In the summer of 1989, primed by "Kiss" and "Alphabet St." and "Sign 'O' the Times" to expect brilliance from the first taste of new Prince music, I raced out to buy "Batdance," the first single to be ...

Before superhero films became mopey and self-conscious, they were of full of glee and embraced the inherent silliness of men running around in tights. This childlike exuberance was, perhaps, reflected ...

It’s as much a physical reaction as it as a deeply emotional one, with the colours and spectacle overwhelming your senses while your left foot taps in time to the beat. It’s cosplay on acid as Prince ...

The nine-track LP starts with "The Future" and ends with "Batdance," and as you may have guessed, not every song says "Batman." Hell, not even "Batdance" fits the Batman mold, but the few songs that ...

Prince's 'Batdance': Possibly NSFW, on account of sexy Batwomen and the word "funk" sounding like a different f-word entirely. In this week's installment of the A.V. Club's "We're No. 1" series, which ...

Batman and Prince are an odd combination. They’re both American icons, however, there’s not a lot of similarities between Prince’s prime funk and Batman’s Gothic heroism. Regardless, the world got ...

So, let’s just get this out of the way: My favorite Prince album is the “Batman” soundtrack. It’s criminally underrated. It’s dark, it’s frantic and it’s headlined by “Batdance,” a wild track that ...