Kate Bush talks about her song Breathing on a chat show
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2007
- A serious UK evening news program from their national broadcaster discusses her song "Breathing" and it's anti-war message.
Please don't mention the name of the show, the network or the interviewer in comments. That's how videos are found and deleted. 
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I've heard that critics say she is pretentious.I don't beleive that at all.What we see of Kate is in interviews is very natural,no pretending at all.
Critics are pretentious, pretending to know about art, pretending to care, pretending to work. But what do they amount to?
@@shumeister1059 cannot agree more
She is the complete opposite of pretentious !
Those critics who said that, let's face it, they suck balls 🤣
(2.57) "i think we should be very concerned about looking after each other rather than destroying each other" its time to wake up people.
Yes, what a great saying indeed from someone in her early twenties at the time.
wonder what she thinks about where we are today
I am always struck by how thoughtful and brilliant she is. She doesn't bristle at criticism. She allows that it is a valid perspective and then doesn't counter, but merely offers her genuine perspective. So unique. Just like her music.
she knows its not personal ..he has a set list of q's and no one will remember what he says
Kate is so beautifully articulate and softly spoken. She is the most amazing woman. I love you Kate!
We miss her
I honestly love & respect deeply this artist. She's damn good at writing her songs, & her videos are like short movies, wether they derailed you from what she's saying in the song or gives you a more deeper vision of what is she's discussing.
She's a goddess when it comes to write songs & quite a devil when she does her thing on the piano.
you go girl!!!
I've noticed in a lot of her interviews she's very uncomfortable when they show a clip of one of her songs. It's like a torture for her to have to watch it, she so self-conscious
michaelleacy I think its more a perfectionist trade
Most people don't like to see or hear themselves
absolutely
She just looks very uncomfortable period. The line of questioning is also somewhat unpleasant imho.
@@JaapVersteegh Yea, kate is a great person this interviewer is shit.
Give Frank Bough a break (there's a sentence I never thought I'd write), he at least voiced a personal opinion that Kate "always" gives us "quality" music. He's gone up in my estimation. But Hugh Scully did what the male TV presenters always did when interviewing Kate in the early days - patronised her: "the romantic songs you've sung in the past" - what, like 'Kite' (period pains), 'The Kick Inside' (incest/suicide), 'Hammer Horror' (professional jealousy)? Couldn't rattle our Kate though!
"Always quality stuff from Ms. Kate Bush."
I think "Breathing" is Kate's most outstanding song.
she has so much great stuff to say i wish she would do more interviews
No true artist never has commercial on their mind.It comes from a deep place inside.
When i hear this song from Kate it takes me right back to that time and how thrilling it was (even though the subject matter was dark ) her song took me to a place and made me listen ...and it was at the same time a beautiful and powerful message for us all .... Kate is deffinately a power of nature and surely the sweetest girl in pop..
well i think its just stupid to accuse her of using this topic to commercialize... because well,, the melody of this song is amazing. If the song was about a broken heart, like love-related, would have been a success anyway because her vocals and melody are simply amazing. The fact that she decided to write about this is just part of her personality and i dont think there is any other reason behind. The interviewer was quite disrespectful.
Totally agree! Kate Bush is quite intelligent and awake unlike the interviewer trying to put her down with nonsense.
The interviewer simply asked what she had to say to those accusing her of being commercial. From his final comment ("Always quality stuff from Mrs. Kate Bush"), it's clear he has a very good opinion on her.
‘Always quality stuff from miss Kate Bush’. Yep, indeed.
im crying.i looooooove Kate Bush. oxoxoxox
Planet Oxo? Blblblblblblbl
....And she looks so nervous and vulnerable....Ahh ,such sensetivity,humility....
She was so ahead of her time, it’s like she knows all this madness was going to come lol
The madness has never changed. We’re just more aware of it on a broader basis.
You think the threats from Kim and Putin are new?? We've had various waves of this since the 1950's.
Always quality stuff from Mrs. Bush😂❤
Yesssss! Of course!🎉
So many unseen clips. Keep them coming!!
Ugh he was a jerk and she thought so as well.
Look at her expression from 4:19 - 4:22.
She handled him very well.
I admit that I first thought the song was to do with Stillbirth.
04:19
Thank you, never seen this one before :D I love the ending of Breathing :)
I fucking adore her!
Thanks for posting. It strikes me how relevant all of this remains. Unfortunately. The players have changed...and sometimes the stage (we have just as much to fear from nuclear accidents in aging facilities as from nuclear war). But the threat does not. I just read an article in PopSci about how dangerous the Chernobdyl site STILL is. Thanks to Kate for taking it on in a chilling song.
And unfortunately the threat is still real today.
She is such a wonderful person. Beautiful. Géniale, talentueuse et si adorable... Jackie
People don't understand that a persons art is a from of emotional release for the artist and serves the artist first and foremost. Especially an artist such as Kate who has made it clear that she doesn't want the fame.
