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[@bbarnard950]

Her performance in this video is amazing! The whole entertainment industry was so fake, and Kate was so young, and she called them out and then called the shots for the rest of her career. Legend. Loving your Kate journey :-)

[@michaelmayo2691]

kate bush was the first artist i fell in love with and and 46 yrs later shes still the best most talented femalec artist ever.

[@julianbarber4708]

And not just female!

[@marcchetty7197]

Remember growing up and a Kate Bush song would come out and it was always special. 💚

[@paulhorgan6152]

Im in still in Love with Ms Kate Bush may it never leave my soul ❤❤❤❤🇬🇧😊😊

[@derekodriscoll7178]

Same here mate..fell in love with kate aged around 8..now 52, it's a life long appreciation of such a Talented Goddess 👌

[@kentmains7763]

She's just ridiculously amazing.

[@TheoZoffrok]

A reference that will probably pass by most US listeners is "he'll never make The Sweeney". The Sweeney was a very popular UK cop show in the 70s, starring John Thaw (who played a very rough detective; he'd later play a diametrically opposite character, the cultured and cerebral Inspector Morse). It was one of those shows that provides a lot of opportunities for jobbing actors to have a little guest appearance.

[@henrifischer1119]

love that she didn't shy away from that reference.

[@Packard63]

Nobody does WoW like Kate.......what an amazing performance.

[@stephenroberts8964]

Your face when the WOW chorus comes in, shows me how much she fascinates you, you look awestruck, and that's great.

[@ZafarKhan-ve3vf]

Probably the the most couragous music artist that has ever been. Kate has never been afraid to write on any subject matter, from any perspective and has always taken risks with her music creativity. As you continue through your Kate journey you’ll truly appreciate just how brave she is alongside the sheer brilliance of her songs. I think I was too young to understand the nuances of this song when it came out, but this might have been the breakthough song for me when I was young to really alert me to Kate (along with many other teenage lads in the UK).

[@carlh429]

Felt some heavy nostalgia hearing this. Took me back to being a 13 year old in 1979..

[@mcquilm]

The look on your face when the chorus came was priceless! You were just enthralled! :)

[@markwells6222]

I remember this great song when it came out i love Kate Bush music

[@andrewmacintosh3976]

Highly recommend 'Breathing', my personal favourite

[@ron88303]

Her voice really shines in this one.

[@andrewdoubtfire4700]

So, is Kate Bush an outrageously talented ahead of her time artist, or just crazy 8 bonkers mad? Perhaps a bit of both even. There’s no one quite like her.

[@onechopbuddy3849]

Kate Bush is simply wow 🎉

[@willshish5270]

Kate Bush is like a siren. If that's the right word. She draws you into a trance. I watch her videos or listen to her music and I'm possessed.

[@nellies]

Lovely reaction as usual! Yeah it's very brave of her for writing a song like this about an industry she is part of, and releasing it as a single too! This song sounds so magical and captivating though, I guess it fits since it's all just an illusion and seems better than it actually is. I love the video, she's so enchanting and I agree her way of expressing the meaning of the song with her facial expressions and movement is amazing and makes you understand it much more.

[@rickjackson2246]

Great take on her song!! She is my favorite female artist of all time there is no one like her I can't wait on your journey to get to the album hounds of love the backside it's 27 minutes if I remember right of pure genius called the 9th wave thank you for sharing

[@stephenpodeschi6052]

'Wow' I forgot about this tune reminds me a little of Babooshka released 1980 which you will come to soon....

[@annother3350]

this is a great one

[@LesterAmbientAndroid]

Musically it’s stunning, classical music with a vocal. Only Kate can make this appeal to so many.

[@regueira5674]

Wow its incredible

[@pinball1970]

This never ages, she is in her own time. A top 5 one for me.

[@sean---the-other-one]

Not surprised that the majority of suggestions for Lionheart are Wow and Hammer Horror. Hammer Horror is the stand out track on the album for me, a great finish for it and an excellent video.

[@ghostpuppet31]

Definitely gives off 'Wuthering Heights' vibes lol! 'Wow', is such a classic of Kate's and she really turns up her vocal range quite effortlessly. Great reaction!!

[@malcshone4409]

“ James And The Cold Gun” , live video, 1979. Awesome.

[@davewilson4493]

Back in the late 70s/early 80s, all the guys I knew, irrespective of the other music they liked, were in awe of Kate Bush.

[@juliehaley2765]

I think we all fell in love with Kate. Amazing.

[@dunringill1747]

I'm already looking forward to your next Kate Bush reaction.

[@generationgapreacts]

Thank you Dun!

