I really hate it when people refer to the original song as a "version"! It is not Kate Bush's "version", it is HER song. Any others after this are "covers" or "cover versions."
I usually don’t agree with Olli but this time I have to agree with him on both points, this version is better and the nurse did bring good news. Kate Bush’s version is a lot more dynamic, more urgency towards the end, more feeling. She also wrote it, like most of her songs. Kate bush is one of the most amazing artists of all time.
This song is for all men who truly loves their wives girlfriends significant others and how terrifying it would be to lose them. Makes me cry every time. Married 38 years.
Yep. Witnessed my wife almost die several years ago. Tear up every time in the video when Kate is being rushed into hospital. We’re celebrating 38 years of marriage in a month.
Kate Bush writes all her own songs/music so this is the original song. She is absolutely wonderful and extraordinary and her music helped me get through some awful times in my teens in the eighties. She is a recluse and the last concert she did in 2014 sold out in less than 15 minutes
@hanwalker7408 On albums? Yes. She does the occasional cover on B sides of singles. Such as Donovan's "Lord Of Reedy River" Flip side of "Sat In Your Lap". Edit: Plus, also has an album of covers called "In Others' Words" from a box set.
Such a beautiful song! It was written for the birth scene in the movie She's Having a Baby with Kevin Bacon. Her baby was breached, and she and the baby were in danger. This song is playing while she's in with the docs, and he's having flashbacks/memories of her and their relationship...and also terrified she won't make it. It's a great scene! I watched the heck outta that movie in the late 80s and 90s. I'm gonna have to see if it's streaming. Another great one, guys! Much love from Oregon! ❤ Edited to add: I meant to mention that her and the baby survive in the movie. The video was left open for interpretation but I agree with Olli. At the end the nurse appears to be smiling and then he shows relief in his face. That's how I'm ending it in my mind anyways. 😆
Kate bush is the most important woman in recording history. You must look her up. I’m old and can’t type well enough to tell you the Kate Bush story but it’s mega!
Think about it. If you were bracing for the worst possible news and the nurse came out and told you the best possible news, you wouldn't do an end zone dance. You'd collapse because the only thing keeping you upright was the tension of bracing for the loss. You'd tremble and probably ask her to repeat herself. "Did you just say she's going to make it? Then your knees would buckle and you would turn into a relieved pool of pudding just like he did.
The one and only Kate Bush❤...Tim McInnerny in the video just makes me giggle as i think of him as Percy in Blackadder 😂. Her duet 'dont give up' with Peter Gabriel is incredible.
The original by Kate Bush is far and away the best version of this song. Maxwell’s cover doesn’t compare or come close to Kate’s vocals, passion, and the overall production of this excellent and very heartfelt song.
I absolutely love Kate Bush, loved this song when it came out, it broke my heart and still does. When Maxwell sang it I wasn't mad, he did a beautiful job and I loved that too. Kate will always be in my heart with this though ❤ really enjoyed your reaction fellas. I think in the video it was relief, she didn't die.
No one has a voice like kate bush, she is a phenomenon, grew up hearing her voice, i had hair like her and was told i looked like her, old now, but still have the hair and eyes x
He’s American but well known in the UK, especially in the 90’s, he’s a r&b soul artist and that genre is often neglected by mainstream radio and music press. he first covered the track live on a mtv unplugged special where he asked the audience if they knew Kate Bush and said “she’s the bomb” before performing it. He later did a studio version. It’s an excellent cover version which really works because it’s written from the man’s perspective so hearing a man sing the words is great, but … the original wins every time for me.
@@tjpea7916 Yeah, I know about that. Some of us are just taking the piss. You're right, ,he sang it from the man's perspective. So did Kate. She sang it from Kevin Bacon's perspective in the movie. She's also sung from the perspective of a dying WWII fighter pilot "Dropped from my black Spitfire to my funeral barge" (Oh England My Lionheart).
We’re really only familiar with kate’s original in the UK, the Maxwell version I had never really until recently. However, Kate’s song charted at 25 in the uk charts in 89, it was very popular.
I 💯 agree with Ollie! The guy is like, “oh thank God!” Not “oh no.” In reference to “She’s Having a Baby,” it’s a perfect song, because it’s a scary life/death situation and the woman survived (as did her baby).
Such a gorgeous voice!!! And Corey, my reaction was the same.... Wow!!! Great reaction guys!! Actually I couldn't tell which way that the end went either, whether she made it or not! ❤❤❤❤
The anwer is in the movie"She's Having a Baby" for which Kate Bush was asked to write this song. But the point is not if she makes it or not, but the fact the guy gets conscious of his own immaturity in their relashionship as she and their baby are in danger. The song is actually written on the guy's point of view but by a woman's point of view on men's bevaviours in a love relationship.
@@Andrew-p8w The example that comes to my mind is the Tom Waits song Downtown Train versus Rod Stewart's cover. But to your point, Johnny Cash OWNS NIN's song Hurt. Even Trent Reznor acknowledged that.
you guys need to see the documentry called the kate bush story it shows you the pure genius and talent she has she had a catalogue of masterpieces before she was seventeen she burst onto the british charts shocking the music industry to its roots for female artists changing it forever for women
Please guys could you do David Bowie 'Heroes' live in Berlin from 2002. That would be incredible! I grew up with Kate Bush in the background of my childhood. Such a talent. I always found her music and voice to be dreamlike. Cheers!!
