'It’s not that I don’t like American pop; I’m a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?' - KateBush
Long before the Lilith Fair transformed female empowered music into a marketable touring phenomenon, before Tori Amos combined arty theatrics withsoaring vocal glissandos, Kate Bush paved the way. For more than 30 years, the British singer-songwriter has offered strange, sweeping, and often impossible-to-categorize fusions of global musical influences with lyrical subjects that have roamed far and wide of the typical pop clichés. In 1978, at age 19, she topped the U.K.
BUSH: Well, it was quite an interesting process for me to go back and re-sing these songs because, for all kinds of reasons, they’re not the songs I would write now. I can’t really remember what my thought process was when I wrote that one originally. I just thought it was one of those songs that could benefit from a revisit. That was just one of the songs that popped into my head.
BUSH: Well, I really didn’t see it as a substitute for a greatest hits package, but it was something I’d wanted to do for a few years. I guess I just kind of felt like there were songs on those two albums [] that were quite interesting but that they could really benefit from having new life breathed into them.
BUSH: I think it’s a very interesting observation. I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.BUSH: Initially, I used to just play hymns that I knew.
BUSH: Well, “Get Out of My House” was more to do with the book than the film, just to say that. But whatever is going on in your life when you’re writing has to somehow seep into your work. And maybe if my songs feel personal, that’s very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment. But there are very few that really have any sort of autobiographical content.
BUSH: I love comedy. I like to think that there’s a sense of humor in some of my music—obviously not all of it. But I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people. Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it’s a very dominant trait.BUSH: Well, I think there’s some great stuff out there, but I don’t feel that it’s the same sort of level of comedy that we have had in the past.
EHRLICH: You were the first woman ever to have a self-written number one hit in the U.K. with your song “Wuthering Heights” in 1978. How important
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