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Alison%20Moyet- I think she looks lovely.
She aged, so what. At least she lets her life be reflected in her face and doesn't cut it away like American celebs do.
You go, Kate!
- It seems like it happened rather fast, too. Like in the last ten years. Maybe the weight gain is a result of some illness. We'll never know.
I was surprised to see her like that, because she never looked like someone who would be fat in old age. It's weird.
On the other hand, her ex, Del Palmer, became a handsome older gentleman.
- She looks like a normal, well adjusted adult. Good for her - and love her early work!
- I took more notice of the photo from early in her career (down the page) where her ribs are sticking out as are the bones in her chest. She looks borderline anorexic.
What a great voice!
- OH MY GOD HOW DARE SHE AGE!
- I can't believe she was still a teen when Wuthering Heights came out. She's amazing! I think she looks a bit like Boy George's sister in those photos, but not in a bad way. She has a sweet face.
- her vulgar name was always a turn off and so unnecessary a shock gimmick given her talent. i guess you had to do that to compete with punk, but, honestly, it makes me literally angry.
- another thing that made me broil was the video for peter gabriel's 'don't give up' where she's groping him for five solid minutes. they had to film a different video for the american market because the original was so over the top offensive. the story overshadowed the song and the single floundered stateside as a result.
- I know. Kate's a disgusting name.
- I love that she once called Tori Amos weird.
- She's lovely. You don't have to be skinny to be beautiful. She is proof.
- Tori Amos was gorgeous before her weird plastic surgery.
I mean, I know she's a ginger and they age quicker but hell, she did not need such a tragic over haul.
So sad.
- She looks very happy in the pic. She's in her early 50s, the body shape is to be expected for someone who spends most of her time at home and isn't fame-hungry.
- r7/8, I hope these are failed attempts at humor, because if not, YOU CRAZY, GIRL!
- I love her. I wish she would tour again.
- She must have some kind of illness, she was a dancer, they hardly ever get fat as they age.
Always loved her music, especially "Running up that hill".
Her brother was in the video, he was gorgeous!
- She looks fucking gorgeous and happy, as someone else has posted.
What's more, she is a FUCKING GENIUS. Which *more* people should be posting threads on, not forever dissecting women's ("inadequate") bodies on various threads.
- [quote]another thing that made me broil
Not broil, R8 dear, boil or, better still, seethe. Kate got fat because she has been on the sauce for a long time and your body can only cope with so much, especially when you are less mobile. Breeding also does not help with your metabolism.
I don't care that she looks mumsy. I do care that her last three albums sound mumsy and dull as fuck.
- The Daily Mail are such bastards doing an article provoking anti-fat comments about Kate Bush - lucky most people, even DM readers, aren't biting.
- Here's a video (starts 30 secs. in). She seems awfully sweet.
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- Don't know who she is.
- How fascinating, R21.
- R21 - when were you born?
- If she only could she could make a deal with Jenny Craig.
- Believe it or not she not Sarah Brightman, r21.
- Think she looks great. Always loved kate bush. Compared to what we have nowadays!
- She doesn't look bad, but I don't think that she should try running up that hill anytime soon.
- I knew a guy once who was obssessed with her music back in college. That was the first time I ever heard of Kate Bush. He told me she was a witch,which kinda scared me a little...
- R7
How long is the Kate Bush bashing going to last? On every thread you make up the same stories. I do see that you post anonymously now, can't even remember you're name; except that it was something pretentious. Just stop.
- Her last name is not some vulgar pretension...it's her actual last name.
And "Don't Give Up" did not do well in the States because it wasn't "Sledgehammer" or "Big Time," was it? Duets that made it big at that time were cheesefests like "Almost Paradise" or that horrible "Freebird/Baby I Love Your Way" remake.
And finally, she has never, ever commented on Tori Amos. In fact, she's made a point of not addressing the issue, and quite famously demures every time it's asked.
Anonymous
- She had a magic few could match, and her body doesn't have to for that to remain true forever to me.
- She looks like Boy George.
- Once a woman is past a "certain" age, it's extremely difficult and sometimes impossible to stay slender.
Anonymous
- I think if she became fitter she would actually be a stunner. Kate's promotional photos seem to be airbrushed to make her look slimmer. It's a shame she doesn't appear in her videos anymore, because a major strength of Bush is her imagery/visuals.
- She's certainty bigger. Not seeing draggy at all. She looks fine. If anything, it's amazing how, not bad, but bland she looks. She looks exactly like my sister's cohort of late 40s, early 50s women who were alt kids and young adults who are now all moms and trying somewhat to hang on to something that makes them look different and interesting, but the overall impression is always just 50ish career mom (or even grandma in a few cases).
Yes, I agree with so many posters - she aged, that's no sin. But, she seems to be getting a "she's cool" pass unlike a lot of celebs who are raked over the coals. I guess that's understandable.
- On the shop floor there's a calendar
As obvious as snow
As if we didnt know
Some girls are bigger than others.
- She aged, and I'm glad she didn't succumb to the knife. She put on some weight, it happens (and better than anorexic skinny). She looks happy. Great. But come on, it was an awards show, she could've used a comb or something. What's that bird's nest?
