WE DIDNT KNOW!.| FIRST TIME HEARING Seal - Kiss From A Rose REACTION 

Funny that Amber mentioned it feels cinematic. This song was on the Batman Forever soundtrack. Such an amazing voice!

Love how Seal told mgmt/record company he would NOT cosmetically change his facial scars (lupus iirc) and basically told them to eff off. He won that battle

This is actually one of the most complex pop songs of all time. When they actually put forth effort into a pop song. Matched with a timeless voice this song will forever remain one of my favorites!

I love how young people are realizing how fire 🔥 the 90's and 2000's were.

The older I get the more I realize that Seal is one of the most underrated artists out there. Goat status. Amazing catalog.

The high-pitched instrument is an oboe. I love Seal. Such a great voice.

Imagine being so young you get to listen to this the first time as an adult. This is one of the most well constructed pieces of music of all time. My entire body still lights up with prickles and I have to belt it out

Your reaction to this song is spot on. Just a little background : At the 1996 Grammy Awards, it won awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. it's one of those haunting songs that stays with you forever. It makes me feel like I'm being swept away into some medieval, magical place. Love it more and more as time goes on. The whole album is great.

This is an iconic song from that era. It stands the test of time.

This man. His voice. This is a song for the ages. Seal is a human treasure.

There is just nobody like Seal. He is difficult to describe, but what a smooth, beautiful voice.

I'm a cardiologist, and trust me on this one, I play music as I operate. This song came on in the middle of a transplant. Had a hard time not singing along out loud. Drove my team crazy (no pun intended).

I highly recommend “Prayer for the Dying”, “Crazy”, “My Vision”, “Future Love Paradise”, “Lost My Faith”, and “Don’t Cry”. That’s just for starters. It’s criminal that Seal hasn’t had more hits. I think he’s one of the most underrated musicians in the entire pop/rock era. The instrument you were wondering about is an oboe.

I'm a 47 year old metal head, but I'm into a lot of different styles of music... I LOVE this song!! There I said it..lol This song is so smooth. Seal is such an amazing singer.. This song gives me goosebumps.

He wrote it and laid the instrumentals himself in an afternoon, in an interview with Rick Beato he said it took about three hours. The man is pure genius.

I've always thought of Seal's voice like this, liquid velvet crossed with the smoothest Scotch whisky.

This was released in 1994, a beautiful song. He released "Crazy" in 1991. Its so different from this, but I loved it. 😍

“You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain. To me, you’re like a growing addiction that I cannot deny. Won’t you tell me, is that healthy, baby?” Such powerful, sexy lyrics. This song melts me. Used to sing it with an a cappella group - it was cool to attempt imitating the violins and oboe with voices.

A British singer with a beautiful voice. He uses vocal layering like Freddie Mercury. Seal did Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever, it's beautiful, done so well.

Seal is hard to describe. His music is so rich, complex and smooth. It has elements of jazz, soul, rock, pop and world music. His lyrics are deep and meaningful and his voice is insanely beautiful and powerful. Check " Prayer for the drying", "Touch", "Dreaming in metaphors", "Don't cry", "Crazy", "Future love paradise ", etc... Seal is one of a kind. I have him ranked right up there with people such as Sade, Sting, Bjõrk, Phill Collins and Peter Gabriel. Seal is his own genre, just like Sade or Bjõrk.

The instrument J is most likely wondering about is an oboe. The thing that makes this song, apart from the backing orchestra, is Seal's masterful use of overdubbing. It gives the song a Medieval choral sound.

This is one of those songs, if you’ve never heard before, that requires multiple listenings to appreciate the beauty and intricacies of it.

Seal's 1st album is a masterpie4ce from start to finish. One of the best debut albums of the 90's.

This song was part of the "Batman Forever" soundtrack, so the cinematic feel is there 🙂

Seal. One of the most wonderful voices of all time. While he was best known for his silky smooth, tender ballads ("Love's Divine" is breathtaking), he had a harder-edged side, particularly early in his career (when he still had hair). "Crazy" is a total banger, as is "Killer" and "Get It Together". ANY of those three will get you up and moving, guaranteed. More info - his full name is Sealhenry Samuel, born in England to a Nigerian mother and an Afro-Brazilian father. He is also well known as the former husband to supermodel Heidi Klum, with whom they had four children. One of my favorite stories that he told in an interview happened once when he was in a hotel, walking down a hallway to his room, when he heard one of his songs being played in another guest's room. He knocked on the door, and the woman who answered was so amazed when he picked up where the song was, right there in the hallway!