[@alanbeaumont4848]

It's probably not a coincidence that with the Gilmour connection this is similar in take on the music business to Pink Floyd's 'Have a Cigar' (1975), but where theirs is an acid comment on a record company rushing to promote an already successful band and taking their unearned slice, Kate is highlighting the difficulty of the new act struggling to be taken seriously and, when finally taken notice of, having to fight against being put in the box of just another pretty girl singer. There were a couple of real life illustrations of this at the time. The UK's No.1 TV music show 'Top of the Pops' tried to stop her playing piano and actually singing ('Wuthering Heights', I think), because of a BBC rule that live acts had to employ backing musicians or mime to a tape. (Turned out she had to play because her composition was very challenging). Secondly there was a slightly farcical TV appearance (1978) on 'Ask Aspel' a children's TV show. Michael Aspel was a thoroughly nice professional, but seemed unaware or underinformed, that she was a singer songwriter, not simply a performer. At the 'phone-in Kate found herself being grilled for hair and fashion tips, rather than asked about her music. It isn't any surprise that she took much firmer control over her own promotion after that!

[@winterknight4176]

The Gilmore connection sets up the question, "Where are the Pink Floyd reactions?"

[@Eric_L_Laney]

😲@ Wow! She does some great voice acrobatics! Pink Floyd also wrote a song about the industry. It’s titled, “Have a Cigar.”

[@wayne_twentyfive]

Thanks for another excellent Kate Bush reaction ! .. They are the highlight of my YT viewing, and I love your always interesting analysis and commentary on each song .. Although "Wow" is not among my very favourite KB songs, it is undoubtedly very good ( I don't think she has any bad songs ), and as you say, it was lyrically very audacious indeed .. Kate sure had the 'Wow" factor !

[@mrsuperger5429]

If you listen carefully, in the first 10 seconds of this song by Kate Bush, in the background Kate calls for Emily, who of course was Emily Bronte, the authoress of the book Wuthering Heights.

[@alienlifeform7490]

It's interesting when you can "feel" an artist's music pull you into their energy. She's incredible. Thank you!

[@robertworrell6287]

This is always a good learning show for me.Like you , I've only been studying Kate for a few months....listening to Wuthering Hights all the time. She has a video song not from a album that is the cover of Elton John's Rocket Man ...no piano, just genius.

[@TheCraigi]

Wow....

[@dranet47]

Great reaction. I was pretty young the first time I heard this and didn't have the advantage of the Internet to look up song meanings. I just thought it was a fun song. It wasn't until years later that I really understood what it was about. I realized it was a much darker song than one that I previously sang and waved my arms to. Still love it though, her voice is so beautiful here. Oh, and it's still fun to sing and wave my arms around. Oh, in December, be sure to react to "December Will Be Magic Again." It was only released as a single.

[@mpete42]

Great reaction to a fab song. Wow, wow, wow and wow unbelievable. She is a great song writer, composer, dancer, pianist, singer, producer... Oh well if only she was good looking she'd have it all.

[@OnceWasRStrathfield]

Famous choreographer, Lindsay Kemp, taught Kate Bush her moves. He also taught David Bowie.

[@georgeharrison5362]

There are amazing lines throughout her lyrics. They were eye popping for a young lad in 1977. Many left you wondering what the h^^^ she meant and it took life to teach you. Then you look back and wonder how she knew so much at her age....she was writing many of these words at 13!! Feel it.... Kick inside Oh to be in love. I miss the early stuff. But have Somewhere on repeat off Aerial. Love her. Love her music. I'm only a year younger than k8...but I'll beat her to the grave so for me she will live forever.

[@cesarroberto4674]

Wow! Wow!wow! ha ha ha! Please React to Momentes of Pleasure and & Woman's work the best Kate Bush songs.

[@leslieturner8276]

Radio DJs assumed the "rude" interpretation in relation to the "hitting the vaseline" and when the BBC initially showed Kate they ensured that when Kate was hitting her bottom it was out of shot. BTW the reference to "Ths Sweeny" it was a police drama series about a part of the Metropolitan Police called "The Flying Squad", "Sweeny" being cockney rhyming slang. I'm familiar with cockney rhyming slang because one of my grandparents used to speak it all the time, so as a child you had to learn to understand it.

[@medmon3476]

'The programme's title comes from the real-world Cockney rhyming slang nickname "Sweeney Todd" used to refer to the Flying Squad by London's criminal fraternity in the mid 20th Century.The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London.' The above explanation is from Wikipedia. So the Sweeney TV series was SO popular in the period 1975-1978 right when Kate released Lionheart that people at the time would have gotten the reference straight away. It was a high ratings program that any actor at the time would have loved to be on. It was popular in Australia where I'm from and made the lead actor Dennis Waterman a household name.

