Kate Bush
Never For Ever

THE REVIEW

Kate looks at us mischievously while medieval monsters emerge from her petticoat of clouds. A rose, on the other hand, drips drops of blood from its petals and the initials KT are engraved on the stem.

Ten stories of abandonment, betrayal, ended loves, anxieties: in "Babooshka", among Bush's greatest hits, an elderly woman takes on the appearance of a young beauty and leads her husband to betrayal; "Delius (Song of Summer)" tells us about the old age of a great musician whose creative vein has now run dry; the thousand unanswered questions that each of us has about death then materialize in the death of a loved one in "Blow Away (For Bill)"; "All We Ever Looked For" is the difficult relationship with one’s parents and the search for oneself and the experiences that lead us to become adults at the moment of leaving the maternal nest; the ruthless revenge of a woman who becomes a widow on her wedding day is the story told in "The Wedding List"; the love between a girl and a mischievous and terribly cruel child is the theme of "The Infant Kiss".

Will we ever hear albums like this again? Is it possible that everything has already been said? That people only think of making money with silly songs? This album by Kate Bush is a pop record not that far away in time. In 1980 this girl was only twenty years old and it chills to think that she had so much to say, that there were so many stories to tell.

The nuclear disaster or the terror of war and the recruitment of young people in the army sung about in the very Pink Floyd-esque "Breathing" and "Army Dreamers" feels so current, yet these are lyrics that came from the pen of a young girl. Is it possible that all pop music manages to say today is just "are you ready to jump"?

Even the title was prophetic. Never for ever.