, RaptorCat, Professor Elliot, Lake Howieson, Jozef Paffen, Larry Siden, leftaroundabout, Jigglypuffer, Jens Schäfer, Mikely Whiplash, room34, and Austin Amberg! Your support helps make 12tone even better! Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!