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"Kiss from a Rose"
Song
B-side"The Wind Cries Mary", "Blues in 'E'" (1994)
"Kiss From A Rose"
Seal's "Kiss From A Rose" from Seal (aka Seal II) and Batman Forever: Music from the Motion Picture
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"Kiss from a Rose" is a song from Seal's second eponymous album Seal (aka Seal II). The song was first released as a single in July 1994. Re-released in 1995, it was included on the Batman Forever film soundtrack, helping it top the charts in the U.S. and Australia. At the 38th Grammy Awards in 1996, it won awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

Description

Written by Seal, the single "Kiss from a Rose", the second taken from the Batman Forever film soundtrack, topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for one week in August 1995. It also went to number four on the UK Singles Chart. The single originally made it to #20 in 1994, but upon being re-released after being featured in the film, it reached the top position. It was also nominated for a 1996 MTV Movie Award.[1] Seal talked about the long, strange journey that the song went through on The Brian McKnight Show season finale that aired Sunday, 12:30 A.M., 30 May 2010. He described how the song initially dropped out of the charts shortly after its release. Joel Schumacher subsequently called Seal, and requested use of the song to play over a love scene between the characters played by Nicole Kidman and Val Kilmer in Batman Forever. Although the song was eventually not incorporated into this scene, it was instead used to play over the end credits; Seal believes this change contributed to the song's eventual popularity.

Music video

Two versions of the music video were produced:

  • The original version is set in a photographic studio and was directed by Matthew Rolston. The 1966 film Blowup was heavily referenced in the video.
  • The second version was directed by Joel Schumacher and has Seal performing the song beside the Bat-Signal, interspersed with clips from the film Batman Forever. This is the more popular video of the song. The director of photography of this version of the music video was Neil Abramson.

Track listing

Between all the formats of the single release, bonus tracks include the non-album tracks "The Wind Cries Mary" (a Jimi Hendrix cover) and "Blues in 'E'"; remixes of "Kiss from a Rose" by Adamski (who produced the original version of "Killer"); and remixes of album track "I'm Alive" by Steve Fitzmaurice and Sasha with BT.

  • "Kiss from a Rose" (radio edit) — 3:38
  • "Kiss from a Rose" (album version) — 4:47

Cover versions

  • Grammy Winning vocalist, Darlene Koldenhoven, recorded her arrangement of Kiss From a Rose on her 2011 CD, Solitary Treasures.
  • Guitarist John Williams performed an instrumental version for his album "John Williams Plays The Movies"
  • Irish vocal trio Trinití have recorded cover versions of the song.[citation needed]
  • The Mississippi dynamic rock group AllyriA released a cover in their own version on their Myspace.
  • Lee DeWyze performed a cover version as his "Songs from the Movies" category entry in the ninth season of the American Idol. DeWyze went on to become the winner in the competition.
  • Jack Black performed a cover version on an American Idol charity special in 2007.[2] The judges (Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, and Simon Cowell) each gave joke reviews of the performance (Randy said he wasn't feeling it, but that it would help if Black got better pants, Paula gave a negative review, while Simon said that Black sounded better than Sanjaya Malakar). However Seal, being the original artist who wrote and sang the song, had stood up for Black and said it was "the best rendition of Kiss from a Rose [he] ever heard".
  • Head Control System released a cover version of the song on their official Myspace.
  • The King's Singers recorded a version of the song on their 1999 album Circle of Life.
  • Katherine Jenkins recorded her version of the track in her 2007 album Rejoice.
  • Finnish symphonic metal Northern Kings recorded a cover version as a track on their second album Rethroned, which was also released as a single.
  • Welsh male voice choir Only Men Aloud! also sang an arrangement by Tim Rhys-Evans & Jeffrey Howard on the BBC 1 Show Last Choir Standing in 2008. They subsequently released it on their self-titled début album.
  • US soul singer Jazmine Sullivan covered the song for French TV show Taratata. Her performance first aired on 15 May 2009, on French TV and is also available online on Taratata's official website.[3]
  • Hank Marvin covered the song on his 2000 album Marvin at the Movies.
  • Idina Menzel covered the song during her 2008 Fall tour promoting her album I Stand.[4]
  • Japanese artist Angela Aki rendition included Japanese lyrics on her fourth single This Love.
  • French Canadian singer Bruno Pelletier covered the song for his 2007 tour of Bruno Pelletier et le GrosZorchestre.
  • A karaoke version of the song was featured in an episode of the third season of the NBC television series Community titled Studies in Modern Movement, performed by Jim Rash as Dean Pelton and Joel McHale as Jeff Winger.
  • A hard-rock version of the song can be found on the 2012 record Beautiful Alien by Atom Smash.
  • Swedish rock band April Divine have also a cover of this, and it was released upon their album Redemption (2010).
  • 12 Stones released a cover of the song online in 2012.
  • Folk rock band The Becca Stevens Band, featuring bassist Chris Tordini, released a cover of this in 2011 on their album, Weightless.
  • The Finnish band Northern Kings coverd the song in their second album Rethroned.[5]