Shes adorable
Always Quality Stuff from Miss Kate Bush!
" Please don't mention the name of the show, the network or the interviewer in comments. That's how videos are found and deleted."
Thanks for the info . . . was wondering what methods are . . .
Kate Bush is everything!
She is a really good artist but the strongest ever work about a nuclear disaster is the Jethro Tulls A Album.
Quante volte l ho ascoltata questa . Divina .
She handles a good question with a good answer. The bit about the commercialization of difficult issues, such as war. Well done.
Seems like an odd question looking back from 2022.
She's a dark haired Luna Lovegood 😁
I like how they wound to the best bit of the video.
I think Scully meant romantic in the sense of romanticism rather than love songs and her response too seemed to suggest that that is what she took the question to be.
I remember watching this on me Telly flamin eck
This record scared the hell out of me.
Ironically had Ukraine kept her nuclear weapons we would not be in the situation we face now.
Others may disagree.
Great to see her again.
Massive fan
I have the same impression.. though why?
Those lips @ 2:18-2:24. OMG!!
I don't think he realizes how much of an "artist" Kate is as--he certainly doesn't have the advantage of hindsight, on her career trajectory and output, that we all have now in order to "see" just how truly non-commercial and "true" to her vision she was. Nothing wrong with challenging Kate Bush with certain questions--she's smart, she can handle it.
"So, do you think you wrote this song to capitalize on peoples fears, Kate?" "Why, of course, jerk of an interviewer."
4:08 - 4:22 "Seriously this is what i came for?/ disappointment"
We were so young then...ahh!
Impressed. The level of paranoia between the US and the USSR was at its highest during this period that in 1983 a situation of nuclear Armageddon nearly happened, when the USSR took training programmes undertaken by the US and other intelligence horseplay as a serious threat. They were on the cusp of launching those missiles.
Yes, they are... I think that's why she looks a bit upset.
Maybe that is how i like it=)
Nicely put. She was right...9/11.
Frank Bough is a man I thought I would never see again. Kate handled the other chap well.
How she keeps her cool knowing that the interviewer is a complete numpty.
What a ledge.
All respect to Kate Bush, she's a remarkable talent. However let's not fool ourselves, she was *far* from the first having a song about the fear of nuclear war.
Tom Lehrer's "We'll All Go Together When We Go" from 1959 is probably the first known one dealing with the effects. Bob Dylan and The Byrds already performed songs about the subject in the 60's, bear in mind that the Cuban Missile in 1962 crisis was the closest to WW3 they got. "Wooden Ships" by Crosby, Stills and Nash from 1969 is clearly one too.
By the late 70's the subject appeared in many punk rock and new wave songs and in 1980 there were *plenty* of artists that released songs about this. Just a few examples below:
The Clash - Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
XTC - "Living Through Another Cuba"
Hawkwind - "Who's Gonna Win The War?"
Fad Gadget - "Fireside Favourite" (with lyrics that describe what happens to two lovers who get a lethal dose of radioactive fallout this one makes "Breathing" appear cute in comparison)
Kate Bush was probably one of the first female artists releasing a song with this theme, and since she was a huge name at the time this single was noticed even by people who had no interest in popular music. Hence the presentation in this show.
Good song (from a fine album). But unique or bold at the time? No.
Of all bands you've mentioned, Kate was at the top (I don't like to call that mainstream).
Yeah but ... Fireside Favourite (for example) is at best, a flippant attempt at a novelty nuclear comedy number and at it's worst, just rather infantile. Even XTC, (fantastic as they were) were pretty tongue in cheek with it all. And no, Kate Bush certainly wasn't the first to address the subject but her unique approach to the topic certainly gets under my skin.
McLarenMercedes Yeah, but she was the first to write a song about nuclear fear from the point of view of an unborn child
It was a bit of a pointless interview, most of it made up of the video. She was only on for a couple of minutes. She wasn't given a chance to say that it was actually nuclear war from an unborn baby's perspective, for example. She had to fend off Hugh Scully, who, as time has shown, was a threat more real than a nuclear bomb1 (You may guess that I believe the British institution that was NW was slightly hyping up the issue!
i kissed her in 1982.
You keep saying this in Kate Bush videos WE GET IT YOU KISSED HER/DREAMT YOU DID IT. XD Sorry i got a bit agitated...
XD?
I kissed Thom Yorke back in the 90 ,s ..... no one believes me
I'm sure everyone want to hear you brag about what you did.
Dissonance
Uh ok sure.
A tori amos fan lmao
Isn't Kate Bush a Welsh?
Shu Meister Half English half Irish. Her mother was an Irish dancer.
wtf?
she was pissed off!! hugh scully, stick to the antiques roadshow mate. totally out of your depth.
Antiques, you say?
X me lei è un jenyo
She should have gone to Russia. Afterall its their bomb pointing at us.
hasnt aged well has kate
You're not allowed to say that though, are you?