Kate Bush is a legend. She was basically a child when she wrote this.

Cathy and Heathcliff are characters from Wuthering heights by Emily Brontë. A tragic love story in the end Cathy dies and hounts Heathcliff until they're united in death as ghosts frolicing across the moors. Kate Bush is a trained expressive dancer so her dancing interprets Cathy's ghost very balletic in nature. The song was recorded in one take and realised in 1978

Kate Bush. So beautiful, so unique ❤

"Wuthering Heights" is one of my favorite books. In the story, while Heathcliff is mourning the death of his lover Cathy, her ghost returns every night to tap at the windows and beg to be let it. That's what this song is about.

@cuckoofan

5 ай бұрын

No, Cathy's ghost never appears (allthough that's what Heathcliff called for after she died) except presumably the night of his death. This "ghost thing", so present in readers minds, is never described by Emily Brontë as a fact, more as a fantasy (a dream in Lockwood's case, a collective legend at the end of the book). But Kate Bush built her song around something that never really happened in the novel. Pure genius!👍

@leslieturner8276

5 ай бұрын

​@@cuckoofanSome years before Kate managed to catch the end of BBC adaptation of Wuthering Heights where a ghostly Cathy does appear at the window wanting to be let in, this scene stuck in her mind and eventually lead to this worldwide smash hit debut single.

@nenasadie

4 ай бұрын

@@cuckoofan The ghost isn't in the book, but Heathcliff certainly believes that Cathy haunts him. The scene of him flinging open the window when Lockwood confesses the dream to beg Cathy to come in really sticks in the mind. Emily doesn't need to show the ghost. The belief in her is enough.

@cuckoofan

4 ай бұрын

@@nenasadie I agree, but don't forget Kate Bush and Emily Brontë share irish and celtic roots. Ghost stories are, in many ways, a big part of their cultural legacy. It seems logical some ghost should "appear" in some way in their works, especially at a time when gothic litterature or music was kind of "trendy" (Emily Brontë a bit later, Kate Bush a tiny bit earlier alongside Siouxsie Sioux or Lene Lovich). Ghost stories are such a good way to capture readers or listeners interest, at least as a symbolic way to express something else. I don't think Heathcliff believes Cathy haunts him. He's desesperate she doesn't (except presumably, in his last moment) as it was the deal he made with her corpse as a way to endure his frustration and his guilt. This scene you mention of Heathcliff at the window after Lockwood told him about his nightmare shows him precisely getting mad of her absence, begging her to appear to him because she never did. If she does, it's at the end of the book and no-one, especially the reader, have any proof of this.

Kate Bush is phenomenal legendary a pioneer for all that come after her

The words are in Dutch, it translates as "Too long I roam in the night, I'm coming back to his side to make it right. I'm coming home"

I hope you do more Kate Bush. She’s so creative.

One of the most significant voices in rock and pop music. Kate Bush is one of the most creative and imaginative artists. I really like “Cloudbusting”. In the video, Donald Sutherland (Kiefer is his son) plays her father. Good and exciting story in the video.

You need to do "The Sensual World" by Kate Bush!! Stunning song, stunning visual, stunning voice.. just PERFECTION frfr

Make sure to look up when women in red dance every year around the world on Kate Bush’s birthday. They dance to this song in the fields with kids, dogs, men and celebrate 🎉 it’s a real hoot ❤

Inspiration for this song came from the famous novel, "Withering Heights. " Kate Bush is one of my all-time favorite female artist.

Hi Pope, I have heard this song a thousand times but never seen this video version. You have really come in on an angle on Kate Bush with the two songs you have heard (Despite Wuthering Heights being a hit) and so I think it would be great to hear something more mainstream from her such as "This Woman's work" or "Moments of pleasure" to realign. I know you love Bowie as do I and there are similarities with Kates work, she is a maverick and artistic performer as well as singer songwriter and so I know you will fall in love with her work as you dig deeper. So glad you will react to her again.

@cuckoofan

5 ай бұрын

Kate Bush was introduced to Bowie during a recording session and she was so impressed (Bowie was her pop heroe) she stupidly ran away as she said once in an interview. She has the reputation of being extremely shy sometimes allthough this is never obvious in videos or interviews. Did KB ever release a "mainstream song" really? Okay, some are more available to a mainstream public, but she's always so "out there" in some ways, isn't she?😉

@Muckylittleme

5 ай бұрын

@@cuckoofan Mainstream is subjective I guess? Bowie had some songs that were deliberately more mainstream I would say, yet still distinctively Bowie. It doesn't undermine their creative talent, it just helps support their art.

