Army Dreamers by Kate Bush (1 Viewer)

[Scott]

I heard this song on a couple of You Tube videos by the Japanese painter of Aurora figures. I thought it was a Japanese singer doing English!

Aurora seems to think WW II was fought entirely by cute young women.
http://www.youtube.com/user/solokiyoshi#p/u/6/SiFjM7JnRZE


I wonder if the painter knows what the song is about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdHOm256N4



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Dreamers

"...."Army Dreamers" was the third and final song to be released from Never For Ever by Kate Bush. It was a UK top 20 hit in October 1980.

"Army Dreamers" was released on 22 September 1980 and peaked at number 16 in the UK Singles Chart.[1] The song is about the effects of war and about a mother who grieves for her young son, who was killed on military maneuvers. Saddened by his unnecessary death, she wrestles with her guilt over what she could have done to prevent it. The song is a change to previous works in that it features a Waltz time tempo and Bush sings the lyrics in an Irish accent...."

 

[theBaron]

Aurora Models (http://www.aurora-model.jp/e-index.html) is the business name used by Kiyoshi Tsuda, who sculpts under the name of Solo. You're right, her WWII figures are almost exclusively women, and her style shows the influence of anime and manga style.

Her WWII figures are all German women, mostly Luftwaffe auxiliaries and nurses, and then she also makes fictitious or "what-if" female soldier figures, from a German Panzer crewwoman in the early black uniform, to Russians, to contemporary women soldiers in casual poses that could be in almost any Western army (OD T-shirts and fatigues).

She also has fantasy/wargaming figures in her catalog, as well as other, anime-style figures of school girls that the Japanese love so much.

 

[Rob]

Kate Bush is one of my favourite female singers of all time,just love her work.She really is a one off and a unique talent,she doesn't record as often as she used to so her work is highly anticipated over here.

Rob

 

[Scott]

I did get the Manga/Anime "look" from the figure poses. I thought the song was something from an anime cartoon theme song where you hear English words stuck into the Japanese lyrics.

The painter is amazing to me as I saw the unpainted castings on the Aurora site.