Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” enters the latest season ofStranger Thingsduring a brooding high-school hallway scene right out of the John Hughes playbook, and it has since bounded up the charts, hitting No. 4 on theBillboardHot 100 and performing better now than when it peaked at No. 30 upon release.Stranger Things, whose latest season has logged more viewer minutes for Netflix than any other English-language release to date, hasleaned heavily on ’80s nostalgiasince its premiere in 2016: Its iconic theme song is reminiscent of John Carpenter B-movies, and, in an email, used-instrument resale site Reverb.com tells us the show has boosted interest in analog synthesizers. “Running Up That Hill,” then, is a natural fit for the show, and it plays a pivotal, spoiler-ridden plot point in the show, requiring us to hear the hook multiple times throughout the season — a perfect earworm. But its success is owed to more than just repetition. It waffles between major and minor, and t...