Kates a trained modern ballet dancer. She’s everything, literally.

"This is art....this is ART!" You're 100% correct. My family bought a new stereo in the mid-80s and whilst listening to the radio one lazy Saturday morning, this song came on for the first time and I dropped whatever I'd been doing and just sat in front of the speakers, absolutely spell-bound. It became a childhood core memory for me and I'm so happy she's being recognised for it again. Great reaction!

I've adored Kate ever since Wuthering Heights. Divine 🖤

Love to claim Kate (I’m Australian) but she is most definitely English. She also happens to be one of the most important and incredible musicians of the last 50 years. A whole world of sonic adventure awaits and I’m here for it!

The thing is, if someone told you it was new and you didn't know, you'd believe it wouldn't you? Kate was so far ahead of her time, love her so much and I'm so pleased for her, getting appreciated by another generation. Nice reaction too.

It's called "interpretational modern dance"..1985 the song come out.. What's interesting is that when this song came out in 1985 MTV rarely played it, they only played it late at night as they considered it "alternative music", as Kate was not that popular on MTV at all, so late at night was the only time they played most of Kate's songs and videos. So I remember setting up my VCR taping Running up that hill video when I went to bed, so I could fast forward to Kate's "Running up that hill" so I could watch it whenever I wanted to. The first time it came out on MTV and I heard the song and video I went straight to the record store and they were like "Kate who"?. They looked and said "Sorry we don't have Hounds of Love album by Kate Bush but we can order it for you", so I ordered it, it took a week and once I had it I never stopped listening to it. Again it was not played often on MTV at all. Sad but true. Right now I would Kate's song "Running up that hill" and the album "Hounds of Love" is more popular in the US NOW than it was way back then....sad but true but also so happy for so many young people to get into Kate Bush. She deserves it!

Peter Gabriel and Kate bush singing - "Don't Give Up" is sublime and worth a listen

EMI signed Kate up when she was sixteen after hearing a demo tape that David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) paid for her to have professionally recorded and produced. It would be more than two years before Kate recorded her first album and she spent the interim period developing her craft, and taking lessons in dance and mime. She learned mime from Lindsay Kemp, who also taught David Bowie. The type of dance you saw in the video is usually referred to as interpretive dancing, and can include elements of many different dance styles, including ballet.

Kate Bush is regarded as the most influential female artist of the last three decades...no shit. She was signed to EMI at the age of 16 and by then she had written over 200 songs!! She was immediately given 100 per cent creative control. Her debut album The Kick Inside came out in early 1978 and Wuthering Heights raced up the charts to number one in the UK and all over Europe. 'The Man with the Child in His Eyes' reached no 3 on the British charts and won a British literary award for best song lyrics..she wrote it when she was 11 years old!!! Kate was the first female British artist to land a number 1 hit and a number one album of songs written and performed, she was also to become a few years later, the first self-produced female artist. She was the first artist to pioneer the headset microphone for her heavily choreographed live production in 1979. The first version was made from a coat-hanger!! She was the first solo artist to utilize digital sample technology in her writing and production. This is a woman who can ask Elton John, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Eric Clapton, and David Gilmour from Pink Floyd if they would like to be guests on her album, and the answer is 'Yes please", before they even hear a single note of it. Kate's status is huge and always has been, it's just that America was a little bit slow and came a bit late to the party!

Kafe Bush is simply one of the most unique, pioneering and influential artists of all time.

Kate Bush is a power house of creativity and genius. That's why she commands such respect from the like of Delta et al.

I have always love this song ,one of most beautiful songs ever written.Takes me back to the 80's and my young adult years when walkmans where the popular listening devices ..I'd put this on after a night out in bed and listen to the amazing Kate Bush .Her artisry and talent was so vast ..it was endless .

Several reactors don't recognize the creativity and artistry of this song/performance. Appreciate your admiration for it. I would say and not a dance expert that this is contemporary dance but I've seen it commented that it is interpretative dance. The choreography and message is beautiful. They actually swap places to understand the other's feelings/viewpoint. Love this video. And her voice is special. I particularly love her low range. Thank you.

Love Kate Bush! Yes she is British. I would love to claim her as one of our own, an aussie. Such a talent, great voice and very unique and great range in her voice. Yes she was trained in classical dance and mime. I love all her musical videos from back in the day. Such an all round talent! Loved her from when I was very young growing up.

