Uploaded by ebonyblack87 on Dec 20, 2008
Babooshka sung by Kate Bush
June 1980
high quality version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_0rOR8Q_Z4&fmt=18
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The song chronicles a wife's desire to test her husband's loyalty. To do so, she takes on the nom de plume of Babooshka and sends notes to her husband in the guise of a younger woman -- something which she fears is the opposite of how her husband currently sees her (Hence the barbed lines: "Just like his wife before she "freezed" on him / Just like his wife when she was beautiful...")
The trap is set when, in her bitterness and paranoia, Babooshka arranges to meet her husband, who is attracted to the character that reminds him of his wife in earlier times. She thereby ruins the relationship due to her paranoia.
The music video depicts Bush beside a double bass (contrabass) which symbolises the husband, wearing a black bodysuit and a veil in her role as the embittered wife, alluding to a definition of the word babooshka - a headscarf. This changes into an extravagant, mythlike and rather sparse 'Russian' costume as her alter-ego, Babooshka.
Babushka is the Russian word for "grandmother" (albeit the stress in Russian falls on the first syllable, not the second), and sometimes indicates in English a garment worn over women's hair, much like a bandana. The name of the song is repeated throughout the chorus and is harmonised at the end of the line with ya-ya, which is the Greek word for grandmother
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What a friking good song !!!!!!! :)
2 years ago 11
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omg i luv this song
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ze doet zelf haar cheografy ik ook les is niet leuk improviseren hoe je voelt great thanks hony
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An anti Soviet song kids...I think it has a special resonance now amongst certain Islamic ladies that would like to drive and think for themselves again? The evil empires will fall again and again... You cannot control people!
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this song is awesome, and the video to :)
Babooshka, babooshka, baboshka-ya-ya! ^_^ y love it :D
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ripoff mocking berlusconi's pledge to resign
watch?feature=player_embedded&
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Sooo ridiculously studenty...
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0 dislikes...
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Hi Onbree
Did you that this is onbree
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i am slightly entranced yet petrified of this woman and her eyes
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WATCH WUTHERING HEIGHTS
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olala8080
I thought it meant my love.
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whats mean "Babooshka"?
tomiine3 2 years ago
Its in the description
ebonyblack87 2 years ago