As was pointed out in the reaction video, music appreciation is all very subjective and highly personal. But speaking entirely personally, for me comparing this Kate Bush song and performance to the Maxwell cover, it isn't even remotely close; Kate Bush by several miles. For me it is the difference between something real and something contrived, something filled with real empathy, emotion and feeling and something sterile and never able to rise above being performative. I know that there will be quite a few people who prefer the Maxwell cover, but for me personally he has managed to strip this song of all of the color and soulfulness of the Kate Bush original and ends up giving something that to my ears is a very pale imitation of what she did. Again speaking entirely personally, but speaking more generally, for me while there are many female singers with great voices, and numerous superb female song writers, lots of outstanding female instrumentalists and quite a few female performers who have excelled at production, as well as those who were visionary, Kate Bush, along with Joni Mitchell is the greatest female singer/songwriter/instrumentalist/producer etc in 'popular music' since the beginning of the Rock era. To me, no other female singer ever did with their voice what she has done in bending it, blurring it distorting it, disfiguring it, making it muddy, even deliberately ugly in the interests of the song. Listen to just about every other singer and you can pretty much guess what they will do in pretty much every single song, even if we could never hope to be able to emulate what they did - with Kate Bush you have no idea what she will do, other than she will do whatever the song demands. From her first song 'Wuthering Heights" where she sings exclusively in her highest register to try to sound like a ghost, to "Waking the Witch" where she got drunk in order to sound like a demon, to singing in an Australian accent to sing about how colonialists had persecuted indigenous aboriginal tribes in "The Dreaming", to making donkey noises to convey the idea of stubbornly keeping people away in her haunted house song "Get Out of my House" to the bringing of her voice to the very point of breaking on her Vietnam song "Pull Out the Pin" told from the perspective of a Vietnam fighter tracking down a US solider or her anti-nuclear weapon song "Breathing" where she assumes the role of an unborn baby terrified at the threat of nuclear holocaust, all the way through to the tenderness with which she sings "The Kick Inside" a song about incest, pregnancy, and suicide, written in the form of a suicide note from a sister to her incestuous brother in which she details how she plans to spare him from the public shame of exposure. I will always give Joni Mitchell the praise and place her body of work deserves - but for me personally no other female singer/songwriter comes even close.
the part that your missing is that this womans work is refferring to the child"his part is over" they were to have a child annd their was a complication and ofc at the end the piano closes its as if theres no more music..kate is absolute true artist
I've always assumed this song was written for the "She's Having a Baby" soundtrack in 1988. I've been a Kate Bush fan for decades and had never heard this song until I saw the movie in '88. In the movie, the song is used during the scene where Elizabeth McGovern is giving birth and her husband (Kevin Bacon) is pulled out of the delivery room so hospital staff can help his wife with a breech birth. The husband realizes he could lose his wife and child and that's where this song comes in. With that in mind, I believe the song was initially written about a husband's perspective on possibly losing his wife and child while she's giving birth. Kate's wails at the end of the song represent the wife giving birth, going through difficulties, while her husband's in the other room. Kate officially added the song to her next album, The Sensual World, in 1989, but I don't believe the song was initially intended for the album. I think some of her friends and fans encouraged her to add it. When she created the video, she changed the plot from giving birth to a husband dealing with his wife's death. (To answer olliwood's assessment that we don't know what happens in the end of the video, I believe Kate uses the symbolism of closing the piano cover over the keys to indicate death, a final ending.) If you've seen any of Kate's other videos, though, you'll know she has a movie director's eye and often creates "mini-movies" with her video clips. She did the same thing here. It's effective. Kate's original rarely fails to make me cry. Kate has one of those voices that, for me, can often signify tears, can really emulate the sound of a woman crying or getting choked up with tears. This isn't the only song where her voice has that quality. She's used it in many others, too. That said, this song has also been problematic for some of Kate's fans for years, myself included. Because it's a song about a woman giving birth, written and sung by a woman... but from the perspective of a man. A lot of her fans have asked why for years. Why is it necessary to have a male perspective on this subject, especially coming from an artistic woman who means so much to so many women and has influenced so many other artistic women. I still love the song, but it's been marred by that perception for years. Kate is, however, a fairly conservative person, which has become more obvious as she's aged. She supports conservative politics in the UK and has spoken openly about it in interviews. She later backtracked some of the things she said, claiming she's not a conservative supporter, but the damage had already been done. "This Woman's Work" isn't the first song she's written from a male perspective, and she's written others that are very sympathetic towards men and more stereotypically masculine pursuits. ...Regardless, she's still an amazing artist with a voice that can often bring me to tears or uplifting joy. Check out her track "The Big Sky" to experience the more ecstatic, joyful side of Kate.
