This video was filmed on the set of the Batman cave from the 1989 movie. The choreography was done by Paula Abdul. Prince was playing the Gemini character (half joker/half Batman) that reflects the movie’s theme that each one created each other; can’t have one with out the other.
Bet you'll didn't know that PRINCE got in a relationship with VICKY VALE "KIM BASINGER" DURING HIS INTRODUCTION TO HER. SHE WAS SAY AT PAISLEY PARK WITH HIM FOR A WHILE.
I've been wearing jukeboxes out with this ridiculous yet amazing song for years. As the joker would say before the tempo picks up."THIS TOWN NEEDS AN ENEMA!"
Prince is an absolute genius. Composed and produced nearly every song and usually also played all the instruments and sang all the vocals. Would love to see you dive down the Prince rabbit hole. Especially, his live performances. Anything from the 2009 Montreux Jazz Fest, Purple Rain from the American Music Awards, Motherless Child, a cover of Play That Funky Music / Hollywood Swinging / Fantastic Voyage at the LA Forum, Shhh, the list is endless… and, yes, as someone mentioned Joni Mitchell was one of his biggest influences. He references her song Help Me in his song The Ballad of Dorothy Parker.
Prince was one of a kind. He played all the instruments of course. He definitely borrowed from the theme for the TV show. I was devastated when he suddenly died. The day before he died, he bought a CD from his favorite artist - Joni Mitchell.
@@ADIDASleo06 Of course. I was just talking about borrowing from the “Batman” theme song from the 60’s television show in this one song Batdance. He acknowledged it at the time.
This video, like most of Prince's videos (for his hit songs) were played in heavy rotation on MTV back in the 1980s. This was a very popular song on radio, and popular video. Paula Abdul choreographed a few of Prince's videos in the late '80s I believe so it's possible she may have been involved with the choreography on this video but I would need to look that up and confirm. This song was something of a novelty at the time with the handful of changes sounding more like 5 songs in one. But Prince was quite masterful in crossing and blending different music genres with his writing.
Batdance as a song was quite interesting. It was largely an instrumental punctuated throughout with vocal samples from the movie as well as musical snippets from his other songs on the Batman album including Electric Chair and the Future. When I first saw the music video back in 1989, I was blown away by Prince's artistry and uniqueness. There was nothing else sounding like Batdance back in 1989!
I love Prince my favorite artist ever. He produced & played over 14 instruments. I wish I was old enough to see him live & he’s right Jack Nicholson is a huge Prince fan. Prince was not just a pop star, he literally did everything including instrumental jazz albums & piano albums. Please react to Prince let’s go crazy live Syracuse 🤗
The director is a big Prince fan and were using Prince songs from earlier albums in the rough edits of the film. WArner Brothers decided to do a soundtrack of songs with one side being Prince and the other side MIchael Jackson. Warners realized quickly that they didn’t need to support MJ a rival artist from a different label. They decided to just have Prince on the album. The movie only used 3 of the songs in the actual movie. Most of the songs was left over vault material like Vicki waiting is based on Anna waiting. Side note: the first song Prince ever learned on a piano was the 1960’s theme song to the Batman tv series. (Prince is a self taught musician, the creator of the Minneapolis sound, and the bar that all pop stars are artistically measured against musically. Where all pop stars are measured against MJ for how popular they are in music.