[@rainerzufall42]

Kate Bush was pushed after her debut "winter" album to release a second "autumn" album in november of that same year (1978), which made her feel "Lionheart" to be rushed through with too little time. She was probably quite annoyed, and so she wrote this song about the industry...

[@Muckylittleme]

"I was not expecting that" A comment for every first listen of a Kate Bush song.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

This is an excellent demonstration on how important it is to the Human Condition for Genetic Diversity. This is how new and improved ways of communicating around the world is discovered, by those willing to step out of the ordinary. Honestly, about 5 minutes of this is about all I can take, but this is on me, my problem to overcome, not to the discoverers. *I really like your mothers' and your channel, I have many interest, your channel for some reason struck a nerve, in fact it nicked a bunch of them, there's only been a couple of your reviews that didn't somehow touch my life in some way (this is what happens if you live long enough, you're going to see stuff everywhere that in time will agree with something you did as a Young'un). I felt I owed you a look on your solo, People out there, please I honestly tried, my brain just doesn't work that way, in fact there's days that I don't know how it's working as well as it is.

[@stever7732]

Perhaps not lyrics to be welcomed with today’s heightened sensitivities but back then people were less delicate. Kate just wanted to make clear that the actor she was singing about was gay. When Kate was invited to lip sync this song on the UK’s top music show of the day (‘Top of the Pops’) the BBC asked her not to pat her bottom when singing the vaseline lyric. She refused to compromise, so at an appropriate moment the studio lighting was dimmed so that part of the choreography could not be seen. Video of that performance is somewhere on KZbin.

[@markjohnson4217]

No apologies for awesome lyrics, the 'vaseline" line and that entire verse is a reference to many young overnight stars who immediately indulge in the excess that 'success' seems to bring, and sabotage their careers before they even start..happens ALL the Time, it is NOT a negative commentary on sexual orientation. Kate studied under Lindsey Kemp, there would have been gay men all around her every day. Her lyrics are kickin, the chorus is expressing an opposite message than what appears, framed by the preceding line of the verses: "Still we don't head the bill..." Wow...unbelievable "You 'll have to play the fool.." Wow...unbelievable... The petty corrupt insincerity of the BIZ...Wow, it is truly unbelievable.

[@janewright2800]

It wasn't meant as a judgement, just a fact. Amazing how Kate sang about taboo subjects and got away with it! Love her for it.

[@thornbird6768]

My favourite track of hers 👍🏻👍🏻

[@fortymillioncoins9066]

Under The Ivy by Kate please React- It's so beautiful!

[@jillelliott8175]

Brilliant insightful reactions by both of you. Great to hear your take I know and love. Sincere Thanx Keith & Jill Adelaide, Australia

[@skbirds]

Glad you got to one with a video again so you can enjoy the whole performance. I love this song and got a kick out of your reaction! Hammer Horror will be perfect for the Halloween season. 👻

[@Gill3D]

Hammer Horror is a great suggestion for Hallowe'en! 👍. I just hope the significance of Hammer film studios has made its way across The Pond.

[@skbirds]

@@Gill3D I doubt most will get the reference, but the video is still spooky enough 😀👻

[@raycornford283]

Keep in mind that this song was written either before or very shortly after Kate's entry to the world of 'entertainment', so it is not likely to be based on personal experience, so much as being an observation of the 'nine-day-wonder' aspect of show business. You refer to Kate being brave to write the song. Fearlessness, as we saw with references to periods and incest on 'The Kick Inside', has always been part of Kate's writing and it is evidenced again here - the patting of her behind, on the reference to 'hitting the vaseline' is very deliberate. Kate wants you to know exactly what she is referring to, and it's not makeup!

[@johningram5186]

Omg you so need to cover the Hounds of love album. You will be blown away truly

[@eggy1962]

now you see why we say ....there was NOTHING like Kate in the pop charts.....

[@stevemurrell6167]

I can't wait until you get to the 'Never For Ever' album, her third I believe. Do it all, there's no filler. Possibly her best album but that's very subjective as they're all great!

[@kungsverige1886]

Epic Kate🇸🇪

[@colrhodes377]

A true Kate Bush classic. The vaseline reference was about an actor being fake in regards to a ladies man when in reality he was gay.

