It's a verse-case scenario

We've hummed to My Heart Will Go On. We know Happy from Despicable Me. Bring back the movie song, it might just help movie sales in a streaming era

- Rachel Lopez

Honestly, if it wasn’t for a Bat, we’d never know a Seal. British songwriter Seal (full name: Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel) wrote Kiss from a Rose in 1987. You know the song – haunting melody, absurd lyrics (“Did you know that when it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can’t be seen?”). The story goes that Seal was so embarrassed by his work, he “threw the tape in the corner” when he was done. It was included in his second eponymous debut album in 1994. It sank without a trace.

Kiss from a Rose lay wilting, unloved, for four years. Then, filmmaker Joel Schumacher decided to use it in the 1995 movie Batman Forever, for a love scene between Nicole Kidman and Val Kilmer. They scrapped the dull music video and reshot one, with Seal singing his heart out against the Bat-Signal, and clips from the movie playing alongside.