I bought the Batman album when it was released. It's insane. This is also a medley of the other tracks. The off-beat guitar hook when Viky Vale comes in got stuck in my head. He's a phenomenal guitarist and bassist, in addition to all the choreography, costume, writing, producing, casting, directing etc Prince is one of the few people in history who reached the very of their chosen career. He knew exactly what he wanted to do with his time on Earth, and he went for it, from a very young age. He had the motivation and drive to keep practising, learning, improving, augmenting, and analysing. He was constantly reinventing himself, with whatever his latest influence was. I'd also put Bruce Lee, Taylor Swift and Suzuka Nakamoto in that same bracket. They're all very different, living in different eras, where the world is very different, but they all manage to navigate growing up, with struggles and triumphs of their own, but they put the time and effort in, while most kids (including me) were messing around, with next to no productive outcome. I'm a guitar player. I'm VERY average. Prince is on a whole different planet from me. I'm always looking for blistering guitar performances from artists. If that sounds interesting to you, I'd recommend the following: * Prince - Let's Go Crazy, from 1985 * Prince - Electric Chair, from 1989, from the Batman album * Stevie Ray Vaughn - Voodoo Child, from around 1985. It's a PHENOMENAL cover of Jimi Hendrix
Song is unique because it merges the Batman soundtrack with the movie itself. ‘I’ve seen the Future’ mentioned during ‘Batdance’ is from ‘Future’ on the soundtrack. ‘Electric Chair’ (also mentioned during ‘ Batdance ‘ is a song on the soundtrack. So the track is weaving in other tracks from the Soundtrack itself with lines from the movie. This work might seem disjointed, but it’s actually creative genius. The soundtrack songs reflect the characters from the film. ‘Partyman’ not played within ‘Batdance’ is a Joker song. In the movie, it’s in the background as the Joker enjoys committing crimes. Love song’Scandalous’ is for Vicki Vail, Kim Basinger’s character. Within the video, Prince plays himself, and a combination of the Joker and Batman. The Jokers character is also playful, yet dangerous and demented-hence, the dichotomy of both gun play (he’s a criminal) that is mentally unstable. Aspects of the song intends to reflect all of the characters within the movie. I recommend ‘Partyman’ and ‘Scandalous’ as videos, but the best is the music from the extended CD-‘The Scandalous Sex Suite’. It’s an extended, continuous 3 part song that is scintillating and features Kim Basinger doing things beyond what’s shown on the movie-nothing too dirty to air-but Uber sexy nonetheless. Prince and Basinger actually dated for a time shortly afterwards, likely because of this steamy song.
While now only a footnote in Prince's career, "Batdance" was one of his biggest songs in terms of sales and air time BITD, it was literally everywhere and paved the way for the movie's hightly anticipated release. In two months everybody was sick of hearing it on the radio 🤣
The harmony of "Batman" so remind me of the original TV series with Adam West in the 60s (and probably Prince saw this too, as he was born only 3 years later than me). The TV channels were restrained back then!
This sounds a lot like theme from the 60's Batman tv show. That voice of Joker at the beginning sounded a lot more like the original Joker Cesar Romero.
One of my fav tracks, he's got rock, hip hop, EDM, lotta shit going on, LOL, The song is like 75% sample lines from the movie and the TV show, 25% of him singing a line or two. He played ALL of the instruments. The theme is Duality of Batman dealing with the joker. and how they are practically one in the same.
I recommend more Prince: th-cam.com/video/Bg43MfcVmlg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=WAyTp6eU6wTARqeP Great live performance, but too short. Live versions of ‘Do Me Baby’ (from Detroit performance in black and white) and ‘If I was your Girlfriend’ from ‘Sign of the Times’ movie are longer versions of what you see of Prince in the Oprah performance. It should be viewed because of Prince’s command of the stage. People that don’t know Prince, don’t realize that he wrote and performed everything so some think of him as only a performer. For example, he had jam session late with his band. They went home to sleep, by the time they returned the next day he had written ‘1999’ a double album, overnight dubbing demos with all the instruments and drumming overdubbed in. He had sooo much music in his head, he operated on very little sleep. His musical vault is prolific.
The video is wicked! I would probably never listen to the song on it's own, but the video was cool! I liked all the batman movies, but I LOVED the Nolan ones!
Please never compare the child molester to the GOAT. MJ molested at least 24 children, sang, danced and wrote lyrics. That's it. Prince didn't molest anyone, but san, danced and wrote songs. Prince played all the instruments on most of his songs (only avoid wind instruments). Michael played ZERO instruments and could not compose music. They did not inhabit the same universe. As for this song, three years later he did NOT included it on his 2 CD greatest hits even though it was a 1989 #1 hit. It was of the time and made to promote a movie and he knew that. It was incredibly cool at the time and served its purpose. It is not in the top 200 Prince songs. So I'm amazed your "friend" suggested it.
Please do the whole full-length Thriller video, especially as a horror movie fan it's still my favourite music video of all time ❤ I'm no dancer but I had the whole zombie dance down as a kid 😂
You need to watch the movie to understand the song. Also Prince dated Kim Bassinger(ex of Alec Baldwin) during this time. But without watching the movie it all seems crazy.
