Great song, as always from Kate Bush. The reason the husband doesn’t recognize her is because she’s in disguise. And the two outfits Kate wears in the video represent the two versions - the wife as she normally is, draped in black and subdued, and the fantasy figure she created, wild haired and exotically dressed in chain mail and silk. The twist is that the only reason he falls for the fantasy version is because she reminds him of his wife.
Kind of reminds me of The Pina Colada Song, where the Husband answers a singles column, in the newspaper, he’s tired of his wife. He’s gonna meet this woman, blind date, but it was his own wife, so she was gonna cheat on him too!!! Lol 😂 ❤️
It's not that simple though as she decides to "test" him by sending the letters in the first place (why ?). He falls for her (again) but not who she currently is, but the woman he originally fell in love with (before the kids and real life catches up with everyone). Isn't that a reaffirmation for her ? However, it isnt its about peoples preference for a fantasy rather than real life they actually have.
@@kmjkmjkmj Ok, but which lines of lyric suggests that idea ? We don't know why she's decided to test his fidelity. Is it because she fears that he is actually being unfaithful, or because of her own doubts about herself and the relationship.
The key phrase is "before she freezed on him." She is no longer the woman that her husband fell in love with, until she pretends to be. He falls in love anew with the woman she used to be.
the wife wanted to test him, she arranged they met in a "place to go" he didnt recognize her and then at the end of the song there is tableware breaking, that is her trowing stuff to him in anger
@@ennoiatoreador755 I don't think the crashing sounds are about physical things. If you take the video as canon, the crashing sounds coincide with the disguise being taken off. I believe the crashing sound is him realising who she actually is. That is, the "incognito" disguise is smashed. I also conclude that the song does not reveal the result of the revelation. I believe the conclusion is for us to make; what we would feel. Does the relationship rekindle the infatuation type love they used to have? Or, does the relationship explode and complete the slow destruction that has been happening for some time now? I think this is a brilliant song; so emotional, so emotive, so evocative. The veil has a double interpretation: one is that it makes her look older, being grey, and with wrinkles from the folds of the veil, but also represents the incognito disguise, which is lifted when the crashing occurs. When she appears as the warrior, does she represent the disguise of what she looks like now or does she represent what the wife looked like before she froze on him. Notice, when the double bass is turned, the lyric says, "reminds him of his little lady" and shows an image of the female warrior.
Also consider, the narrator says that she couldn't have made a worst move! Her testing was really bad. Why? Was it the worst thing at the time she made the decision but turned out good? Or, was it the worst thing because the final outcome was really bad? It is perfect art because it is perfectly ambiguous with intense emotion for all possible interpretations.
She sends the letters under a different name “Babooska” to test him to see if he will stray, and she arranges to meet him once he’s on the hook. She feels she has lost her beauty and her husband has lost his initial passion for her, to the point when they meet up he just sees signs of what he loved about his wife in her, it is left open at the end, does she continue the charade to maintain the relationship or reveal who she really is...who knows! Great song great reaction. I would like you to react to king of the mountain it’s a beautiful song by Kate Bush
It's implied that she stopped doing the things he loved out of paranoia of him cheating("freezing on him"), killing the marriage in a self fulfilling prophecy kind of way.
Babooshka means grandmother in Russian. And there’s a Russian instrument towards the end. I remember this song so clearly from when I was a kid. Maybe it started my lifelong interest in all things Russian. Try anything by the group Moloko next (Russian for milk) . They’re not a Russian group though.
First heard her at the age of 5 and she remains probably the last true great British invention in music. It's a sound curiously unaffected by America in many ways, but has a transcendental power of its own.
This has always been my favourite of Kate Bush's - that and "Running Up That Hill"! I read where her costume was a very hurried last minute job and she loved it 😁 She signed the letter "All Yours, Babooshka" ... she should have had more faith in herself 😍💖
You need to know the story behind the song. Kate Bush is a genius simply a genius and she doesn't make music for the masses she makes music because she is a talented artist and if you don't get Kate Bush then you are not supposed to get it because it has gone over your head.