- Oh dear god.
Basset hounds of love.
Anna Wintour, retching into her monogrammed handkerchief
- anna wintour i would kick out of bed in an instant for fear of being cut by one of her skeletal neck bones.
kate bush i would keep.
- No more willowy waves for her at the end of her videos!
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- I think Paula Cole was better backing Gabriel in Don't Give Up than Kate.
- She looks like Boy George.
- Out On the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you too
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home
I'm so cold, let me in in-a-your-window
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home
I'm so cold, let me in in-a-your-window
Oh it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine alot, I find the lot
Falls through without you
I'm coming back love, cruel Heathcliff
My one dream, my only master
Too long I roam in the night
I'm coming back to his side to put it right
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home
I'm so cold, let me in in-a-your-window
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home
I'm so cold, let me in in-a-your-window
Ooh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
Ooh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Cathy
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy come home
I'm so cold, let me in in-a-your-window
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy come home
I'm so cold, let me in in-a-your-window
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy come home
- I was at a screening once of the film version of "Kiss Me, Kate" at LACMA and Kathryn Grayson was there for a discussion afterwards. She looked like a big fat old pussycat, in contrast to her very svelte appearance in the film, and it occurred to me how natural it would be, after years of starving yourself for the camera (which, we know, puts 40 pounds on so you have to be 40 pounds underweight to look normal), to finally say one day "To hell with that, life's too short" and just eat whatever you want.
- Consider she was a teen when discovered, she was groomed and protected by Dave Gilmour and EMI who basically gave her the time and money to grow up and pursue her interests.From a well to do family, had a father and brothers who also protected her financial and legal interests. After her first flurry of fame she retreated more and more into total control over the production of her albums. Much respected and I would assume she has been either forgotten,flown under the radar or just left alone by the British press.
Basically has lead a scandal free life. A bit of a kook, once reputed to be a bit of a stoner. Probably a bit of a control freak.That's pretty much it.
The Lindsey Lohans and the Britney Spears of the world should take note.
Not a grotesque granny like Debbie Harry(Mick can still get with away with acting 30,Debbie when I saw her was just sad in concert a couple of years ago.) Stevie and Linda always tottered on pudgy, Kate's now more Ann than Nancy Wilson..Benatar has grown into herself. Those were her contemporary fellow sex symbols
And then there's Lulu ,who admits to work and looks better than any of them.
I think she's tremendous !
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- Strangely irrelevant for an artist like Kate
- Is this a gay thing? I have no idea who this woman might be.
Confuzed
- Girls with big tits usually end up with some meat on their bones later on. Are you all stupid?
And furthermore, you clueless fucks talking smack about Kate Bush need to fucking shut up and die.
You don't deserve her.
- I agree with R18, her last 3 albums were snoozers. She looks 'frowsy' now, as my mother would say. Anne Wilson-esque, actually. This all seemed to come down on her in the last 5 years or so, she seemed to be holding it together well and them obviously, bam!
- [quote]This all seemed to come down on her in the last 5 years or so, she seemed to be holding it together well and them obviously, bam!
Imagine how it's going to sound when it happens to you.
Time
- Apparently she just shot a new video for a new version of Running Up That Hill with Jude Law. Rumor has it it's a much dancier version, and due to be released in the fall, possibly as part of a new greatest hits package. There was a photo of Jude in armor from the video shoot circulating around, and tweets from others working on it that have since been taken down, apparently at Kate's request.
By the way, it was not Kate's brother in the original RUTH video, it was Michel Hervieu, a dancer who was appearing in a London production of Barnum at the time.
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- 50 responses and not one word about Tom Jones? You're losing it, people!
- Fuck off, R52. FUCK OFF!!
- Her early work was lovely and haunting. She gets a lifelong pass for "Wuthering Heights" alone.
- She gets a lifelong pass for the entire 'The Kick Inside' album.
- R51...looking forward to the Jude Law video and Greatest Hits package!
- She gets a lifelong pass for the entire "Hounds of Love," but especially the B side.
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- Shit, if Kate bush can get fat then none of us are safe.
Going to McDonald's now to order 6 Big Macs.
- This is not about growing older, it's about being obese. Singers like Joan Baez (71) and Shirley Bassey (76), frankly look significantly more elegant than you do at 53.
Hire a personal trainer Kate and start appearing in your videos again. Who wants to have three minutes of boring Robbie Coltraine hamming it up when they can have you pouting in front of a wind machine.
- Kate has probably realized how much more fun it is to be fat. Thin is too damn much work at her age and there's almost no payoff.
Most scrawny older women are so unattractive and the ones who count every calorie that goes into their mouths are so pinched-looking.
- I wonder if these same people defending Kate Bush's right to be lard ass would be as kind if ole Madge blew up to Rosie O'Donnell sized proportions?
- She was never a beauty.
- It wouldn't bother me a bit, R61 and it would probably mellow her out. Maybe that's what she needs. Dump the gym and hit Krispy Kreme.
