Never for Ever

Babooshka

According to Kate Bush, in an interview with Austrailian TV series 'Countdown', this song chronicles a wife's desire to test her husband's loyalty. To do so, she takes on the nom de plume of Babooshka and sends notes to her husband in the guise of a younger woman – something which she fears is the opposite of how her husband currently sees her. The trap is set when, in her bitterness and paranoia, Babooshka arranges to meet her husband, who is attracted to the character that reminds him of his wife in earlier times. She thereby ruins the relationship due to her paranoia The word 'Babushka' itself means 'grandmother' in Russian, something Bush "didn't realise at the time". In context of the song however, Bush just "popped the name out, because it felt right", and that she apparently picked the name out of a fairy story when she was younger, before discovering its Russian meaning, and how 'Babushka' was a good name for the woman in the song. [Read more on Last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Kate+Bush/_/Babooshka). User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Babooshka is een single van singer-songwriter Kate Bush. Het nummer werd een van de grootste en meest bekende hits van Bush. Het nummer opent haar derde album Never for ever en was de tweede single van het album. == Achtergrond == Volgens een interview dat Kate Bush gaf aan het Australische tv-programma Countdown in 1980, gaat het nummer over een vrouw die de trouw van haar echtgenoot wil testen. Om dit te bereiken schrijft ze hem liefdesbrieven onder het pseudoniem Babooshka. De echtgenoot herkent de karaktertrekken van zijn vrouw voordat zij getrouwd en nog gelukkig waren (Just like his wife before she "freezed" on him/Just like his wife when she was beautiful.) en wordt verliefd. Ze besluiten elkaar te ontmoeten en hiermee heeft de vrouw de relatie kapotgemaakt vanwege haar paranoia. In de videoclip is Kate Bush te zien in een zwarte bodysuit met op het hoofd een sluier, in haar rol als de verbitterde vrouw. Zij staat naast een contrabas die haar echtgenoot symboliseert. Wanneer het refrein start, verandert Bush in het alter-ego Babooshka.

According to Kate Bush, in an interview with Austrailian TV series 'Countdown', this song chronicles a wife's desire to test her husband's loyalty. To do so, she takes on the nom de plume of Babooshka and sends notes to her husband in the guise of a younger woman – something which she fears is the opposite of how her husband currently sees her. The trap is set when, in her bitterness and paranoia, Babooshka arranges to meet her husband, who is attracted to the character that reminds him of his wife in earlier times. [Read more on Last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Kate+Bush/_/Babooshka).