Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. Today we're going to be talking

about a topic that is even more fertile than I first imagined. Bat Music. The Batman is out now, great movie. It has an amazing

score, but it also has a nirvana song. Something in the way is a recurring theme in this movie.

Played at the beginning, very prominently,

it's played at the end with a whole new feeling to it.

And it really jumps out in the movie,

and the song is massively up in streams.

More than a 1,200% increase in streams of something in the way on Spotify.

If you Google it, something in the way is, for better or worse, now known as the nirvana batman song.

Something in the way.

It's now the second most popular Nervana's song on Spotify overall right after Smells Like Teen Spirit, which is wild for a song that was never a single, never had a video.

It all seemed like a good excuse to talk about that and then to delve into the entire history of bat music.

To help me do that, to start out I have with me David Fear and we'll start with the use of something in the way in the Batman.

It's funny because the director Matt Reeves said in advance in interviews that this was kind of a Kurt Cobain Batman

and that he was listening to something in the way when he was writing the first act of the screenplay and defining Bruce Wayne as a much more reclusive and sort of emo version of the character than we've seen before and people's first reaction to that

idea of course was total mockery like this sounds terrible but I don't know it kind

worked it worked I think it kind of works for this movie. Yeah, I think for what he wanted to do for The Batman.

He talks about Bruce Wayne not as the kind of socializing playboy that we've known in past iterations of Bruce Wayne.

He compares him to a drug addict. I think he

compares him to being a drug addict even before. He compares him to Kurt Cobain.

And then he throws Cobain's name in there and you're sort of like Bruce Wayne as Kurt Cobain that doesn't track.

The only time they've ever appeared together before is someone has got to have used that in

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