The music, people and stupid moments that make up the nightlife
(Aside from the fact that it's entirely possible to run a massive piece on
The Boondocks without really discussing the show.)
Kate Bush is
great...for a girl. Okay, maybe I'm reading too much into the piece. Blame it on the fact that just finished reading four books on media representation for school. Regardless, Richard Cromelin writes of Bush, "a genre unto herself, she's regarded as a primary source for most distinctive female singer-songwriters, and she's also picked up accolades from less likely artists, including R&B singer Maxwell and ex-Sex Pistol John Lydon." I doubt Maxwell is an unlikely candidate for covering "This Woman's Work," since his voice matches the song and considering that Kate Bush's back catalogue is closely alligned with the, for lack of a better term, "post-punk" groups of the early-1980s (of which Lydon's PIL was one), there doesn't seem to be so much of a mismatch there either. Keeping in mind that Bush's songs have been an influence on some huge club tracks (most prominently,
Utah Saints "Something Good" from the early-1990s and, more recently, a slew of popular white label remixes, including an intense reworking of "Running up that Hill" from two years back) and that "Hounds of Love" was recently covered (wonderfully, I might add) by
the Futureheads and, gee, it starts to look like Kate Bush is more than just Tori Amos' predecessor.