What does a Tory look like? Do they automatically come attired in Charles Tyrwhitt shirts and Barbour jackets, and have naturally booming voices? Does membership of the Conservative party automatically make you a subscriber to Horse & Hound magazine? Clearly such assumptions are ludicrous, but there is a sense among some music fans that Tory-loving pop stars should identify themselves – a badge, perhaps, or a special hat – in order that we may judge their acceptability.
This certainly would have prevented a world of grief for Kate Bush, who has just ended two years on the naughty step when she released a statement clarifying her political views. In an interview with the Canadian magazine Maclean’s in 2016, Bush was reported as having expressed support for the new British prime minister, Theresa May, prompting a fit of the vapours among her admirers. Taken in context, the meaning of Bush’s quotes was obvious. During a discussion about Hillary Clinton and the fear of women’s power, she voiced enthusiasm for having a woman in charge. But nuance rarely being a characteristic of 21st-century discourse, this was lost in translation, and our Kate was branded a Tory. More heartache ensued in the flurry of press around the release of her remastered back catalogue and a book of lyrics late in 2018, prompting – finally – clarification on her website.
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