I'm a Greatest Hits kind of Prince fan and had never seen the video before, although I've seen and loved the movie many times! At the time it was released it was such a joy to see the Batman story tackled with a degree of seriousness (from Michael Keaton especially) after having to live with the 60's camp fest, which I loved... back in the 60's! Then Jack came in and it all went crazy again!
It was 1978 and I was in the Motown building trying to get a record deal for my group- I come down the elevator and in the lobby I see Rick James walking by and then this short skinny kid with a 'Fro was walking by and it was Prince in his early days ! don't know why a Warner artist was there..
great reaction, could be Prince's best video honestly! i've heard Prince was asked a couple of songs for the Batman soundtrack and came back with a whole freaking album lmao (that's why i think the movie really uses only 3 of the 8 or 9 songs on the album)
I disagree this serms still ahead of its time to me.I just think its hard for someone who is not a musician or Choreographer potentially to relate or maybe people born outside of generation X just don't get it .Idk but its amazing to me and I can totally understand that younger people might just can't relate.I can't relate to all my parents music from the 50s and 60s.Thanks for the review I enjoyed this.
Hola Nick y Alexia! qué alegría ver que reaccionaron a Prince! Soy fan de él desde siempre... cuando salió Batman yo estaba casada, con 3 hijos de 8, 9 y 10 años entonces fuimos todos a ver la película y quedaron fascinados! Siempre en casa se escuchó a Prince y por supuesto a Luis Alberto Spinetta, Charly García, Soda Stereo... por eso ahora mis hijos, que ya son adultos y padres también, comparten con la familia lo mejor de la música.. les recomiendo que reaccionen a Dante Spinetta, hijo de Luis A. Spinetta, con su nueva producción, el álbum "Mesa Dulce" que es totalmente funky, donde el encargado de la producción de los vientos es el mismísimo Michael B. Nelson, arreglista de Prince!!! Vean Damasco session 1 y 2 o los videos de los temas "El lado oscuro del corazón", "Ridículos" "Sudaka" son inspirados en Prince con la mejor calidad!!! Un saludo enorme desde la ciudad de Buenos Aires! 🤩
I do get that Prince was a musical genius but I could just never warm to his style.....having said that, the only album I have of his is the Batman soundtrack.
As weird as his video, it reflects a lot of Prince's own thought process, the question of are we good or bad, our dual personalities. Which he brought together in his creation of Gemini, the half Batman, half Joker character. But after the debate??, only Prince himself is left standing. STOP
Im a huge Prince friend...it wasn't his best work...it was meant to be CAMPY....he wasn't played much on tje radio after Purple Rain on mainstream radio...Prince was self made pretty much in tje 90s producing his own music putting cds out when HE wanted...made his millions in live shows...His base fireds fuelex his success. And Prince was so great that MJ wanted Prince on his album in the late 80s. Prince was the rude boy MJ was mainstream. Lol
My man Prince was given 6 months to do the soundtrack he completed it in 2 yes two weeks!!! Miss him!
Prince the greatest musician off all time💜💜💜😊
This video was filmed on the set of the Batman cave from the 1989 movie. The choreography was done by Paula Abdul. Prince was playing the Gemini character (half joker/half Batman) that reflects the movie’s theme that each one created each other; can’t have one with out the other.
Bet you'll didn't know that PRINCE got in a relationship with VICKY VALE "KIM BASINGER" DURING HIS INTRODUCTION TO HER. SHE WAS SAY AT PAISLEY PARK WITH HIM FOR A WHILE.
I've been wearing jukeboxes out with this ridiculous yet amazing song for years. As the joker would say before the tempo picks up."THIS TOWN NEEDS AN ENEMA!"
Prince is an absolute genius. Composed and produced nearly every song and usually also played all the instruments and sang all the vocals. Would love to see you dive down the Prince rabbit hole. Especially, his live performances. Anything from the 2009 Montreux Jazz Fest, Purple Rain from the American Music Awards, Motherless Child, a cover of Play That Funky Music / Hollywood Swinging / Fantastic Voyage at the LA Forum, Shhh, the list is endless… and, yes, as someone mentioned Joni Mitchell was one of his biggest influences. He references her song Help Me in his song The Ballad of Dorothy Parker.
Loved it, more Prince please! He was unique.