Kate Bush is the real deal, an established all round artist, a 4 octave vocal range, an insightfull, intelligent, emotive lyric and music writer, a versatile musician, a classically trained visionary dancer and performer. Babooshka is a Russian fable that involves a Russian peasent wife who tests her husbands devotion, loyalty to her and their marriage by spiriting / morphing herself into a much younger looking temptress in order to lure and tempt her husband, and test his devotion, love and loyalty to his wife. Kate Bush draws from fables, fairytales, multy cultural myths, history and literature from around the world for inspiration.
we love Kate,,the story in the song is short and to the point in the song she's testing his fidelity by taking on a costumed identity but unfortunately he falls for the fake identity, even though it's because she reminds him of his wife's passionate side she seems to have lost. and love the sexy viking wonder woman in the video you gotta do the song "Breathing" next
Babushka (in Poland and Russia) an old woman or grandmother. Symbolic loss of love due to age. Rekindled? Perhaps. Or is the sword and crashing glass signifying the end of the relationship.
Housewives and elderly European women wore a head kerchief also commonly called a Babooshka. It used to have the same function as a hair net when women were cooking and cleaning. Seems to fit the song; the drudgery of a long, disappointing marriage, Lol...and the sword, knowing Kate means "CHOP CHOP!!" either she killed him or she killed the marriage.
@@markjohnson4217 No argument here. (we are both right) ba·bush·ka: (bə-bo͝osh′kə) 1. A headscarf, folded triangularly and tied under the chin, traditionally worn by women in eastern Europe. 2. An elderly Russian or Polish woman, especially one who is a grandmother. The meanings are obviously intertwined. But Kate is so sweet, she would NEVER 'chop, chop'. [totally ironic statement]
@@rkress9349 No Kate wouldn't CHOP CHOP, but her characters actually do, check The Wedding List and James and the Cold Gun live, Kate shoots several dudes onstage with a nasty double barrel. "Pull Out the Pin", she is an angry Viet Com ready to pop a cap into an American soldier from behind. Yeah, Kate is more badass than most people think when it comes to violent themes. " I feel good in my revenge...I'm gonna fill your head with lead...I've gotcha on the Wedding list..I hit him!! I hit him!! I pinned him on the wedding list!"
it's fairly well documented that Kate had no idea what Babushka meant when she wrote the song, She had heard it somewhere and assumed it was a character in a fairy tale or similar. She just liked the word and was unaware of it's meaning until later
Congratulations this morning to KATE BUSH (Kabush!!). She has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with The Go-Go's, Tina Turner, Carole King and many others.
@@chrisbarlow2131 I'm amazed at the music "pundits" who are saying Kate doesn't stand a chance of being inducted because she's "really not rock 'n roll!" Whaaaat?
@@jons.105 Well she isn't rock n roll in the same way as she isn't an RnB singer or a soul singer or a jazz pianist or a folk singer. She's all of those and none of them. She's a conceptual artist first and foremost so to shoehorn her into an artistic straight jacket called the rock n roll hall of fame is rather meaningless. I'm sure Kate won't lose too much sleep over the prospect of being compared to someone who gave the world Nutbush City Limits.....
Fabulous song but sad too. Songs about ageing are often sad, and I think you've reacted to Phil Collins in the past and when he was with Genesis he sang a song called 'Ripples', which was also beautiful but sad. I'd love to hear you react to that one xx
She went to see him "incognito" = in disguise. And yes perhaps there was an element of sorcery with those scented letters! Kate did incorporate some strange (and prophetic) subjects into her songs: like Cloudbusting (1985) -- which has a theme of weather manipulation in the song and video. Something which until recently we didn't even know was being used (geo-engineering etc.)
Someone told her after the song came out that Babooshka was Russian for grand mother ,shed heard the name and thought it sounded Exotic ,but didn't know what it meant .
Well, there is, just as so often in her lyrics, a twist: The lyrics say: "she couldn't have made a worst move..." - This is a kind of comment on the future of this relationship. Whatever her plan was - it has moment of failing in it. And when they meet icognito "he laid eyes on her" - maybe he will fall in love with the wrong lady, fall in love with a fantasy which will drive him further away from her as she had intended. - I heard, that Kate Bush chose the word Babooshka just because it sounded good. It is actually not an existing word. But maybe it has a kind of exotic touch to it that supports the image of a secret and mysterious lady. Just a supplement - I was wrong: Babooshka (babushka) is an existing word. It means granny.