@cuckoofan

5 ай бұрын

@@MuckylittlemeI agree.😏

That was a cool reaction; your eyes were so fixed and meditative, and all the small physical reactions that took place within you became really expressive. I can tell you were completely transfixed by the whole thing. It's a great artwork, no? Boldly feminine. Not many artists would dare even try to do something like this. That's why we love Kate Bush and American reactions to them!

Kate is so amazing. She did most of her stuff in caricature back then. This was Cathy the ghost but there are many others too. But be prepared on Planet Kate it can get pretty crazy and wild. '"Waking The Witch" is one song in her "THE NINTH WAVE" suite on her "Hounds Of Love" album. This song Wuthering Heights was her first single in 78. I think she was 19 when she wrote it. She had been composing since age 13 with over 200 songs by age 16 that make up most of her first few albums.

This was filmed at the Efteling themepark in the Netherlands. Sadly this attraction was recently tore down.

This song is from 1978. I believe this performance might be from a special on British television. She was everywhere back then...She was very young.

@esther2376

4 ай бұрын

No, this was a special in an amusement park called De Efteling for Dutch television.

The expression on your face was priceless

In1980 she became 2. Best singer with this song in the UK

Kate was trained in ballet.

Love kate bush

The video that you saw was from a longer Dutch Pop Music Programme "TopPop" that was focused on Kate Bush, there was also a tie-in with a new "Horror style" amusement attraction at De Efteling, which was used as the location for Kate's various performances during the programme. There are two official music videos for Wuthering Heights. The "White Dress" version seen in the UK & I think Europe and the "Red Dress" broadcast elsewhere. This is the link to the "White Dress" version: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X2Wkr6-ClZfOkpc.htmlsi=5h3BebCYT54-486b BTW the Dutch programme included a brilliant video of Kate performing "The Kick Inside" (a song inspired by a traditional English/Scottish folk song) : kzread.info/dash/bejne/mo5rk6eTcZSWhrg.htmlsi=acJH3O60Kd1Shm45 Here's some notes that I put together in 2022, because so many new were reacting to Kate, because of Stranger Things (see below) ======================== A while before Wuthering Heights was written, a younger Kate managed to catch the tail end of a BBC adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights when the ghostly Cathy was outside a window of Heathcliff's house wanting to be let in. Kate shares the same Birthday as Emily Bronte and when she was young she was referred to as cathy. In order to get a feel for Cathy Kate read part of the book, interestingly when she did get round to reading all of it after finishing writing the song, Kate noticed certain phrases from parts that she hadn't initially read had ended up in the Lyrics anyway. Kate said that when she sung this song, she was Cathy, she was channelling the character. Kate's vocal performance is a single take with no edits. Kate had to fight her record company to get Wuthering Heights to be her debut single, EMI had chosen a completely different track from her "The Kick Inside" album, in the end EMI released Wuthering Heights because they thought that it would fail and teach Kate a lesson, instead it became a worldwide smash hit. Hitting number 1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal and the UK. It was at least a top 10 (or better) in nine other countries. A single chart performance that would only be surpassed in 2022 by "Running Up That Hill".

I've never seen this video version before by far the most interesting.