[@tommydevlin702]

Thanks for yet another well thought through reaction to a KB song. "Wow" has never been a favourite of mine, but I can appreciate how it illustrates just what superb song writer she really is. Yes, it has one of her "naughty" lyrics and yes, by now you might be starting to conclude that Kate is fresh, inventive, unpredictable, utterly fearless, and maybe just a little bit crazy, (just wait until a little farther along on her records). This song also shows just how she frequently utilizes her voice as one of the instruments and not just something to be admired. If you decide to continue with "Lionheart" I think you will enjoy the next few songs right through to and including "In the warm room." Once again thanks for another really interesting, and well considered reaction video.

[@barrykeleher2659]

“Wow wow sounds really good” 😜

[@MLawrence2008]

Love this song. It always reminds me of my mum (she hated it, but in a funny way) and the memory I have is of my mum screaming the Wow! part, (screeching like a cat with electrodes attached to its bits) while dusting etc. Always brings a tear to my eyes for that sad but happy memory alone. Glad you love Kate too!

[@pushpak]

It was / is a popular song and a hit single.

[@georgeharrison5362]

A decade b4 k8 four lads walked into Abbey Road with a lyric sheet containing a chorus that went " yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeaaaaah" And the engineers were like omg! What are these kids doing, it will never sell. ' she loves you' was at number 1 for 5 weeks. There was precedent therefore for Wow.

[@christinebakewell3475]

Great that you’ve discovered the amazing songwriting and performances of Kate ( national treasure in the U.K.) I’ve never understood why certain brilliant British musicians never made it in the USA ( she’s only relatively recently been discovered over in the US due to running up that hill being used in a series) You’ve really missed out on a plethora of amazing artists - maybe you’re catching up ? P.s. good luck with your current sleepless nights . 👍🇬🇧.

[@garytom1935]

Never heard of this song, but beautiful sound, good review 👌😎👍

[@rickythaxter6105]

Great reaction and analysis. Make sure you don't skip Kashka from Baghdad which is my favourite track from this album.

[@sentinelmortgagecorp4291]

I see you’ve just recently discovered Kate Bush and this is definitely one of my favorite songs by her. But I don’t see that you’ve yet done my absolute favorite which is the title track from her double album Aerial. The album came out in the mid-2000’s and I think it’s basically a masterpiece. The song Aerial is just incredible and has a really awesome guitar part in the second half of it.

[@Gill3D]

Another superb reaction - thank you for validating my 'weird' musical tastes when I was younger 😉. Someone has suggested 'Hammer Horror' would be a great subject for a Hallowe'en review and I agree completely. However, you might want to research Hammer Film Productions beforehand and treat yourself to some of their movies first. My favourite was 'Dracula' (1958).

[@vaughnroycroft999]

Fun reaction and solid interpretation! Still loving your Kate journey. It's so fun to relive my own. :)

[@lucamontanaro31]

Genius !!

[@bugsby4663]

This is a song about being gay, which was frowned upon then and had only been legal about ten years. Acting was one of the few professions it was okay to be sort of out. This is why the song is using theatre acting as its metaphor especially as many gay men had to act straight in that time. IThe 'hitting the vaseline' refers to how theatre actors used it to get rid of rough stage make up but obviously also used in sex, a point underscored when kate cheekily taps her bum.

[@bland345]

I know you are just discovering Kate’s music, but I wanted to give you a heads up, though it may be unnecessary by now. I haven’t read the other comments yet to see what others are telling you about her. But, as a male teenager in Kentucky, I had to discover her on my own and had no one to share the experience which was blowing my mind. It was 1981 so I went in the same order as you...from the beginning. Your initial reaction to her more closely mirrors my own first impressions than any reactions I have seen. But I worry that you may lose steam on this project as you go through Lionheart. Most people acquainted with her music see the album as an afterthought when considering her life’s work. She was so young, yet she had written dozens of songs over the previous 4-5 years. Those songs were picked through and the ones considered the best were recorded for her debut album The Kick Inside. For Lionheart, the record company wanted a follow-up album quickly, to capitalize on her momentum and sudden popularity. But that meant there wasn’t a pile of new compositions to choose from. There were new songs, possibly written to reflect the style that had been so successful on the first album, and there were possibly some previously written songs which were not chosen for the first album. Anyway, I don’t believe she was satisfied with the outcome and I think the experience was the driving force to her being a pioneer for females in the industry....creating her own publishing company, building her own recording studio, producing her own records, and ultimately owning her own record label. Personally, I think Lionheart is wonderful and absolutely charming...our last glimpses of the original puckish spirit that gave birth to one of the greatest musical artists of the 20th century. It sits at the dawn of the second phase of her career, one that gets increasingly fascinating. I believe Don’t Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake is next in line, and I would recommend the Live at Hammersmith Odeon version so you can see how amazing her live show was. The rest of Lionheart is like a valley of wonderful, creative music between two mountain peaks, and the journey is worth it. Love these videos! Thank you! It’s like I get to discover these songs all over again through your eyes.