A babushka is a kerchief worn by women in Eastern European countries and in parts of the USA that have people with roots in Eastern Europe, like Pittsburgh. It can also refer to an old woman or a grandmother, especially among people of Polish and Russian ancestry.
As others have said Baboshka means grandmother in Russian but at the time Kate didn't know that. It was the name of a friends cat and she liked it. Also this song was one of the first, if not the first, to use a synthesiser for the smashing glass sound.
My Husband loves this video.... can't think why ;) !!! Love love love Kate Bush! The Man With the Child in His Eyes should be your next K.B reaction - absolutely beautiful.
Babooshka means grandmother, but it has also been a common word for the "head kerchief " often worn by elderly European women, maids, and housewives. I think this is what Kate had in mind, it is very appropriate as a symbol of the drudgery of housework and the unhappy "wife in the kitchen". The babooshka is worn to keep the hair out of the working women's face, much like a hair net.
Definitely has a Russian feel to it with the name, the balaliaka sounding riffs, and deep male backing vocals. I think the wife wasn't testing her husband to see if he would be unfaithful, it was more like rekindling what they had before by playing a romantic game. Taking on a persona and bringing the mystery back into their relationship. Maybe a better pseudonym for her letters might have been Matryoshka, a doll within a doll, a many faceted woman that he had begun to take for granted.
English is not my native language (I'm from Brazil) and I discovered this song already as an adult. I didn't grow up on that. That said, I understand the language since my teenage years, and I also know Babooshka means "grandma" in slavic languages. And the song keeps me invested, locked in, almost in a trance, until I heard the BABOOSHKA, BABOOSHKA, BABOOSHKA YAYAAAA... I always imagine the man cheating on his wife with her grandma, and always laugh like a maniac at that part. I just can't! That the kind of curve ball that makes a man think about a woman for the rest of his life. I fell in love with her because of this video.
The ailment he suffers is the fear of aging which he projects upon his wife because SHE is showing signs of aging and because she knows this she wants to portray as in a kind of role playing enticement an excited young vixen Babushka keeping the disguise quite secret with scented letters. It's both a sad and beautiful and reconciling song about aging and renewal. Kate knows how to musically get inside these emotions in such a storytelling way that floors me.
It is also the name of the "head kerchief " often worn by housewives and elderly ladies. I think Kate chose it because it is an appropriate symbol of the unhappy wife and the drudgery of housework, cooking and cleaning. My own mother wore one when she was cooking or doing laundry, it keeps the hair back, like a hair net.
Incognito means she was in disguise, that's why he didn't recognize her. She was testing his faithfulness. I get the impression that the couple no longer communicates, there's no effort, no rapport. He falls for Babooshka because she reminds him of how his wife used to be, before the spark in their marriage went out.
I don't think she killed him, the marriage/relationship was shattered. She put more effort into proving his loyalty than maintaining the existing relationship which ends up killing it.
I love watching you react to Kate Bush. I can see in your face everything I feel inside. Your next Kate Bush song has to be Love and Anger, or The Sensual World.
The word Babooshka makes me think of the Babooshka dolls that you take apart to find other dolls inside, each smaller than the one before (there maybe five or more dolls in all). Perhaps the usage of the word in this song suggests different layers/personas that make the "Babooshka" character in this song unrecognizable to her husband.
I believe that the word, " Babooshka" is the name of to the symbolic Russian hat. I would also like to put forward another classic by Kate titled "Army Dreamers". Best wishes from the UK
Kate said this song was about a woman building something huge out of nothing & deciding to test her husband! BUT! Instead of his thinking it the advances of some exotic, exciting new woman, HE’S seeing his wife before her growing distant & cool! Also, she ghouythe word babooshka sounded exotic...not learning that it’s a a Russian grandmother till the song was recorded LOL! The woman is a towering genius with her aural sculptures & brilliant words!
ok the song explained - kate Bush is singing about a wife who is stuck in a dull marriage , so the wife invented an alter ego and wrote her husband …lets say racey letters which she signed Babooska (which is the russian term for grandmother but thats not important) anyway seeing his reaction to the letters she took it further and arranged to meet him - when they met he was totaly in awe of this woman , then slowly he realises that its his wife , thats why you hear the sound of braking glass (or mirrors) ! - Kate Bush always tells a story and has a very unique talent !
