I remember he said one of the first piano pieces he taught himself was the batman anthem, so I would assume it was the film. Or both.

bigtimefan said:

I remember he said one of the first piano pieces he taught himself was the batman anthem, so I would assume it was the film. Or both.

He learned the theme song to the TV show.

Prince recorded a lot of tracks for Batman, many of which we've heard or heard of by this point.

I don't believe Prince was a pointed Batman fan. It's just serendipity that a Batman event came back around to him. People would be asking the same thing had he taught himself the theme to The Addams Family, then been asked to do a song for the movie in the 90s. "What he a big fan of Lurch, Morticia and Gomez?!?!?!" No.

TrivialPursuit said:

bigtimefan said:

I remember he said one of the first piano pieces he taught himself was the batman anthem, so I would assume it was the film. Or both.

He learned the theme song to the TV show.

Prince recorded a lot of tracks for Batman, many of which we've heard or heard of by this point.

I don't believe Prince was a pointed Batman fan. It's just serendipity that a Batman event came back around to him. People would be asking the same thing had he taught himself the theme to The Addams Family, then been asked to do a song for the movie in the 90s. "What he a big fan of Lurch, Morticia and Gomez?!?!?!" No.

So you're saying that princed picked the batman theme song as the song to teach himself how to play the piano with, did the sountrack to the batman movie, and made a video where he appears as morphed batman characters but somehow wasn't a fan of batman? He also wrote a score to the movie which wasn't used because they already had a score.

There is aslo an article here that has more information and says Prince was a huge batman fan.

learned something new from the article I just linked:

It almost happened. During a casual 2001 Rolling Stone interview, Prince looked back on Batman and revealed, “Did you know that the album was supposed to be a duet between Michael Jackson and me? He as Batman, me as the Joker?” In practice, that would have meant Prince playing the funkier songs and Jackson performing the ballads. To the disappointment of pop culture enthusiasts everywhere, this obviously never came together. Record label issues might have had something to do with that, considering Prince was a WB artist and Jackson was signed to Epic. Plus, Jackson was fresh off of Bad around that time. He probably didn’t need Batman as much as Prince.