Kate, Glorious Kate!

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: : Ah, Kate Bush. A long-time favorite of mine. : Oh, happy day! I've been meaning to post something about Kate for so long, and now you finally gave me a push in the right direction. Thank you. :) : I suspect that Kate may be a Four (Three wing) IRL, for no other artist, IMHO, gets to the core of "Fourishness" the way Kate does. : You mentioned: : : (from Fullhouse): : : (from In Search of Peter Pan): : Two *excellent* songs for Fours-- and so obvious to anyone who knows the Enneagram, too, but most Kate fans don't. :) The most Fourish album of all is, I think, _The Sensual World._ True, it does fall more on the side of "depressing", and I don't think that everything for Fours has to be dark and brooding, but consider some of the songs on this album, like : "Never Be Mine" : "I want you as the dream/Not the reality...Ooh, the thrill and the hurting/I know that this will never be mine." Kate illustrates the Four tendency to long for the unattainable so beautifully... : ...and then there's "Walk Straight Down The Middle," which seems to me to be a song about the entity of depression. "Ooh, what do we do when we just can't move?/We hang onto every line/And walk straight down the middle of it..." : All of _The Kick Inside_ is another example of Kate's gorgeous Fourishness, but in this case, it's about what it's like to be a *young* Four. Kate was about the age I am now when she made this album, and she expresses her burgeoning appreciation of love and relationships (as in "Feel It" and "L'amour Looks Something Like You"), adult womanhood ("Room For the Life"-- brilliant song!), and, most impressively, learning, growing, and self-actualizing-- "Them Heavy People"! This song has always seemed to me to be a song about moving to One: : They arrived at an inconvenient time. : I was hiding in a room in my mind. : They made me look at myself. I saw it well. : I'd shut the people out of my life. : They open doorways that I thought were shut for good. : They read me Gurdjieff (!) and Jesu. : They build up my body, break me emotionally. : It's nearly killing me, but what a lovely feeling! : I love the whirling of the dervishes. : I love the beauty of rare innocence. : You don't need no crystal ball, : Don't fall for a magic wand. : We humans got it all, we perform the miracles. * : ...I don't think I need to say anything more...Kate's just summed it up for me. She's a damn Four alright. :) : Well, perhaps I'll expand on this later, but I'm tired for now. :) : P.S. It's a good thing I didn't go off on "Wuthering Heights"! I'll save that for another message., <gryn>

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