You poor dear!! The sound at the end, is glass breaking at the couple's home after he makes a pass at her in the bar. It's an auditory representation of the fight the couple had at home after the meeting. It can be argued either way that she shouldn't have done it (tempted him) or he didn't have to meet her (the writer of the note). But as the song goes, that was the point of the glass breaking sounds at the end of the song. Kate said in an interview it was fun smashing all the glass to get the right sounds for the song.
The wife was enticing him with letters to see if he would take the bait and cheat on her, what she didn't know was that he was only enticed because she was reminding him so much of herself when he fell in love with her, so when she went to meet him incognito (which means in disguise) he just immediately fell into her arms because he needed what his frigid wife could no longer give him (sex for one thing...remember he said just like his wife before she 'freezed' on him). He was actually falling in love with her all over again, but I have a feeling she won't see it that way...lol. I mean this is what it sounds like to me pretty clear cut, but maybe it's a metaphor for something else.
Keep in mind all the broken glass, and the fact that she's brandishing a sword at the end. I don't think it's, "They lived happily ever after." I'm speculating a future of flashing lights and people with uniforms, ambulances...body bags.
Kate Bush is a legend. Nobody like her. 🎶👍
Great song, as always from Kate Bush. The reason the husband doesn’t recognize her is because she’s in disguise. And the two outfits Kate wears in the video represent the two versions - the wife as she normally is, draped in black and subdued, and the fantasy figure she created, wild haired and exotically dressed in chain mail and silk. The twist is that the only reason he falls for the fantasy version is because she reminds him of his wife.
The song concerns a woman pretending to be someone else in disguise to see if her husband would cheat on her with another woman.
Kind of reminds me of The Pina Colada Song, where the Husband answers a singles column, in the newspaper, he’s tired of his wife. He’s gonna meet this woman, blind date, but it was his own wife, so she was gonna cheat on him too!!! Lol 😂 ❤️
Thats it basically nothing to deep !
It's not that simple though as she decides to "test" him by sending the letters in the first place (why ?). He falls for her (again) but not who she currently is, but the woman he originally fell in love with (before the kids and real life catches up with everyone). Isn't that a reaffirmation for her ? However, it isnt its about peoples preference for a fantasy rather than real life they actually have.
@@kmjkmjkmj Ok, but which lines of lyric suggests that idea ? We don't know why she's decided to test his fidelity. Is it because she fears that he is actually being unfaithful, or because of her own doubts about herself and the relationship.
The Man with the child in his eyes....thats a great Kate tune...
The key phrase is "before she freezed on him." She is no longer the woman that her husband fell in love with, until she pretends to be. He falls in love anew with the woman she used to be.
that's how I always read it.
the wife wanted to test him, she arranged they met in a "place to go" he didnt recognize her and then at the end of the song there is tableware breaking, that is her trowing stuff to him in anger
@@ennoiatoreador755 I don't think the crashing sounds are about physical things. If you take the video as canon, the crashing sounds coincide with the disguise being taken off. I believe the crashing sound is him realising who she actually is. That is, the "incognito" disguise is smashed. I also conclude that the song does not reveal the result of the revelation. I believe the conclusion is for us to make; what we would feel. Does the relationship rekindle the infatuation type love they used to have? Or, does the relationship explode and complete the slow destruction that has been happening for some time now?
I think this is a brilliant song; so emotional, so emotive, so evocative. The veil has a double interpretation: one is that it makes her look older, being grey, and with wrinkles from the folds of the veil, but also represents the incognito disguise, which is lifted when the crashing occurs. When she appears as the warrior, does she represent the disguise of what she looks like now or does she represent what the wife looked like before she froze on him. Notice, when the double bass is turned, the lyric says, "reminds him of his little lady" and shows an image of the female warrior.
Also consider, the narrator says that she couldn't have made a worst move! Her testing was really bad. Why? Was it the worst thing at the time she made the decision but turned out good? Or, was it the worst thing because the final outcome was really bad? It is perfect art because it is perfectly ambiguous with intense emotion for all possible interpretations.
Such a great talent. One of the truly best artist in music history
She's got one of those perfect voices, like Karen Carpenter. It's so clean, like notes on a keyboard. She has a beautiful unique sound. A real artist.
