
They say this metaphor continues throughout the movie. The writers added that using “Sunflower” added a metaphor that Miles is singing a song that he’s too young for. They then set on the Post Malone/Swae Lee hit we know and love. “We were in big trouble when we couldn’t use it anymore - we needed to replace one of the greatest songs of the year, and we had to do it in time to spend the three months we would need to animate that shot.” We had a feeling it was because people knew the song, and they knew how he was messing it up,” the writers continue.

“It was critical that the song gag landed. Unfortunately, Get Out used a similar tactic when it introduced Daniel Kaluuya’s character with the same song playing. “It got a big laugh in the preview screening a year ago, but there was one problem: The song we initially used was the Donald Glover song ‘Redbone.’” “We had this idea that if he sang a song that was out of his register, it would make the audience laugh,” they said. Read more: A Hagrid-themed ride is coming to ‘Harry Potter’ park in Universal Orlando


The song is featured at the beginning of the movie when the character meets Miles, and it turns out “Sunflower” was actually a second choice, writers Rodney Rothman and Phil Lord revealed to Vulture. Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower” might be one of our favorite tracks on the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse soundtrack, but it wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place.
