![]() ![]() This is one of my favourite albums of all-time. Every element is put towards that purpose - what will best tell this story? Your mileage may vary on how much of that you can stomach, but to me I see genius in her particular brand of storytelling. So it seems to me she’s not all that interested in what makes a song a song, rather what makes a song a story. But why does she not just write stories in text then? Bush’s genius is in making the music perform the other roles in her stories - antagonist, chorus, mood-generator, weather, scene-setter - it is the canvas (to further mix the mediums) on which she paints her characters. These are not songs, they’re stories, and her lyrics tell the inner lives of her characters: Cloudbusting is the yearning, revolutionary youth marching through her life (“The sun coming out… I just know that something good is going to happen… Your sun’s coming out…”) The dreamer, pushing away modernity and their companions in Big Sky (“We pause for the jet… What was the question? I was looking at the big sky.”). It just so happens that rather than write her baroque, gothic literature in text, she writes it in sound. Wisps of magic (the magic of nature, especially), bizarre imagery and metaphor entwine with the usual anxieties: love motherhood death making deals with God. She’s an author of strange, literary fiction. ![]()
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