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[[caption-width-right:350:''"When we got to the top of the hill, we saw Rome burning."'']]
''50 Words for Snow'', released in 2011, is the tenth and most recent studio album by English art pop musician Music/KateBush. Recorded simultaneously with ''Director's Cut'' and released six months later, the record is a ConceptAlbum themed around snowscapes and otherwise wintry settings, inspired by an urban legend that falsely claims that the Inuit have a ridiculously large number of words for snow (itself born out of the concept of linguistic relativity). Fitting this, the sound on the album is far more subdued than the eclectic direction of Bush's previous albums, shifting to a minimalist combination of chamber pop and JazzFusion driven primarily by piano and drums, with little of the flowery embellishments that she was known for.
As ''Director's Cut'' consisted solely of re-recorded material from ''Music/TheSensualWorld'' and ''The Red Shoes'', this album stood as Bush's first release of new material since ''Music/{{Aerial}}'' six years prior. The album was also Bush's second release on her vanity label Fish People, the first being the aforementioned ''Director's Cut''.
In-line with other Bush albums, ''50 Words for Snow'' was primarily promoted by promotional spots on TV and radio, plus StopMotion {{Animated Music Video}}s for "Wild Man" and a section of "Misty". The closing track, "Among Angels", would also be featured in Bush's 2014 residency show ''Before the Dawn'', her first extensive concert series since the Tour of Life all the way back in 1979.
''50 Words for Snow'' was promoted by just one single: "Wild Man".
!!Tracklist:
# "Snowflake" (9:52)
# "Lake Tahoe" (11:08)
# "Misty" (13:32)
# "Wild Man" (7:17)
# "Snowed in at Wheeler Street" (8:05)
# "50 Words for Snow" (8:31)
# "Among Angels" (6:49)
!!''I can feel him troping in my hand, troping'':
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''A'''mong '''A'''ngels".
* AnimatedMusicVideo: The videos for both "Misty" and "Wild Man" are depicted in StopMotion.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: "Wild Man" is about a research team's hunt for the yeti in the Himalayas.
* BookEnds: In "Snowed in at Wheeler Street", the first and last points in history that the StarCrossedLovers describe meeting at is the burning of Rome, watching it from a distant hilltop.
* ConceptAlbum: True to its title, every song on the album focuses on winter in some way, shape, or form.
* ConceptVideo: The music video for "Misty" adapts the song's lyrics about a woman who sleeps with a snowman and wakes up to find that he's melted.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album packaging consists entirely of black, white, and gray tones all across.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover photo depicts an elaborate snow sculpture of a woman and a snowman kissing, designed to resemble a bas relief. Other snow sculptures in this fashion appear throughout the liner notes.
* DownerEnding: "Misty" ends with the titular snowman melting after a night of passion with the woman he loves, leaving her mourning his fate the next morning.
* EpicRocking: Every track on the album goes well over the six-minute mark. The 13-minute "Misty" in particular stands as the longest song in Bush's catalog.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** "Snowflake" is a song about a literal snowflake.
** "50 Words for Snow" consists primarily of Creator/StephenFry listing off fifty different terms for snow.
* ListSong: "50 Words for Snow" mainly comprises a list of fifty words for snow.
* LocationSong: "Lake Tahoe", about a freshwater lake in northern California. The song specifically recounts an urban legend claiming that the lake's grounds are inhabited by a woman who drowned there in the 19th century.
* LongestSongGoesLast: Inverted; the closing track, "Among Angels", is actually the shortest song on the album.
* LoudnessWar: Averted -- the album is very dynamic compared to other albums in the 2010s, at [=DR13=], though the piano tracks (which form the music's backbone) audibly clip at points.
* NewSoundAlbum: Tranquil, piano-driven chamber pop with traces of JazzFusion in the drumming.
* OneManSong:
** "Misty", about a sentient snowman that the narrator falls in love with.
** "Wild Man", about the Abominable Snowman.
* OneWordTitle: "Snowflake", "Misty".
* ShapedLikeItself: The fiftieth word for snow in "50 Words for Snow" is... "snow."
* {{Snowlems}}: The title character of "Misty" is a snowman who comes to life and falls in love with the woman who built him. Unfortunately, his love becomes his downfall when he sleeps with her and melts overnight.