Perfectly put
She sends the letters under a different name “Babooska” to test him to see if he will stray, and she arranges to meet him once he’s on the hook. She feels she has lost her beauty and her husband has lost his initial passion for her, to the point when they meet up he just sees signs of what he loved about his wife in her, it is left open at the end, does she continue the charade to maintain the relationship or reveal who she really is...who knows! Great song great reaction. I would like you to react to king of the mountain it’s a beautiful song by Kate Bush
It's implied that she stopped doing the things he loved out of paranoia of him cheating("freezing on him"), killing the marriage in a self fulfilling prophecy kind of way.
Babooshka means grandmother in Russian. And there’s a Russian instrument towards the end. I remember this song so clearly from when I was a kid. Maybe it started my lifelong interest in all things Russian. Try anything by the group Moloko next (Russian for milk) . They’re not a Russian group though.
omg Moloko, Roisin Murphy, yess!!!
Put me on that road as well, managed to get there twice.
Only the Great Kate Bush can cleverly craft this 3-minute something pop song about love and regret!
Wow, I remember this song! Would love to see your reaction to Kate Bush’s “The Sensual World” 🙂
First heard her at the age of 5 and she remains probably the last true great British invention in music. It's a sound curiously unaffected by America in many ways, but has a transcendental power of its own.
The Man with a Child in his Eyes should be your next KB reaction KSO - I read she was only 16 when she wrote it.
She was only 12 or 13 when she wrote that one. Amazing talent.
YES! This makes me very happy. ‘The Sensual World’, ‘Hounds of Love’, ‘Under Ice’ next, please :D
Oooh, under ice is scary...
@@VerMaarte and I love it :P
Yep, me too !
@@VerMaarte exemplary 🙌
It’s a song that really builds but is definitely unsettling at the beginning. Love it.
This has always been my favourite of Kate Bush's - that and "Running Up That Hill"! I read where her costume was a very hurried last minute job and she loved it 😁 She signed the letter "All Yours, Babooshka" ... she should have had more faith in herself 😍💖
my favourite kate bush song, i love her style, she always had a mystical look about her, great reaction Kso 💛
No comment on Kate's warrior princess attire? I think she looks fire!
@Eugene Dorsey IV K.S.O. has never held back on her admiration of Kate's beauty. She even had a pet name for her: KABUSH!!!
@Eugene Dorsey IV Yes, because everybody knows women don't say other women look beautiful.🙄
A valkyrie or red Sonja
That’s also her brother, Paddy, playing the balalaika
You need to know the story behind the song. Kate Bush is a genius simply a genius and she doesn't make music for the masses she makes music because she is a talented artist and if you don't get Kate Bush then you are not supposed to get it because it has gone over your head.
Still shocking and strange and absolutely unique.
Incredible artist. Too many great songs to mention.
Kate Bush is the real deal, an established all round artist, a 4 octave vocal range, an insightfull, intelligent, emotive lyric and music writer, a versatile musician, a classically trained visionary dancer and performer. Babooshka is a Russian fable that involves a Russian peasent wife who tests her husbands devotion, loyalty to her and their marriage by spiriting / morphing herself into a much younger looking temptress in order to lure and tempt her husband, and test his devotion, love and loyalty to his wife. Kate Bush draws from fables, fairytales, multy cultural myths, history and literature from around the world for inspiration.
....bloody love Dame Kate Bush...
If only she were made a Dame...
love kate bush! "THE MAN WITH THE CHILD IN HIS EYES" or "ARMY DREAMERS" next k.s.o ; )peace
I love army dreamers
Babushka is a Russian word meaning "grandmother", or more colloquially, the same as the term "MILF".
we love Kate,,the story in the song is short and to the point
in the song she's testing his fidelity by taking on a costumed identity but unfortunately he falls for the fake identity, even though it's because she reminds him of his wife's passionate side she seems to have lost.
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love the sexy viking wonder woman in the video
you gotta do the song "Breathing" next
Babushka (in Poland and Russia) an old woman or grandmother. Symbolic loss of love due to age. Rekindled? Perhaps. Or is the sword and crashing glass signifying the end of the relationship.
Housewives and elderly European women wore a head kerchief also commonly called a Babooshka. It used to have the same function as a hair net when women were cooking and cleaning. Seems to fit the song; the drudgery of a long, disappointing marriage, Lol...and the sword, knowing Kate means "CHOP CHOP!!" either she killed him or she killed the marriage.
