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* NewSoundAlbum: The album shifts to pop rock with a heavy focus on live instruments and synthesizers, influenced by Bush's desire to make music that could be easily performed on stage after four studio-centric records. The Fairlight CMI that defined her previous albums is still present, but to a much smaller degree. The album is also Bush's first (and only) album to be digitally recorded, which she attributed to industry pressure from the rise of the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc as the dominant format for music.
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* NewSoundAlbum: The album shifts to pop rock with a heavy focus on live instruments and synthesizers, influenced by Bush's desire to make music that could be easily performed on stage after four studio-centric records. The Fairlight CMI that defined her previous albums is still present, but to a much smaller degree. The album is also Bush's first (and only) album to be digitally recorded, which she attributed to industry pressure from the rise of the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc Platform/CompactDisc as the dominant format for music.
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* LongestSongGoesLast: The album ends with the nearly six-minute "You're the One", the closest it ever gets to EpicRocking; the next-longest track, "Moments of Pleasure", doesn't even crack five and a half.
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** Music/{{Prince}} sings backing vocals and plays keyboards, guitar, and bass guitar on "Why Should I Love You?", co-producing the song as well. Prince's contributions to the song were so voluminous that it Bush and Del Palmer had to spend two years remixing the material to "turn it back into a Kate Bush song." Bush would return the favor by providing backing vocals for Prince's 1996 song "My Computer". The song also features backing vocals from comedian and noted Prince impersonator Creator/LennyHenry.
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** Music/{{Prince}} sings backing vocals and plays keyboards, guitar, and bass guitar on "Why Should I Love You?", co-producing the song as well. Prince's contributions to the song were so voluminous that it Bush and Del Palmer had to spend two years remixing the material to "turn it back into a Kate Bush song." Bush would return the favor by providing backing vocals for Prince's 1996 song "My Computer". The song also features backing vocals from comedian and noted Prince impersonator Creator/LennyHenry.
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* JunglesSoundLikeKookaburras: In "Big Stripey Lie", Bush briefly mimics the call of a kookaburra after the lines "Oh my God it's a jungle in here; you've got wild animals loose in here."
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''The Red Shoes'' was supported by five singles: "Rubberband Girl", "Eat the Music", "Moments of Pleasure", "The Red Shoes", and "And So Is Love". Bush aimed to support the album with an expansive world tour, which would've been her first since ''The Tour of Life'' in 1979. However, these plans never materialized; instead, she recorded the short film ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve'', which featured music videos for "Rubberband Girl", "And So Is Love", "The Red Shoes", "Moments of Pleasure", "Eat the Music" and "Lily".
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''The Red Shoes'' was supported by five singles: "Rubberband Girl", "Eat the Music", "Moments of Pleasure", "The Red Shoes", and "And So Is Love". Bush aimed to support the album with an expansive world tour, which would've been her first since ''The Tour of Life'' in 1979. However, these plans never materialized; instead, she recorded the short film ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve'', which featured music videos for "Rubberband Girl", "And So Is Love", "The Red Shoes", "Moments of Pleasure", "Eat the Music" and "Lily".
"Lily". In 2011, Bush included re-recorded versions of "Song of Solomon", "Lily", "The Red Shoes", "Moments of Pleasure", "Top of the City", "And So Is Love", and "Rubberband Girl" on her ninth studio album, ''Director's Cut'', together with re-recorded songs from ''Music/TheSensualWorld''.
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* SpellingSong: "Why Should I Love You?" prominently features a repeated series of lines spelling the word "love," in which each letter represents a different trait:
-->The "L" of the lips are open\\
To the "O" of the host\\
The "V" of the velvet\\
The "E" of my eye
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Put them on and your dream'll come true."'']]