I fell in Love with Kate Bush in 1978....I have 7x CDs of Kate Bush Albums from 1978 that I still play Every Saturday morning for my house cleaning!!!!...She is my all time Idol since I was 14yo!!!...(& My Hairstyle was the same @ the time)....Kate Bush was HUGE in Australia for Years!!!!.....btw: YES Kate is trained ''Contemporary Dancer" (is what its called) on top of her other talents....& very Private Person....***one of my Favourtie songs is: "WOW"...& EVERY Song on the Album "The Kick Inside"!!!!!...💕

Best female, writer, performer, producer, director of own clips, dancer and singer. One of the top artists we have ever been blessed with. Have loved her since she wore that red dress in her Wuthering Heights clip.

Always a good idea to watch the videos to Kate Bush songs, as they really help with the interpretation. She took dance classes when younger. The more videos you see you will see her creative skills.

Kate Bush played the only keyboard on the song. The keyboard was the Fairlight C.M.I. IIx. Kate actually recorded and played all 7 parts on the Fairlight. The Fairlight cost between $25,-$150,000 depending on options. The Fairlight is available as an emulation as part of the Arturia v collection

I'm 47 and I have 73 Kate Bush tunes in my catalog. I counted.:) She was and is a goddess of the 80's and early 90's. Oh, and edit...I'm from the US, because I see a lot of Brit and Aussie family in the comments.

This came out when I was 15. So blessed to have grown up in this era. Love Kate, love the 80's! ✨🎶🎵🎶💜💜💜🔥🔥🔥🔥 Love this song and clip.

Just hit a world record. Longest time a song took to get to number 1 lol. 37 years and 310 days. Been listening to Bush and this song for yesrs (love my 80s tunes) and i'm a 33yo ATHEIST, that's how good this song is lol.

Love Kate Bush and one of my favourite songs. ❤ Great singer and songwriter. If you like this video, wait until you see the one for "Babushka"

Singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, dancer, video director. She does it all.

This is my second favourite song of Kate Bush, Babooshka being my favourite. Even though she's a talented dancer, (I call her style of dance "expressionist") when she left school she tried to get into dance school but nobody would accept her as she had no qualifications in ballet - then she met British dancer Lindsay Kemp who gave her lessons in movement and the rest, as they say, is history 😊 I hope you will react to Babooshka soon, you'd love it.

True story - Kate Bush was so far ahead of her time, even back in the 80s, that she basically invented the wireless headset mic as we know it in music.

Listen to the rest of the album Hounds of Love. One side is a suite of songs called the 9th wave, amazing. She’s English, an individual artist. She was very popular here in Australia. I’m so happy that a new gen of fans get to hear her work.

Not from Australia I wish she was but

I suspect that the impression some people have that Kate is Australian is due to her song "The Dreaming". In fact, Kate is English born to an English father and an Irish mother (just like me, in that regard).

One day the world will recognise the depth of talent of Kate Bush. You already discovered she wrote This Women's work covered by Maxwell. She's also English.

Kate Bush was always ahead of her time, one of the 1st to experiment with new sounds etc She wrote and produced this song herself (original name 'Deal with God' but was changed as they thought it might alienate Christians) so she is getting all of the royalties and sales profits etc - and good on her.

It takes you to Stranger Things, it takes some of us smack bang into the middle of the 80s. lol

I’m old enough to remember her debut on Top Of The Pops: the weekly chart run down show, when Wuthering Heights was released. That got to number one in the UK. She had plenty of hot singles between that and this in 1985, but there was something about the Hounds Of Love album that made her even bigger. I remember when the tv show Miami Vice used another song from the album, Hello Earth. It was very impactful. She’s just a phenomenal artist. Always doing things her way and always innovating. This song was a number 3 hit when first released. So it was already a huge song, but now of course it’s even bigger. I’m so happy for her! But yeah, this whole album deserves the respect of a full review. In fact, she released a live album called Before The Dawn, which took the whole second side of the album and made it into a piece of theatre. Well worth a listen too.

I’ve had this song stuck in my head since the episode was released. Going a little loopy over it. The dance style is called contemporary dance, I’m an ex dancer and this is what I trained in.

I’ve loved this song for decades

Great reaction 🔥 I was quite young when I first saw/heard Kate Bush. It was a DVD compilation of 80's music videos The song was "Cloudbusting" (1985) off her "Hounds of Love" album (same one that has "Running up that Hill (A Deal with God" on it). From then on became one of my favorite artists. Kate is definitely in a league of her own who inspired many artists who came after her (Tori Amos, Bjork, Lorde to name a few). Kate is every bit of a theatrical/visual performer/storyteller as she is a musical genius/writer/artist and her extensive/legendary discography proves it. Check out Kate's song/music video "This Woman's Work" (1989) about the uncertainty of childbirth through the eyes of the man. The R & B artist Maxwell famously covered it in the late-1990s

Voiceplay just drop a cover of this. You should definitely react to it.

