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Kate Bush 1985 Running Up That Hill Meme

This is a 2-panel meme using a famous scene from the 1985 sci-fi comedy film *Back to the Future*. The top text frames the scene as Kate Bush after releasing her single 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)' in 1985. In the first panel, Marty McFly stands on stage at the 1955 Enchantment Under the Sea dance next to musician Marvin Berry, with the caption 'I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet'. The second panel continues the quote 'but your kids are gonna love it'. The meme jokes that while the song was popular upon its 1985 release, it gained massive mainstream popularity with much younger generations nearly 40 years later when it was featured heavily in season 4 of the Netflix series *Stranger Things* in 2022, topping global charts decades after its original debut.
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I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet
but your kids are gonna love it.

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kate bush in 1985 after launching running up that hill

Overview

This is a 2-panel meme using a famous scene from the 1985 sci-fi comedy film Back to the Future. The top text frames the scene as Kate Bush after releasing her single 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)' in 1985. In the first panel, Marty McFly stands on stage at the 1955 Enchantment Under the Sea dance next to musician Marvin Berry, with the caption 'I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet'. The second panel continues the quote 'but your kids are gonna love it'. The meme jokes that while the song was popular upon its 1985 release, it gained massive mainstream popularity with much younger generations nearly 40 years later when it was featured heavily in season 4 of the Netflix series Stranger Things in 2022, topping global charts decades after its original debut.

Origin notes

This meme is a derivative work repurposing an iconic scene from the 1985 film Back to the Future. It spread widely across social media in 2022 following the massive viral resurgence of Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill' after its placement in Stranger Things season 4. Per the provided source information, this iteration of the meme was shared on X (formerly Twitter) by user @meme.jpg via RSS feed.

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