Ainda demorarei mais alguns dias para retomar o estado natural das coisas deste blog. Enquanto isso desfrutem um pouco do que tenho escutado nestes dias.
A Kate Bush fez alguns discos simplesmente memoráveis, ela é, via de regra, considerada uma compositora irreprensível – sendo um dos marcos de ar fresco dos anos 80; essa afirmativa é perfeita e inquestionável, mas [futil mode: on]pessoalmente, em alguns videos-clipes ela consegue ser simplesmente apavorante. Não vou entrar no mérito de sua beleza ou falta dela, até em razão disso ser irrelevante dentro de seu talento e por ela ter sua beleza própria, em seus próprios termos. (Ora bolas, se isso fosse relevante, ninguém daria um vintém pela Patti Smith)
Eis Babooshka, clássico absoluto de 1980, do disco Never For Ever…sempre achei o arranjo desta canção simplesmente formidável.
P.S - Eu realmente a aprecio mais, visualmente, nas seqüências de véu e calças do que nas vestimentas da personagem Babooshka.
She wanted to test her husband.
She knew exactly what to do:
A pseudonym to fool him.
She couldn’t have made a worse move.
She sent him scented letters,
And he received them with a strange delight.
Just like his wife
But how she was before the tears,
And how she was before the years flew by,
And how she was when she was beautiful.
She signed the letter
“All yours,
Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya!
All yours,
Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya!”
She wanted to take it further,
So she arranged a place to go,
To see if he
Would fall for her incognito.
And when he laid eyes on her,
He got the feeling they had met before.
Uncanny how she
Reminds him of his little lady,
Capacity to give him all he needs,
Just like his wife before she freezed on him,
Just like his wife when she was beautiful.
He shouted out, “I’m
All yours,
Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya!


