‘Nothing else sounds like it’: How Kate Bush keeps finding new fans, across the generations

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‘Nothing else sounds like it’: How Kate Bush keeps finding new fans, across the generations
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Kate Bush's iconic song Running Up That Hill is surging in the charts thanks to Netflix’s Stranger Things. But what makes the musician so compelling? katebushmusic strangerthing netflix

Across 34 separate countries, including the United States , Britain, Belgium, Latvia, Ireland and New Zealand,On Australia’s ARIA chart, it hit number two – surpassing its original number eight peak in 1985., these new listeners, driving the song’s meteoric success, are being exposed to someone whose music is the very definition of other worldly.is built upon its 1980s setting. One of its stars , Winona Ryder, started her career in the 1980s.

That Coogan put Bush in the context of two of the world’s greatest poets should not be a surprise. Bush has been borrowing from literature since she emerged as a 19-year-old with her take on Emily Bronte’s 175-year-old novel,also fits snugly into that description.

On her first album she featured a song that included the line “that feeling of sticky love inside”. In her last album of new material, over a 13-minute song she documents a relationship involving a snowman.James Joyce’s Ulysses ends with Molly Bloom’s soliloquy - which Bush used for her song, Flower of the Mountain.. It traces her racing mind to the point of her orgasm, ending with the words “yes, I said yes, I will yes, ooo yes”.

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