With each season of stranger things there is a musical revival. One of the most viewed comments on social networks or heard in conversations about the series has to do with its soundtrack, full of classic themes, jewels saved in time, and some forgotten themes. The premiere of the fourth season already left one of the latter.
Groups such as Bon Jovi, Scorpions, The Mamas & the Papas, The Surfaris or Ella Fitzgerald are some of the artists that have been used as part of the music for the different episodes of the series. The bulk of the references to these groups and artists are iconic themes, which marked and serve to describe an era.
The most recent surprise regarding stranger things 4 and its musicalization has to do with the song “running up that hill”. This topic belongs to Kate Bush and in the series it is the one that Max, played by Sadie Sink, listens to over and over again as he walks through the halls of the school, missing Billy, his stepbrother.
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“Running up that hill” was released in 1985. The song was the first single from the album hounds of love by Kate Bush. At that time, the piece quickly positioned itself on different lists, achieving recognition. It was a different time from the current one in terms of consumption dynamics: it was not about views and the themes were heard through the radio, generally.
The detail is that now, in 2022, iTunes has reported a noticeable increase in plays for this song. In accordance with The vanguard, “Running up that hill” is topping the list of most listened to songs within the service. This medium also points out that the boom is not summed up only on that platform. On Spotify and YouTube, reproductions also skyrocketed.
Kate Bush was a notable figure in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The singer presented a total of ten albums. inside them, hounds of love it was the fourth. This phenomenon has occurred in other seasons of stranger things with other topics. However, not in all cases the return to audiences was as successful as “Running up that hill”.
It is part of the discourse raised by the series of Netflix, with an eighties tone both in aesthetics and musicalization. This usually invites adults and children to approach a time that they lived or that, depending on the case, they did not know but with the story they find it interesting. A mix that has left good results in terms of views and, also, in musical reproductions.