Kate and Me, a Romance: Or, Fandom and Participatory Culture as Inoculation against the Postmodern E
Track One: Sat In Your Lap I resisted the pull of Kate Bush as long as I could. Upon first hearing her music in 2008, my initial thought was that something was wrong with my speakers. I couldn’t believe the weird, witchy wailings, the shrieking, gasping vocals. They absolutely repelled me. Still, something brought me back, again and again. For a while I splashed around in the kiddie pool of her gentler, radio-friendly ’80s jams, “Running Up That Hill” and “Cloudbusting” and “