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** "This Woman's Work": A renarration of the Movie "She's Having a Baby"
** "This Woman's Work": A renarration of the Movie "She's Having a Baby"
** "Misty": an animation about a woman who sleeps with a snowman and wakes up to find that he's melted.
** "Misty": an animation about a woman who sleeps with a snowman and wakes up to find that he's melted.
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: The U.S. cover for The Kick Inside was changed to [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Kbtki.jpg this] for obvious [[Sex Sells|reasons.]]
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: The U.S. cover for The Kick Inside was changed to [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Kbtki.jpg this]{{Dead link}} for obvious [[Sex Sells|reasons.]]
* [[Creator Backlash]] - In [http://www.gaffa.org/reaching/i93_q.html this] interview, she reveals that she hates a lot of her older songs:
* [[Creator Backlash]] - In [http://www.gaffa.org/reaching/i93_q.html this] interview, she reveals that she hates a lot of her older songs:
{{quote|Interviewer: Which of your old songs make you wince?
{{quote|Interviewer: Which of your old songs make you wince?
Kate Bush: My God, loads. Absolutely loads. Either the lyric's not thought out properly or it's just crap or the performances weren't well executed. But you have to get it in context. You were doing it at the time and it was the best you could do then. You've got to live with it. Some of those early songs, though, you think, 'What was I *thinking* about? Did *I* write that?' }}
Kate Bush: My God, loads. Absolutely loads. Either the lyric's not thought out properly or it's just crap or the performances weren't well executed. But you have to get it in context. You were doing it at the time and it was the best you could do then. You've got to live with it. Some of those early songs, though, you think, 'What was I *thinking* about? Did *I* write that?' }}
* [[Did Not Do the Research]] - Her 1980 "Babooshka" is about a woman who adopts the identity of a sexy Russian to entrap her cheating husband. "Babushka," the name she choose and which forms most of the chorus, is Russian for "grandmother."
* [[Did Not Do the Research]] - Her 1980 "Babooshka" is about a woman who adopts the identity of a sexy Russian to entrap her cheating husband. "Babushka," the name she choose and which forms most of the chorus, is Russian for "grandmother."
** Could actually be [[Fridge Brilliance]]. "Babushka" also refers to the [http://fracas.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/babushka.jpg headscarf] that is commonly worn by older women, but it would also serve as a disguise.
** Could actually be [[Fridge Brilliance]]. "Babushka" also refers to the [http://fracas.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/babushka.jpg headscarf]{{Dead link}} that is commonly worn by older women, but it would also serve as a disguise.
* [[Downer Ending]] - Kate usually ends her albums with a negative song. Notable examples are:
* [[Downer Ending]] - Kate usually ends her albums with a negative song. Notable examples are:
** ''The Kick Inside'' - the title track. [[Brother-Sister Incest]] + [[Driven to Suicide]] = [[Tear Jerker]]
** ''The Kick Inside'' - the title track. [[Brother-Sister Incest]] + [[Driven to Suicide]] = [[Tear Jerker]]