(It wasn’t even originally supposed to be in the movie: the team initially wanted Miles to sing Childish Gambino’s “ Redbone” but after Jordan Peele’s 2017 breakout Get Out used the song in a similar way a year prior, they picked “Sunflower” at the last minute from a batch of already completed songs sent by Republic Records.)
Other songs tackled the movie’s themes of identity and adolescence in ways subtle and blatant, but without references to swinging, masks, or arachnids of any kind, Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower,” a track about two strung-out dudes leading a girl on, took on a life of its own. It’s a nifty start to the coming-of-age story that endears him to the audience in a matter of seconds. In that film’s opening scene, our protagonist Miles Morales sings the song very off-key before he’s interrupted by his parents. There’s a simple reason that “ Sunflower,” a single from the soundtrack to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, became an Earth-conquering smash hit: It works outside of the context of the movie.
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