* SnowMeansLove: With the sole exception of the TitleTrack, nearly every song on the album uses winter imagery to invoke feelings of love and longing; "Snowed in at Wheeler Street" in particular describes the [[StarCrossedLovers star-crossed lovers']] one prolonged moment together taking place while they're, well, snowed in at Wheeler Street. The album cover even depicts a snow sculpture of the couple from "Misty".
* SophisticatedAsHell: Invoked on the TitleTrack. Bush stated that her chief motivation for getting Creator/StephenFry to voice professor Joseph Yupik was the chance to hear him recite various silly-sounding terms with the same gravity as an important lecture.
* SopranoAndGravel:
** A gender-inverted case happens with "Snowflake". The lead vocals are provided by Bertie [=McIntosh=], who was just thirteen at the time and consequently sings in a waiflike soprano. This is contrasted with his mother's vocals on the choruses, which are comparatively deep and rugged.
** A more traditional case occurs with "Snowed in at Wheeler Street", where Bush's elegiac vocals are contrasted with Music/EltonJohn's deeper-pitched performance.
* SpecialGuest:
** Scientists Stefan Roberts and Michael Wood provide backing vocals on "Lake Tahoe".
** Music/EltonJohn duets with Bush on "Snowed in at Wheeler Street".
** Creator/StephenFry provides the voice of professor Joseph Yupik on the TitleTrack.
* SpokenWordInMusic: Creator/StephenFry's part on the TitleTrack consists of him dryly listing off various words and phrases that can describe snow.
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Bush's son, Bertie [=McIntosh=], provides lead vocals on "Snowflake".
* StarCrossedLovers: "Snowed In At Wheeler Street" is about a couple who keep on running into each other throughout various points in history (in order, the burning of Rome, an unspecified time in Paris, UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London the Great Smog of London]], and [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the September 11 attacks]]), but for one reason or another are unable to stay with together.
* TitleTrack: The penultimate song on the album.
* TragicIceCharacter: The title figure in "Misty" is a {{Snowlem|s}} who dies melting in the arms of his lover.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In "Snowed in at Wheeler Street", the narrator notes that when she and her [[StarCrossedLovers star-crossed lover]] met in New York City during 9/11, they didn't pay attention to the attacks and simply shared a moment of love taking each other's photographs.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"When we got to the top of the hill, we saw Rome burning."'']]
''50 Words for Snow'', released in 2011, is the tenth and most recent studio album by English art pop musician Music/KateBush. Recorded simultaneously with ''Director's Cut'' and released six months later, the record is a ConceptAlbum themed around snowscapes and otherwise wintry settings, inspired by an urban legend that falsely claims that the Inuit have a ridiculously large number of words for snow (itself born out of the concept of linguistic relativity). Fitting this, the sound on the album is far more subdued than the eclectic direction of Bush's previous albums, shifting to a minimalist combination of chamber pop and JazzFusion driven primarily by piano and drums, with little of the flowery embellishments that she was known for.
As ''Director's Cut'' consisted solely of re-recorded material from ''Music/TheSensualWorld'' and ''The Red Shoes'', this album stood as Bush's first release of new material since ''Music/{{Aerial}}'' six years prior. The album was also Bush's second release on her vanity label Fish People, the first being the aforementioned ''Director's Cut''.
In-line with other Bush albums, ''50 Words for Snow'' was primarily promoted by promotional spots on TV and radio, plus StopMotion {{Animated Music Video}}s for "Wild Man" and a section of "Misty". The closing track, "Among Angels", would also be featured in Bush's 2014 residency show ''Before the Dawn'', her first extensive concert series since the Tour of Life all the way back in 1979.
''50 Words for Snow'' was promoted by just one single: "Wild Man".
!!Tracklist:
# "Snowflake" (9:52)
# "Lake Tahoe" (11:08)
# "Misty" (13:32)
# "Wild Man" (7:17)
# "Snowed in at Wheeler Street" (8:05)
# "50 Words for Snow" (8:31)
# "Among Angels" (6:49)
!!''I can feel him troping in my hand, troping'':
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''A'''mong '''A'''ngels".
* AnimatedMusicVideo: The videos for both "Misty" and "Wild Man" are depicted in StopMotion.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: "Wild Man" is about a research team's hunt for the yeti in the Himalayas.
* BookEnds: In "Snowed in at Wheeler Street", the first and last points in history that the StarCrossedLovers describe meeting at is the burning of Rome, watching it from a distant hilltop.