Prince was one of a kind. He played all the instruments of course. He definitely borrowed from the theme for the TV show. I was devastated when he suddenly died. The day before he died, he bought a CD from his favorite artist - Joni Mitchell.
Umm he didn't jus borrow the theme, he did the entire soundtrack for the movie
@@ADIDASleo06 Of course. I was just talking about borrowing from the “Batman” theme song from the 60’s television show in this one song Batdance. He acknowledged it at the time.
This video, like most of Prince's videos (for his hit songs) were played in heavy rotation on MTV back in the 1980s. This was a very popular song on radio, and popular video. Paula Abdul choreographed a few of Prince's videos in the late '80s I believe so it's possible she may have been involved with the choreography on this video but I would need to look that up and confirm. This song was something of a novelty at the time with the handful of changes sounding more like 5 songs in one. But Prince was quite masterful in crossing and blending different music genres with his writing.
The character he played in the video with half Joker half Batman is called Gemini. He has another video with that character called Partyman.
the whole "Batman" soundtrack was all Prince
Anytime Prince is being reacted to, I am thumbs up then dancing!
Batdance as a song was quite interesting. It was largely an instrumental punctuated throughout with vocal samples from the movie as well as musical snippets from his other songs on the Batman album including Electric Chair and the Future. When I first saw the music video back in 1989, I was blown away by Prince's artistry and uniqueness. There was nothing else sounding like Batdance back in 1989!
I love Prince my favorite artist ever. He produced & played over 14 instruments. I wish I was old enough to see him live & he’s right Jack Nicholson is a huge Prince fan. Prince was not just a pop star, he literally did everything including instrumental jazz albums & piano albums. Please react to Prince let’s go crazy live Syracuse 🤗
The director is a big Prince fan and were using Prince songs from earlier albums in the rough edits of the film. WArner Brothers decided to do a soundtrack of songs with one side being Prince and the other side MIchael Jackson. Warners realized quickly that they didn’t need to support MJ a rival artist from a different label. They decided to just have Prince on the album. The movie only used 3 of the songs in the actual movie. Most of the songs was left over vault material like Vicki waiting is based on Anna waiting.
Side note: the first song Prince ever learned on a piano was the 1960’s theme song to the Batman tv series. (Prince is a self taught musician, the creator of the Minneapolis sound, and the bar that all pop stars are artistically measured against musically. Where all pop stars are measured against MJ for how popular they are in music.
This is the perfect video to showcase the many facets of Prince:
“The Mad Scientist”.
Simply brilliant.
I bought the Batman album when it was released. It's insane. This is also a medley of the other tracks. The off-beat guitar hook when Viky Vale comes in got stuck in my head. He's a phenomenal guitarist and bassist, in addition to all the choreography, costume, writing, producing, casting, directing etc Prince is one of the few people in history who reached the very of their chosen career. He knew exactly what he wanted to do with his time on Earth, and he went for it, from a very young age. He had the motivation and drive to keep practising, learning, improving, augmenting, and analysing. He was constantly reinventing himself, with whatever his latest influence was. I'd also put Bruce Lee, Taylor Swift and Suzuka Nakamoto in that same bracket. They're all very different, living in different eras, where the world is very different, but they all manage to navigate growing up, with struggles and triumphs of their own, but they put the time and effort in, while most kids (including me) were messing around, with next to no productive outcome. I'm a guitar player. I'm VERY average. Prince is on a whole different planet from me. I'm always looking for blistering guitar performances from artists. If that sounds interesting to you, I'd recommend the following:
* Prince - Let's Go Crazy, from 1985
* Prince - Electric Chair, from 1989, from the Batman album
* Stevie Ray Vaughn - Voodoo Child, from around 1985. It's a PHENOMENAL cover of Jimi Hendrix
Damn lol I remember seeing this video 6 times a day on MTV!
Song is unique because it merges the Batman soundtrack with the movie itself. ‘I’ve seen the Future’ mentioned during ‘Batdance’ is from ‘Future’ on the soundtrack. ‘Electric Chair’ (also mentioned during ‘ Batdance ‘ is a song on the soundtrack. So the track is weaving in other tracks from the Soundtrack itself with lines from the movie. This work might seem disjointed, but it’s actually creative genius.