Kate Bush is a real artist … and I mean that literally. Some of her stuff is hardly ‘poppy’ but she uses her voice and dance in such an evocative way… it’s always interesting. If you can go into an art gallery and be emotionally moved by a picture (sorrow/love/anger etc) then that artist has done their job. Same with pop artist - and she uses her voice and visual imagery to maximum effect. A beautiful song
Kate Bush`s will always be the best for me. She wrote it, played most of the instruments, directed and starred in the video. And although I love the Maxwell version he just copied and pasted it
To everyone "pointing out" that Kate wrote the song and Maxwell's version is a cover: the guys are fully aware of this, and say so right up front. So, y'know 🤷🏽♂️ I love that Maxwell covered this gorgeous song and gave all due credit to Kate. That said, and although he sings it beautifully, I don't rate his version that highly. To me it sounds as if he's showing off his falsetto register a bit too much. Indeed, where Kate goes down an octave leading into the chorus, he stays in his falsetto throughout, slightly dulling the impact. Finally, I don't get why you think it's so strange that the man still looks so troubled, if he's had good news. Thing is, if you've been through the ringer emotionally, thinking your beloved might be about to die, hearing that she's made it is likely to occasion relief, and possibly tears, before any smiles.
So, from what I remember -- the song/video leaves you wondering if she died in childbirth or survived. I thin because the focus of the song is not the outcome of the story but the coulda, wouldas and shouldas with someone you love.
Clearly a happy ending. The nurse is smiling, reaching out with a reassuring hand on the shoulder, at which point the man breaks down with relief. For the film, She's Having A Baby, Kate was asked to write a song to accompany the scene when Kevin Bacon is remembering the moments, good and bad, of his and Elizabeth McGovern's relationship as she goes through a traumatic labour; but luckily the delivery turns out good in the end. Kate's video, which she directed, follows a similar path, although not presumably a child-birth scenario. One of Kate's many musical masterpieces. Maxwell did a nice cover, but the original is sublime. Btw, the actor is Tim McInerny, who some will remember from Blackadder.
This video and song together is so good. It brings a tear. The ending is ambiguous. Yes, the nurse is smiling and his shock is relief. But closing the lid on the piano seems sad, the end of her life. Regardless a great and moving video. What a brilliant song with her singing from the point of view of the man. Yet, I always thought she dies.....But not now. The debate is rockin'.
lol as folk have said, the younger guy here has it right. The nurse is smiling, the husband had been bracing himself for the worst news ever and you can see in their faces that this is good news and he's starting to hear that she's going to be ok after all. Kate's work is always powerful, artistic and packs a punch, whether it's a slow ballad or a high energy song.
Kate created not only the song here, but she created the storyboard and directed the video. This song was written because it came as a request to her to write a song for the 80s movie "She's Having a Baby". The more you listen to Kate Bush. The more you likely will appreciate her genious vocally, and musically. She's an all around talent. My take on the video is that she intentionally wanted you to think she made it or didn't make it. Its kind of like the guy is in a kind of purgatory. He's in that in between world of wanting to know and yet not wanting to know what is happening to her. In his mind, she is both gone and here because he doesn't yet know what has become of her. Both life and death hang in the balance of the nurse coming through the door giving him the news. If you notice, Kate is dressed as the nurse. Then, a quick cut to the actual nurse. My feeling is the song is really about that life changing hanging in the balance moments where you faced with the horror of possibility losing someone you love. So, since it's about that...she make the song about that torture but also hope of the waiting room. I feel Kate closing the piano keyboard is maybe just a way of giving that waiting room purgatory closure.
To have your music covered must be flattering. Though, for me, Kate’s voice is an integral part of all her music. The things she’s dared to and done with her voice is incredible. The planets aligned when Kate Bush came to be.
Maxwell did a version of the song. Kate Bush is the creator and originator of the song, I love that you are reacting to Kate Bush a very original musical artist.
Who is maxwell ? Here in the U.K. Kate bush is massive I think she started writing all her own music when she was about 12 and her first hit withering heights (1978 ) I think she was a 19 year old teenager and it topped the charts for weeks that and I think almost all her songs were self written 👍🇬🇧.
Kate Bush writes all her songs (lyrics & music) on all her albums. She's also been producing all of them from her third ("Never for Ever"), directed most of her videos (including this one) from her fifth album (she also directed a mini movie called "The Line, the cross & the curve")) and when her first videos were based on her dancing, she choreographed each one. She's also responsible for the concepts of all her albums covers. Eventually, she created her own record label called "Fish People". But allthough she's a singer-songwriter, she covered some other artists's songs on some singles B-Sides. No-one rules Kate Bush, she's the boss!
@@christinebakewell3475 Well, she learned to play violin at 9,but left for the piano she actually learned to play by herself at 11. She also conceived her 2 (only...) shows "TheTour of Life" (1979) and"Before the dawn" (2014). She conceived most of her stage and videos costumes, played violin on "Suspended in Gaffa", bass and guitar on "Big Stripey Lie",piano & keyboards on most ofher songs. I think that's about it for the moment but who knows what's on for the future?...😉 On the other hand, you sometimes have to wait for 12 years or more for a new album...🙄🥵😵💫.
@@christinebakewell3475 She only ever used covers on the flip sides of a few singles or as tributes. I do have a later album release of covers called "In Others' Words" as part of a vinyl box set.
Well, I know this from Kate's album Sensual World, my second favorite Kate Bush album. I don't know who Maxwell is; now before I get attacked, I'm an old school R&B, soul fan, but I suppose it's time to check out that cover. This one brings a tear to this old man every time.
