As a Warner Bros. stablemate, Prince's involvement in the soundtrack was designed to leverage the media company's contract-bound talent as well as fulfill the artist's need for a commercial revival.

The result was yet another multi-platinum successful cross media enterprise by Warner Bros., in the vein of Purple Rain.

This never came to fruition as Jackson was busy with his Bad World Tour and already signed with Epic Records (the label he had been with since 1975), while the film was a Warner Bros. production.

"Batdance" includes a sample of Prince's technician Matthew Larson, and "Partyman" features a vocal performance from Anna Fantastic.

[3] "Batdance", whose lyrics consist mostly of samples from the film, is credited to all aforementioned parties, as well as Gemini, Prince's Batman-centric alter ego that resembles Batman villain Two-Face—Prince on the right half of the body and the Joker on the left.

The artist's hair was fully straightened from his signature wavy curls, as shown in the "Batdance" video.

On concert T-shirts which listed all of Prince's album titles to date, the song "Scandalous!"

[citation needed] Despite this, Prince performed a number of the album's tracks in concert over the years.