Big Boi from Outkast big fan this song, and Kate Bush. Interview with his love for this song here on KZfaq! Love her....

Kate Bush is a damn treasure, and it's a shame she's not better appreciated in America. I've loved this song for years, and I'm so happy that it's making a resurgance. BTW, VoicePlay has done an amazing cover of this that I think you'd really enjoy, with a deliberate nod to That Scene from Stranger Things in the video.

I remember seeing her first video Wuthering Heights when it came out. I had just started reading the book. I was mesmerized. Bought the album the next day. Do a reaction to wuthering heights.

It's kind of wild finding these Kate Bush reactions after seeing all your Ren reactions. I saw that because I see a lot of parallels between her and Ren in terms of being extremely creattve independent UK artists who also have a penchant for making their own videos. (Kate wasn't originally independent; after producing a couple of albums for EMI, she used her blockbuster success to finance her own studio and publishing and management companies for self-producing her later albums independently.) I've been a fan of Kate Bush since first seeing her video for "Cloudbusting" (from her album Hounds of Love) in the mid-80s. "Running Up That Hill" was also a big hit in the 80s. And yes, she was also interested in dance as seen in many of her videos.

Kate was ahead of her time. When she originally came it she was considered alternative. I never quite got her music but it definitely fits in perfectly now

You heard her before as a teenager doing Wurthering Heights and wasn't impressed. Amazing voice all her own songwriting too. Did get a leg up by David Gilmore of Pink Floyd and spent her first cheque on dancing lessons.

hell ya dude i absolutely LOVE stranger things, i can say i knew of her but never listened to any songs. this is a masterpiece, gave me chills. and holllyy shit the remix in the finale at the end? gott damn

So glad you finally reacted to this! Am also glad stranger things made this relevant

I watch a lot of reactions and yours is alway soooo good, because you nail the emotions and catch some complex vocals we plebes will miss..

Her fans and there are many, will wait years for a new album and when one is released we go crazy for it.

She’s English isn’t she? If not we’re gonna claim her anyway haha when I was a kid I used to hate it when my mam put her on but yesterday I thought I will give her other stuff a listen because this one running up that hill is haunting me and it’s an absolute tune isn’t it so I put her on Spotify yesterday and this woman jeeeez I can’t stop listening to her she’s ace ….and back in the day she was just kind of in her own lane doing her own thing and I didn’t appreciate her being a kid but like now I can’t get enough of her ❤️

She and David Bowie learned dance under Lindsey Kemp he died recently .( contemporary dance)

Music is truly timeless.

watch BABOOSHKA by Kate your monitor will melt!

Only issue I had was I couldn't see anything of the video. It was in the 80s - 1985 I believe. All it took was 37 years. Worth it though - it is beautiful.

You should do more Kate Bush, she is amazing and has influenced many artists, especially female. She did a beautiful collab' with Peter Gabriel "Don't give up" I'm sure you would love it.

English singer Kate Bush stepped back from stage performances. It is great to see her back as she has some brilliant songs.

Kate Bush is English and an enigma, great songwriter and very private in her life.

Voiceplay just dropped a cover of this. It's amazing.

Kate was trained to dance by Lindsay Kemp and learned mime from Adam Darius who also taught David Bowie....you're absolutely right that what she creates is art...great reaction thanks!

Kate Bush is amazing. Good reaction, man! Your voice is also WooooW! :)

LONG before Madonna, Lady Gaga, Beyouncé, Kylie and many of the rest...there was Kate. Leading the women on 'How to...'

Love the voice!

Kate Bush as you finally worked out is English, was discovered by David Gilmore from Pink Floyd. They did a live show together of 'Running Up That Hill kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZ-hh7N-naynfY0.html at the Amnesty International 'Secret Policemans Ball' in 1987. The records broken with this new found popularity are; longest time taken for a single to reach number one, makes the 63-year-old singer the oldest female artist to reach the top the singles chart, Bush has also set a new record for the longest period between two number ones, with a gap of 44 years now standing between her 1978 hit 'Wuthering Heights' Another of her greats is 'The Man With The Child In His Eyes' kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b6xli6uLlbS0d5c.html shows her singing and playing the piano.

