KATE BUSH RUNNING UP THAT HILL SERIES
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When asked a somewhat curveball question, about the youth’s engagement with Bush and their recent TikTok-ification of the singer - “do you know about ‘ Witchtok’?” - Bush responded with that winning graciousness. “It can be daunting going from such a private existence to such a public one,” she said. Similarly, in a 1985 interview with Music Box she explained that she’d rather promote her work than her private life. “I kind of adopted a philosophy a long time ago that I wanted my work to speak for me,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2011. This falls into line with Bush’s usual approach to promotion: just let the work speak for itself. Ultimately, she said: “I really like people to hear a song and take from it what they want.”

KATE BUSH RUNNING UP THAT HILL SERIES

“We binge-watched the series together,” she responded when asked about her son, Bertie, who performed alongside his mother on her 2014 tour.īarnett also asked her about the original meaning of “Running Up That Hill.” “The idea was a man and a woman swapping places with each other to see what it was like from the other side,” she responded. The singer also revealed that she’d been a fan of Stranger Things since its first episode. “In a lot of cases they’ve never heard of me … these young people … I think it’s very special,” Bush said. Now, a new generation has discovered Bush.

Her friends soon learn that they can save Max by playing her favorite song, “Running Up That Hill.” For many long-term Bush fans, the metaphor feels terribly close to home. Max, one of the show’s leads played by Sadie Sink, is seized by a monster who preys on humans with emotional trauma. It’s all thanks to the song’s pivotal role in season four of Netflix’s Stranger Things. charts - beating out the likes of Harry Styles and Bad Bunny. charts and earning the singer her first top-ten entry on the U.S. Last week, her 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill” became the world’s most streamed song, reaching number one on the U.K. The pre-recorded conversation was Kate Bush’s first broadcast interview in six years, in celebration of the cult British singer’s recent unprecedented chart success. “Well it’s just extraordinary,” she told the Woman’s Hour presenter when asked about her recent brush with virality. Your muscles immediately seem to relax upon hearing it. Her voice a soft lilt that makes you feel loved and protected, like a mother, or a bomb shelter. Instead, Kate Bush picked up the phone to Radio BBC Four’s Emma Barnett with characteristic meekness. The song’s bone-shaking instrumentation, its polymorphous perversity, its primeval genius - you feel its creator must have the power to shift tectonic plates. You’ve heard the currently chart-topping “Running Up That Hill” by now, so you know what I’m talking about. Waiting to hear Kate Bush’s voice for the first time in six years feels like bracing for an earthquake.

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