![]() ![]() The lyrics “you became the light on the dark side of me” seem to fit pretty well with the films thmes of Batman’s deeper psychology and his relationships. It’s not a bad choice at all for the bat-soundtrack. ![]() You might not remember it, but Batman Forever was the biggest movie of the summer of 1995, and at that point, one of the biggest openings of all time so a big hunk of America heard the song and also saw the video when it was in heavy rotation on MTV. Thanks to all the brow beating, the track ended up on Seal’s second album and charted in the UK in 1994, but didn’t make any sort of splash in the US until it was used in Batman Forever. I finally played it to him on the second album, because he kept brow beating me into it. ![]() So then, when I was recording my second album, Trevor kept asking me about this “rose” song he’d heard about. I was embarrassed by it so I wouldn’t play it for my producer, Trevor Horn. I had one of those four-tracks port-a-studios, basically a tape machine that takes a cassette and splits it up into four tracks. When I was just starting out, I was living in a squat. According to Seal himself, he didn’t think much of it: The song was written way back in 1988, when Seal was just a struggling musician without a record deal living in London. “Kiss From a Rose” gained popularity in the US after it was played over the credits to Batman Forever in May 1995/ The jam however was not composed for the movie, so we can eliminate any theories that it’s somehow about Bruce Wayne’s relationship with Dr. If Ava DuVernay is considering it, we have to investigate. So when I read that tweet, my mind was more than a little, uh, blown. I’ve always loved the it and put my own interpretation over the lyrics that seem to be about a transformative relationship, but I, innocent as I am, never thought it was about drugs. This a pretty bold claim, but is it just crazy enough that it might be right? The song has always been kind of a riddle of the sphinx when it comes to meaning. How old were you when you realized seal’s “kissed by a rose” was about cocaine But can Twitter solve one of the greatest mysteries of the nineties and decode the lyrics to Seal’s hit, “Kiss From A Rose?” Well, one twitter user has a theory. The internet can sometimes be useful, it can help historians find volumes of Shakespeare once owned by John Milton. ![]()
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