Seal; the male Sade. Joni Mitchell makes an appearance on this album. Their voices blend very well.

The vocal layering and all the counter melodies going on in the background of this song is insane! This album is one of my all time favourites of the nineties.

The tune has such Celtic overtones and the overall arrangement is just effing brilliant!

“Crazy” is another great Seal song, he’s such a great talent!

Kiss From a Rose is Seal’s most iconic song, featured in the 1995 movie Batman Forever starring Val Kilmer, Jim Carey and Tommy Lee Jones.

When he sings "and now that your rose is in bloom, the light hits the gloom" you can really imagine the light brighting up the dark, the melody is just perfect, and lyrics are lovely!

Let's not forget the great production of Trevor Horn. A genius in his own right that moulded the sound on the 80s.

This song was performed for Batman Forever, Seal was a highly successful singer in the 90s. He was invited to sing at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert, his version of 'Who Wants to Live Forever ' is hauntingly beautiful 👍

His voice is so expressive. He also did a cover of Steve Miller’s FLY LIKE AN EAGLE that is superb.

The entire album was inspired. "Kiss from a Rose" got so much airplay at the time that I would skip the track to play the crap out of the rest of the album. And the duet with the incomparable Joni Mitchell on the track "If I Could" still gives me chills. "Bring It On!"

I have 3 words for you guys: TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY!! HOLY SH!T, he's amazing!! His songs "Wishing Well", "Sign your name across my heart" "If you let me Stay" & his cover of the Jackson 5's "Who's loving you?" Are absolute DYNAMITE!! 🧨

Seal is a British singer-songwriter who has had many hits but "Kiss From A Rose" is one of his best. Such a beautiful song. Other hits were "Crazy", "Killer", "Future Love Paradise". He was married at one time to German super model Heidi Klum & had 3 children with her.

Can't listen to this song for one second and not see the neon soaked streets of Gotham City from Batman Forever. Seal made that movie iconic with this song ☺️

Seal's first album entitled Seal was released in 1991. It was a breath of fresh air to the music business because the man could actually sing with a voice that was full of emotion, no trickery needed. I remember hearing this song about 8 o'clock one evening on my cars radio. I had to pull over to listen to it. I was across the street from a shopping mall and when the song was done I pointed the prow of my big old beast of an Oldsmobile 98 to the mall and within 15 minutes I owned that very last copy they had on CD. I still have that disc and it resides permanently in the CD player in my truck. The entire album from a musical standpoint is gorgeous and I like to listen to it at about 3 o'clock in the morning while I'm just cruising aimlessly. It's calming yet emotional and it allows me to think clearly about my life in general.

I'm a HUGE Seal fan! His song "Love's Divine" nearly always bringing me to tears, check that one out. You two are WONDERFUL...respect!

His genre is adult contemporary. He focuses on emotional themes with dream like ambiguity to the lyrics. Highly recommend his song “Crazy” for a reaction. It launched his career. But Kiss from a rose was the big catapult

J., the instrument you asked about was an oboe. Unlike the sax with it's single reed, the oboe has two reeds back-to-back and it has a similar range as a flute. I played one thru Middle School. 👍🏽😁

This is one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard.

Ever wondered why you rarely hear cover versions of this song? Because it cannot be equalled by anyone. Seal is unique.

This is quite a sophisticated song - it has wide ranging elements from soul to English folk music! Do his first big hit "Crazy" next.

Everything he sings is great. With a voice like his, you can’t go wrong. Very special.

One of the masterpieces in my humble opinion. I believe the instrument that mesmerized you is an oboe. Everytime I hear this song I find something new!

Instrument is called an Oboe and it's absolutely incredible. Like a deeper richer flute. Super expensive but it adds so much to the song it should be used more in music.

Seal has one of those voices that u can identify instantly... he belongs in the iconic singer category of Elton John, Phil Collins, George Michael, Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, Sting, Bono of U2, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Sade, Freddie Mercury of Queen... He's a great pop singer w/ a blues-y voice. His 1994 album 'Seal II' is my fave Seal hit songs - "Don't cry" ... "Crazy"... "Waiting for you" ... 'Human beings' ... 'Bring it on'... 🔥🔥🔥

Seal took the world by storm. Everyone loved and still loves him. A beautiful soul.