Just a friendly point: there are some artists you shouldn't judge their original songs against a cover: David Bowie, Prince, Queen, Nina Simone, Fela Kuti, Ryuchi Sakamoto... Kate Bush is also in that category. Can be seen as seem as disrespectful to do that to anything created by artists at this level.
One of the most intense and profound music videos of the rock era. End of. Oh and bear in mind.... this isnt a "version". Its an original track. Maxwell's was a cover.
This is ‘THE’ version, any others don’t come close to capturing Kate’s intensity and feel, Maxwells cover is exactly that a straightforward cover. Lady Maisery cover is the next best to Kate’ s IMO.
Have you ever been so distraught over a loved one not knowing if they will pull through? Then the doctor (in this case the nurse) comes and tells you it was close, but your loved os going to make it. Your happy, uour shocked , your crying because your so relieved.
A small correction "this womans work". As i always say: The best a song can do: Make u emotional, makes u thinking, and remind it. Thanks for reacting!
How you get thru this without a chin-wobble is beyond me, you are more manly men than me haha! Thanks guys, hope you have a safe and happy Christmastime.
You should check out the film this song was written for. "She's Having a Baby" was one of John Hughes's best films, in my opinion. He dedicated it to his wife, and it explores what it means to finally grow up and take responsibility for one's life. It's deep as well as funny, well worth watching. (It also stars a young Alec Baldwin, before he got doughy and unpleasant.)
Ollie at 9:08🤣🤭 🤣Great reaction guys!💫 Tim McInnerny's (Notting Hill) acting is very nuanced.😉 My interpretation is that he is relieved but also realizes, now that she's gonna make it, that all the praying & promises he made while he was waiting was empty talk & he's going to go back to the way he was. With such a jaded theory of his thoughts, I recommend y'all check out Aerosmith's Jaded.
I enjoyed your reactions! I disagree that the acting is bad. As someone who has dealt with some extreme emotion, sometimes its take a bit for news to really set in. He was just fearing he was losing his wife... it may take a time for him to process the news, whatever it is. I agree the video is amazing. Even the fact that so much of it is one camera with these very theatrical transitions. I like to think she made it but I like that its left ambiguous.
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I really hate it when people refer to the original song as a "version"! It is not Kate Bush's "version", it is HER song. Any others after this are "covers" or "cover versions."
Amen... and that's from an atheist
It's Kate Bush 's song!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES! Thank you.
Me too. And that's not even factoring in the fact that I'm a huge Kate Bush fan. I love the Maxwell version but she is the original.
Yes…the original song cannot be a version of itself!! A version is by definition derivative of the the original
It's not a version, it's the original. She's original. This IS the song.
It’s her song, she wrote it. Kate is an artist like no other.
They KNOW!!! Did you even watch the video?!
KATE BUSH WROTE THIS MASTERPIECE 💯
Just to clarify, this is KATE BUSH's song; this is NOT a version or a cover...
This is her song. Maxwell does a version. This is Kate.
Such a beautiful heart tugging song. It gets me crying!
Her voice and writing is so ethereal. I love Kate Bush so much.
I usually don’t agree with Olli but this time I have to agree with him on both points, this version is better and the nurse did bring good news. Kate Bush’s version is a lot more dynamic, more urgency towards the end, more feeling. She also wrote it, like most of her songs. Kate bush is one of the most amazing artists of all time.
It's not a version it's the original she wrote maxwell ripped it off and she is ten times the artist he is.
This song is for all men who truly loves their wives girlfriends significant others and how terrifying it would be to lose them. Makes me cry every time. Married 38 years.
Yep. Witnessed my wife almost die several years ago. Tear up every time in the video when Kate is being rushed into hospital. We’re celebrating 38 years of marriage in a month.
Kate Bush writes all her own songs/music so this is the original song. She is absolutely wonderful and extraordinary and her music helped me get through some awful times in my teens in the eighties. She is a recluse and the last concert she did in 2014 sold out in less than 15 minutes
@hanwalker7408 On albums? Yes. She does the occasional cover on B sides of singles. Such as Donovan's "Lord Of Reedy River" Flip side of "Sat In Your Lap". Edit: Plus, also has an album of covers called "In Others' Words" from a box set.
Honestly, one of the best songs of all time. It’s haunting & sad & empowering all at once. I love her so much.
I’m with the idea that he’s relieved at the end!!!
Such a beautiful song! It was written for the birth scene in the movie She's Having a Baby with Kevin Bacon. Her baby was breached, and she and the baby were in danger. This song is playing while she's in with the docs, and he's having flashbacks/memories of her and their relationship...and also terrified she won't make it. It's a great scene! I watched the heck outta that movie in the late 80s and 90s. I'm gonna have to see if it's streaming. Another great one, guys! Much love from Oregon! ❤
Edited to add: I meant to mention that her and the baby survive in the movie. The video was left open for interpretation but I agree with Olli. At the end the nurse appears to be smiling and then he shows relief in his face. That's how I'm ending it in my mind anyways. 😆
This is Kate Bush’s song ,it is the original
Kate bush is the most important woman in recording history. You must look her up. I’m old and can’t type well enough to tell you the Kate Bush story but it’s mega!
