Singles and Music Videos
"It's All Coming Back to Me Now" was the first song released as a single. It reached number one in Raven's native Norway, and the top ten in both the UK and Germany. "Blind As a Bat" was scheduled to be released in the UK on December 18, but was then put back to February 26, as two CDs. In turn, this single was pulled at the last minute, in favor of "Cry Over Me", which was released on May 7, 2007.
P. R. Brown directed the videos for "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and "Cry over Me." "It's All Coming Back..." is an elaborate production, in which Meat Loaf is being haunted by the memory of his dead lover. Told in flashback, Raven's character crashes her car to avoid a man standing in the road. She sings as an unseen spirit following Meat Loaf. It echoes Steinman's comments that the song is about the "dark side of love" and the "ability to be resurrected by it."
The video for "Cry over Me" had the lowest budget since those for the original album. A simple video, Meat Loaf has said that it only took four hours to film. The music video for "The Monster Is Loose" consists of animation. Its storyline is about a biker who rescues a girl from an enormous bat.
The videos for "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", "Cry over Me" and "The Monster Is Loose" are included as bonus features on the 3 Bats Live DVD, released in October 2007.
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