The soundtrack songs reflect the characters from the film. ‘Partyman’ not played within ‘Batdance’ is a Joker song. In the movie, it’s in the background as the Joker enjoys committing crimes.
Love song’Scandalous’ is for Vicki Vail, Kim Basinger’s character.
Within the video, Prince plays himself, and a combination of the Joker and Batman. The Jokers character is also playful, yet dangerous and demented-hence, the dichotomy of both gun play (he’s a criminal) that is mentally unstable. Aspects of the song intends to reflect all of the characters within the movie.
I recommend ‘Partyman’ and ‘Scandalous’ as videos, but the best is the music from the extended CD-‘The Scandalous Sex Suite’. It’s an extended, continuous 3 part song that is scintillating and features Kim Basinger doing things beyond what’s shown on the movie-nothing too dirty to air-but Uber sexy nonetheless.
Prince and Basinger actually dated for a time shortly afterwards, likely because of this steamy song.
While now only a footnote in Prince's career, "Batdance" was one of his biggest songs in terms of sales and air time BITD, it was literally everywhere and paved the way for the movie's hightly anticipated release. In two months everybody was sick of hearing it on the radio 🤣
You had to be there. This was the shit. Bought the album soon as it came out. Loved the movie. Prince was on top of his game
You need to checkout the whole album.
Partyman
Scandalous
What a great album
Really crazy , creativity, instruments technique and so much more..
Prince has influenced practically everything that we hear 2day...
He's got another video from the movie called Partyman. He did the whole soundtrack to the movie.
"Vicky Vale."
"Vicky Vale"
Prince is, to date:
"The Most Talented Entertainer In The History of The World"
Peerless.
(no competition)
The harmony of "Batman" so remind me of the original TV series with Adam West in the 60s (and probably Prince saw this too, as he was born only 3 years later than me). The TV channels were restrained back then!
That guitarsolo kills me every time!
As an 80s kid who was 17 when this came out, I don’t remember ever seeing this.
Wow, I was the 17 then too. How did you not see this?
We saw this video before the film came out. What hype!
This sounds a lot like theme from the 60's Batman tv show. That voice of Joker at the beginning sounded a lot more like the original Joker Cesar Romero.
This was written only 23 years after the show in 1966.
Prince is a genius. Batman batman joker, joker was a bad guy.
That man was a good guy. I grew up with that man.
One of my fav tracks, he's got rock, hip hop, EDM, lotta shit going on, LOL, The song is like 75% sample lines from the movie and the TV show, 25% of him singing a line or two. He played ALL of the instruments. The theme is Duality of Batman dealing with the joker. and how they are practically one in the same.
I recommend more Prince:
th-cam.com/video/Bg43MfcVmlg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=WAyTp6eU6wTARqeP
Great live performance, but too short.
Live versions of ‘Do Me Baby’ (from Detroit performance in black and white) and ‘If I was your Girlfriend’ from ‘Sign of the Times’ movie are longer versions of what you see of Prince in the Oprah performance. It should be viewed because of Prince’s command of the stage.
People that don’t know Prince, don’t realize that he wrote and performed everything so some think of him as only a performer. For example, he had jam session late with his band. They went home to sleep, by the time they returned the next day he had written ‘1999’ a double album, overnight dubbing demos with all the instruments and drumming overdubbed in. He had sooo much music in his head, he operated on very little sleep.
His musical vault is prolific.
Prince is a genius
Prince in the first Batman movie was.He did all the soundtrack for Batman
The video is wicked! I would probably never listen to the song on it's own, but the video was cool!
I liked all the batman movies, but I LOVED the Nolan ones!
Please never compare the child molester to the GOAT. MJ molested at least 24 children, sang, danced and wrote lyrics. That's it. Prince didn't molest anyone, but san, danced and wrote songs. Prince played all the instruments on most of his songs (only avoid wind instruments). Michael played ZERO instruments and could not compose music. They did not inhabit the same universe. As for this song, three years later he did NOT included it on his 2 CD greatest hits even though it was a 1989 #1 hit. It was of the time and made to promote a movie and he knew that. It was incredibly cool at the time and served its purpose. It is not in the top 200 Prince songs. So I'm amazed your "friend" suggested it.
