Post by soulflower on Jun 23, 2022 10:12:57 GMT -5
Kate Bush's song from 1985 has gone viral after being featured in the Netflix series, 'Stranger Things':
‘The whole world’s gone mad!’ Kate Bush on Running Up That Hill’s success
‘The whole world’s gone mad!’ Kate Bush on Running Up That Hill’s success
Speaking to Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Bush said the situation was “just extraordinary … quite shocking really, isn’t it? I mean, the whole world’s gone mad.”
Running Up That Hill is at No 1 in the UK charts and could spend a second week at the top on Friday despite high-profile new releases from Drake and Beyoncé. It is at No 5 in the US, down from a peak of No 4 last week, which made it her first US Top 10 hit.
The song is a key plot motif for the character Max Mayfield in the fourth season of hugely popular Netflix drama Stranger Things, which has created a whole generation of new Kate Bush fans.
“It’s such a great series, I thought that the track would get some attention. But I just never imagined that it would be anything like this,” Bush said. “The Duffer brothers created the series and actually we watched it from the first series onwards, so I was already familiar with the series. And I thought what a lovely way for the song to be used in such a positive way. You know, as a kind of talisman almost really for Max. And yeah, I think it’s very touching, actually.”
Earlier this month, series co-creator Matt Duffer said Bush’s music would return for the climactic two episodes of season four, released on 1 July. “There’s an epic Kate Bush moment in the finale that we weren’t expecting, that we kind of discovered as we were editing,” he said. “The sequence was really cool and we were happy with it, but it was missing a little something. And I was like, ‘Well, let’s try Kate. Because when has Kate let us down?’ And it just took it to this new height. It’s arguably the most epic Kate Bush moment. It comes back in a major way.”
A new trailer for the final two episodes of Stranger Things has been released, featuring a pounding rework of Running Up That Hill.
Running Up That Hill is at No 1 in the UK charts and could spend a second week at the top on Friday despite high-profile new releases from Drake and Beyoncé. It is at No 5 in the US, down from a peak of No 4 last week, which made it her first US Top 10 hit.
The song is a key plot motif for the character Max Mayfield in the fourth season of hugely popular Netflix drama Stranger Things, which has created a whole generation of new Kate Bush fans.
“It’s such a great series, I thought that the track would get some attention. But I just never imagined that it would be anything like this,” Bush said. “The Duffer brothers created the series and actually we watched it from the first series onwards, so I was already familiar with the series. And I thought what a lovely way for the song to be used in such a positive way. You know, as a kind of talisman almost really for Max. And yeah, I think it’s very touching, actually.”
Earlier this month, series co-creator Matt Duffer said Bush’s music would return for the climactic two episodes of season four, released on 1 July. “There’s an epic Kate Bush moment in the finale that we weren’t expecting, that we kind of discovered as we were editing,” he said. “The sequence was really cool and we were happy with it, but it was missing a little something. And I was like, ‘Well, let’s try Kate. Because when has Kate let us down?’ And it just took it to this new height. It’s arguably the most epic Kate Bush moment. It comes back in a major way.”
A new trailer for the final two episodes of Stranger Things has been released, featuring a pounding rework of Running Up That Hill.