I like the construction of the music, the tonics, the dorics, and the use of Medieval time signatures. It is so unusual because he just did what came from his head and did not let music "tastemakers" get their hands on it. Seal wrote it himself. He was given some kind of electronic mixer and started to play with it. Since he did not know a lot of the technicalities of music (including what notes should NOT be placed next to each other, he went and wrote this song which included notes that are never used together for some reason that only classical musicians know).

Love Seal amazing voice never get sick of listening to his songs 💜💜🎶🎶

He is an extremely versatile singer. He teamed up with guitar legend Jeff Beck for a tribute song to Jimi Hendrix. The song they covered was "Manic Depression" and it rocks!

"Kiss from a Rose" is a song from Seal's second eponymous album. The song was first released as a single in July 1994 and included in the film The NeverEnding Story III that year. 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. It also reached the top 10 in several other countries, including Canada, France, Iceland and Norway. At the 1996 Grammy Awards, it won awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. "Kiss from a Rose" was written in 1987, several years prior to the release of Seal's eponymous debut album from 1991. After writing the song, Seal felt "embarrassed by it" and "threw the tape in the corner". Seal did not present it to producer Trevor Horn until the recording sessions for Seal II. 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. He turned that tape from my corner into another 8 million record sales and my name became a household name". "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. It also went to number four on the UK Singles Chart, where it had originally reached number 20 in 1994. It also was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Song from a Movie in 1996. Seal talked about the long, strange journey that the song went through on The Brian McKnight Show season finale that aired 30 May 2010. He described how the song initially dropped out of the charts shortly after its release. 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. Two versions of the music video were produced: The original version is set in a photographic studio and was co-directed by Matthew Rolston and William Levin. The 1966 film Blowup was heavily referenced in the video. The second version was directed by Joel Schumacher and has Seal performing the song beside the Bat-Signal, interspersed with clips from the film Batman Forever. This is the more well known video of the song. The director of photography of this version of the music video was Neil Abramson.

One of my favorites songs. Still gives me chills.

This song is just incredibly moving & stirring. It's almost terrifying, how beautiful this is. And it's all I can do to keep myself from breaking down & sobbing in places.

"Crazy" by Seal is awesome!! I love the lyrics, "In a world full of people there's only some want to fly, isn't that crazy..."

One of the most beautiful songs ever written. Seal basically decided to write a song, then recorded his voice parts on a tape...no instruments, just his voice. That's the story of how this song came to be, and the rest, as they say, is history (3 Grammy Awards including ‘Song of the Year’ and ‘Record of the Year’). The instrument in question, I believe, is an oboe. Rick Beato does an interview with Seal and a breakdown of this song in his series "What Makes This Song Great." I highly recommend you check that out. Love your reactions, Rob Squad!

Your passions and respect for ALL types of music is all embracing and what’s right in this world. I have heard 95 percent of the music you listen to and hear these songs fresh through your ears. I appreciate you two. Music is healing and soul nurturing. Blessings

Many babies were born because of Seal and this gorgeous album.

His song "Crazy" is absolutely amazing. So talented.

The world was introduced to Seal through a song called 'Killer' and an artist called Adamski. Was a surprise worldwide hit in 1990 and though Adamski went on to achieve some further minor commercial success he faded fairly quickly but Seal became a superstar for a period in the 90s.

“Crazy” is probably my top track by Seal, always gets a response from a crowd.

It makes me feel things like redemption, loss, a new love, bravery and legendary

First time I heard Seal was on ADAMSKI's "KILLER", well worth a listen , totally different genre, but launched his career here in the UK. You can still hear the vocal quality even on a dance floor filler.

One of the outstanding Black artists in the UK. Seal has had several hit songs, but this is by far the one he is remembered for!

This song is so beautiful. His voice is a blessing. I can just chill into this song and be at peace in this world of hate and violence.

This song can melt your heart to pieces. I always loved it.

Seal is incredible love this song and Crazy also and the moving beautiful Don’t Cry

Seal is so unique! Definitely check these! 🌟🔥"Love's Divine" (Live in Paris 2005) 🌟🔥"Crazy 🌟"Newborn Friend" 🌟"Don't Cry"

The fact that they didn't hardly stop the song and talk about it shows how good and musically rich that song is. Rick Beato does a break down of the song and it's amazing. THIS IS A POP SONG! What happened to pop music?!?

