First Time Reaction to Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
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The second verse gives me chills! She was letting Heathcliff know it’s cold, dark and lonely as a ghost
She a ghost that's come back for her lover
Kate Bush when about 10 years old caught on TV the window scene section of a film drama of Wuthering Heights, the famous story of cruelty, passion, class, and revenge written by Emily Brontë. This stuck in her mind and about 7 or so years later she watched another version and this triggered the writing of this song.
It is written from the pov of Cathy, a ghost at this point glimpsed through the window of Wuthering Heights the house both Cathy and Heathcliff grew up in.
A really good way to get the context for this song is to watch a couple of versions of the window scene and these can be found on tube by looking for
"Wuthering Heights window scene comparisons"
So privileged to grow up in this era of music.
Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights her only novel. It has been made into Films and TV adaptations over the years.
Putting it simply Cathy and Heathcliff are in love all their lives . But circumstances occur that Heathcliff travels to America to make his fortune. When he comes back rich Cathy has married Linton.she dies in child birth and Heathcliff curses her to remain a ghost until the day he dies.
He's in Cathy's old room at Wuthering Heights he hears her ghost at the window and dies.
They're then seen running across the moors together
That's what the song is about.
It's so nice to see the love Kate has been getting since her song was used on the show.
My Dad loves Kate Bush, so it's because of him that I knew of her and fell in love with all of her music.
I can listen to her for hours, and it's like she can transport you to another world, her world.
You should definitely check out more of her videos. they are all so different and such amazing storytelling.
THE GOAT... The most obsessive dedication to artistic expression in pop music!
I did not realise as a kid growing up in the 70's that Cathy was a ghost, but now it all makes it clear.
The strange dancing and high pitched voice is because she is a ghost and from the other side from you.
Heathcliff was supposed to have heard scratching at his window and went to find out what it was and swore that he saw Cathy but when he went outside there was nobody out there? Great story and sends a shiver down my spine.
I've been a Kate Bush fan from the very beginning and this was the video that hooked me forever! 😄
Now, because of Stranger Things and new peoole becoming aware of Kate's musuc, I did prepare some text in advance which also includes "Wuthering Heights" which I hope you wilk find useful. BTW a great reaction, so many can't get use to Kate singing in such a high register for this particular song... anyway here are the notes...
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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".
The song is very unusual in a number of ways, the structure of the song is very different compared to the traditional pop song of the time. It also has some very unusual key changes plus changes to timing. All of the above made it so different to what was in the single charts in 1978.
Kate was self taught, so wasn't aware of musical theory, she writes songs that sound nice to her.
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As for my favourite song it's very tricky...as so many brilliant ones in her extensive catalogue.
I can give you ones to follow on from "Wuthering Heights", so in terns of singles we have:
📍The Man With The Child In His Eyes
📍Wow
📍Hammer Horror
📍Babooshka
📍Arny Dreamers
📍Breathing
📍Sat In Your Lap
📍The Dreaming
📍Suspended In Gaffa
📍The Goes A Tenner
📍Night Of The Swallow
That will take you up to before Kate's iconic album "Hounds Of Love"
How can anyone not be interested in lyrics!
What is so amazing about this song is that she was only 17 when she wrote it. What a brilliant singer-songwriter she is.
You pretty much nailed the theme of this song. It was inspired by tbe novel of the same name by Emily Bronte. We read it at school in Junior High. The scene when Cathy's ghost comes back and is knocking on tbe window is the only thing I remember from tbe book because it creeped me out.
Kate is an extraordinary artist snd songwriter. She had written over 200 songs by the age of 16! The themes that she tackles are some of the most austere and deepest concepts that I have ever come across as a lyricist ; The trauma of a nuclear holocaust from the perspective of an unborn child, (Breathing) or the story of a scientist wbo built a machine that could reverse the ion charge in the atmosphere and make it rain, (Cloudbusting) or the desire to know what it would be like to switch places with a lover in order to understand them more deeply. (Running up that Hill)
Kate is one of those rare artists that only come along once every 20 or 30 years.
Kathy in this song is a ghost
She also did this song in one take. I was memorised by this song on the radio when it was first released and have been a fan since. As others have said she is the ghost at the window trying to get into the room and steal his soul. Another great Kate song would be "This Woman's Work". If you are doing any Christmas song reviews would recommend "Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again (1979 Xmas Special)".
