What was the logic behind tying a pop love ballad to Batman?
And how did it work out so well?
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What was the logic behind tying a pop love ballad to Batman? And how did it work out so well?
It was the 90s, you just had to be there
>It was the 90s, you just had to be there
It feels like every 90s blockbuster had a theme song and it's 90% of the reason Will Smith is as famous as he is
I never saw this movie, none of my friends saw this movie, but we damn well knew all the words to this song.
>it's 90% of the reason Will Smith is as famous as he is
In another world, Independence Day would have had a theme song by Will Smith
I can already hear it in my mind, sampling "I will survive"
Should've used Taylor Dayne.
The Shadow called dibs
People liked cool things back then I dunno.
They wanted to promote Seal. Whether it was appropriate or not for Batman was never a consideration.
Incorrect, Batman was definitely a consideration in that it was a highly marketable movie
To be honest Kiss by a Rose should be in a movie with Poison Ivy...
I fricking lost Trivia Night because of this song and I hate it.
I knew it was from Batman, but I answered that it was from Batman and Robin, not Batman Forever. I lost a $50 grocery gift card and I had to eat dry Cheerios for 3 days.
Poison Ivy was in the earlier drafts of the Batman Forever.
Well the clip has a winter vibe do Mr Freeze and Ivy makes more sense for the song.
Were they plnning Uma Thurman back then?
That ass that doesn't quit?
Here's something I didn't find out until recently:
in the U2 video for Hold Me Kiss Me Thrill Me those are the characters from the ZOO TV tour and not supposed to be Batman and Riddler.
The animated riddler is visible in the video though.
Also, this is the best song U2 has ever made.
It's a fricking great song. People joke about it because it has nothing to do with Batman but it's still catchy as hell.
>. People joke about it because it has nothing to do with Batman
It does fit the theme of the movie, which is Batman learning to accept people on his life. People like to say its a different universe from the Burton movies, but it wasn't the case back then
>There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea
>And you became the light on the dark side of me
Batman going from the loner in the first two movies, to opening up to Chase, and letting Robin be his partner
>Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey
>Ooh, the more I get of you, stranger it feels, yeah
In a meta sense,the schumacher movies were more bright than the Burton movies. They have a stranger tone as well, more surreal.
The better movie did it first with a better song.
>What was the logic behind tying a pop love ballad to Batman?
It's a guy named after a sea creature, singing about a kiss from a rose on the grave, and it's in a Batman movie about Two-Face and the Riddler trying to conquer Gotham City with brain-draining VR. Stop trying to make sense of it and just go with it.
I love Batman Forever and yet I completely forgot this song was in the movie. It's a damn good song too.
Pretty simple. What best way to add SOUL to your movie than literal SOUL music?
The same logic of having the latest Watership Down series have an R&B song about a human dude who falls in love too easy with girls at the club as the credits song: promote a black performer, no matter how out of place thier song is.
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Batman always fricks somebody, so having a love song is pretty natural. The fact that it also had grave imagery makes sense because his parents are dead. Ergo, instant success.
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What movie would receive Crazy by Seal?
If we're talking movies that actually exist? The Mask.
Movies that SHOULD exist but don't? The Creeper.
noone cared the movie was on the soundtrack. they just liked the song.