Gen Z discovers Kate Bush in a big way due to Netflix show

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The strangest thing? Why Kate Bush is back at the top of the charts

Wait until they hear wuthering heights

Pretty much amazed by everything she does.

If I had to pick favorites
“Babushka”
“Wow”
“Them Heavy People”
“Breathing”
“Sat in Your Lap”
“Suspended in Gaffa”
“The Dreaming”
“The Sensual World”
“Deeper Understanding” Directors Cut Version

The Bush is back!
Great news, but I feel you really have to watch the music videos to get the full Kate Bush experience.

It's nice to see that song being the most popular, have had it played at family members funerals before.

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So gen z can recognize there was some good music put out before they were born, and some of them are jamming to it...I don't really see any problem. I mean there was a netflix show that also popularized the song 'anyone who knows what love is', by Irma Thomas. Like I really liked that song and on youtube comments people pointed out the orginal song and damn if I put it on it is hard to not just keep that song on repeat.

I mean Irma Thomas is amazing and I would not have known if that episode of the show hadn't put that song, it was a good song so I had to look up who the actual artist was. So like so what if younger kids find a lot of older music was cool to? is it really going to harm anything if kids appreciate different music?

I'm so out if touch. I'm completely unfamiliar with this artist. At first I thought probably too new too young for my taste.

Moma once said "you know that you're getting old when the media talks about how a fad is being "revived" that you were to old participate in the first time it was popular.

Kate Bush burst on the scene just after the Seventies and the start of the Eighties -which happened to be just as I left school, and stopped being hip to the latest music. One of the first artists "after my time".

So...I guess this means that I just crossed the boundary line into being "old".

I remember seeing her pictures on record albums and thinking about how nice looking she is. And when I visited the campus of a college I had gone to I saw graffitti written by the next wave of kids after me in which someone wrote that what the other person said was "a Kate Bush-ism". But I never did learn to recognize "Kate Bush-isms".

I did play one of her songs on my public access radio show. Played it for "Pi Day" (March 14th). Her song "Pi".

They say "your" music is supposed to be the music that was popular when you were a teenager. While I liked the hard rock and heavy metal that predominated my high school years I think of the new wave/synthpop/alt music from when I was a twentysomething as "my" music. Also I even really liked the 90s grunge/alternative music from when I was well into my 30s more than the music from my teenage and college years in the 70s. I guess it had something to do with Autistic developmental delays .

I had heard of Bush in the late 70s when I was in college when she was known as "the English Songbird". I think I might have heard 'Wuthering Heights' on the radio once or twice. On American TV there was this alternative culture program "Night Flight" that ran from 11PM until dawn Friday and Saturday Nights during the '80s. What had happened was that she was supposed to come here for a promotional tour but something happened to the plane and they shipped a videotape of the Hammersmith Odean concert from '79 that 'Night Flight' aired in its entirety. I sat there in the middle of the night watching it on my 19 inch Sharp TV becoming more and more stunned and mesmerized etc. Truth be told in the 70s I never would have appreciated it. I was not mature enough to get it. I would have dismissed it as girls music. By the time I saw it on 'Night Flight' not only I was more mature but I had been exposed to and was all into quirky New wave female vocalists like Lene Lovich, from such groups as the B-52s. She was and is multiple layers more intelligent and cultured than me to this day but I "get" her more than enough.

I actually think we have a broader taste because we go and explore music, whereas NTs will just listen to what their friends are listening to.

I don't think it's because of a developmental delay. I have always loved 80 music. I think I may have started taking an interest in music before my peers. One of my friends who is the same age as me in the 00s said she couldn't understand how I had such vivid memories of the 80s, she felt like she had forgotten most of it and the music.

I couldn't understand why my peers moved on so quickly in the 90s. I did enjoy 90s music, but I was still interested in discovering 80s bands too and I started really getting into 60s music because I could see the connection between it and Britpop of the time.

Edit. I had a friend in the 00s try and get me into Kate Bush by lending me The Dreaming. I will never get that album. Though I do like a handful of her songs.

The first the I heard Running up that Hill in the 80s I was obsessed with it. I can understand why kids love it now. I hope they aren't as disappointed with the rest of her stuff as I was

Ah yes I can relate to that. I always felt a bit older than my peers in some ways, but younger in others

Kate Bush breaks 3 records simultaneously as 'Running Up That Hill' reaches number 1

Its not exactly unprecedented for a movie to cause an oldy to reappear on the charts.

The Nineties Lion King movie caused a revival of the early Sixties hit "the Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Tokens and for it to reappear on the charts after forty years.

The Movie "2001" caused the Nineteenth Century symphonic piece "Thus Spake Zarathustra" to become popular in the 1970s. Elvis latched on to it to play at the start of his live concerts, Deodato had a hit with a jazz-rock fusion version of it, and DC's Chuck Brown did a go-go version of the piece.