This is the best reaction video I've ever seen. I love the look on Tasha's face with the growing realisation that Cathy is not quite what she seems to be. Brilliant!
The song is based wholly on the book 'Wuthering Heights'. Should you ever have the opportunity to read the book, it'll open a whole new perspective to the song. Both book and Kate Bush' rendition thereof are at once dark, mystifying, tragic and real, like all true love stories.
Cloudbusting ist one of my all time favorite songs. Lyricswise as well.
GREAT SONG!!!
Written when she was 18, song arrangements dance all by her, so are all of her records, this was 1978
This song is a musical interpretation of the novel “Wuthering Heights.” She is the ghost of Kathy and is haunting Heathcliff. She was 19 when this song was released but I think she wrote it at 15 or 16. She had started writing songs at 11.
She was/is revolutionary for many reasons. Just one though is that at the time, female musical artists were either tough rockers or coy ingénues. She presented this feminine, sexual energy that was powerful in its own right that was completely unapologetic and proud.
The Man With the Child in His Eyes is my favourite song of hers.
she is as mesmerizing now as she was to me as a 15 yr old back in 78....Thia was her first hit...straight to number 1 in uk, many songs followed . A very talented woman who started writing her own songs from 13yr old...went to arts and drama used literature she read to compose her songs.
Wuthering heights novel by Emily Brontë is the ultimate source of inspiration.Give it a read,a dark dark tale to be sure but a masterpiece
First time I heard this song I was under its spell. Already loved the book, I kept listening again and again and after all those years it is still my nr.1.❤❤❤❤
She got signed through Dave Gilmore (!Pink Floyd). Rightly so. The best female artist we ever produced..And by quite a stretch.
Hi, thoroughly enjoyed that reaction.
Kate Bush was/is a wonderful talent and an inspiration.
I love a lot her early stuff., "The man with the child in his eyes," "Wow," "Hammer Horror" and several others but my favourites are probably "This woman's work" and "Moments of pleasure" both of which bring a tear to my eye for different reasons.
"Wuthering Heights" not "Withering Heights". The name of the house in Emily Bronte's novel of 1847. In the video she's playing Cathy's ghost from the novel.
The song is about a woman who died and came back as a soul to see her still living lover. She sings in a higher pitched voice because it's supposed to represent the "higher vibration" that spirits are when they leave their bodies. Pretty deep song honestly.
Loved your reaction Tasha. Kate wrote this, inspired after watching a TV adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic book: Wuthering Heights. In the UK, this song was our introduction to her music. In terms of my favourites: The Sensual World, This Woman's Work, Hounds of Love. You're right, she acts the songs and interprets through dance beautifully.
My favorite Kate Bush song is Hounds of Love❤❤
Wuthering Heights is my favourite. Followed closely by Wow and Hammer Horror. 🙂
You might also enjoy Pat Benatar's version.
I was thinking that as well. Pats was a more hi-intensity rock version and just as fun
Pat's version is great.
You must be Ricans and Benatar fans, cos for the rest of the world it's a joke, just sayin'
I haven't polled the rest of the world, that might take some time. ; )@@isobeljames1328
Highly recommend Moments of Pleasure. It is simply one of the finest songs of the modern era. Written by Kate and masterly arranged by Michael Kamen, sure to induce multiple goosebumps!
Kate invented the headset microphone so she could move while she performs. Her voice was very high and ghostly here, she has a very rich, smooth lower range .
Firstly, thank you for reviewing this song. I hope you too discover Kate Bush.
The song is about Emily Brontë's book Wuthering Heights. Kate is indeed playing the part of the ghost Cathy haunting her once lover Heathcliff.
Been a fan of KB since I was a teen. Absolutely love her songs, lyrics and songwriting. She is an inspiration. Great reaction video Tasha, good job.
Well done I think knowing what the song is about makes it easier to appreciate the song even more.
She's playing a ghost from a famous Victorian novel, a young woman haunting her lover after a passionate, doomed affair. Hence the very high register in which she sings, the exaggerated facial expressions. Its meant to be creepy and mesmerising. This was a massive hit, was number 1 in the charts.
Britain has a long tradition of gifted, eccentric geniuses, so the public is quite flexible when it comes to musicians. So you get songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, I am the Walrus, and Wuthering Heights. Not in the normal pop categories, yet widely embraced.
Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon is one of my favorite movies! If you watch the movie you’ll have a better understanding and appreciation of the song. Great reaction!!
Nice laugh...🙂
I've heard bits of this since I was a kid, over 40 years ago. Up until now, never really listened to it (always thought it was part of a musical).
Reminds me of "Against the Wind" - a TV-series I watched as a kid. Also reminds me of "Song to the Siren" (Elizabeth Frazer) in where the Sirens are luring the ships and sailors to the rocks.
Kate Bush got the main story of the book really well - the contrast of the bad things in the relationship (anger, jealousy, hate, possession) mixed with Cathys vulnerability and softness in the chorus. I wonder what the "switch" in the beginning means? (while in the yoga/Buddhist/hindu position). And the end, I wonder if she's swinging like a tree - on top of those wuthering heights?
I bet all the choreography was done by herself - seems very personal.
I've even ordered the book now 😀
This time, I remembered I was lying in the oak closet, and I heard distinctly the gusty wind, and the driving of the snow; I heard, also, the fir bough repeat its teasing sound, and ascribed it to the right cause: but it annoyed me so much, that I resolved to silence it, if possible; and, I thought, I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement. The hook was soldered into the staple: a circumstance observed by me when awake, but forgotten. “I must stop it, nevertheless!” I muttered, knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch; instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand!
The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed,
“Let me in-let me in!”
“Who are you?” I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself.
“Catherine Linton,” it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton)-“I’m come home: I’d lost my way on the moor!”
As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child’s face looking through the window. Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, “Let me in!” and maintained its tenacious gripe, almost maddening me with fear.
“How can I!” I said at length. “Let me go, if you want me to let you in!”
The fingers relaxed, I snatched mine through the hole, hurriedly piled the books up in a pyramid against it, and stopped my ears to exclude the lamentable prayer.
I seemed to keep them closed above a quarter of an hour; yet, the instant I listened again, there was the doleful cry moaning on!
“Begone!” I shouted. “I’ll never let you in, not if you beg for twenty years.”
“It is twenty years,” mourned the voice: “twenty years. I’ve been a waif for twenty years!”
Thereat began a feeble scratching outside, and the pile of books moved as if thrust forward.
I tried to jump up; but could not stir a limb; and so yelled aloud, in a frenzy of fright.
Kate Bush has always utterly bewitched me, she is a few months older than I am. Babooshka is probably the other best known video performance.
If ever a ghost had to make a entrance and make a statement..."this is it" in it's full glory.
Emily Brontë just needed to find the right medium to go through.
Kat Bush is no doubt the spiritual channel for Emily.
Rest easy Emily, the world has heard your heart breaking story ☝️🙏❤
You would need to read the book Wuthering Heights to understand the song better.... great reaction thanks.
You got it. I’m impressed.
A masterpiece. They don’t make them like that anymore ✔️
You should read Wuthering Heights, the song is based on that story
Cathy was already dead in this song when he asked Heathcliff to let him in... She died in pheunomia, but also Kathy had married a man she didn't really love and was grieving for the love of her life... The book is pretty sentimental, but it is for men too, if you have some heart... It is a bit creepy book, the sickness and death of Kathy and all, but adults can take that...But not really a childrens book though.
She demanded that her recording company that "Wuthering Heights" would be her first single. They didn't want to but she insisted and it worked out pretty well for her
Another great one from Kate is "Wow".
Such a great album from such a young person! Props to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour who discovered this awesome unique talent.
This was such a good reaction!! Loved this.
Emily Brontë and Kate Bush share the same birthday, day & month. Trivia
Such a distinctive voice love her
this was all the rage while we were in art school but me i always got hooked on the entire album ....re this is about book /movie ...the ghost is heathcliff
Coreography! Operatic! Mesmorizing!
Love it! Thank you for sharing.
Babooshka - Another classic Kate Bush tune 👌
true, but I think Tasha would need to have the lyrics to understand it (or some backstory)
"The Window.." See The Classic Movie.
Tasha great reaction, thank you very much. I love KB, check out Babooshka, you’ll be surprised she’s an amazing story teller
Cathy Earnshaw, has come back as a ghost, to interact with her long time 'love' Heathcliffe - she is on a different 'etheral plane'
Sister Kate is one special ARTIST........ :)
Fine and beautiful.
