Re: More Flamebait (Sizzle)

[snelson@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Steve Nelson)]

> Why, when Kate writes such "personal" songs, does she get all huffy
> in interviews when interviewers ask her about them?

Kate Bush is perfectly justified in not talking about her more personal
songs.  For two reasons:

1.  For one thing, it's a far different experience to compose and
perform a song about your life in the privacy of a studio than it is to
try to field interviewer's questions on the spur of the moment.  She's
got a right to her privacy.

2.  Anyone who creates a work of art often does not want to talk about
it later in order to avoid finalizing interpretation of it.  Postmodern
critical theory has allowed the author that freedom.

=SN