Kate Bush can sing anything, as she’s happy to demonstrate in her new album: in the second song, she sings some digits of Pi as a chorus. This is probably why she writes lyrics that would make a teenager cringe: they serve her fine.
Listening to this album is like soaking in honey and mother’s milk, and it floods the emotional ducts, but if you actually listen, it’s hard to escape the impression that Kate Bush has a scary sense of humor: Aerial is probably funnier than any of Monty Python’s songs. The ridicilous is delivered with straight face and total sincerity, so it goes beyond self-satire and becomes, like Tal put it, love.
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