The images of Max running away from Vecna on the track of Running Up That Hill, a song she's listened to multiple times throughout the season, have gone viral and are known even to those who are not Stranger Things fans.
During the episode, Nancy and Robin learn that music is the only thing that can save people from Vecna's wrath. This bit of information proves useful as the gang is able to fend of the upside down demon and save Max using her favorite song Kate Bush's 1985 hit "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)."
The playlist currently features “Psycho Killer,” “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” and, of course, Kate Bush's “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God),” which saw an increase of more than 8,700% in global streams on May 30 after Volume 1 premiered.
He can be stopped, however, if his victim listens to their favorite song. Sadie Sink's Max escapes Vecna's clutches with an assist from Kate Bush's 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” — which, in turn, has caused the song to go viral.
Thanks to Spotify , you don't need to answer that question yourself. Spotify has created an Upside Down playlist for everyone to check out their No. 1 "savior song." Whatever song is at the top of your playlist is your "savior song." Find your Upside Down playlist here.
If you select a song, a pop-up of Vecna himself should appear on your Android or desktop and the progress bar will light up like a torch, taking listeners on a journey through the Upside Down.
Thanks to Spotify, Stranger Things fans can now access a new feature that lets the app suggest what song would save you from Vecna, the antagonist introduced in Season 4 of the series.
If Vecna has you in a trance, listening to your favorite song can help pull you out of it, as we saw when Vecna attacked Max only for her friends to pull her out his trance using the synth-tastic stylings of Kate Bush, specifically her 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God).”
As Vecna, he uses these mental abilities as a way to psychologically weaken and lure in his victims – much in a way that Pennywise, Freddie Kruger, and Pinhead do. (All of which have been cited by show creators the Duffer brothers as inspirations for the villain.) But he does have a surprising weakness: music.
After learning how Victor Creel was able to evade death back in 1959, Robin and Nancy deduce that playing the victim's favorite song can help them escape the trance that Vecna places them in, with music and happy memories being the only way to keep Vecna's fatal curse at bay.
Stranger Things. Netflix - YouTube. It's true: 'Running Up That Hill' by Kate Bush can literally save the universe. Max's (Sadie Sink) battle with Vecna is a moment in cinematic history.
In anticipation of Stranger Things season 4's return, Spotify is finally allowing users to find their song to defeat Vecna similar to Max. As Vecna makes his way back to the screen, Spotify is letting you find your song to defeat the Stranger Things season 4 villain.
Music evokes strong memories that are both good and bad, so it makes sense that it could open a doorway out of the oppressive alienation of trauma, despair, and guilt that Max found herself in.
In an interview with ET Canada on the MTV Movie and TV Awards red carpet, Jamie Campbell Bower, aka Vecna himself, revealed that his go-to song to save him from the villain's otherworldly spell would be a party anthem for the ages: Miley Cyrus's "Party in the USA."
“Running Up That Hill,” by Kate Bush
Plays in Max's headphones as she, Erica, and Lucas search for Vecna in the Creel house. A synth version of the song also plays as Hopper kills the demogorgon in the Soviet Union prison, and Eleven, Steve, Nancy, and Robin collectively try to defeat Vecna.
Max Mayfield was pulled into the Upside Down, but was able to escape because Dustin, Lucas, and Steve played her favorite song – “Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush.
At his empire's height, Vecna was betrayed and destroyed by his most trusted lieutenant, a vampire called Kas the Bloody-Handed, using a magical sword that Vecna himself had crafted for him, now known as the Sword of Kas.
If Vecna can overwhelm their victim with fear, and keep them from resisting, their fate is almost certainly sealed. In the real world, he makes the victim levitate while in their trance, before snapping their bones and neck, and crushing their eyes.
Max has escaped Vecna, so she is safe from Vecna. But you don't just beat depression once and go about the rest of your life. Vecna is still around every corner, and Max has to keep focusing on the things she loves—her friends, her favorite song, her inner strength—because this is a long-haul battle.
Ultimately, it is revealed in Stranger Things season 4's finale that the reason why Vecna was killing Hawkins teenagers was to create a massive gate that merges the Right Side Up with the Upside Down - and he specifically needed four bodies to do so.
Nancy, Steve and Robin get freed too. They rush to find Vecna's body and burn it down. With this Vecna's soul turns to ash in front of Eleven. Max's dies in Lucas' arms, thus getting Vecna his fourth kill.
Vecna's powers allow him to form psychic connections with people in reality, especially teenagers dealing with trauma and mental health issues. Vecna develops these connections with young and vulnerable teens so that he can get out of the Upside Down and gain access to the real world by opening four gates or portals.
What Does Vecna Want? Vecna's goal is to open as many gates to the Upside Down as he can, in order to help the Mind Flayer.
For Vecna's voice, Henighan says they took Campbell Bower's performance and manipulated his voice so that “the clarity, the strength and the power was there. …