@@markjohnson4217 No argument here. (we are both right) ba·bush·ka: (bə-bo͝osh′kə) 1. A headscarf, folded triangularly and tied under the chin, traditionally worn by women in eastern Europe. 2. An elderly Russian or Polish woman, especially one who is a grandmother.
The meanings are obviously intertwined. But Kate is so sweet, she would NEVER 'chop, chop'. [totally ironic statement]
@@rkress9349 No Kate wouldn't CHOP CHOP, but her characters actually do, check The Wedding List and James and the Cold Gun live, Kate shoots several dudes onstage with a nasty double barrel. "Pull Out the Pin", she is an angry Viet Com ready to pop a cap into an American soldier from behind. Yeah, Kate is more badass than most people think when it comes to violent themes. " I feel good in my revenge...I'm gonna fill your head with lead...I've gotcha on the Wedding list..I hit him!! I hit him!! I pinned him on the wedding list!"
it's fairly well documented that Kate had no idea what Babushka meant when she wrote the song, She had heard it somewhere and assumed it was a character in a fairy tale or similar. She just liked the word and was unaware of it's meaning until later
Congratulations this morning to KATE BUSH (Kabush!!). She has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with The Go-Go's, Tina Turner, Carole King and many others.
I'm sorry but Kate being put in with a group of "artists" such as The Go Go's and Tina Turner is just comical.
@@chrisbarlow2131 I'm amazed at the music "pundits" who are saying Kate doesn't stand a chance of being inducted because she's "really not rock 'n roll!" Whaaaat?
@@jons.105 Well she isn't rock n roll in the same way as she isn't an RnB singer or a soul singer or a jazz pianist or a folk singer. She's all of those and none of them. She's a conceptual artist first and foremost so to shoehorn her into an artistic straight jacket called the rock n roll hall of fame is rather meaningless. I'm sure Kate won't lose too much sleep over the prospect of being compared to someone who gave the world Nutbush City Limits.....
Well .. she's living in the south of England ... making brilliant albums now and again; and she wouldn't care less
Fabulous song but sad too. Songs about ageing are often sad, and I think you've reacted to Phil Collins in the past and when he was with Genesis he sang a song called 'Ripples', which was also beautiful but sad. I'd love to hear you react to that one xx
Always loved this song! Great reaction!
This video used to make my pyjamas move.
You should try "Experiment IV" by Kate at some point - great song - awesome video which Kate directed herself
She went to see him "incognito" = in disguise. And yes perhaps there was an element of sorcery with those scented letters! Kate did incorporate some strange (and prophetic) subjects into her songs: like Cloudbusting (1985) -- which has a theme of weather manipulation in the song and video. Something which until recently we didn't even know was being used (geo-engineering etc.)
Babushka is also the nest of Russian dolls, suggesting one person inside another.
Kate Bush never surprises me...she is so awesome and such an original mesmerizing artist. thx for sharing KSO :)
Kate Bush is a something special as always,бабушка means grandmother baby for sure.😊
Babooshka (spelled slightly differently) is Russian and means grandma
Babooska is the russian name ofa russian doll. A doll within a doll. A woman within a woman...
Great reaction! Her story telling in her songs is fantastic. She is incredible, so unique xx
Someone told her after the song came out that Babooshka was Russian for grand mother ,shed heard the name and thought it sounded Exotic ,but didn't know what it meant .
Top song 👏 👏 👏
Well, there is, just as so often in her lyrics, a twist: The lyrics say: "she couldn't have made a worst move..." - This is a kind of comment on the future of this relationship. Whatever her plan was - it has moment of failing in it. And when they meet icognito "he laid eyes on her" - maybe he will fall in love with the wrong lady, fall in love with a fantasy which will drive him further away from her as she had intended. - I heard, that Kate Bush chose the word Babooshka just because it sounded good. It is actually not an existing word. But maybe it has a kind of exotic touch to it that supports the image of a secret and mysterious lady. Just a supplement - I was wrong: Babooshka (babushka) is an existing word. It means granny.
A babushka is a kerchief worn by women in Eastern European countries and in parts of the USA that have people with roots in Eastern Europe, like Pittsburgh. It can also refer to an old woman or a grandmother, especially among people of Polish and Russian ancestry.