I love my metal music, but this has always been a jam of mine ever since I was a kid and Batman Forever came out. This was a monster hit. This is one of the most soulful songs ever.

Amber, the song is indeed part of a movie soundtrack “Batman Forever” and perhaps what it’s most synonymous with. It also helped push the song to the top of the charts.

A perfect song really. Those diamonds that stand the test of time. Another impressive thing is that Seal actually wrote the song himself too and then shelved it for years before it's release. Cheers

This reminds me of my daughter’s amazing, beautiful wedding day. I was keeping it all together and didn’t think I’d cry - until I walked into the room and her bridegroom to be was standing alone looking so nervous and this was playing in the background - It broke me. I started to cry and cried all the way through. It was absolutely beautiful, I’ve never been more proud

Seal first became known in the UK (and Europe) when he sang on the Adamski track 'Killer'. Then he had songs like Crazy, Kiss from a Rose, and a few other big UK hits.

Always given me the CHILLS, Great Song!

Seal did an album of standards (Sinatra, Tony Bennett, etc.) It is heavenly.

Always rated this guy is one of the best singers around the 90s. Just beautiful voice.

This the best reaction channel. I have seen others that don't recall who the artists were that they previously reacted to half the time, but Jordan and Amber remember almost all the time. And I love so much how they appreciate the music and the times that came before them!

Man! This song sounds just as great today in 2021 as it did 27 years ago when I first heard it!

I love Seal. His music is so moving. To me, he is severely underrated.

Absolutely beautiful reverent song. Seal has a lovely voice ❤

I recently discovered this song and I’m obsessed. The instruments remind me of the Renaissance folk music for some reason. But his voice is so dynamic and you feel every word.

Such an underrated artist. Every cut on this album is a masterpiece. You must listen to the entire album.

You really need to listen to the song that put him on the map...the song is called "Crazy".

I have to say. This is the most beautiful song I have ever heard

I love this song so much and love how y'all are vibing in the zone in the moment. Wish y'all did this to the actual music video to the song.

Seal wrote this song. He co-wrote his hit song "Crazy" with Guy Sigsworth.

Other Seal songs I would recommend are "Crazy", "Prayer for the Dying" and "Waiting for You". As far as his genre, he´s never really stuck to one. He´s gone between pop, soul and dance. This song is reminiscent of a traditional English folk song. The instrument you are asking about is, I´m pretty sure, a woodwind. Possibly a clarinet? I was also thinking piccolo, but I´m far from an expert. Seal composed the song, but hated it, and hid it until producer Trevor Horn (who went from singing "Video Killed the Radio Star" with Buggles to producing some of the biggest artists in the world) demanded a listen and completely transformed it. And yes, it is literally cinematic. Though recorded before, it became the love theme from "Batman Forever".

This is such an amazing reaction from you guys. This song is amazing and the way you reacted to it was wonderful , can´t wait to see more videos from you both.

I heard a live acoustic performance by Seal on SiriusXM about a year ago, and all these years later, he sounds just like he did on this track live as he did on anything he recorded in a studio. What a voice.

SEAL wrote this Song in the 1980's and thought it was "Corny" and a "throwaway" Song that he was ashamed of! It wasn't until his Record Producer Trevor Horn (of the "Buggles" fame "Video Killed a Radio Star") heard it and told him it was going to be a hit song. Ironically this "throwaway" Song was SEAL's first Number One Song in America.

He was a coach on The Voice Australia. He won the very first season with an incredible artist named Karise Eden. You should most definitely include her blind audition on Female Friday! It was the quickest 4 chair turn I've ever seen!!

I loved this song since I was a kid in the 90s. Still one of my favorite songs! Fills me with nostalgia

"Walk On By" is an amazing rendition by Seal. He's got the most beautiful voice.

God ... his first 2 albums are ridiculously good! "Future Love Paradise," "If I Could," "Crazy," "Newborn Friend" ... the list goes on and on. Not unlike "Sting," SEAL has done his own thing and kind of carved out his own "sound," or niche. Sure love you two, by the way! You've become a daily part of my life, and you give me hope for finding my "other half" out there, somewhere. =)

I'm VERY surprised you guys haven't heard this one! HUGE hit and still played everywhere even as old as it is.

Seal is AMAZING! I’ve loved him for almost 20 notes. His album 7 is amazing. All of his albums are amazing. His song Violet is beautiful.

He is one of the best artists of his era!