''The Red Shoes'' is the seventh studio album by English art pop musician Music/KateBush, released in 1993 through Creator/{{EMI}} in the UK and Creator/ColumbiaRecords in the US. Coming out four years after her previous effort, 1989's ''Music/TheSensualWorld'', this album marked a shift to a more pop-oriented approach influenced by Bush's desire to make an album that could translate more effectively to live performances. Consequently, much of the studio-centric traits present across prior albums were absent, with the Fairlight CMI trickery being deemphasized in favor of standard synthesizers and live instruments. To facilitate this, Bush worked with a large number of collaborators, including Music/EricClapton, Music/MichaelKamen, Music/JeffBeck, and even Music/{{Prince}}.
Contrary to its poppy, upbeat sound, the album was recorded during a tense period in Bush's personal life. Longtime collaborator Alan Murphy and ''The Tour of Life'' backing dancer Gary "Bubba" Hurst respectively died in 1989 and 1990, both from complications of AIDS, her relationship with Del Palmer disintegrated (though the two would remain coworkers), and her mother, Hannah, fell deathly ill, ultimately passing away just before the album's release. These difficulties played a role in the album's lengthy production, taking three years to put together; in the interim, she put out the discography-spanning BoxedSet "This Woman's Work" and a CoverVersion of Music/EltonJohn's [[Music/HonkyChateau "Rocket Man"]], for the tribute album ''Two Rooms''. The latter project ended up being her last work with Murphy before his death. The losses Bush faced in her personal life would influence the lyrics of the album, with many songs carrying undercurrents of both longing and grief.
Upon release, ''The Red Shoes'' was a substantial commercial success in the UK, where it peaked at No. 2, became the 32nd best-selling album of the year, and was certified platinum. In the US, where Bush's following was more limited, it only peaked at No. 28, but still out-charted both ''Music/HoundsOfLove'' and ''The Sensual World''; it would also be certified gold in Canada. However, where Bush would go from here would go unanswered, as an intended one-year hiatus turned into twelve as the production of the follow-up album, ''Music/{{Aerial}}'', dragged on. In the meantime, she would have a son, Albert [=McIntosh=], devoting her time to raising him. ''Aerial'' would eventually release in 2005.
''The Red Shoes'' was supported by five singles: "Rubberband Girl", "Eat the Music", "Moments of Pleasure", "The Red Shoes", and "And So Is Love". Bush aimed to support the album with an expansive world tour, which would've been her first since ''The Tour of Life'' in 1979. However, these plans never materialized; instead, she recorded the short film ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve'', which featured music videos for "Rubberband Girl", "And So Is Love", "The Red Shoes", "Moments of Pleasure", "Eat the Music" and "Lily".
!!Tracklist:
# "Rubberband Girl" (4:42)
# "And So Is Love" (4:16)
# "Eat the Music" (5:08)
# "Moments of Pleasure" (5:16)
# "The Song of Solomon" (4:27)
# "Lily" (3:51)
# "The Red Shoes" (4:00)
# "Top of the City" (4:14)
# "Constellation of the Heart" (4:46)
# "Big Stripey Lie" (3:32)
# "Why Should I Love You?" (5:00)
# "You're the One" (5:52)
!!''Every old sock meets an old trope'':
* AlternateMusicVideo: Two music videos were recorded for "Rubberband Girl". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85wZw1O83aE The first]], featured as part of ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve'', depicts Bush rehearsing the song with her backing band and a dancer who puppeteers her. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPK0Oy2b0MI The second video]], shot for the US market, depicts Bush performing the song in a dance studio, in a dark hallway with a light at the end, and on a flight of stairs, intercut with clips from ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve''.
* ArchangelGabriel: Gabriel is one of many archangels namedropped in the chorus of "Lily", with Bush specifically stating that he's "before [her]" as part of an incantation calling upon the archangels for protection, tying in with the lyrics' focus on spirituality.
* ArchangelMichael: In the chorus of "Lily", which takes the form of an incantation summoning divine protection, Bush mentions that Michael is "to my right."