I think if you stress the 'oo' or 'u' it is insulting.
@@faustusTVR My relatives never told me that. Interesting.
As others have said Baboshka means grandmother in Russian but at the time Kate didn't know that. It was the name of a friends cat and she liked it. Also this song was one of the first, if not the first, to use a synthesiser for the smashing glass sound.
Kate Bush - "Breathing" still my favorite.
My Husband loves this video.... can't think why ;) !!!
Love love love Kate Bush! The Man With the Child in His Eyes should be your next K.B reaction - absolutely beautiful.
Babooshka means grandmother, but it has also been a common word for the "head kerchief " often worn by elderly European women, maids, and housewives. I think this is what Kate had in mind, it is very appropriate as a symbol of the drudgery of housework and the unhappy "wife in the kitchen". The babooshka is worn to keep the hair out of the working women's face, much like a hair net.
Definitely has a Russian feel to it with the name, the balaliaka sounding riffs, and deep male backing vocals. I think the wife wasn't testing her husband to see if he would be unfaithful, it was more like rekindling what they had before by playing a romantic game. Taking on a persona and bringing the mystery back into their relationship. Maybe a better pseudonym for her letters might have been Matryoshka, a doll within a doll, a many faceted woman that he had begun to take for granted.
I thought she took the name from a friends cat without realising what it meant.
Someone called Babooshka just slid into my DM's - should I be worried?
It's your Russian grandma
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I’ve always liked this song that chorus always gets stuck in my head, Kate Bush has that uniqueness that draws you in when she sings 👍
A lenda Kate Bush
Linda❤️
Most young men I knew where mesmerized by this Video me included ,I have no idea why LOL
English is not my native language (I'm from Brazil) and I discovered this song already as an adult. I didn't grow up on that. That said, I understand the language since my teenage years, and I also know Babooshka means "grandma" in slavic languages. And the song keeps me invested, locked in, almost in a trance, until I heard the BABOOSHKA, BABOOSHKA, BABOOSHKA YAYAAAA...
I always imagine the man cheating on his wife with her grandma, and always laugh like a maniac at that part. I just can't! That the kind of curve ball that makes a man think about a woman for the rest of his life. I fell in love with her because of this video.
The ailment he suffers is the fear of aging which he projects upon his wife because SHE is showing signs of aging and because she knows this she wants to portray as in a kind of role playing enticement an excited young vixen Babushka keeping the disguise quite secret with scented letters. It's both a sad and beautiful and reconciling song about aging and renewal. Kate knows how to musically get inside these emotions in such a storytelling way that floors me.
bellissima canzone bellissima atmosfera ❤
She outstanding.
Miss those days!!!
Nice reaction!!!
Great song. Love how she plays with the cello. Russian doll I think
This was always a weird song because a babooshka is a Russian grandma.
As I understand it, she's fooling him with an 'exotic' name whereas she knows it actually refers to an old lady, ie how he truly views his wife.
It is also the name of the "head kerchief " often worn by housewives and elderly ladies. I think Kate chose it because it is an appropriate symbol of the unhappy wife and the drudgery of housework, cooking and cleaning. My own mother wore one when she was cooking or doing laundry, it keeps the hair back, like a hair net.
I love the smashing bottles at the end (can't hear them on here) all with different notes, symbolising change or calamity. A genius artist.
Love our Kate Bush.
Please listen to all her other albums too. Believe me, you won't regret it! She is a genius!
Incognito means she was in disguise, that's why he didn't recognize her. She was testing his faithfulness. I get the impression that the couple no longer communicates, there's no effort, no rapport. He falls for Babooshka because she reminds him of how his wife used to be, before the spark in their marriage went out.
From what I've read, David gilmour of pink Floyd paid for Kate bush's demo sessions, he certainly recognises talent.
the sweet time when, to make a legendary music video, 2 costumes, a sword and a double bass were enough.
He cheated on her 😱 she sent him letters to see if he'd be unfaithful, and he was, so she killed him 😂
He might have just turned up to say ' you've got to stop sending these fucking letters. You're obsessed!!"
I don't think she killed him, the marriage/relationship was shattered. She put more effort into proving his loyalty than maintaining the existing relationship which ends up killing it.
Sounds like a Greek Tragedy to me!