- "Gone was the big-eyed, waiflike look that made the teenage Kate Bush a pop pin-up when her first single Wuthering Heights went to number one in 1978."
Not one mention in the article that Tom Jones is no longer dyeing his hair, not to mention he no longer has his original nose! The double standard sure rears it's ugly head when it comes to women musicians. Not a surprise.
Kate always had a weak chin, so I'm not surprised by how bad her chin looks, otherwise she looks fine for her age.
Don't forget, Brits are not big on exercise, most smoke heavily and drink a lot. One of my cousins is British, he's 35 but looks much older than his age.
- [quote]She was never a beauty.
Ooohhh, I am not sure about that.
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- Are those photos from a real award show, or a Little Britain sketch?
- R61 - Madge could stand to gain 20-30 lbs.
Besides, Kate has talent as a singer/songwriter. Madge, not so much.
- Tom Jones doesn't look so good
- It's called insulin resistance/metabolic disturbance. Too much sugar and starch consumption causes this.
- More likely post-menopause, R68. That's when women tend to get fat and sassy and say the things they've always wanted to say.
- Kate Bush was raped!
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- She looks quite good for 53. You wouldn't expect her to look 19 again!
- Honestly, my heart sank when I saw her. This is not the student of dance and mime that I once knew. I feel let down.
Myers-Briggs(INFP)personality types like Kate draw on imagery heavily and it's a shame, for whatever reason she chooses not to 'reveal' herself very often.
Simple-get fit and appear in your videos.
- jesus christ, get a life, r73.
p.s. myers-briggs is practically astrology.
- I'm 43 and have a fitter, slimmer, more healthy body than I did at 23.
Putting on weight as we get older is not inevitable. And that's not a criticism of Ms Bush.
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- Horrible singer. Sounds like the sister of Mickey Mouse. The Wuthering Heights video was awful.
- Are you a woman, R75? Men don't have hormonal issues the way women do.
- damn
- "Men don't have hormonal issues the way women do."
That's right, men don't have hormonal issues the way women do, men's hormonal issues are much worse.
Like, for example, hormonal men shooting into crowds of strangers. Women don't get hormonal like that.
- Myer's Briggs, R73? 1921 called, they want their therapists back.
- by the way, kate is plump, not fat.
- It's very appreciable of so many people who say she looks fantastic and we shouldn't be bothered by how she looks now. But honestly, I was shocked to see her gaining so much weight. I don't want to be mean and of course it's none of my business: she must live her life the way she wants and not what other people expect her to be.
Michael
- It's not that Kate is plump, as R82 says, it's that she gained weight in a relatively short period of time. Less than ten years. I find that unusual for someone who used to be into dance for most of her life. It is possible she had some injuries.
Kate in 2002:
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- Ten years is a long time.
- 'Plump' is a camp word for 'fat'.
- I find the waspish comments about Myers Briggs interesting.
Myers Briggs was influenced by Jung.
Kate Bush was influenced by Jung.
- Myers Briggs is, seriously, not respected by real psychologists and is tantamount to astrology.
- I can't believe this beautiful girl has got so fat, old and bedraggled and it seems over the last 12- 15 years. She hesitates when she talks and is hardly recoginsable, something bad really must've happened. He music isnt as good as it was either, well not to my mind. I used to idolise her!
- HA HA HA, she looks like Fred Flintstone.
- She's 53 and gorgeous! I was a skinny bint 30 odd years ago too but hellooo!! Still beats the pants off every other new and 'innovative' artist in the charts. Kate, I still adore you and congrats on your award!
Anonymous
- It's not so much that she's put on a few pounds. Her hair is awful. She could use a stylist.
- Darling, she IS the hills of time.
Patsy%20Stone
- Bush was not a shock tactic name...its her birth surname! catherine bush. alot of people gain weight with age, if you look at her from the start of her career through to her late 30s when she disappeared, she did gradually gain weight from a waif girls body to that of a woman. she is a woman who has not tried to defy the laws of 'getting older',so big respect to her. she is still beautiful,not as beautiful as she was obvioulsy, but what 58 year old is not compared to their 20 something self. give her a break its nature. not like many stars of today who once their looks run out, so will their music careers.'music' said in its loosest terms.
and tori amos is not a natural ginger, if you see her before she got big she had brown hair!
- Kate is not fat, grow up!
- Kate ate all of the sausages!
- [quote]Her hair is awful. She could use a stylist.
Maybe she's been out on the wiley, windy moors.
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- [quote]HA HA HA, she looks like Fred Flintstone.
GROW-UP! I can't believe the immaturity level here!
- Kate was unhealthy when she was underweight. Her body showed effects of starvation. She would rather be a normal weight or even slightly overweight than have osteoporosis, heart disease, bad teeth an other health problems that are associated with being chronically underweight. Its too taxing on the female body to be as skinny as she was when she was young. I'm skinny and athletic so I know what its like to feel burned out. Also, the metabolism slows way down when you starve yourself, and if you do it for too long, it will always be slow, causing you to get fat more easily. That's why Lady Gaga can gain weight like a spunge.
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- OP so did Tom Jones
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- Ann Wilson.
