Kate Bush - Rubberband Girl (USA Release)

[delepine]

How great ..I've been looking for over a month..

[ThePerfectScience]

The Red Shoes clips work really well!

"It's really happnin' to ya!"

[MisterBlue24]

To the poster of this clip. Your video description is incorrect. The Line, The Cross and The Curve was readily available back in the day to the U.S. and Canadian market once it was released onto VHS home video. This second video was created specifically for the U.S. market, as requested by her affiliate record company in the U.S., but not for the reason you described above.

[mickmars51]

she kinda needs that strait jacket done up.. ^__^

[mickmars51]

I'm a HUGE Kate Bush fan...But this video is really really bad. It like isn't her... The sunglasses? Like......

The other one is so much better.

[MisterBlue24]

@mickmars51 Actually, if you understood Kate's humour at all, you would "get" this video. Since the first video for this song is from the actual film, they wanted another one specifically for the U.S. market, so Kate did this one in jest, poking fun at what people considered to be "the look" of mainstream American videos at that time... hence the sunglasses and the big microphone, etc.

[MsBkirk]

I think she looks like Miriam Stoppard with the dark glasses on!

[jerkedevries]

Who's the dancer? I know he is also in a photograph on the cd. Handsome guy.

[njnorth1]

The Line, The Cross, and The Curve was available, I a New Jerseyan have it. It may have limited stocking by stores as she doesn't really sell that well here as far as I can tell.

[bigkim100]

Its funny, she looks so much older in this video, than the European one...its gotta be the lighting, because this one was only shot around 8 months after the other.

[LollieSmith]

I thought that myself. When i saw her interviewed at the time she still looked not much different to 1978

[erixoff]

Bah; she's cute dressed like this. :-)

[CynicalHippie]

Maybe the reason for the US release was so that MTV could have a giant staircase in yet another video - cause you know MTV (back when it Music Television and not Moron TV) wouldn't play a song unless there was a big fuck-off-staircase in the video. I like the video still, but the Line, The Cross and The Curve version is far superior.

[hellozio]

why does EVERYTHING have to have a us version? are the yanks really so delicate? anyone  seen the clip of mercy by duffy for the yank market? omg.

[dimitriosmichael]

i would have scrapped the whole song. video and all. this is not kate bush, its a rich producer picking up a b side to try and squeeze out a little more economic gain. sorry, but it blows dog, big time!

[zapzupnz]

If you ever think Kate would do something to please the record company (apart from her second album, Lionheart), then you don't know Kate. =]

[Doolsey]

Also sitting in U.S. Also think the U.K. version is superior. However, this one has its strengths. I like the flamenco. I like Kate's look. She seems spunkier in this, less lackadaisical.

However, the oh brother moment is when the male dancer gets overtly romantic. Of course, USA audiences have to have that. The simple intimacy of the dance is too subtle for them (us).

[Frisbieinstein]

this blows. Gimme UK!!!!

Weakness of the dollar.

[bmwloco]

Sitting here in the US. The UK version is better. Sigh. We yanks. We only get what we deserve.

[bakerford123]

I agree. This version isn't exactly showing off her dancing talents.  US censorship does get a little over conservative sometimes, take that Leona Lewis song that had to have it's own US version.

[calicomoonchild]

I don't get why America needed this separate video, I mean The other Video would have stood up on it's own (I feel personally) even without the release (or knowledge) of "The Line, The Cross & The Curve".

[rckljohnson]

I agree :) Oh well though; The Red Shoes, as well as all of her other works are magnificent