Es el tema del año ! Me encanta la version que hace Delta.

Do some research my friend! She's British.At last you reached Kate for your second time.. Better late than never.Explore and enjoy! 👌☺️👍

I’d love to give you 40 songs from my 46 years of life to critique. I was truly lucky, my mother/father were 50’s children. So i was brought up with EVERYTHING all the way until this day. The big O to Kashmir, to Eminem … on and on.

Yeah Kate Bush is from United Kingdom she was discovered by Pink Floyd’s guitarist David Gilmour in the late 70’s she was only in her teens . Late 70’s to the mid 90’s Kate Bush was releasing mainstream music after she took over decade off making music just in past few years Kate has making new music .

VoicePlay just released a cover of this song that is so amazing.

I enjoy your reactions but as you were going to deprive us of the Beauty of that magnificent Work Of Art that was the Video then the only way to avoid going mad was to get another Browser with THe Official Video and play it at exactly the same time as yours so I could establish exactly what you were watching, my friend. Other reactors have got round this Copyright problem by a VLACK background to the transparent video:)

Yo lo conocia, me gustaba. Pero hoy me gusta más. Suele pasar con los grandes clasicos. Sin auto tune. Y la letra bro, dime sino son poesias , con tanta luz. Esto es musica.

You so cool, i'm don't understand why you not popular, why not many like. Good day

At least you can see the videos. Other reactors are rarely making videos transparent.

haha do not dare to take our beautiful Kate Bush from England :)

If you like this song, Voiceplay, just recently released a cover of this song. It is awesome. You need to watch all the way past the first part when you think it is over. Voiceplays cover features Asley Diane. Thier video give of the Stranger Things/80's vibe.

Bush said the lyrics address the inability of men and women to understand each other. She imagined that by making "a deal with God", they could exchange places and reach a greater understanding.The song was originally titled "A Deal with God", but representatives at EMI Records feared this would make it unpopular in more religious countries.The album version of the song is listed as "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)". The music video features Bush performing an interpretive dance with dancer Misha Hervieu.The video was directed by David Garfath while the dance routines were choreographed by Diane Grey.Bush and Hervieu are shown wearing grey hakama.Bush wanted the dancing in "Running Up That Hill" to be more of a classical performance. She stated that dance in music videos was "being used quite trivially, it was being exploited: haphazard images, busy, lots of dances, without really the serious expression, and wonderful expression, that dance can give. So we felt how interesting it would be to make a very simple routine between two people, almost classic, and very simply filmed. So that's what we tried, really, to do a serious piece of dance." The choreography draws upon contemporary dance with a repeated gesture suggestive of drawing a bow and arrow, intercut with surreal sequences of Bush and Hervieu searching through crowds of masked strangers. At the climax of the song, Bush's partner withdraws from her and the two are then swept away from each other and down a long hall in opposite directions by an endless stream of anonymous figures wearing masks made from pictures of Bush and Hervieu's faces. MTV chose not to show this video (at the time of its original release) and instead used a playback "live" performance of the song recorded at a promotional appearance on the BBC TV show Wogan. According to Paddy Bush, "MTV weren't particularly interested in broadcasting videos that didn't have synchronized lip movements in them. They liked the idea of people singing songs.

This would be a good song to die to. Very tranquil and peaceful

Please do Voiceplay's cover of this next. It is fantastic, and the video is very Stranger Things.

Now you've gotta check out VoicePlay's version, lol

Stranger Things - YES. React to VoicePlay once you get the original in mind.

Her album: "the Dreaming " is straight 🔥.....cover to cover! Do yourself a favor.

England

I love Placebo's cover of this song

Kate bush was a wonderful dancer I have a good memory so could see the video in my head (iconic) but your transparency so powerful could see nothing at all,shame.

Modern dance

80s

She's really NOT from Australia!

Her WUTHERING HEIGHTS was a song you did not enjoy. This may be her most famous now. WUTHERING Heights is an amazing song nonetheless

You kept pausing it during the songs climax.

1985

from the uk m8 check the internet first ! Dooh

First

1985 is the year this song came out

English not Australian...

British not Aussie

Her Parents are 100% IRISH

You heard her before as a teenager doing Wurthering Heights and wasn't impressed. Amazing voice all her own songwriting too. Did get a leg up by David Gilmore of Pink Floyd and spent her first cheque on dancing lessons.

She did study Ballet but she learnt dance/mime from the fabulous Lindsay Kemp....who's other famous student was the EPIC David Bowie.