Her timeless classic from the 80s is finding another new audience thanks to Stranger Things
If Fleetwood Mac can be introduced to a new audience because someone posted a clip of themselves on a skateboard drinking juice half-lip-syncing to Dreams – a whole group of people who hadn’t just heard of it because of the Corrs! – then of course Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) will end up being the sound of summer 2022.
Her 1985 single/stone-cold classic is leaping up the charts and, according to the number of search-engine-friendly headlines I’ve seen, a new generation is tapping “who is Kate Bush?” into the search bar. Which means an older generation is inevitably tutting about them needing to ask who Kate Bush is in the first place. Let’s see how that works when you’ve got a question about the TikkyTok, grandma.
