Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (Gothic Version) (Music Video)

Filmed at Efteling in 1978 "Wuthering Heights" is a song by singer-songwriter Kate Bush, released as her debut single on the 20th of January 1978. Inspired by the 1847 Emily Brontë novel of the same name, it appears on her 1978 debut album The Kick Inside. It stayed at number one on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks, and remains Bush's most successful single. The song received widespread critical acclaim and continues to be highly regarded; in 2016, Pitchfork named it the fifth-greatest song of the 1970s
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[Riatzi]

For those who have actually read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, this video makes perfect sense.

[amyhoj]

There’s 4 different versions of basically the same video in which Kate performs this song and dance with those crazy and unsettling facial expressions, the only difference being the settings: a golden mist in a dark void, the wilderness under an overcast sky, a literal haunted house, and a small fairytale movie set with extreme closeups of Kate’s face. Each of these represent a different space Kate’s ghost character might inhabit: the traditional “heaven” surrounded by darkness, the fields she walked in her lifetime, the manor house in which she once lived, and the tiny fairytale world that is her reality. Kate’s dance alternates between flowy interpretive dance of the lyrics and motions commonly ascribed to the undead and/or the blind. Her facial expressions go beyond exaggeration into what seems like possession by a spirit whose sole remaining urge is to chase her old lover and make him one with her. Her makeup, specifically that around her eyes, gives her gaze an uncanny and disturbing affect that transforms her into something monstrous and inhuman, which is fitting for a character who inflicts so much pain and grief on those around her. Overall these videos are profoundly beautiful and unsettling despite their simplicity and will likely haunt the viewer the way Cathy’s ghost haunted Heathcliff in the novel “Wuthering Heights, ” the song’s namesake.

[sukijay]

I thought I’d seen every Wuthering heights video but this is a new one for me. I bet this generation of Kate Bush fans due to ‘Stranger Things’ are finding her old catalogue and having their minds blown!

[thepagecollective]

She dances like a little girl in front of her mirror. It's so charming. And for such a sophisticated piece of music. It's so sophisticated, you could easily miss how brilliant it is.

[dzod]

If this version of the song doesn't make you understand the story then nothing will. Absolute top class.

[Sam-osbq]

She's not a ghost, she's a charming angel!

[muumol]

I was 12 when my Mummy introduced me to Kate Bush. She sat there humming and vibing along and I started too. It was a special memory. I lost her on the 15th and since I’m far away and she tried keeping her being so ill I didn’t find out until this Monday. I’m finding all these songs we enjoyed and it’s hard but also comforting.

[RuuBjAh]

For those wondering: The end title is in Dutch and it's a translation of this part of the song:
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

[marcyeo]

And this is what Halloween should look like for eternity ... with ethereal sound & hauntingly beautiful vocals

[jeananstie]

Kate was able to present her talent before airbrushing and gimmicks. Pure talent.

[ginadavis]

Oltre che Voce Straordinaria anche Bravissima Ballerina, ha sempre inserito la Danza nei suoi lavori, l'Espressività, la Mimica.

[reklovjj]

One of many unique 80’s artists! What a creative era!

[danihans]

It's so amazing this video...😶☹😔
Kate indeed looks like Catherine hunted Hathcliff for the eternity over and over again.
I hope visit Yorkshire some day.
Regards from Argentina.
🇦🇷😎🤗

[gabrielazamora]

Kate Bush, ella toda es una obra fascinante, miro todas las versiones de ésta canción y no deja de traerme a la película y pensar que la creó siendo ella muy jovencita, el talento le salía por los poros, escuché éste tema por primera vez en 1978, por supuesto de un disco que poseo y desde entonces me encantó su voz, por siempre kete Bush❤

[lukeatkinson]

This definitely should have been the official video!

[Katzykeens]

She's beautiful; always has been and always will be. She was so ahead of her time 🌈💕✨️

[garyseager]

Don’t you love it when 40 years later you find this gem that has been hidden away!! Love this video and makes so much sense to her storytelling.

[zoeythemonstermasher]

Her dancing is so unique I'm mesmerized

[MelodyFox]

This is still a masterpiece of art, imo, for many different reasons...
Kate Bush had started her dancing classes with Lindsay Kemp, in 1976, and I can see the influences of his teaching and her *learning*, with those floating steps and movements in this video...
I interviewed Kate Bush several times, and she told me about her dancing classes because I had said that her moves were amazing. Strangely enough, while looking at her biography on Wikipedia, there is no reference to her dancing and who inspired her. Therefore, I am lucky to have been able to ask the right questions, and get some private thoughts, in those days.
What a voice! she started writing songs when she was 11...
*Wuthering Heights* (I think Kate was just 19 in this video)🤔
LPeaceM💙☮️🎵

[CristianoMeiraMagalhaes]

After Kate Bush, the best version of this song is sung by Angra (a Brazilian heavy metal band from the 90s) and Anna Maz, a Brazilian singer (search on Youtube for the TV show "Canta Comigo" and "Anna Maz" and "Wuthering Heights" in 2022).