Think about it. If you were bracing for the worst possible news and the nurse came out and told you the best possible news, you wouldn't do an end zone dance. You'd collapse because the only thing keeping you upright was the tension of bracing for the loss. You'd tremble and probably ask her to repeat herself. "Did you just say she's going to make it? Then your knees would buckle and you would turn into a relieved pool of pudding just like he did.
The one and only Kate Bush❤...Tim McInnerny in the video just makes me giggle as i think of him as Percy in Blackadder 😂. Her duet 'dont give up' with Peter Gabriel is incredible.
Ah, but my Lord ... 'tis a woman's song.
The inventor of pure green!
Or the Berserker in Eric the Viking
@@SirHilaryManfatpure gweeen! 😜
The original by Kate Bush is far and away the best version of this song. Maxwell’s cover doesn’t compare or come close to Kate’s vocals, passion, and the overall production of this excellent and very heartfelt song.
I love both.
The young fella gets it. Top man
Kate's is best.
Olli is right, the nurse tells him she is going to be okay.
He is in relief.
Check out Don’t Give Up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush duet.
such a beautiful brilliant song.
I absolutely love Kate Bush, loved this song when it came out, it broke my heart and still does. When Maxwell sang it I wasn't mad, he did a beautiful job and I loved that too. Kate will always be in my heart with this though ❤ really enjoyed your reaction fellas. I think in the video it was relief, she didn't die.
Simply put, Kate doesn't sacrifice sincerity for cheesy R&B showboating. The young fella gets it.
I love Kate BUSH she’s got a beautiful voice
@marybill1429 Plus, a genius songwriter/producer. Not many women score their contract with a song they wrote at 13.
There's more emotion in this version listen to it again on your own
Kate Bush - Moments of Pleasure
No one has a voice like kate bush, she is a phenomenon, grew up hearing her voice, i had hair like her and was told i looked like her, old now, but still have the hair and eyes x
Tim McInerney's acting in this video blows me away every time.
My favorite singer. Go down her rabbit hole. She's a genius.
I’m sorry coz I’m from the UK who is Maxwell?
@GlennDouglas-kr8lb Apparently, he's famous. Although his net worth compared to Kate's might suggest otherwise.
He’s American but well known in the UK, especially in the 90’s, he’s a r&b soul artist and that genre is often neglected by mainstream radio and music press. he first covered the track live on a mtv unplugged special where he asked the audience if they knew Kate Bush and said “she’s the bomb” before performing it. He later did a studio version. It’s an excellent cover version which really works because it’s written from the man’s perspective so hearing a man sing the words is great, but … the original wins every time for me.
@@tjpea7916 Yeah, I know about that. Some of us are just taking the piss. You're right, ,he sang it from the man's perspective. So did Kate. She sang it from Kevin Bacon's perspective in the movie. She's also sung from the perspective of a dying WWII fighter pilot "Dropped from my black Spitfire to my funeral barge" (Oh England My Lionheart).
We’re really only familiar with kate’s original in the UK, the Maxwell version I had never really until recently. However, Kate’s song charted at 25 in the uk charts in 89, it was very popular.
@squiffybear6944 Plus, the album itself went #2. I'm Australian and I'd also never heard of Maxwell until recently.
I 💯 agree with Ollie! The guy is like, “oh thank God!” Not “oh no.” In reference to “She’s Having a Baby,” it’s a perfect song, because it’s a scary life/death situation and the woman survived (as did her baby).
look at dem cheekbones 100%, she was happy great find there Olli, great reaction all the same
Such a gorgeous voice!!! And Corey, my reaction was the same.... Wow!!! Great reaction guys!! Actually I couldn't tell which way that the end went either, whether she made it or not! ❤❤❤❤
The anwer is in the movie"She's Having a Baby" for which Kate Bush was asked to write this song. But the point is not if she makes it or not, but the fact the guy gets conscious of his own immaturity in their relashionship as she and their baby are in danger. The song is actually written on the guy's point of view but by a woman's point of view on men's bevaviours in a love relationship.
Kate Bush was a phenom. Do look into more of her catalogue, you will not be disappointed.
Kate Bush is my favorite female singer of all time. She is so talented. Many thanks to David Gilmour for discovering her.
@armlovesmetal1036 Two of my favourites.
Kate’s song is HER song. She composed it, she performed it! There is no other ‘version’. There may be covers. That is all.
Music, lyrics, production =Kate Bush
Maxwell = a cover
If that can help.
Proof that the first version you hear is almost always the one you prefer.
In some cases yes but birdys version of the A Team on the piano is better than the original in my eyes ,even ed shearon said he preferred it.
@@Andrew-p8w The example that comes to my mind is the Tom Waits song Downtown Train versus Rod Stewart's cover. But to your point, Johnny Cash OWNS NIN's song Hurt. Even Trent Reznor acknowledged that.
you guys need to see the documentry called the kate bush story it shows you the pure genius and talent she has she had a catalogue of masterpieces before she was seventeen she burst onto the british charts shocking the music industry to its roots for female artists changing it forever for women
Please guys could you do David Bowie 'Heroes' live in Berlin from 2002. That would be incredible! I grew up with Kate Bush in the background of my childhood. Such a talent. I always found her music and voice to be dreamlike. Cheers!!
that's how we Brits (don't) show emotion...he was relieved
The nurse does look like she's smiling, and the husband does look relieved.
