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?
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.
Steve Coogan - who once parodied Kate Bush songs - says like poet John Keats, Bush writes what she imagines.“Most rock and roll people write about their lives in someway and Kate Bush is more like Keats in that she writes about what she imagines.” 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.
Bush is also not afraid of sex. And she sings about it in a way that defies any trend of the past five decades. 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.
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