K A T E B U S H . P L

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ3WLGX7CtI&search=kate%20bush%20infant%20kiss

The Infant Kiss to szalenie intrygująca piosenka. Temat, który porusza jest...kontrowersyjny.
Po kilku pierwszych przesłuchaniach nie docierało do mnie o jakim „związku” Kate śpiewa (powiedzmy, że słowa „infant”, „boy” traktowałam jako metaforę…)
I dopiero po tygodniu słuchania tej płyty non stop usłyszałam wyraźniej wers:

Just a kid and just at school

Teraz obejrzałam w końcu ten sławny teledysk z fragmentami filmu, który zainspirował Kate do napisania tej piosenki. Czy ktoś oglądał ten film?
To niesamowite jak KB potrafi inspiracje filmowe przenieść na płaszczyznę muzyczną. Kto wie, może powinna spróbować swych sił jako kompozytor muzyki filmowej?
W końcu jej najlepsza piosenka filmowa to Get out of my house...

Kate na temat piosenki:

There are other areas where you have specifically taken a taboo as a theme--for example, The Infant Kiss.

"Yes, that was fascinating. It was based on the film, The Innocents. I saw it years ago, when I was very young, and it scared me, and when films scare you as a kid, I think they really hang there. It's a beautiful film, quite extraordinary. This governess is supposed to look after these children, a little boy and a girl, and they are actually possessed by the spirits of the people who were in the house before. And they keep appearing to the children. It's really scary -- as scary on some levels as the idea of The Exorcist, and that terrified me. The idea of this young girl, speaking and behaving like she did was very disturbing, very distorted. But I quite like that song."

But there are those who would say it was totally perverse.

"I suppose they would. And actually, I don't think I could find a younger man attractive, let alone a boy. But the whole idea of looking at a little innocent boy and that distortion--I mean, it's absolutely terrifying, isn't it? I thought it was ingenious, great, so weird and unnatural."

But the thing is, looking at it objectively, that's a song about paedophilia. The strange thing is that, written by a woman, that seems acceptable.

"It's very different from a woman's point of view, and I think that's also what's so interesting about it."

But did it occur to you that if that song had been written and sung by a man, there might have been a really huge outcry?

"That's something I never thought about, but I suppose you're right. But a man didn't write it. I don't know, it's a bit hard to understand, but it was the fascination of a very soft, gentle woman who wouldn't consider herself perverse at all--in fact, she wasn't, that's the thing. She thought she was being a paediathingy --but in fact she wasn't, she was truly picking up a real man's energy and not a kid's, because the child was possessed. It's very different if it involves a man and a little girl--the man is so powerful to start with."

Ivyman