@RhettAnderson The original movie had a happy ending also.
beautiful then and now.... glories talent
As was pointed out in the reaction video, music appreciation is all very subjective and highly personal. But speaking entirely personally, for me comparing this Kate Bush song and performance to the Maxwell cover, it isn't even remotely close; Kate Bush by several miles. For me it is the difference between something real and something contrived, something filled with real empathy, emotion and feeling and something sterile and never able to rise above being performative. I know that there will be quite a few people who prefer the Maxwell cover, but for me personally he has managed to strip this song of all of the color and soulfulness of the Kate Bush original and ends up giving something that to my ears is a very pale imitation of what she did.
Again speaking entirely personally, but speaking more generally, for me while there are many female singers with great voices, and numerous superb female song writers, lots of outstanding female instrumentalists and quite a few female performers who have excelled at production, as well as those who were visionary, Kate Bush, along with Joni Mitchell is the greatest female singer/songwriter/instrumentalist/producer etc in 'popular music' since the beginning of the Rock era.
To me, no other female singer ever did with their voice what she has done in bending it, blurring it distorting it, disfiguring it, making it muddy, even deliberately ugly in the interests of the song. Listen to just about every other singer and you can pretty much guess what they will do in pretty much every single song, even if we could never hope to be able to emulate what they did - with Kate Bush you have no idea what she will do, other than she will do whatever the song demands. From her first song 'Wuthering Heights" where she sings exclusively in her highest register to try to sound like a ghost, to "Waking the Witch" where she got drunk in order to sound like a demon, to singing in an Australian accent to sing about how colonialists had persecuted indigenous aboriginal tribes in "The Dreaming", to making donkey noises to convey the idea of stubbornly keeping people away in her haunted house song "Get Out of my House" to the bringing of her voice to the very point of breaking on her Vietnam song "Pull Out the Pin" told from the perspective of a Vietnam fighter tracking down a US solider or her anti-nuclear weapon song "Breathing" where she assumes the role of an unborn baby terrified at the threat of nuclear holocaust, all the way through to the tenderness with which she sings "The Kick Inside" a song about incest, pregnancy, and suicide, written in the form of a suicide note from a sister to her incestuous brother in which she details how she plans to spare him from the public shame of exposure.
I will always give Joni Mitchell the praise and place her body of work deserves - but for me personally no other female singer/songwriter comes even close.
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Adele who? Kate will always be England's greatest female artist.
the part that your missing is that this womans work is refferring to the child"his part is over" they were to have a child annd their was a complication and ofc at the end the piano closes its as if theres no more music..kate is absolute true artist
This is the original version
Kate bush wrote the song 🎵 it’s her song
I've always assumed this song was written for the "She's Having a Baby" soundtrack in 1988. I've been a Kate Bush fan for decades and had never heard this song until I saw the movie in '88. In the movie, the song is used during the scene where Elizabeth McGovern is giving birth and her husband (Kevin Bacon) is pulled out of the delivery room so hospital staff can help his wife with a breech birth. The husband realizes he could lose his wife and child and that's where this song comes in.
With that in mind, I believe the song was initially written about a husband's perspective on possibly losing his wife and child while she's giving birth. Kate's wails at the end of the song represent the wife giving birth, going through difficulties, while her husband's in the other room.
Kate officially added the song to her next album, The Sensual World, in 1989, but I don't believe the song was initially intended for the album. I think some of her friends and fans encouraged her to add it. When she created the video, she changed the plot from giving birth to a husband dealing with his wife's death. (To answer olliwood's assessment that we don't know what happens in the end of the video, I believe Kate uses the symbolism of closing the piano cover over the keys to indicate death, a final ending.) If you've seen any of Kate's other videos, though, you'll know she has a movie director's eye and often creates "mini-movies" with her video clips. She did the same thing here. It's effective.
Kate's original rarely fails to make me cry. Kate has one of those voices that, for me, can often signify tears, can really emulate the sound of a woman crying or getting choked up with tears. This isn't the only song where her voice has that quality. She's used it in many others, too.
That said, this song has also been problematic for some of Kate's fans for years, myself included. Because it's a song about a woman giving birth, written and sung by a woman... but from the perspective of a man. A lot of her fans have asked why for years. Why is it necessary to have a male perspective on this subject, especially coming from an artistic woman who means so much to so many women and has influenced so many other artistic women. I still love the song, but it's been marred by that perception for years.
Kate is, however, a fairly conservative person, which has become more obvious as she's aged. She supports conservative politics in the UK and has spoken openly about it in interviews. She later backtracked some of the things she said, claiming she's not a conservative supporter, but the damage had already been done. "This Woman's Work" isn't the first song she's written from a male perspective, and she's written others that are very sympathetic towards men and more stereotypically masculine pursuits. ...Regardless, she's still an amazing artist with a voice that can often bring me to tears or uplifting joy. Check out her track "The Big Sky" to experience the more ecstatic, joyful side of Kate.
Kate Bush is a real artist … and I mean that literally. Some of her stuff is hardly ‘poppy’ but she uses her voice and dance in such an evocative way… it’s always interesting.