* ArchangelRaphael: In the chorus of "Lily", Bush states that Raphael is "behind me" as part of an incantation for divine protection.
* ArchangelUriel: In the chorus of "Lily", Bush describes Uriel as being "on my left side" as part of an incantation that summons him and several other archangels for divine protection.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The protagonist of the TitleTrack dons the eponymous red shoes in an attempt to gain the dancing prowess of their owner, only to become imprisoned by the shoes' powers, which force her to dance constantly until she either finds a way to take them off or destroys herself from overwork.
* CallAndResponseSong: "Constellation of the Heart".
* CallBack: Two in "Constellation of the Heart". The line "just being alive, it can really hurt" is reprised from "Moments of Pleasure", while the line "ooh and if you see the woman with the key" recalls the line "with a kiss, I'd pass the key" from [[Music/TheDreaming "Houdini"]].
* ConceptAlbum: ''The Red Shoes'' was inspired by the famous ballet film [[Film/TheRedShoes1948 of the same name]]; it was also a partial soundtrack album to the Bush-directed short film ''The Line, The Cross and the Curve''.
* ConceptVideo: ''The Line, the Cross, and the Curve'' is a short film based on [[Film/TheRedShoes1948 the film]] that inspired the album, starring herself, Miranda Richardson, and Bush's favorite choreographer, Lindsay Kemp.
* GenreRoulette: The album shifts between HardRock, WorldMusic, piano ballads, TripHop, FolkRock, and {{Funk}}, among other styles, all glued together by a pop rock core.
* GriefSong: "Moments of Pleasure" eulogizes ''The Tour of Life'' backing dancer Gary "Bubba" Hurst, guitarist Alan Murphy, film director Michael Powell (who directed [[Film/TheRedShoes1948 the film]] that inspired the album, and who Bush attempted to collaborate with), and ''The Tour of Life'' lighting director Bill Duffield. Hurst and Murphy died from complications of AIDS in 1990 and 1989, respectively, while Powell died of cancer in 1990. Duffield, meanwhile, was killed in a stage accident during ''The Tour of Life'' in 1979 and was previously memorialized on Bush's 1980 song [[Music/NeverForEver "Blown Away (For Bill)"]]. All four men are namedropped at the end of the song.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: The narrator of "Eat the Music" states that part of what draws her to her love interest is that "he's a woman at heart."
* MenDontCry: In "Eat the Music", the narrator notes that her love interest bottles up his emotions thanks to patriarchal gender norms that look down on men showing emotion. She notes that "he's a woman at heart" and that "not only women bleed," expressing a desire to help him open up about his feelings by forming a relationship with him.
* MountainOfFood: The back cover and liner notes depict a wall of assorted fruits, alluding to the lyrics of "Eat the Music".
* NewSoundAlbum: The album shifts to pop rock with a heavy focus on live instruments and synthesizers, influenced by Bush's desire to make music that could be easily performed on stage after four studio-centric records. The Fairlight CMI that defined her previous albums is still present, but to a much smaller degree. The album is also Bush's first (and only) album to be digitally recorded, which she attributed to industry pressure from the rise of the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc as the dominant format for music.
* OdeToFood: Done metaphorically on "Eat the Music", which lavishly describes the process of gorging oneself on fruit as an analogy for romantic and sexual intimacy.
* OneWomanSong: "Lily", about the spiritual guru Lily Cornford.
* SacredFlames: In "Lily", the title character teaches the narrator to protect herself from evil by drawing a circle with fire to summon ArchangelGabriel, ArchangelRaphael, ArchangelMichael, and ArchangelUriel as bodyguards.
* ShutUpHannibal: In ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve'', toward the end:
-->'''Miranda Richardson''': We have [[NotSoDifferentRemark a lot in common]], you and I. It took me years to be rid of those shoes! You are so weak. So stupid. So...\\
'''Kate Bush''': You're scared. You're scared, because you know you're losing your power over me.