Video games

The Batman Forever film edit version of the song is featured in Backyard Football '09.

Charts and sales

Cultural references

In Season 2 of Shameless, "Kiss from a Rose" is revealed as Jody's go-to love-making song; he's first seen having sex with Karen while listening to the song, and later to Sheila, Karen's mother.

In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dee plans to greet a returning U.S. soldier she's been chatting with online with her alias "Desert Rose" by bringing roses, dressing up in a red dress with green stockings, and playing Seal's "Kiss from a Rose". When Dee runs away because he's in a wheelchair, Frank ends up playing the song and giving the soldier a gift for his services and salutes him, making the moment awkward for the soldier.

In the 7th episode of Season 3 of Community Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) and dean Craig Pelton (Jim Rash) are seen singing "Kiss from a Rose". Later in the episode the rest of the characters make fun of Jeff since the dean has tweeted their duet.

In season 5, episode 17 ("The Death Of The Queen Bee") of Bones, the song is featured in Temperance's reunion where she and Booth, do a slow dance on the song. As the song starts in the background, Brennan eagerly requests Booth to dance with her, saying "Can we dance, Booth? It's Seal!".

See also

References

  1. ^ "Kiss From A Rose by Seal Songfacts". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  2. ^ Jack Black performing "Kiss from a Rose" on an American Idol charity special in 2007 on YouTube
  3. ^ http://www.mytaratata.com/Pages/VIDEO_page_video.aspx?sig=iLyROoafMr1H mytaratata.com
  4. ^ "IDINA MENZEL- Kiss From A Rose". YouTube. 9 November 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  5. ^ "Northern Kings - Kiss From A Rose". {{cite web}}: Text "publisherYoutube" ignored (help)
  6. ^ a b Kiss From A Rose in NZ Singles Chart charts.org.nz (1994-1995). Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  7. ^ a b UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (1994), Chartstats.com (1995) . Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Kiss from a Rose", in various singles charts Lescharts.com . Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  9. ^ a b "Single top 100 over 1995" (PDF) (in Dutch). Top40. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  10. ^ "Seal singles, German Singles Chart" (in German). musicline. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  11. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie . Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g Billboard Allmusic.com . Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  13. ^ 1995 Austrian Singles Chart Austriancharts.at . Retrieved 19 August 2008.
  14. ^ 1995 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart Ultratop.be . Retrieved 19 August 2008.
  15. ^ 1995 French Singles Chart Disqueenfrance.com . Retrieved 30 January 2009.
  16. ^ 1995 Swiss Singles Chart Hitparade.ch . Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  17. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1995". Retrieved 27 August 2010.
  18. ^ Geoff Mayfield (25 December 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade - The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. Retrieved 15 October 2010. {{cite book}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  19. ^ French certifications Disqueenfrance.com . Retrieved 19 August 2008.
  20. ^ UK certifications Bpi.co.uk . Retrieved 19 August 2008.
  21. ^ U.S. certifications riaa.com . Retrieved 19 August 2008.
Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
26 August 1995 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single
26 August 1995 – 11 November 1995 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Australian ARIA number-one single
26 August 1995 – 7 October 1995 		Succeeded by
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