If you can go into an art gallery and be emotionally moved by a picture (sorrow/love/anger etc) then that artist has done their job.
Same with pop artist - and she uses her voice and visual imagery to maximum effect. A beautiful song
Kate Bush`s will always be the best for me. She wrote it, played most of the instruments, directed and starred in the video. And although I love the Maxwell version he just copied and pasted it
To everyone "pointing out" that Kate wrote the song and Maxwell's version is a cover: the guys are fully aware of this, and say so right up front. So, y'know 🤷🏽♂️
I love that Maxwell covered this gorgeous song and gave all due credit to Kate. That said, and although he sings it beautifully, I don't rate his version that highly. To me it sounds as if he's showing off his falsetto register a bit too much. Indeed, where Kate goes down an octave leading into the chorus, he stays in his falsetto throughout, slightly dulling the impact.
Finally, I don't get why you think it's so strange that the man still looks so troubled, if he's had good news. Thing is, if you've been through the ringer emotionally, thinking your beloved might be about to die, hearing that she's made it is likely to occasion relief, and possibly tears, before any smiles.
Ollie, you can get your drums in
“Running up that hill”
So, from what I remember -- the song/video leaves you wondering if she died in childbirth or survived. I thin because the focus of the song is not the outcome of the story but the coulda, wouldas and shouldas with someone you love.
Kate has a much more unique voice. Her catalog is amazing.
Clearly a happy ending. The nurse is smiling, reaching out with a reassuring hand on the shoulder, at which point the man breaks down with relief. For the film, She's Having A Baby, Kate was asked to write a song to accompany the scene when Kevin Bacon is remembering the moments, good and bad, of his and Elizabeth McGovern's relationship as she goes through a traumatic labour; but luckily the delivery turns out good in the end. Kate's video, which she directed, follows a similar path, although not presumably a child-birth scenario. One of Kate's many musical masterpieces. Maxwell did a nice cover, but the original is sublime.
Btw, the actor is Tim McInerny, who some will remember from Blackadder.
This video and song together is so good. It brings a tear. The ending is ambiguous. Yes, the nurse is smiling and his shock is relief. But closing the lid on the piano seems sad, the end of her life. Regardless a great and moving video. What a brilliant song with her singing from the point of view of the man. Yet, I always thought she dies.....But not now. The debate is rockin'.
I also interpreted that she survived
lol as folk have said, the younger guy here has it right. The nurse is smiling, the husband had been bracing himself for the worst news ever and you can see in their faces that this is good news and he's starting to hear that she's going to be ok after all. Kate's work is always powerful, artistic and packs a punch, whether it's a slow ballad or a high energy song.
The song is about childbirth - 'This Womans Work' - Kate doesn't die but has difficulties in childbirth.
This Woman's Work” shows up in season two of The Handmaid's Tale, during the horrifying opening sequence , check it out
Kate created not only the song here, but she created the storyboard and directed the video. This song was written because it came as a request to her to write a song for the 80s movie "She's Having a Baby". The more you listen to Kate Bush. The more you likely will appreciate her genious vocally, and musically. She's an all around talent.
My take on the video is that she intentionally wanted you to think she made it or didn't make it. Its kind of like the guy is in a kind of purgatory. He's in that in between world of wanting to know and yet not wanting to know what is happening to her. In his mind, she is both gone and here because he doesn't yet know what has become of her. Both life and death hang in the balance of the nurse coming through the door giving him the news.
If you notice, Kate is dressed as the nurse. Then, a quick cut to the actual nurse. My feeling is the song is really about that life changing hanging in the balance moments where you faced with the horror of possibility losing someone you love. So, since it's about that...she make the song about that torture but also hope of the waiting room.
I feel Kate closing the piano keyboard is maybe just a way of giving that waiting room purgatory closure.
To have your music covered must be flattering. Though, for me, Kate’s voice is an integral part of all her music. The things she’s dared to and done with her voice is incredible. The planets aligned when Kate Bush came to be.
Kate was discovered and mentored by David Gilmour at the beginning of her carrier.
@laszlomolnar298 She also built up a great network of supporters from friends and family. KT Fellowship I think she called them.
Two of her biggest fans
Tupac & Big Boi.
She's been writing songs like this masterwork since age 11.
Maxwell did a version of the song. Kate Bush is the creator and originator of the song, I love that you are reacting to Kate Bush a very original musical artist.
Who is maxwell ? Here in the U.K. Kate bush is massive I think she started writing all her own music when she was about 12 and her first hit withering heights (1978 ) I think she was a 19 year old teenager and it topped the charts for weeks that and I think almost all her songs were self written 👍🇬🇧.
Kate Bush writes all her songs (lyrics & music) on all her albums. She's also been producing all of them from her third ("Never for Ever"), directed most of her videos (including this one) from her fifth album (she also directed a mini movie called "The Line, the cross & the curve")) and when her first videos were based on her dancing, she choreographed each one. She's also responsible for the concepts of all her albums covers. Eventually, she created her own record label called "Fish People". But allthough she's a singer-songwriter, she covered some other artists's songs on some singles B-Sides. No-one rules Kate Bush, she's the boss!
@ yeh but what else did she really do ? 😂. Yeh a bit good 👍.