* SpecialGuest: Loads.
** Music/MichaelKamen provides orchestral arrangements for the album.
** Gary Brooker of Music/ProcolHarum provides Hammond organ parts on "And So Is Love", "Constellation of the Heart", and "You're the One".
** Music/EricClapton plays guitar on "And So Is Love".
** Malagasy valiha virtuoso Justin Vali plays the instrument on both "Eat the Music" and the TitleTrack, additionally playing kabosy and singing backing vocals on the former song.
** Bulgarian vocal group the Trio Bulgarka feature on "The Song of Solomon", "Why Should I Love You?", and "You're the One".
** Classical and jazz violinist Nigel Kennedy plays both violin and viola on "Top of the City" and "Big Stripey Lie", also playing viola on the former song.
** Music/{{Prince}} sings backing vocals and plays keyboards, guitar, and bass guitar on "Why Should I Love You?", co-producing the song as well. Bush would return the favor by providing backing vocals for Prince's 1996 song "My Computer". The song also features backing vocals from comedian and noted Prince impersonator Creator/LennyHenry.
** Music/JeffBeck plays guitar on "You're the One".
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Lily" opens with a lengthy passage where spiritual guru Lily Cornford utters verses from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Mantra Gayatri Mantra]] and the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isha_Upanishad Isha Upanishad]]''.
* TitleTrack: "The Red Shoes", which adapts [[Film/TheRedShoes1948 the film of the same name]].
* WholePlotReference:
** "The Song of Solomon" is named after and based on [[Literature/SongOfSongs the book of the same name]] from Literature/TheBible, directly quoting it at points.
** The TitleTrack is directly adapted from ''Film/{{The Red Shoes|1948}}'', with this inspiration extending to its scene in ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve''.
* TheXOfY: "The Song of Solomon", "Top of the City", and "Constellation of the Heart".
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Put them on and your dream'll come true."'']]
''The Red Shoes'' is the seventh studio album by English art pop musician Music/KateBush, released in 1993 through Creator/{{EMI}} in the UK and Creator/ColumbiaRecords in the US. Coming out four years after her previous effort, 1989's ''Music/TheSensualWorld'', this album marked a shift to a more pop-oriented approach influenced by Bush's desire to make an album that could translate more effectively to live performances. Consequently, much of the studio-centric traits present across prior albums were absent, with the Fairlight CMI trickery being deemphasized in favor of standard synthesizers and live instruments. To facilitate this, Bush worked with a large number of collaborators, including Music/EricClapton, Music/MichaelKamen, Music/JeffBeck, and even Music/{{Prince}}.
Contrary to its poppy, upbeat sound, the album was recorded during a tense period in Bush's personal life. Longtime collaborator Alan Murphy and ''The Tour of Life'' backing dancer Gary "Bubba" Hurst respectively died in 1989 and 1990, both from complications of AIDS, her relationship with Del Palmer disintegrated (though the two would remain coworkers), and her mother, Hannah, fell deathly ill, ultimately passing away just before the album's release. These difficulties played a role in the album's lengthy production, taking three years to put together; in the interim, she put out the discography-spanning BoxedSet "This Woman's Work" and a CoverVersion of Music/EltonJohn's [[Music/HonkyChateau "Rocket Man"]], for the tribute album ''Two Rooms''. The latter project ended up being her last work with Murphy before his death. The losses Bush faced in her personal life would influence the lyrics of the album, with many songs carrying undercurrents of both longing and grief.
Upon release, ''The Red Shoes'' was a substantial commercial success in the UK, where it peaked at No. 2, became the 32nd best-selling album of the year, and was certified platinum. In the US, where Bush's following was more limited, it only peaked at No. 28, but still out-charted both ''Music/HoundsOfLove'' and ''The Sensual World''; it would also be certified gold in Canada. However, where Bush would go from here would go unanswered, as an intended one-year hiatus turned into twelve as the production of the follow-up album, ''Music/{{Aerial}}'', dragged on. In the meantime, she would have a son, Albert [=McIntosh=], devoting her time to raising him. ''Aerial'' would eventually release in 2005.
