--- title: Video: Hideaway Singer Kiesza Covers Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana description: A surprisingly heartfelt, stripped-down performance from an artist known for ultra-dancey pop canonical: https://time.com/3089387/nirvana-heart-shaped-box-kiesza-cover/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-07T19:15:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:33:24.698Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Electro-Pop Singer Kiesza Perform an Acoustic Cover of Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" og:description: A surprisingly heartfelt track from the "Hideaway" singer og:url: https://time.com/3089387/nirvana-heart-shaped-box-kiesza-cover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Electro-Pop Singer Kiesza Perform an Acoustic Cover of Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" twitter:description: A surprisingly heartfelt track from the "Hideaway" singer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Electro-Pop Singer Kiesza Perform an Acoustic Cover of Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 7, 2014 7:15 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 7, 2014 7:15 PM UTC If you don’t know Canadian singer-songwriter Kiesza by name, you still may know her crazy-infectious single “[Hideaway](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXgJ9-H-2U).” But during a recent appearance on [NME Basement Sessions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJn0ciY%5FpJ4), the singer proved that she’s good for more than just dancing her way through the streets of Brooklyn wearing suspenders. (For the record: she’s _great_ at that.) Armed with just an acoustic guitar, Kiesza delivered a surprisingly emotional and uncharacteristically stripped-down performance of Nirvana’s 1993 classic “Heart-Shaped Box.” Warning: this is likely to give you many feels. If you’re left wanting more, be sure to check out her cover of another 90s classic — “What Is Love” by Haddaway: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3089387/nirvana-heart-shaped-box-kiesza-cover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3089387/nirvana-heart-shaped-box-kiesza-cover/"},"headline":"Watch Electro-Pop Singer Kiesza Perform an Acoustic Cover of Nirvana's \"Heart-Shaped Box\"","datePublished":"2014-08-07T19:15:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:33:24.698Z","description":"A surprisingly heartfelt, stripped-down performance from an artist known for dance-pop","url":"https://time.com/3089387/nirvana-heart-shaped-box-kiesza-cover/","keywords":["Music","nirvana"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3089387/nirvana-heart-shaped-box-kiesza-cover/","name":"Watch Electro-Pop Singer Kiesza Perform an Acoustic Cover of Nirvana's \"Heart-Shaped Box\""}}]}] ```