Just sitting here *not editing* but paralyzed, again, by a Kate Bush song.
I have been thinking about KB lately and how, most of the time, I don't really like a lot of her music the first time through. I buy every record. I listen to it. I like some of it and other parts not so much. I mean, we are not in radio hit territory here. And yet, thousands at her bidding would speed, and post o're land without rest, if she were ever to give a concert. I am one of those. She's a magician. And those songs that bounce off me at first have a way of wending themselves into my DNA and often later become my favorites. It has happened time and again.
It pleases me that in this time, where all popular entertainment seems to be required to hook its audience like a hit of crack that KB succeeds in the way that she does. So much of value is not capable of snap judgment or even instant appreciation. Point taken.
So, here's a video for the song "Snowflake" from last year's 50 Words For Snow. It features her son, Bertie, (who is just the same age as the Infanta so I feel a certain connection). KB's voice, as she sings the chorus, "The world is so loud, keep falling, I'll find you" coming just behind his choir boy's voice, gets me right between the ribs every time. Also, the piano in this song is gorgeous. I am not sure it jumped out at me from the record right away but it has me now, a year or so later.
You may have to listen to it a few times before you get all that out of it. I hope you will.
