Babooshka (1980) is a song by Kate Bush which according
to her comments in an interview, 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.
The trap is set when, in her bitterness
and paranoia, Babooshka arranges to meet her husband, who is attracted to the character who reminds him
of his wife in earlier times. She thereby ruins the relationship due to her
paranoia.
Bush remarked that she heard this story on
some TV series years ago when she was a kid, and that she found it fascinating.
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