LYRICS!!!!
I suggest you check out her song The Dreaming.
Check out the Anna Maz cover of this song!
Please do the man with the child in his eyes Kate Bush
I ALWAYS want ti jibe the lyrics!
Kate is singing about Catherine Earnshaw and her Love for Heathcliff......... Kate was "discovered" by Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd
Nice reaction . . . just read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Pat Benatar covered this song, and I love her version of it.
BTW, the red dress video of this has a slightly longer cut of the song.
When you analyse the lyrics, you have to look at it from the perspective of Catherine being a ghost at this point, she's come home.
You kind of need to understand the story of Wuthering Heights to really understand this song better.
You should take a look at the song from Stranger Things, Running Up That Hill, and see a different aspect to Kate Bush.
Well it is inspired by Wuthering Heights so lol. Kathy died from childbirth and this was a doomed relationship because of social norms and expectations. Emily Brontë was actually dying when she wrote the novel. She didn’t live past her 30s 😢
Your realization that Kathy is dead gave me the chills...
those were the days, better times.
Just think 45 years ago young women had an 18 year old singing about a classic English novel of pain and loss.
2024 young women today have Taylor Swift.
Watch "The Man with the Child in his Eyes".
I lost my first love in life to a car crash, and I still wish Aimee would come to my window some 35 years later.
perfect.
She's singing as Kathy's ghost
Woman's work, will snap your heart like it's a dry twig
😍😍😍
She is a stalker, completely wrapped up in her own feelings, who nevertheless manages to pull us over to her side. When we love someone else, it's never the person, but what we imagine them to be. Everyone has experienced this at some point, as a perpetrator or victim.
You have got to see the movie preferably the one from the 1940's it's more gothic and closer to the book.
You're gorgeous, Tasha!
🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩
The first woman to write and perform a number one in Britain, 1978. Kate Bush is a composer of very artistic music and lyrics. A good Essex girl 🏴🇬🇧😎✌❤
Just...don't. PLEASE do a quick you tube preview/summerization of the FAMOUS NOVEL BY BRONTE THIS SONG WAS BASED ON. ONE OF THE MOST (SO I THOUGHT) RECOGNIZED AND CHERISHED BOOKS EVER PRINTED IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. A HIGH SCHOOL RECOMMENDED BOOK EXAM TITLE. SEVERAL MOVIES HAVE BEEN MADE OF OURSE. A FILM REVIEW OF THE 90S OR 2008 VERSION WILL GET YOU UP TO SPEED TOO. Having knowledge of the plot for the novel "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" IS THE ONLY TRUE WAY TO APPRECIATE AND UNDERSTAND SONG WHICH GIVES IT EVEN MORE POIGENCY AND GOOSEBUMPS HAVING UNDERSTANDING OF NOVEL.
Who killed Cathy? Childbirth
@Jayvee4635 Cathy chased Heathcliff out into a storm and later died of pneumonia, if the movie version is correct. She may have been carrying the baby of the other man she married. I don't remember.
Woman's Work
Gost
Cathy killed Cathy, she didn't stay true to herself.
The ghost of Cathy coming back to haunt Heathcliff
It was Dave Gilmour from Pink Floyd that found Kates talent in a club one night.
Met her when she was a teen through her brother Paddy, I believe.
Gilmour did not discover her, he did a favor to his friend publicist(at Transatlantic record) Ricky Hopper, who was friend with her brother John....there is no club little troll
@@isobeljames1328 Who are you calling a troll clown.
@@isobeljames1328 Watch your mouth clown,Understand.
I'm pretty sure she has a cool song called "Babushka" or something like that!! You will enjoy it!
Also amazing!
All yours!
Babushka, Babushka, Babushka-ya-ya!
Incredible! Haven’t seen this before. Really beautiful.
My favorite Kate Bush song is Army Dreamers
that's from the album Lionheart, I also love her piece 'oh England, my Lionheart'. Was Cloudbusting also on the disc? (going from memory)
She's dead, and it's her ghost at the window
This is probably one of these hardest song of all time to sing.
I re-read "Wuthering Hights" every five years.... The secret to understanding it is that there is two of every thing! The most Gothic of the Gothic. And, yes, at this point Kathy's dead and haunting Heathcliff,