Lana Del Rey covers Nirvana's Grungy "Heart-Shaped Box" [VIDEO]

Who would have thought that the indie-pop artist who released the soulful hit "Video Games" could take on such a gritty and grunge-rock masterpiece such as Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box?"

Well, that is exactly what Interscope recording artist Lana Del Rey did, and the performance is given an all-around... eh, pretty decent. In all honesty, Del Rey did provide an entertaining take on the 1993 grunge classic, although she did give it a less-tortured twist compared to the original track cut by the late Kurt Cobain, which is still untouchable when it comes to the standards of cover songs.

At last night's performance at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, Australia, Del Rey's band slowly crawled into the opening riffs of the debut single off of Nirvana's third and final studio album Utero. Del Rey takes "Heart-Shaped Box's" unrefined guitar and bass breakdowns and replaces them with crooning guitars and flowing strings. Still, the blunt instrumentals do provide that dark, eerie feel reminiscent of the original track. But Del Rey's vocals on the chorus overpower that dark sense of foreboding with a dose of gentile femininity, providing for a much smoother and polished sound (unlike Cobain's rustic and uncensored power-chords). She closes out the track with a rather slow breakdown compared to Nirvana's awesome drum and guitar smash up, but all-in-all the crowd was pleased and it gives Del Rey some rebel-girl points towards her street cred.

Some Nirvana fans may not approve of Del Rey's delicately-warped version of "Heart Shaped Box," given it takes away from the liberating pain which Cobain imbued through his raw vocals and thrashing guitar riffs. But for a Lake Placid-bred female pop artist described as a "self-styled gangsta Nancy Sinatra," she really doesn't do too bad.

Check out Lana Del Rey's cover of "Heart-Shaped Box" in Sydney, then listen to the original version performed by Nirvana: