A socila media star who resembles Kate Bush and has gone viral on TikTok with clips impersonating the star revealed she’s getting marriage proposals from fans.
Sydney Golding, from Essex, who works as an administrator, said that she has been told that she looked like the singer for many years.
The 21-year-old’s clips impersonating Kate Bush on TikTok (@syd_not_so_vicious_) have racked up hundreds of thousands of likes – with many of the singer’s fans leaving stunned comments at her uncanny resemblance.
Sydney started doing the videos after the sudden death of her friend, who was a massive fan of the star and had wanted her to impersonate Kate Bush, so she decided to honour his memory by starting the account.
Recently, the attention she has received has increased since the singer’s 1985 hit ‘Running Up That Hill’ was featured in Netflix hit sci-fi series Stranger Things.
Sydney Golding, 21, from Essex, who works as an administrator, said that she has been told that she looked like Kate Bush for many years. The 21-year-old’s clips impersonating Kate Bush on TikTok (@syd_not_so_vicious_) have racked up hundreds of thousands of likes – with many of the singer’s fans leaving stunned comments at her uncanny resemblance. Right: The real Kate Bush, pictured in 1978
Sydney started doing the videos after the sudden death of her friend, who was a massive fan of the star and had wanted her to impersonate Kate Bush- so she decided to honour his memory by starting the account
Sydney said: ‘For as long as I can remember, friends and family have told me I looked like Kate Bush and I’ve had strangers commenting on my Facebook saying they thought I was actually Kate Bush!
‘When I received the sad news that he had passed away, ‘Running up the Hill’ came up on the radio and I took it as a massive sign that I should explore Kate Bush. After more and I fell in love with her music too.
‘I started doing the TikTok videos to honour my late friend and to show my huge admiration of Kate Bush’s amazing music. I was bowled over by the amazing response from people.
Sydney said that she finds it rewarding when Kate Bush’s fans compare her to the star: ‘It’s such a compliment when her fans on TikTok tell me I look and perform like her.
Recently, the attention has increased since the singer’s 1985 hit ‘Running Up That Hill’ was featured in Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things
Sydney said that friends, family and strangers have told her that she looked like Kate Bush for as long as she can remember
The 21-year-old said that she went to a tribute concert for Kate Bush’s music recently and got a lot of stares from people in the crowd and one woman came up to her and asked if she knew how much she looks like the star
Sydney gets a plethora of comments on her impersonation videos which have remarked on how much she looks like the singer, including one person who wrote: ‘Jeez you look just like her’
It means a lot to me. I do get guys asking to marry me and asking what my relationship status is!’
She added: ‘I went to a tribute concert for Kate Bush’s music recently and I got a lot of stares from people in the crowd. A woman approached me and asked if I knew how much I looked like Kate and I’ve had a stranger come up to me in the street too.’
On Sydney’s TikTok account, one stunned follower wrote: ‘Jeez you look just like her’
Meanwhile another viewer commented: ‘Wow, incredible likeness to Kate!’
Whilst another commented: ‘I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again I grew up with Kate’s music and you’re her double omg uncanny.’
Another person wrote on her TikTok account that Sydney was Kate’s ‘double’ and that the resemblance is ‘uncanny’
Her TikTok account features everything Kate Bush, including outfits, songs and memes relating to the star
Her continued success on TikTok may rise further as Running Up That Hill is currently the UK’s most-streamed song, averaging 700,000 plays per day on Spotify
The revival of Running Up That Hill in Stranger Things has seen the tune re-enter the charts in a number of countries and Kate has achieved her first ever top five single in America.
Her track has made it all the way to number four in the US charts almost forty years after it was released, with the single only reaching number 30 originally on the US Billboard Hot 100.
And her song has hit number one in Norway and Austria, with her album Hounds of Love getting to the top spot on Billboard’s Top Alternative Albums Chart in the US.
In the UK charts, the 80s ballad is already at number two but is expected to hit number one this week.
The chances of the tune reaching the top spot have now increased as the Charts enacted a rule which stops older songs being penalised if their streams surge.
Running Up That Hill is currently the UK’s most-streamed song, averaging 700,000 plays per day on Spotify.
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