In the U.K., Kate Bush has been a chart-topping pop star since 1978. Here’s why it took her four decades to reach the same heights in America.
has said that they didn’t have a Plan B if Bush didn’t approve her song, so set were their hearts on it. And I get it: Almost no ’80s song sounds, speaks, or, is the song’s crux: “Do you want to feel how it feels?” Bush’s female narrator challenges her male counterpart. “Do you want to know—that it doesn’t hurt me?” At root the song is about overcoming miscommunication between the genders, a persistent theme in Bush’s songwriting.
I was trying to say that, really, a man and a woman can’t understand each other because we are a man and a woman ,” Bush told the BBC three decades ago. “And if we could actually swap each other’s roles, if we could actually be in each other’s place for a while, I think we’d both be very surprised! And I think it would lead to a greater understanding.” This switcheroo is the “Deal with God” invoked in the song’s subtitle .
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