When Kate Bush shared her holiday message last year — sending thanks and well wishes to COVID-fighting medical professionals and describing a small goldcrest that she came upon while on a walk — it wasn't all that common to hear from the art-rock icon.
In the year since, that's changed — Bush was absolutely everywhere in 2022, experiencing an enormous resurgence in popularity after "Running Up That Hill" was featured prominently in the fourth season of Stranger Things. Bush was as surprised as anyone, and spent the year sending dispatches about the song's reappearance on the radio and her sudden popularity among a younger generation of music fans.
But hearing from Kate Bush never really gets old, and she's decided to share one last message before 2023 comes crashing to shore. This year's digital holiday card wishes for an end to the Russo-Ukrainian war and once again acknowledges the UK's overworked and underpaid nurses. Bush also reflects on the death of the Queen — while being careful to note that she and her friends are not royalists — and writes that "her passing became a focus for grief, for unexpressed loss that so many people had felt during the pandemic."
Like last year, Bush ends her message with a bird, this time the small and humble robin: "I used a little robin in some of my Christmas gifts to friends this year. I felt that this humble little bird, which symbolises Christmas could also symbolise hope in the context of Emily Dickinson's beautiful words: Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
You can read the whole thing here.
In the year since, that's changed — Bush was absolutely everywhere in 2022, experiencing an enormous resurgence in popularity after "Running Up That Hill" was featured prominently in the fourth season of Stranger Things. Bush was as surprised as anyone, and spent the year sending dispatches about the song's reappearance on the radio and her sudden popularity among a younger generation of music fans.
But hearing from Kate Bush never really gets old, and she's decided to share one last message before 2023 comes crashing to shore. This year's digital holiday card wishes for an end to the Russo-Ukrainian war and once again acknowledges the UK's overworked and underpaid nurses. Bush also reflects on the death of the Queen — while being careful to note that she and her friends are not royalists — and writes that "her passing became a focus for grief, for unexpressed loss that so many people had felt during the pandemic."
Like last year, Bush ends her message with a bird, this time the small and humble robin: "I used a little robin in some of my Christmas gifts to friends this year. I felt that this humble little bird, which symbolises Christmas could also symbolise hope in the context of Emily Dickinson's beautiful words: Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
You can read the whole thing here.
