Kate Bush is wanting again on the ups and downs of 2022.
In a bittersweet message titled “Merry Christmas” on her web site, the 64-year-old U.Ok. pop icon displays on the pains of the the previous yr, together with the struggle in Ukraine and dying of Queen Elizabeth II, but in addition shares thanks for the renewed success of her traditional 1985 track “Working Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” and expresses hope for a brighter 2023.
“I don’t assume any of us have ever recognized a yr like this one,” Bush begins her notice. “Life turned extremely scary within the pandemic, however simply as we expect it is likely to be over quickly, it appears to maintain going. It’s a bombardment — the horrific struggle in Ukraine, the famines, the droughts, the floods… and we misplaced our Queen.”
The singer-songwriter then turns to a extra uplifting matter: the resurgence of “Working Up That Hill” on the Billboard charts, because of a high-profile synch within the fourth season of the Nineteen Eighties-set sci-fi Netflix sequence Stranger Issues.
“It’s been a loopy, curler coaster yr for me,” Bush continues. “I nonetheless reel from the success of [Running Up That Hill], being the No 1 monitor of this summer season. What an honour!”
After being featured within the present, “Working Up That Hill” — the lead single from Bush’s 1985 album, Hounds of Love — rose to No. 3 on the Billboard Scorching 100 and returned to the highest 10 of the Different Airplay chart after a document 28-year absence. The track additionally felt success on a world degree, topping charts within the U.Ok. and Australia.
“It was such an excellent feeling to see so lots of the youthful era having fun with the track,” she writes. “Plainly various them thought I used to be a brand new artist! I really like that! Once more, thanks a lot to everybody who supported the monitor and made it a success.”
Bush closes her message, which incorporates a picture of a small robin, on a constructive notice by sharing some hopeful phrases from poet Emily Dickinson.
“I used slightly robin in a few of my Christmas items to mates this yr. I felt that this humble little fowl, which symbolises Christmas may additionally symbolise hope within the context of Emily Dickinson’s stunning phrases: Hope is the factor with feathers that perches within the soul,” Bush writes. “I‘d prefer to assume that this Christmas when pleasure is so arduous to search out, hope will perch in all our souls. Merry Christmas!”
