“Running up that Hill” is on everyone’s lips right now. The fourth season “Stranger Things” drove the song by Kate Bush from the 1985 album HOUNDS OF LOVE to the top of the charts. Now the German singer Kim Petras has released her own version. The song was covered for Amazon Music’s Proud playlist to celebrate Pride Month.
“I’ve always been obsessed with the song,” Petras wrote in a release statement. The song is “elusive”, there is no clear interpretation of the content. “You can choose what the song means,” says Petras. For them it would be about equality. Coincidentally, the timing was perfect. Here is a link to the song.
For Kate Bush, “running up that hill” has a different meaning. The text of the New Wave song is actually about communication problems in a relationship. “I wanted to say that a woman and a man cannot understand each other because they are a woman and a man,” she explained in an interview in 1992. The only solution would be a body swap and that is the “deal with God.” “.
From Cologne to Los Angeles
Best known for her bubblegum pop, Petras has been dubbed the “new pop princess” by several US media outlets. She now also lives in Los Angeles. In Germany, she was already seen in documentaries and talk shows before her music career. Kim Petras is a trans woman and underwent gender reassignment surgery when she was 16.