

His TikTok (shown below, left) received roughly 2 million plays and 290,400 likes over the course of ten days. He expresses his feelings and emotions by saying 'something in the way' - he thought everything was in the way every time he tried to feel better. He talks about living under a bridge, which he claimed happened when he got kicked out of the house and had to live under a nearby bridge. For instance, on March 6th, 2022, TikToker nicrutledge started a trend of using the song to demonstrate being depressed after watching the movie. Kurt Cobain wrote 'Something In The Way' about his life. TikTokers like buckscountybatman2 used this sound on October 24th, 2021, showing himself waiting in line at a store, earning roughly 9.8 million plays and 642,600 likes over the course of five months (shown below).īesides a couple of precursor examples like the aforementioned one, most TikToks using the sound in reference to The Batman came on or after its March 4th release date. The sound was ripped from the original August 2020 trailer rather than just being the original song's audio. For instance, in the opening monologue scene, it played in the background as Bruce Wayne pulled into the Bat Cave.īefore the March 4th release, some TikTokers were using a sound called, "Something In The Way (From "The Batman")" created by Geek Music.
SOMETHING IN THE WAY MOVIE
Once the film was released, it was featured within the movie multiple times. Over the course of two years, it received roughly 40.7 million views (shown below). Nirvana - Something In The Way (Audio) 32,595,990 views 646K Dislike Share Save Nirvana 8.12M subscribers Official Audio for Something In The Way by Nirvana from the ‘Nevermind’ 30th. In 2022, the song became the main theme of The Batman movie, with its first use being in the initial trailer, released to YouTube on August 22nd, 2020 by the YouTube channel FilmSelect. Over the course of three years, the video's received roughly 26.5 million views (shown below). A video of Nirvana performing the song on MTV in 1993 was uploaded to YouTube on December 6th, 2019, by the official YouTube account of the band.

It is the 12th song on their second album, Nevermind, which was released in September 1991. Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana originally recorded "Something in the Way" in May 1991.
