DC fans got a taste of Matt Reeves' Caped Crusader reboot The Batman earlier this week with the film’s first trailer. The clip features an orchestral remix of Nirvana’s “Something In The Way,” a cut from the band’s classic 1991 album, Nevermind. The trailer is already having an impact as fans are flocking to the song on streaming platforms and looking up the lyrics on Genius.
In the trailer, we see dark and ominous scenes of Robert Pattinson as the title character and Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner James Gordon, while the Nirvana song gets an orchestral treatment that gives it an industrial vibe.
After the release of the trailer, the song jumped to No. 22 on the iTunes Top 200. On Genius, the song page for “Something In The Way” had been averaging roughly 225 pageviews per day, it’s now averaging 2,6000 pageviews per day.
“Something In The Way” was the final song on Nirvana’s Nevermind (not including its hidden track, “Endless, Nameless”). Many fans believed the song’s lyrics were autobiographical, and that lead singer Kurt Cobain wrote them about being homeless and living under a bridge. Several sources have refuted that story, including author Charles Cross in his Cobain biography Heavier than Heaven.
Watch the trailer above and read all the lyrics to Nirvana’s “Something In The Way” on Genius now.
