The thorn, needed to show the sincerity, comes from the razor sharp alto sax'. Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented, 'Sealed with a kiss, here you get a ballad and a half! It's got the right pathos and the unavoidable violins. Another editor, Andrew Mueller, called it 'a nondescript wine bar ballad'. Ian Gittins from Melody Maker noted its 'would-be butterfly sigh'. 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.Ĭhuck Campbell from Knoxville News Sentinel felt that 'fairy-tale-ish melodies and harmonies' uplift 'Kiss from a Rose'. He described how the song initially dropped out of the charts shortly after its release. Seal talked about the long, strange journey that the song went through on The Brian McKnight Show season finale that aired. It also was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Song from a Movie in 1996. It also went to number four on the UK Singles Chart, where it had originally reached number 20 in 1994.

'Kiss from a Rose' was the second single taken from the Batman Forever film soundtrack, and topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for one week in August 1995. He turned that tape from my corner into another 8 million record sales and my name became a household name'. In 2015, Seal said of the song: 'To be honest, I was never really that proud of it, though I like what Trevor did with the recording. Seal did not present it to producer Trevor Horn until the recording sessions for Seal II. After writing the song, Seal felt 'embarrassed by it' and 'threw the tape in the corner'. 'Kiss from a Rose' was written in 1987, several years prior to the release of Seal's eponymous debut album from 1991.

At the 1996 Grammy Awards, it won awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The song also reached the top 10 in several other countries, including Canada, France, Iceland and Norway. It was re-released a year later in 1995 as part of the Batman Forever film soundtrack, helping it top the charts in the United States and Australia. The song was first released as a single in July 1994 by ZTT, Sire and Warner Bros., and included in the film The NeverEnding Story III that year. ' Kiss from a Rose' is a song from British singer-songwriter Seal's second eponymous album (1994). Problems playing this file? See media help.

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