@@christinebakewell3475 Well, she learned to play violin at 9,but left for the piano she actually learned to play by herself at 11. She also conceived her 2 (only...) shows "TheTour of Life" (1979) and"Before the dawn" (2014). She conceived most of her stage and videos costumes, played violin on "Suspended in Gaffa", bass and guitar on "Big Stripey Lie",piano & keyboards on most ofher songs. I think that's about it for the moment but who knows what's on for the future?...😉 On the other hand, you sometimes have to wait for 12 years or more for a new album...🙄🥵😵💫.
@ I guess she had some modicum of talent then ? 😂
@@christinebakewell3475 She only ever used covers on the flip sides of a few singles or as tributes. I do have a later album release of covers called "In Others' Words" as part of a vinyl box set.
Well, I know this from Kate's album Sensual World, my second favorite Kate Bush album. I don't know who Maxwell is; now before I get attacked, I'm an old school R&B, soul fan, but I suppose it's time to check out that cover. This one brings a tear to this old man every time.
Just a friendly point: there are some artists you shouldn't judge their original songs against a cover: David Bowie, Prince, Queen, Nina Simone, Fela Kuti, Ryuchi Sakamoto... Kate Bush is also in that category. Can be seen as seem as disrespectful to do that to anything created by artists at this level.
One of the most intense and profound music videos of the rock era. End of.
Oh and bear in mind.... this isnt a "version". Its an original track. Maxwell's was a cover.
This is SUCH a great song! I also enjoy Greg Laswell’s cover of it.
Check out Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel song “Don’t Give Up”. Awesome song and I believe it charted pretty high in the U.S.
She was huge in Europe. And double huge in her native U.K. But only achieved cult status in the states.
@rossobolo Had a #1 in Australia and New Zealand as well as Japan in 1978.
This is ‘THE’ version, any others don’t come close to capturing Kate’s intensity and feel, Maxwells cover is exactly that a straightforward cover. Lady Maisery cover is the next best to Kate’ s IMO.
yes.. He's Relieved 😮💨👍
Have you ever been so distraught over a loved one not knowing if they will pull through? Then the doctor (in this case the nurse) comes and tells you it was close, but your loved os going to make it. Your happy, uour shocked , your crying because your so relieved.
25 in the U.K. Album went to #2
A small correction "this womans work". As i always say: The best a song can do: Make u emotional, makes u thinking, and remind it. Thanks for reacting!
Kate not only wrote the song, she directed the video.
Also, highly recommend
“ rubberband girl”
Her dancing in the video with another dancer is phenomenal.
Kate Bush directed this video.
There is no other version. This song is Kate's. She wrote it, sang it, acted it, and had complete control over ever recording she made.
I always come back to "All the Love" and "Hello Earth"
@sunsungoaway "Hello Earth" is majestic.
She didn't get in an accident. She had a seizure or an aneurysm or something. He carried her into the car after she collapsed at the restaurant table.
@blemelin In the movie she specifically wrote it for, it was a breech birth. "Now starts the part of the father".
The nurse had good news at the end. He was relieved.
Bad acting! What?! He's just gone through a heart wrenching experience, it would be bad acting if he just started beaming.
He is RELIEVED! AFTER being Distraught.
The wife died in childbirth.The nurse is smiling because the baby lived. The lyric goes, “Now starts the craft of the father,”
That's the film, the music video no
No the nurse wouldn't smile if she died lol, that's the movie script.
And he would be Father either way in your scenario.
@@barr790 No one died in the 1988 movie either.
Because he's literally a father now, it's not like he wouldn't be a father if she was still alive.
How you get thru this without a chin-wobble is beyond me, you are more manly men than me haha! Thanks guys, hope you have a safe and happy Christmastime.
You should check out the film this song was written for. "She's Having a Baby" was one of John Hughes's best films, in my opinion. He dedicated it to his wife, and it explores what it means to finally grow up and take responsibility for one's life. It's deep as well as funny, well worth watching. (It also stars a young Alec Baldwin, before he got doughy and unpleasant.)
Ollie at 9:08🤣🤭 🤣Great reaction guys!💫 Tim McInnerny's (Notting Hill) acting is very nuanced.😉 My interpretation is that he is relieved but also realizes, now that she's gonna make it, that all the praying & promises he made while he was waiting was empty talk & he's going to go back to the way he was. With such a jaded theory of his thoughts, I recommend y'all check out Aerosmith's Jaded.
The nurse is mouthing, “She’s going to be alright."
I enjoyed your reactions! I disagree that the acting is bad. As someone who has dealt with some extreme emotion, sometimes its take a bit for news to really set in. He was just fearing he was losing his wife... it may take a time for him to process the news, whatever it is. I agree the video is amazing. Even the fact that so much of it is one camera with these very theatrical transitions. I like to think she made it but I like that its left ambiguous.
Thanks for the comment! Love when people may have a difference of opinion! Thanks for rocking with us!
This song was not made for that movie mentioned below.
@uncletom618 What? "She's Having A Baby"? John Hughes sent her a video clip as inspiration a year before her album was released in 1989. Explain that.
It’s her song boys!
No, he's not smiling and he's not happy or relieved.
you have to do kasey chambers cover of eminems lose your self its brilliant
Not a version! Her song. The original!
Watch Kate Bush “Running up that Hill”