![]() It’s true that Bush’s personal life is so opaque that an interview betraying her Netflix habits offered grounding intimacy. ![]() “You don’t learn much about Kate from her songs.” Which begs the question of how we might know a songwriter. “Kate’s the opposite of a confessional singer-songwriter in the mould of Joni Mitchell during her Blue period,” he asserts. Mitchell intermingles charming fannish detail with close textual analysis that illuminates familiar songs: it is God, he points out, not the devil, who allows the man and woman to exchange their sexual experiences on Running Up That Hill, an act of divinity rather than transgression.īut Mitchell is wrong on one key point. Instead, subtler direction follows an introduction by author David Mitchell, who wrote the spoken-word parts of Bush’s 2014 Before the Dawn performances. She doesn’t annotate this anthology, unlike Neil Tennant’s recent Faber edition. ![]() T rust Kate Bush, never one to explain, to complicate the straightforward lyrics collection.
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