'It's all really exciting!' Bush wrote on her website while heaping praise on the show. At least one well-meaning teenager is murdering it on TikTok as you read this. Last week it was by far the most streamed song in the world, overtaking the likes of Harry Styles and Bad Bunny, and is heading for number one in the UK charts this week. The song has entered the Top 10 in both the UK and US. Recently the 63-year-old resurfaced to acknowledge the extraordinary viral success of her 1985 single Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God), after it played a crucial role in the latest season of TV's Stranger Things. Yet to call Bush a recluse would be unfair because she appears to live a very nice, normal life with her husband Danny McIntosh and is always gracious when she does have something to say. 'I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.' 'I don't think my life is that interesting,' she said in 2016.
Given that she hasn't released a studio album since 50 Words for Snow in 2011, and her 2014 concert residency (her first live shows in 35 years) sold out in a trice, that isn't very often. She only returns to the public eye when she has something to promote. One reason why Bush is a lodestar for so many artists is that she appears to care deeply about her art and not at all about the attention it invites. 'Why are people so interested in me when I just make an album every now and then?' Kate Bush asked a journalist in 1989.
