Zoe Kravitz and Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ (Picture: Press) ‘Something In The Way’ has been used in other movies before including Sam Mendes’ 2005 film ‘Jarhead’ and as a cover in Cameron Crowe’s 1996 comedy ‘Jerry Maguire’. So I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant’s Last Days, and the idea of this fictionalised version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor,” he said.
“That’s when it came to me that, rather than make Bruce Wayne the playboy version we’ve seen before, there’s another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse.
“When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana’s ‘Something in the Way,’” he told Empire. ‘The Batman’ director Matt Reeves last year explained why the track is used in the film. It spawned three Billboard Hot 100-charting singles: ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, ‘Come As You Are’ and ‘Lithium’. ‘Something In The Way’ appears on Nirvana‘s classic second album ‘Nevermind’, which was released in 1991. The highest daily streams of the song in the US to date was on Tuesday (March 8) with 1.6 million.
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The songs use in the movie helped shape Pattinsons portrayal of Batman as both modern and brooding. The track entered the Billboard charts for the first time ever, reaching Number Two on Rock Digital Song Sales and Number 45 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales ranking in the first tracking week after the trailer’s release. Something in the Way refers to a song recorded by Nirvana and sung by Kurt Cobain that received increased attention in memes on TikTok and Twitter in early 2022 after the release of The Batman movie starring Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne. In September 2020 the song received a boost when the trailer for ‘ The Batman‘ was released, which also features a snippet of the song. The figure is up from 372,000 on-demand US streams from the previous four days (February 28 through to March 3), which is a 734 per cent increase over the given period. Nirvana and Pearl Jam supergroup 3rd Secret share ‘I Choose Me’ video.Third lawsuit against Nirvana over ‘Nevermind’ cover thrown out by judge.Streams of Nirvana’s ‘Something In The Way’ have jumped after the theatrical release of ‘The Batman’, which features the ‘Nevermind’ cut in the film.Īccording to initial reports to MRC Data, in the first four days of movie’s release the song earned 3.1 million on-demand streams in the US.
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