{"id":66304,"date":"2022-09-05T03:52:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T03:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-music-supervisor-who-secured-kate-bushs-running-up-that-hill-wins-emmy\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T03:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T03:52:59","slug":"stranger-things-music-supervisor-who-secured-kate-bushs-running-up-that-hill-wins-emmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-music-supervisor-who-secured-kate-bushs-running-up-that-hill-wins-emmy\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Stranger Things’ Music Supervisor Who Secured Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ Wins Emmy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cStranger Things\u201d music supervisor Nora Felder emerged victorious at Sunday’s Creative Arts Emmys, winning Outstanding Music Supervision for the season 4 episode \u201cDear Billy,\u201d the one that made a nearly 40-year-old Kate Bush song a hit again. In her acceptance speech, Felder gave a special thanks to Bush (and Metallica, whose music also appeared in season 4).<\/p>\n

The episode prominently features Bush’s 1985 song \u201cRunning Up That Hill (Make a Deal with God),\u201d empowering the character Max (Sadie Sink) to fight back against evil. After the series’ fourth season dropped on Netflix in May, the track started charting around the world, propelled in no small part by chatter on social media. It reached No. 1 on iTunes and by July, the \u201cRunning Up That Hill\u201d video had hit 100 million YouTube views. (As of this writing, it’s now up to 127 million.)<\/p>\n

Felder chose the track because she felt the lyrics perfectly captured Max’s experience. As she told variety<\/em>, \u201cIn the face of Max’s painful isolation and alienation from others, a ‘deal with god’ could heart-wrenchingly reflect Max’s implicit belief only a miracle of unlikely understanding and show of support could help her climb the hills of life before her. In Max’s situation, the need for a ‘deal with god’ can perhaps be metaphorically understood as a desperate cry for love \u2014 to manifest the extraordinary understanding and support Max needed while feeling so painfully alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Securing the song was a huge coup for Felder, who previously had been nominated for her work on \u201cStranger Things\u201d three times. Bush is famously protective of her music and rarely grants permission for its use in movies and television.<\/p>\n

But it turned out that the musician has been a \u201cStranger Things\u201d fan from the beginning, so when Felder’s request reached her, she approved. The decision ended up giving new life to the song, the first single off her 1985 album \u201cHounds of Love.\u201d In an interview with BBC One in June, Bush said, \u201cI thought that the track would get some attention. But I just never imagined that it would be anything like this. It’s so exciting. But it’s quite shocking really, isn’t it? I mean, the whole world’s gone mad.<\/p>\n