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- Scandalous is quoted musically in three Danny Elfman compositions for the Batman movie, also available on the companion Batman: Original Motion Picture Score - ‘Kitchen, Surgery, Face-Off’, ‘Love Theme’ and ‘Finale’. A fourth one is in an alternate version of ‘Beautiful Dreamer’, released on the 4-cd collection Danny Elfman Batman Collection, The : Limited Edition. While Danny Elfman must have heard Scandalous before its release, it is unlikely that Prince himself was involved in these three tracks (although he is credited with co-composition as a result of Scandalous’s inclusion), so they are not given full entries here.
- This song uses the LinnDrum, the successor of the Linn LM-1 usually utilized by Prince.
- In an article published in 2022, Sounds Of Blackness’director Gary Hines discusses the recording session of the song : “We recorded one song, which wound up being Scandalous. I say that because he remixed or reformatted what we did to where it was a whole ’nother creation. Originally, we were just going to do one song, but it was going so well. We got there probably at 7, 8 o’clock. By this time, it’s midnight. Sheila E. is actually conducting, or engineering, I should say, most of the session. Then he pulls me aside and says, "Gary Hines, I’m really happy. This is going so well, Gary Hines." I’m not exaggerating. He would do that all the time.”. In an other interview, Hines gives other details about that one and only session involving Prince and Sounds Of Blackness: "In addition to the lengthy late nights - early morning phone conversations pouring out heart and soul, then some of the projects we were blessed with him on was like the Batman soundtrack. I’ll never forget he called and said they had this really important project that he wanted us to work with him on. At the time, he couldn’t even tell us what it was, he told us afterwards. He said we probably would stay an hour or two in the studio; of course we were there all night (laugh). We had a great time! In fact, Sheila E. actually engineered; she was at the console much of the session and Prince was producing. That was on a Halloween. I will never forget that. Of course there are countless others, but those are among the standouts.".
- Scandalous was recorded in mid-October 1988 (two weeks before Halloween), while he was working on both Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic and the Graffiti Bridge albums. Although that track is not known to have been considered for those projects, Prince’s organization was contacted by the people behind the Batman film only in mid-december 1988, two months after the recording of the song. Since their contribution was discarded from that track, and that no other recording session with Sounds Of Blackness took place, it is likely that their vocals sampled on the Batman soundtrack (the The Future and possibly Batdance) come from that session.
- An semi-instrumental version of Scandalous was used in an alternate version of the scene in the Batman movie in which Bruce Wayne visits Vicki Vale's apartment and tries to tell her he's Batman. In this alternative scene the distinctive bell sounds that can be heard in Scandalous are synced with the ringing of Vicki Vale's door bell.
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