Entertainment Weekly is touting that they have the “exclusive premiere” of the director’s cut of Nirvana‘s classic “Heart Shaped Box” music video, directed by Anton Corbjin. Apparently, they’d have you believe that this cut of the music video is just now being released 20 years after it was filmed in 1993.

However, I’d like to call shenanigans here. The video the NirvanaVEVO account has uploaded to YouTube may be considered to be the “official broadcast version,” but this supposedly new director’s cut version is the one I watched about 50 million times on MTV in 1993. It features Kurt lying in the field of poppies, and more airtime for the woman in the Slim Goodbody costume, as well as the little girl. I could never forget that scene where she puts her hands on her hips and gives the little girl a disapproving look — and the official video, where the camera stays on Cobain during the entire third verse, has never seemed quite right to me.

Anyway, compare them for yourself.

Director’s Cut



Broadcast Version



The video will be available on the forthcoming In Utero 20th anniversary box set. Click here to see the complete track list.