Thank you for this reaction ma'am
I love watching you react to Kate Bush. I can see in your face everything I feel inside. Your next Kate Bush song has to be Love and Anger, or The Sensual World.
A Babushka is the black head scarf that old ladies used to wear, in eastern Europe..
The word Babooshka makes me think of the Babooshka dolls that you take apart to find other dolls inside, each smaller than the one before (there maybe five or more dolls in all). Perhaps the usage of the word in this song suggests different layers/personas that make the "Babooshka" character in this song unrecognizable to her husband.
I believe that the word, " Babooshka" is the name of to the symbolic Russian hat. I would also like to put forward another classic by Kate titled "Army Dreamers". Best wishes from the UK
Kate said this song was about a woman building something huge out of nothing & deciding to test her husband!
BUT! Instead of his thinking it the advances of some exotic, exciting new woman, HE’S seeing his wife before her growing distant & cool!
Also, she ghouythe word babooshka sounded exotic...not learning that it’s a a Russian grandmother till the song was recorded LOL!
The woman is a towering genius with her aural sculptures & brilliant words!
Her voice is magical I have always loved her songs
ok the song explained - kate Bush is singing about a wife who is stuck in a dull marriage , so the wife invented an alter ego and wrote her husband …lets say racey letters which she signed Babooska (which is the russian term for grandmother but thats not important) anyway seeing his reaction to the letters she took it further and arranged to meet him - when they met he was totaly in awe of this woman , then slowly he realises that its his wife , thats why you hear the sound of braking glass (or mirrors) ! - Kate Bush always tells a story and has a very unique talent !
Certainly unique; not "very", "extremely", "slightly", or "fractionally".
Just... unique! (In the truest sense of the word.)
One of the greatest 80íes Hits
You poor dear!! The sound at the end, is glass breaking at the couple's home after he makes a pass at her in the bar. It's an auditory representation of the fight the couple had at home after the meeting. It can be argued either way that she shouldn't have done it (tempted him) or he didn't have to meet her (the writer of the note). But as the song goes, that was the point of the glass breaking sounds at the end of the song. Kate said in an interview it was fun smashing all the glass to get the right sounds for the song.
I always loved her live version of Wedding List played with an all star band
Babbooska is a grandmother in Russian and also the russian game with the dolls that are inside each other . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll .
Beauty woman with a magical voice and great video🌞👍
"Babooshka" is like a more realistic version of The Pina Colada Song, gone horribly wrong.
Have a blessed day!
Grande artista
Kate Bush is the real deal, her songs are mini
The most amazing bass guitar work in this song
Have you heard "cloudbusting" by Kate Bush its one of my favorites :)
done
You really need to check out "Sat In Your Lap" it's her at her most out there and she looks incredible in the clip.
Unique and amazing
Listen to: Kate Bush - Wow
It's her another great song.
The wife was enticing him with letters to see if he would take the bait and cheat on her, what she didn't know was that he was only enticed because she was reminding him so much of herself when he fell in love with her, so when she went to meet him incognito (which means in disguise) he just immediately fell into her arms because he needed what his frigid wife could no longer give him (sex for one thing...remember he said just like his wife before she 'freezed' on him). He was actually falling in love with her all over again, but I have a feeling she won't see it that way...lol. I mean this is what it sounds like to me pretty clear cut, but maybe it's a metaphor for something else.
This! This is a perfect explanation. Upvoting this comment in hopes it gets more visibility.👍🏼
@@aerynsunx Thanks...i was always fascinated by this odd little story she thought of.
You should check out Kate Bush's cover of Elton John's "Rocket Man." It is superb.
What a goddess
I love Kate, did then, do now
More Kate pleeease cloud busting !! X
Babooshka means beloved
Did I mention she was a goddess too? Oh yes...
Babooska means Grandmother in the Slavic languages.
You need to review the Kate Bush parody by NTNON 'England my Leotard'
BABOOSKHA is grandmother in russian
Kate didn't know Babushka meant grandmother in Russian. It just sounded good.
Babushka means grand mother in russian
Keep in mind all the broken glass, and the fact that she's brandishing a sword at the end. I don't think it's, "They lived happily
ever after." I'm speculating a future of flashing lights and people with uniforms, ambulances...body bags.
Please react to "Moments of Pleasure": her greatest song, in my opinion.