Without even having a ‘smartphone’ or moving from the county of Oxfordshire, where she entertains herself with gardening, the British singer Kate Bush has arrived this Friday at the premiere of the last chapters of ‘Stranger things’ turned into the queen and lady of Spotify and TikTok with her song ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)’, a song he released 37 years ago. As almost everyone who follows the series already knows by now, the person responsible for the milestone is the character of Max, played by Sadie Sink, who listens to him in his ‘walkmans’ through the corridors of the institute.
‘Running Up That Hill’ has the power to bring her back to reality and rescues her from the evil Vecna’s spell. “I never imagined something like this,” Bush confessed to the BBC, which has broken his usual public silence to comment on the phenomenon: “It’s very exciting, but also quite shocking, right? The world has gone a little crazy.”
TikTok, however, has not captivated the singer despite her great popularity on the platform. He has already said that he does not plan to be in it. Beyond ‘Running Up That Hill’, another of her songs that spreads like wildfire on the platform –and she did it before– is ‘Babooshka’. Bush was also asked about it by the BBC. “Do you know WitchTok [una etiqueta dedicada al tema brujas]? “It’s inspired by ‘Babooshka’ and your look in its video clip. Did you know?”. Bush laughed and replied, “No, and it sounds ridiculous.”
Jealous of his work
Kate Bush, always so jealous of her work, did not hesitate to give ‘Stranger Things’ permission to use ‘Running Up That Hill’, with the condition of supervising the script first to know its exact use: she was delighted. Generation Z has discovered Kate Bush (63 years old), thanks to the series. She included Sadie Sink, who confessed that before filming started she didn’t know who she was.
Kate Bush, who hasn’t released anything new since 2011, experienced her creative effervescence in adolescence: she composed 120 songs between 1973 and her first album, in 1978. Most of them never saw the light of day. She impressed David Gilmour, then Pink Floyd’s guitarist, who shared a mutual friend with her family and sponsored her with EMI. Bush signed her first record contract when she was only 16 years old, but EMI preferred that she not publish songs until two years later: she dedicated herself to taking interpretive dance classes with which those expressive dances that make her video clips unmistakable were forged, halfway between the oneiric and the lysergic.
Already in his debut single, Wuthering Heights, he laid the foundations of his style, marked by a powerful high-pitched voice and a dramatic staging. The song made her the first female artist to hold #1 in the UK charts with a self-composed song. In Spain she became popular thanks to an advertisement for Ô de Lancôme.
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Since 1978 he has released 10 albums, allowing himself long productive breaks. To the point that the urban legend circulated (as succulent as it was false) that an EMI executive visited her at home to ask her what she had been doing during the 12 blank years that passed between The Red Shoes and Ariel, two of her records, and she showed him a tray of freshly baked cakes. “People thought Kate Bush was insane. They were embarrassed to admit that they actually liked her, and I think one of the good things about feminism today is that she’s no longer a threat,” observed Björk, who confesses to being indebted to her style like other artists. like Adele, St. Vincent and Lady Gaga.
His power is attested to by the fact that, when he returned to London’s Hammersmith Odeon in 2014 after 35 years without acting of his own accord, concert tickets sold out in 15 minutes.