Please do the whole full-length Thriller video, especially as a horror movie fan it's still my favourite music video of all time ❤ I'm no dancer but I had the whole zombie dance down as a kid 😂
You need to watch the movie to understand the song. Also Prince dated Kim Bassinger(ex of Alec Baldwin) during this time. But without watching the movie it all seems crazy.
I'm a Greatest Hits kind of Prince fan and had never seen the video before, although I've seen and loved the movie many times! At the time it was released it was such a joy to see the Batman story tackled with a degree of seriousness (from Michael Keaton especially) after having to live with the 60's camp fest, which I loved... back in the 60's! Then Jack came in and it all went crazy again!
You have never heard Thriller like this...Tony Succa...latin tribute to Michael Jackson....enjoy!
It was 1978 and I was in the Motown building trying to get a record deal for my group- I come down the elevator and in the lobby I see Rick James walking by and then this short skinny kid with a 'Fro was walking by and it was Prince in his early days ! don't know why a Warner artist was there..
Ah, he was handling his business. After all, he did open for Rick and knew the Gordy's.
You should do the Partyman music video (extended version). It’s also from the Batman movie.
Not the original Batman film but still very good. Love Prince. I think a Michael Jackson documentary would probably be more Halloween appropriate.
Excelente reacción, saludos desde Argentina
La mejor parte es el solo de guitarra y cuando sales las rubias.
Fun, i hadnt seen that in years.
Dated? Ok, everything Will be dated. Sometimes week for week, or even day for day. Prince saw the future… 😊
Michael Jackson has a little known video called Blood on the dancefloor....so if you want to see Michael dancing salsa...this is the one.
great reaction, could be Prince's best video honestly! i've heard Prince was asked a couple of songs for the Batman soundtrack and came back with a whole freaking album lmao (that's why i think the movie really uses only 3 of the 8 or 9 songs on the album)
I disagree this serms still ahead of its time to me.I just think its hard for someone who is not a musician or Choreographer potentially to relate or maybe people born outside of generation X just don't get it .Idk but its amazing to me and I can totally understand that younger people might just can't relate.I can't relate to all my parents music from the 50s and 60s.Thanks for the review I enjoyed this.
Hola Nick y Alexia! qué alegría ver que reaccionaron a Prince! Soy fan de él desde siempre... cuando salió Batman yo estaba casada, con 3 hijos de 8, 9 y 10 años entonces fuimos todos a ver la película y quedaron fascinados! Siempre en casa se escuchó a Prince y por supuesto a Luis Alberto Spinetta, Charly García, Soda Stereo... por eso ahora mis hijos, que ya son adultos y padres también, comparten con la familia lo mejor de la música.. les recomiendo que reaccionen a Dante Spinetta, hijo de Luis A. Spinetta, con su nueva producción, el álbum "Mesa Dulce" que es totalmente funky, donde el encargado de la producción de los vientos es el mismísimo Michael B. Nelson, arreglista de Prince!!! Vean Damasco session 1 y 2 o los videos de los temas "El lado oscuro del corazón", "Ridículos" "Sudaka" son inspirados en Prince con la mejor calidad!!! Un saludo enorme desde la ciudad de Buenos Aires! 🤩
I do get that Prince was a musical genius but I could just never warm to his style.....having said that, the only album I have of his is the Batman soundtrack.
(1958-2016)
As weird as his video, it reflects a lot of Prince's own thought process, the question of are we good or bad, our dual personalities.
Which he brought together in his creation of Gemini, the half Batman, half Joker character.
But after the debate??, only Prince himself is left standing.
STOP
Was a Lucky fan seen Price On His 1999 Tour MGM Grand Las Vegas .We all partied with Prince that night RIP Your Fan
こんばんは、お疲れ様です。っていうか、こんなのプリンス以外作れんやろ！wwww
I typically like Prince's music, but this one I didn't care for at all. Maybe it's because I'm not a Batman fan...
Yea, pick his worst song lol
Im a huge Prince friend...it wasn't his best work...it was meant to be CAMPY....he wasn't played much on tje radio after Purple Rain on mainstream radio...Prince was self made pretty much in tje 90s producing his own music putting cds out when HE wanted...made his millions in live shows...His base fireds fuelex his success. And Prince was so great that MJ wanted Prince on his album in the late 80s. Prince was the rude boy MJ was mainstream. Lol