Just in case you're not that familiar with Kate Bush, I can give you some quick background information about her (see below). I've been a fan of Kate Bush from the very beginning, so I was very pleased to see new fans being introduced to her brilliant music as a result of "Running Up That Hill" (from the same iconic "Hounds Of Love" album as Cloudbusting), playing such a key role in Stranger Things in 2022. Because, so many new people were reacting to Kate, I prepared various notes about her. Including a quick introduction to Kate, which follows. ======≈==== A quick background summary of Kate Bush, Kate started writing songs at about 11 years old, adding more complex lyrics from 13 onwards. By her late teens she had written about two hundred,, the family made demo recordings of about fifty of them, in an attempt to attract the attention of record companies without any success. Until a friend of family passed the demos to David Gilmour (guitarist for Pink Floyd), he was interested and ultimately paid for time at studio with session musicians to make professional recordings of three songs from Kate extensive catalogue which he selected. It was those professional recordings that he passed onto EMI executives when he was asked about new talents - when EMI listened they wanted to sign Kate up immediately, but they had to wait until she had left school, Kate signed for EMI when she was 16 years old. EMI paid Kate a retainer which she used to improve her piano playing, voice lessons and also dance & mime lessons from Lindsay Kemp (who had also taught David Bowie to dance). Kate also fronted a pub band that one of her brothers had put together. Eventually EMI called Kate back to work on her debut album "The Kick Inside" although two songs were taken from the earlier professional recordings that David Gilmour had paid for - notably one of them was written when she was just 13 years old and is regarded to the one that convinced EMI to sign Kate.. Kate's debut single "Wuthering Heights" was released in January 1978 and it was so different to everything else in the singles chart and became a massive worldwide hit, reaching number 1 in a number of countries around the world and charting highly in others. When it got to number 1 in the UK, Kate became the first female artist to have a self written song reach number one, this was the 1st of numerous records and milestones that Kate has set in the UK and album charts. When "The Kick Inside" was released later in 1978, it sold a million copies in the UK and reached number three in the album chart. Kate is multi-talented a singer/songwriter, musician, dancer, record producer, video producer and director. Kate was also very heavily involved in the staging of both of her concert tours - 1979 "Tour Of Life" and the 2014 concert residency "Before The Dawn". Kate has inspired/influenced countless numbers of artists/musicians who followed her, she is considered to be a musical icon and a pioneer. Kate was credited as a co-producer on her third album "Never For Ever" and was the sole producer on her fourth album "The Dreaming" and every one of her subsequent studio albums. ============== Note: that in 2022, "Running Up That Hill" became an even bigger worldwide smash hit than "Wuthering Heights". Kate was inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" in 2023. Here's a list of Kate's single releases up to and including ones from her iconic "Hounds Of Love" album to understand how she developed as an artist: 📍Wuthering Heights 📍The Man With The Child In His Eyes 📍Wow 📍Hammer Horror 📍Babooshka 📍Army Dreamers 📍Breathing 📍Sat In Your Lap 📍The Dreaming 📍Suspended In Gaffa 📍There Goes A Tenner 📍Night Of The Swallow 📍Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 📍Cloudbusting 📍Hounds Of Love 📍The Big Sky After "Hounds Of Love" there was a best of album called "The Whole Story" which included a new vocal for "Wuthering Heights" but also a new song released as a single: 📍Experiment IV In addition Kate sung a duet with Peter Gabriel on a song which became a hit single: 📍Don't Give Up There are four more studio albums after this, plus the live album of her 2014 "Before The Dawn" concert. But the above should give you enough to get started with. I hope that you have fun, in your journey to get to know Kate Bush.

Kate Bush's more recognizable songs include "Running Up That Hill" (re-popularized by the tv show Stranger Things), and "This Woman's Work,". I think "Moments of Pleasure" is quite poignant as well. She wrote Wuthering Heights when she was around 13 or 14 and was discovered by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, if memory serves. Reviewing her lyrics while listening to her songs for the first time would be advisable. She has ardent fans world-wide and is considered a artist's artist.

Props to whoever did the editing on that video lol.

My favorite Kate Bush song is Moments of Pleasure (It literally makes me sob) and Lion Heart. Also... In Search of Peter Pan. I guess that is three....Lol

@Cloudbuster.

5 ай бұрын

You mean Oh England My Lionheart right?

@robinbradbury6493

5 ай бұрын

@@Cloudbuster. Yup.

Kate is a truly magnificent artist. So much to recommend by her. This song is based on the 1836 novel by Emily Bronte about a doomed love in which the ghost of lost love Cathy haunts Heathcliff, her once true love.

I think you could like ‘woman’s work’ but she wrote many incredible beautiful songs

Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Bronte❤

The chorus: Heathcliff! It's me, your Kathy I've come home So cold Let me in through your window This version is the first recorded, in 1977 when she was very young. She redid it 10 years later. Her voice is more mature and deep. Check that one out.

Kate Bush is indeed very creative and I'd call her music rather story-telling rock than art-rock. You have to check 'Running up that Hill' (of course!), 'Cloudbusting' and when she changed her style 'Sat in your Lap'.

She got you emotional

As always, sensational. ❤❤

Her best video is running up the hill

@Muckylittleme

5 ай бұрын

Moments of pleasure, simple but glorious.

Kate is my favourite singer. But Nightwish is my favourite band. Please check out Ghost Love Score at Wacken 2013. Then you'll see my second fave singer! But be warned, the Nightwish Army will descend to cheer you on. Oh I see that you've already reacted to them. Try Storytime next please

People assume that this is the ghost of Cathy returning to haunt Heathcliffe but realy he is in a fever and it's his fevered imagination - let me into your window is the tree branches tapping the window but in Heathcliffes mind its Cathy .

