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[KYRIACOS TSIELEPIS <tsiekn@essex.ac.uk>]

Hello there fellow Lovehounds,

I'd like to get people's views on the foollwing statement by Kate Bush in an interview last year 
on Radio 1.
I'm sure most of you have heard the interview or know its contents. I'm sorry if this has been 
discussed before but I haven't really been paying much attention to the mailing list this past 
year due to other preoccupations. Anyway here's the excerpt from the interview:

Interviewer: Is it (your work doesn't seem to be dated) because your work is slightly alternative, 
if you could use that phrase...different from the norm....Is that why perhaps that it doesn't date?

Kate: Are you saying that I'm a weirdo or something? (jokingly) (Then Kate goes on to explain 

Kate's next reply is 'I don't know about to be different but to certainly  try and do my best, and I 
think if generally there are a lot of areas that people have already explored, there's a natural 
tendency for you to want to look in areas that aren't quite so covered, do you know, I think that's 
a natural thing to want to do'

The above (and another interview excerpt which I remember reading on rec-music-gaffa 
around the time TRS came out where Kate felt embarrassed of her early work, even 'The 
Dreaming') makes me wonder if Kate Bush, now in her thirties, wants to discard her image of 
being 'alternative, different, strange, unconventional'? 
This frightens me as it these 'deliriously bizarre but at the same time extremely evocative' 
songs which attracted me to her music in the first place.

Any ideas or comments?

Kerry