9 Biggest Urban Legends About Classic Rock Songs

6. Heart-Shaped Box Is About Courtney Love's Vagina

The Myth: Sometimes the people attached to the myth do nothing but fuel the fire behind the ridiculous urban legends. That's the case with Kurt Cobain's former wife, Courtney Love, who, as recently as 2012, responded to Lana Del Ray's live cover of Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" by taking to Twitter to remind her that the song was written about Love's own vagina.

"you do know the song is about my Vagina right? throw down your umbilical noose so i can climb right back umm"

She went on to claim that she contributed some of those lyrics herself, finishing her weird rant by asking Del Ray to "think about my vagina" the next time she sang it.

The Reality: "Heart-Shaped Box" was definitely not intended as a sexy song. Unless you find the idea of children with cancer to be erotic. (In which case, promptly stop reading this and turn yourself into authorities. Thank you.) Because according to Cobain, he wrote the track after watching a television report about "little kids with cancer," and proclaiming it to be "sadder than anything I can think of." There may be a few vague allusions to his relationship with Courtney in there as well (mentioning Pisces and Cancer, their astrological signs), but the central theme is certainly not predicated on Love's snatch.