''The Red Shoes'' was supported by five singles: "Rubberband Girl", "Eat the Music", "Moments of Pleasure", "The Red Shoes", and "And So Is Love". Bush aimed to support the album with an expansive world tour, which would've been her first since ''The Tour of Life'' in 1979. However, these plans never materialized; instead, she recorded the short film ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve'', which featured music videos for "Rubberband Girl", "And So Is Love", "The Red Shoes", "Moments of Pleasure", "Eat the Music" and "Lily".
!!Tracklist:
# "Rubberband Girl" (4:42)
# "And So Is Love" (4:16)
# "Eat the Music" (5:08)
# "Moments of Pleasure" (5:16)
# "The Song of Solomon" (4:27)
# "Lily" (3:51)
# "The Red Shoes" (4:00)
# "Top of the City" (4:14)
# "Constellation of the Heart" (4:46)
# "Big Stripey Lie" (3:32)
# "Why Should I Love You?" (5:00)
# "You're the One" (5:52)
!!''Every old sock meets an old trope'':
* AlternateMusicVideo: Two music videos were recorded for "Rubberband Girl". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85wZw1O83aE The first]], featured as part of ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve'', depicts Bush rehearsing the song with her backing band and a dancer who puppeteers her. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPK0Oy2b0MI The second video]], shot for the US market, depicts Bush performing the song in a dance studio, in a dark hallway with a light at the end, and on a flight of stairs, intercut with clips from ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve''.
* ArchangelGabriel: Gabriel is one of many archangels namedropped in the chorus of "Lily", with Bush specifically stating that he's "before [her]" as part of an incantation calling upon the archangels for protection, tying in with the lyrics' focus on spirituality.
* ArchangelMichael: In the chorus of "Lily", which takes the form of an incantation summoning divine protection, Bush mentions that Michael is "to my right."
* ArchangelRaphael: In the chorus of "Lily", Bush states that Raphael is "behind me" as part of an incantation for divine protection.
* ArchangelUriel: In the chorus of "Lily", Bush describes Uriel as being "on my left side" as part of an incantation that summons him and several other archangels for divine protection.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The protagonist of the TitleTrack dons the eponymous red shoes in an attempt to gain the dancing prowess of their owner, only to become imprisoned by the shoes' powers, which force her to dance constantly until she either finds a way to take them off or destroys herself from overwork.
* CallAndResponseSong: "Constellation of the Heart".
* CallBack: Two in "Constellation of the Heart". The line "just being alive, it can really hurt" is reprised from "Moments of Pleasure", while the line "ooh and if you see the woman with the key" recalls the line "with a kiss, I'd pass the key" from [[Music/TheDreaming "Houdini"]].
* ConceptAlbum: ''The Red Shoes'' was inspired by the famous ballet film [[Film/TheRedShoes1948 of the same name]]; it was also a partial soundtrack album to the Bush-directed short film ''The Line, The Cross and the Curve''.
* ConceptVideo: ''The Line, the Cross, and the Curve'' is a short film based on [[Film/TheRedShoes1948 the film]] that inspired the album, starring herself, Miranda Richardson, and Bush's favorite choreographer, Lindsay Kemp.
* GenreRoulette: The album shifts between HardRock, WorldMusic, piano ballads, TripHop, FolkRock, and {{Funk}}, among other styles, all glued together by a pop rock core.