* ConceptAlbum: True to its title, every song on the album focuses on winter in some way, shape, or form.
* ConceptVideo: The music video for "Misty" adapts the song's lyrics about a woman who sleeps with a snowman and wakes up to find that he's melted.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album packaging consists entirely of black, white, and gray tones all across.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover photo depicts an elaborate snow sculpture of a woman and a snowman kissing, designed to resemble a bas relief. Other snow sculptures in this fashion appear throughout the liner notes.
* DownerEnding: "Misty" ends with the titular snowman melting after a night of passion with the woman he loves, leaving her mourning his fate the next morning.
* EpicRocking: Every track on the album goes well over the six-minute mark. The 13-minute "Misty" in particular stands as the longest song in Bush's catalog.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** "Snowflake" is a song about a literal snowflake.
** "50 Words for Snow" consists primarily of Creator/StephenFry listing off fifty different terms for snow.
* ListSong: "50 Words for Snow" mainly comprises a list of fifty words for snow.
* LocationSong: "Lake Tahoe", about a freshwater lake in northern California. The song specifically recounts an urban legend claiming that the lake's grounds are inhabited by a woman who drowned there in the 19th century.
* LongestSongGoesLast: Inverted; the closing track, "Among Angels", is actually the shortest song on the album.
* LoudnessWar: Averted -- the album is very dynamic compared to other albums in the 2010s, at [=DR13=], though the piano tracks (which form the music's backbone) audibly clip at points.
* NewSoundAlbum: Tranquil, piano-driven chamber pop with traces of JazzFusion in the drumming.
* OneManSong:
** "Misty", about a sentient snowman that the narrator falls in love with.
** "Wild Man", about the Abominable Snowman.
* OneWordTitle: "Snowflake", "Misty".
* ShapedLikeItself: The fiftieth word for snow in "50 Words for Snow" is... "snow."
* {{Snowlems}}: The title character of "Misty" is a snowman who comes to life and falls in love with the woman who built him. Unfortunately, his love becomes his downfall when he sleeps with her and melts overnight.
* SnowMeansLove: With the sole exception of the TitleTrack, nearly every song on the album uses winter imagery to invoke feelings of love and longing; "Snowed in at Wheeler Street" in particular describes the [[StarCrossedLovers star-crossed lovers']] one prolonged moment together taking place while they're, well, snowed in at Wheeler Street. The album cover even depicts a snow sculpture of the couple from "Misty".
* SophisticatedAsHell: Invoked on the TitleTrack. Bush stated that her chief motivation for getting Creator/StephenFry to voice professor Joseph Yupik was the chance to hear him recite various silly-sounding terms with the same gravity as an important lecture.
* SopranoAndGravel:
** A gender-inverted case happens with "Snowflake". The lead vocals are provided by Bertie [=McIntosh=], who was just thirteen at the time and consequently sings in a waiflike soprano. This is contrasted with his mother's vocals on the choruses, which are comparatively deep and rugged.
** A more traditional case occurs with "Snowed in at Wheeler Street", where Bush's elegiac vocals are contrasted with Music/EltonJohn's deeper-pitched performance.
* SpecialGuest:
** Scientists Stefan Roberts and Michael Wood provide backing vocals on "Lake Tahoe".
** Music/EltonJohn duets with Bush on "Snowed in at Wheeler Street".
** Creator/StephenFry provides the voice of professor Joseph Yupik on the TitleTrack.
* SpokenWordInMusic: Creator/StephenFry's part on the TitleTrack consists of him dryly listing off various words and phrases that can describe snow.
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Bush's son, Bertie [=McIntosh=], provides lead vocals on "Snowflake".
* StarCrossedLovers: "Snowed In At Wheeler Street" is about a couple who keep on running into each other throughout various points in history (in order, the burning of Rome, an unspecified time in Paris, UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London the Great Smog of London]], and [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the September 11 attacks]]), but for one reason or another are unable to stay with together.
* TitleTrack: The penultimate song on the album.
* TragicIceCharacter: The title figure in "Misty" is a {{Snowlem|s}} who dies melting in the arms of his lover.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In "Snowed in at Wheeler Street", the narrator notes that when she and her [[StarCrossedLovers star-crossed lover]] met in New York City during 9/11, they didn't pay attention to the attacks and simply shared a moment of love taking each other's photographs.
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