[@Mark28644]

Kate's a musical genius & a poet. A one-off.

[@soupdragon151]

Fun fact: this video was banned from being shown on the BBC as the patting on the bottom bit was a bit too much... in live performances on TV where she performed this song they zoomed in to a close up of her face etc to avoid showing it

[@mattking5936]

Thanks for another Kate Bush reaction. So pleased you are enjoying her work. I know you are working through her albums but I would recommend you react to the stand out tracks on each album and then go back and indulge in the other album tracks. Hammer horror is the next significant track on this album. The others are great once you.have become a big fan, which I'm sure you will (are?)

[@salomaojosesouto9997]

Sou do Brasil já estive em 2003 em Londres a voz de kate bush e aguda muito afinada diferente músicas bem trabalhadas sou músico qual bairro que ela mora

[@keiron.4612]

Am i the only one whose not getting notification for your videos

[@kevindobson3701]

Can't wait for my Tears for fears request lol

[@ingopinkowski1091]

David Gillmore from Pink Floyd promoted her and got her the right contacts. Without him, there would be no Kate Bush.

[@mikem2778]

She could sing the phonebook (if such a thing exists anymore), and it would sound absolutely beautiful.

[@BillyButcher90]

Then she would've played a more attractive Rain Man than Dustin Hoffman. 😅

[@leslieturner8276]

Hello, as it has been a while since you posted another reaction to Kate, I was wondering how you are getting on....

[@appiewat1153]

Don't know if already mentioned, but the images of the only tour that she did, the tour of life in 1979 / 1980, are a must see. It won't get any better than this, watching the full potential of multi talented Kate, while still only 21! m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2WXqKqInN96q9k Enjoy, Willem (The Netherlands)

[@rainerzufall42]

FYI: The "vaseline" part made BBC block this video... That didn't hurt the song. ;-)

[@boofuls]

Indeed “Vaseline” is a trade name and BBC have a product placement rule(meaning you can’t advertise)..she should have said petroleum jelly 😂😂

[@rainerzufall42]

@@boofuls I'm pretty sure, they didn't block it for trade mark violation in that scene with the clap on her back... ;-)

[@MisterWondrous]

"Kate Bush is so much better than Kate W. Bush, she said." he said, as he stood his ground and continued. "Some say that Peter Gabriel is the male Kate Bush, she said." he said, as he was bade to continue. Got de sdiffles. Have you done "Babooshka"? So glad she is finally getting some recognition over here.

[@OnceWasRStrathfield]

It'd be great if you did a reaction to the video clip for ''Babooshka''. The song was a hit in the UK and was a major hit in Australia. I think a lot of knudge knudge wink winks were going on among boys in the school yard during the time that song was hit. But don't let me spoil it.

[@paulmorris8762]

check out her duet with Peter Gabriel

[@anthonycollins5305]

Kate can lead England's armies forever and ever and always, till the end of .....?

[@davidsonchris737]

Check out the group Triumph. The video ( Magic Power ) thanks

[@boofuls]

0.54 Emily

[@boofuls]

0:53 emily 😮

[@deanmaynard8256]

OK so at the risk of copping it from diehard KB fans i would like to recommend a couple of 90s singers I suspect you would like - Now I am not saying they are an equal to the Goddess herself BUT they have something of her magic - They are Tori Amos (Songs- Winter, Crucify, Cornflake Girl) Jeff Buckley (Grace, Lover you Should Come Over, Hallelujah, Last Goodbye) and Mazzy Star (the band-- singer is Hope Sandoval) (songs Fade Into You, Into Dust)

[@zwieseler]

Another cracking English female performer is Joan Armatrading. Do yourself a favour....

[@iamnotaplatypus237]

Every video and reaction of Kate there are comments that refer to her as 'crazy' 'mad' 'nuts' 'barmy' etc. It's sexist and derogatory and i'm utterly sick of it

[@dalewyatt1321]

Is there a Kate Bush song that doesn't move you, one way or the other NO.

[@michaelcullen5308]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I always took the "too busy hitting the vaseline", not just as saying that the actor was gay (vaseline was the KY jelly of its day) but that he spent too much of his time "socialising", and not enough actually working.

[@mantisamygdala]

If you like the "wow"s here, then you probably like the "oh"s there too (also from 1978): kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2m1l6ymoJypq68

[@martinbaker613]

I think vaseline is also what stage actors used to remove makeup? 🤔

[@soupdragon151]

She pats her bum though, just incase you didn't get the point