was a discussion I recently had with various people, now, lets get this straight, she is marvellous the winner, but she has sort won by default due to a real lack of competition. Round of applause please for the mighty Kate Bush.
Now, as I said, she had very limited competition, and maybe thats due to me missing some really obvious contender, but I doubt there can be anyone greater. So, why is she great, lets consider the facts:
1) She wrote Wuthering Heights…
2) … at the age of 18, that is incredible
3) Shes clearly mental
4) Her lyrics are generally great
5) Her music is wonderful
6) She is weird, weird is good
7) She let the Futureheads cover Hounds of Love, really highlighting how poor they are
Running Up That Hill is one of the greatest opening tracks in existence
9) In particular the production on it shines, the drums are brilliant…
10) … and she wrote and played on it, and produced it
11) In a world of subhuman fame desperate whores she turned her back on all her success to spend time raising her family…
12) … and returned 12 years later with a blinding album
13) She was the first ever female artist to get to number 1 in the UK with a self written song
Now surely, all of that is more of an inspiration to women the world over than Sporty ‘I’m wearing adidas and have a chest like an ironing board’ Spice doing some shit backflip on a dinner table in a shit video to a shit song that neither she or any of the other shit members wrote. The shitters.
Kate Bush rawks