* GriefSong: "Moments of Pleasure" eulogizes ''The Tour of Life'' backing dancer Gary "Bubba" Hurst, guitarist Alan Murphy, film director Michael Powell (who directed [[Film/TheRedShoes1948 the film]] that inspired the album, and who Bush attempted to collaborate with), and ''The Tour of Life'' lighting director Bill Duffield. Hurst and Murphy died from complications of AIDS in 1990 and 1989, respectively, while Powell died of cancer in 1990. Duffield, meanwhile, was killed in a stage accident during ''The Tour of Life'' in 1979 and was previously memorialized on Bush's 1980 song [[Music/NeverForEver "Blown Away (For Bill)"]]. All four men are namedropped at the end of the song.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: The narrator of "Eat the Music" states that part of what draws her to her love interest is that "he's a woman at heart."
* MenDontCry: In "Eat the Music", the narrator notes that her love interest bottles up his emotions thanks to patriarchal gender norms that look down on men showing emotion. She notes that "he's a woman at heart" and that "not only women bleed," expressing a desire to help him open up about his feelings by forming a relationship with him.
* MountainOfFood: The back cover and liner notes depict a wall of assorted fruits, alluding to the lyrics of "Eat the Music".
* NewSoundAlbum: The album shifts to pop rock with a heavy focus on live instruments and synthesizers, influenced by Bush's desire to make music that could be easily performed on stage after four studio-centric records. The Fairlight CMI that defined her previous albums is still present, but to a much smaller degree. The album is also Bush's first (and only) album to be digitally recorded, which she attributed to industry pressure from the rise of the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc as the dominant format for music.
* OdeToFood: Done metaphorically on "Eat the Music", which lavishly describes the process of gorging oneself on fruit as an analogy for romantic and sexual intimacy.
* OneWomanSong: "Lily", about the spiritual guru Lily Cornford.
* SacredFlames: In "Lily", the title character teaches the narrator to protect herself from evil by drawing a circle with fire to summon ArchangelGabriel, ArchangelRaphael, ArchangelMichael, and ArchangelUriel as bodyguards.
* ShutUpHannibal: In ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve'', toward the end:
-->'''Miranda Richardson''': We have [[NotSoDifferentRemark a lot in common]], you and I. It took me years to be rid of those shoes! You are so weak. So stupid. So...\\
'''Kate Bush''': You're scared. You're scared, because you know you're losing your power over me.
* SpecialGuest: Loads.
** Music/MichaelKamen provides orchestral arrangements for the album.
** Gary Brooker of Music/ProcolHarum provides Hammond organ parts on "And So Is Love", "Constellation of the Heart", and "You're the One".
** Music/EricClapton plays guitar on "And So Is Love".
** Malagasy valiha virtuoso Justin Vali plays the instrument on both "Eat the Music" and the TitleTrack, additionally playing kabosy and singing backing vocals on the former song.
** Bulgarian vocal group the Trio Bulgarka feature on "The Song of Solomon", "Why Should I Love You?", and "You're the One".
** Classical and jazz violinist Nigel Kennedy plays both violin and viola on "Top of the City" and "Big Stripey Lie", also playing viola on the former song.
** Music/{{Prince}} sings backing vocals and plays keyboards, guitar, and bass guitar on "Why Should I Love You?", co-producing the song as well. Bush would return the favor by providing backing vocals for Prince's 1996 song "My Computer". The song also features backing vocals from comedian and noted Prince impersonator Creator/LennyHenry.
** Music/JeffBeck plays guitar on "You're the One".
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Lily" opens with a lengthy passage where spiritual guru Lily Cornford utters verses from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Mantra Gayatri Mantra]] and the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isha_Upanishad Isha Upanishad]]''.
* TitleTrack: "The Red Shoes", which adapts [[Film/TheRedShoes1948 the film of the same name]].
* WholePlotReference:
** "The Song of Solomon" is named after and based on [[Literature/SongOfSongs the book of the same name]] from Literature/TheBible, directly quoting it at points.
** The TitleTrack is directly adapted from ''Film/{{The Red Shoes|1948}}'', with this inspiration extending to its scene in ''The Line, the Cross and the Curve''.
* TheXOfY: "The Song of Solomon", "Top of the City", and "Constellation of the Heart".
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