Rubberband Girl

"Rubberband Girl"
Single by Kate Bush
from the album The Red Shoes
B-side"Big Stripey Lie"
Released6 September 1993 (1993-09-06)[1]
GenrePop rock[2]
Length4:44
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)Kate Bush
Producer(s)Kate Bush
Kate Bush singles chronology
"Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)"
(1991)
"Rubberband Girl"
(1993)
"Eat the Music"
(1993)
Music video
"Rubberband Girl" on YouTube

"Rubberband Girl" is a song by English singer-songwriter Kate Bush released on the 6th of September 1993 by EMI Records. It was the lead single of her seventh album, The Red Shoes (1993).

The single peaked at No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart and charted for 5 weeks. It was Bush's last top-twenty hit in the UK until "King of the Mountain", which peaked at No. 4 in 2005.[3] The song was a moderate success worldwide, reaching the top 40 in Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand. In the United States, it peaked at No. 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

  1. ^ "Single Releases" (PDF). Music Week. 4 September 1993. p. 25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  2. ^ Zaleski, Annie (8 June 2022). "The 10 Best Kate Bush Songs". Stereogum. Retrieved 17 May 2023. A few years later, Bush was still a modern rock darling, earning a top 10 airplay hit with "Rubberband Girl". Whimsical and quirky, the tune is a "silly pop song", she told Mojo in 2011...
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference uk was invoked but never defined (see the help page).