As I can see you are a diehard fan of David Bowie. Kate Bush is related to Bowie directly via Lindsay Kemp - famous mime and dancer, who taught to dance both David and Kate. Not just dancing actually, he taught them to present themselves by movements and appearence. Kate carried this approach throughout her artistic life. She's (or was) very skilled, professional dancer btw. And choreographer. But of course, first of all Kate is a singer, songwriter, composer, musician, lyricist etc. Again as far as you like David Bowie's music I'm pretty sure you'd really like Kate Bush if you'd dive deeper in her art. That doesn't mean they created similar music but they both had that God's given gift of been oddly creative. They both continiously changed and made music unlike anybody else, strange and astounding at the same time. Kate Bush could be placed beside Bowie as an artist. They are at the same league and they are congenial, I'd say.

2 of her biggest fans are/ were. Big Boi fr Outlast & Tupac. Chk out Wuthering Heights Day on yt. International Festivals honoring this song. / Kate Thousands flash mobbing this song. In red , pretty great

She’s a David Gilmour protegeé. Love this song. You kinda need to know the book, but it’s beautiful even if you don’t.

@isobeljames1328

5 ай бұрын

She is not Gilmour protégé... She is a songwriter composer producer arranger... Since 1978, she has her own career.

Please do the man with the child in his eyes

Hi Pope, love your reactions, Kate was a bit "female Bowie", music as performance art, don't forget the Diamond Dogs whole album. Top 5 best ever album. As your asking, 1,2,3,4,5 in no order Aladdin Sane, Wish You Were here, DD, Animals, Hunky Dory. I know I left people's favourites out and yes, DSOTM and TRAFOZSATSFM are fantastic, but sometimes you have to make choices.

Great fuqin song

She's a ghost that's comes back for her lover

If you like this you would really like her song Hammer Horror

You need to read the book

It’s also a very famous movie from the 40’s. Killer sad

It's obvious you didn't read this novel in high school. English doesn't seem to include the classics to be read anymore. You would be wise to do so in this instance. Wuthering Heights is quite interesting.

bro react to tomorrow never knows by the beatles, its crazy

Also Moments of Pleasure, " is a banger and Masterpiece!!! Check it out!!!

Kate Bush was a fox

You have got to watch the movie

@eviep2

5 ай бұрын

The 2009 "Wuthering Heights" movie with Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley is just beautiful.

@porflepopnecker4376

5 ай бұрын

I prefer the 1992 version with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, with a score by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

@eviep2

5 ай бұрын

@@porflepopnecker4376 I gotta check that out. Thanks for the suggestion.

@cuckoofan

5 ай бұрын

For me, there were only 2 "Wuthering Heights" adaptations that were worth it: Kiju Yoshida (a japanese film director)'s "Onimaru" in late 80's and Andrea Arnold's. The one with Tom Hardy (who could trust his performance of Heathciff really?) is okay allthough too much gothicly-orientated and Juliette Binoche is crap as Cathy (allthough she's usually a good actress-I'm french) but Ralph Fiennes was a great Heathcliff. Sinead O'Connor as Emily Brontë was a bit comical though...😄Many people never realised it was her with this wig on.🧐

David Gilmour on guitar..

(kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4ugq9FmYrfRpLA.htmlsi=wK4K9C63rM1VzxbS) "Mirror in the Sky," Yes. I thought I would get you caught up on your favorite band's latest hit that is going to be released in March, next month. This is the last song the album, "Mirror In The Sky, " released in October 2023. Thought you might react to it. It's FIRE 🔥 and a modern Masterpiece! I have listened to it several times. Really really. No Jon Anderson. Chris Squire. Alan White. Bill Burford. Or Rick Wakeman. However, Steve Howe is still in the band and is the leading guitar player, producer, and songwriter. It's the new YES band. New members which we all need to get to know better. I encourage you to do that.

It's a love story with Heathcliff and Cathy

There is no gothic version of this song. The person who titled this video must be referring to the visuals in the video as gothic: however, the video is set at night & to me hardly gothic. In regards to doing Kate Bush reactions, either or both "Moving" & "Running Up The Hill" are two suggestions to consider.

This video almost did a disservice to the song… first time i’ve seen this and i heard the song when it was first released. Some “fan made” vid.

This is a fake ai version. Look up the original Kate Bush wuthering heights.

@iforgotmypassword8441

2 ай бұрын

It's not ai

That was just a poor quality fan produced video, cut together with a montage of cheesy gothic backgrounds😖😣

@bartvschuylenburg

3 ай бұрын

This video was recorded for Dutch tv in the then new haunted house of theme park Efteling. The attraction full of special effects was demolished last year.

Not keen on this video, Kate’s work as a mature woman is varied and worth investigating.

Fantastic book but

She is an interesting artist, but the choreography in her videos is barking mad! Generally, I advise reactors to listen rather than watch new material because videos distract and often detract from the music. That is never more true than Kate Bush, haha!

This better not awaken anything!

Not for me.