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In the image, Kate Bush giving a live performance in 1978. More than four decades later, the singer is once again enjoying the honeys of success thanks to Netflix.
His work combines a quintessentially English mysticism with an equally British taste for absurd humour.
“Why are people so interested in me when I only do an album once in a while?” asks the enigmatic singer Kate Bush, now 63, who has remained 12 years without releasing a new album in 1989. .
But now the well-known series stranger thingsput the light back on her after her song Run up that hillreleased in 1985, appears in several of the fourth season episodes that Netflix has recently released.
The success was such that it reached number 1 on the charts in the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Austria this Friday.
But that’s not all: on the Spotify platform It became the most listened to song in the world.
In her native UK, Bush became the oldest artist to reach the top of the podium after knocking down the former One Direction member. Harry Styles.
Run up that hill also entered the top 10 in the United States in recent days thanks to the sci-fi series.
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Kate Bush’s song replaced Harry Styles’ hit ‘As It Was’ at the top of the UK charts.
The euphoria has also reached TikTok, where videos with the hashtag #RunningUpThatHilI have been played over 530 million times.
“I’ve never experienced anything like this before!”, the star wrote on her official website on Thursday. “Everything is so exciting.”
“It’s a glorious thing because people are hearing Kate Bush for the first time, and now they’re going to start their own little journey and find out more about this amazing artist,” he said. Matt EveritBBC Radio 6 Music presenter.
“When (the song) came out so many years ago, it sounded brand new,” he added, “and so many years later, always sounds like Something that none he has Done before”.
The riddle of the bush
Reserved and with few public appearances – in 2014 she made a series of concerts in London after 35 years without performing on stage – Bush remains in the collective memory of Anglo-Saxon music.
In press interviews, she is often charming, but skillfully evasive and unable or unwilling to put into words why and how she makes her music.
His influence has been constant for artists such as Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Lady Gaga, Bat for Lashes, Goldfrapp, Florence Welch, Joanna Newsom, Tricky and Outkast.
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Netflix’s Stranger Things series has put Kate Bush back on top.
But at the age of 20, he made an unusually risky decision: withdraw from touring.
This allowed him to focus on creating music and experimenting with the latest technology.
According to the engineer Nick Launay, “Step into the studio with her every day was like stepping into fantasyland,” the BBC reported.
Bush developed a similar taste for creative control when it came to making music videos.
story of a song
In strange things, the songRun up that hill he appears recurring as he is obsessively played by one of the teenage leads, Max Mayfield.
Run up that hill originally appeared on Bush’s fifth album, love dogswhich she herself produced and composed largely with a Fairlight CMI, an innovative digital synthesizer.
Bush wrote the song at his home in rural Kent in the summer of 1983.
The lyrics are an expression of radical empathy: a fantasy about making deals with God to trade places with their lover so each can fully understand the other.
It was Bush’s boyfriend and collaborator, Del Palmer, who programmed the electronic drums that announce both the song and the album. love dogs.
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Kate Bush says the renewed interest in her music is “very exciting”.
EMI rejected the original title, A deal with God (“A pact with God”), so that it does not offend a part of the population.
It was finally a great success in 1985 and love dogs it became the fourth best-selling album in the UK that year.
Run up that hill was remixed for the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, so it’s not exactly buried treasure, but it somehow retains the aura of a cult artist.
“I was really surprised that some of my stuff, which isn’t particularly mainstream, was so successful,” the singer said in 2011.
This unexpected new success for Bush comes 44 years after last reaching a number one with his first single The Wuthering Heights.
The four-decade gap is the longest in chart history, surpassing Tom Jones, who had to wait 42 years between Green green house grass reached the peak in 1966 and its next number one, charity single (Barry) Islands in the Stream.
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