Lana Del Rey’s “Heart-Shaped Box” Cover Sounds a Lot Like You’d Expect

For better or worse, Lana Del Rey is one of those artists that seems to only really perform songs as herself—she doesn’t really have a huge range for artistic re-interpretation, so if she covers a song by somebody else, it’s gonna basically end up sounding like a Lana Del Rey song. No shock, then, to hear that her live cover of Nirvana’s alt-rock classic “Heart-Shaped Box,” performed last night at a show in Sydney, sounds exactly like you’d expect it to—slow, haunting, melodramatic and gauzy as fuck. There’s a lot of strings, a lot of vocal melisma, and a lot of swaying back and forth, overcome by the hymnal power of the music. It’s “Video Games” with a much blacker-hearted core, basically.

Not that any of that is a bad thing, necessarily—it’s an effective cover to be sure, even if The Voice kinda got there first last season—but just to say that even if you haven’t watched the video, you’ve already watched the video. (Though it does cut off midway through Lana’s second chorus, so who knows—maybe after that it turns into a Guns n Roses song.)

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