Regina Spektor

Aww, poor neglected blog.

I wanted to do a post about one of my favorite singer-songwriters, Regina Spektor, who I’ve been pretty obsessed with lately. She’s a quirky, joyful, soulful young Russian-born pianist who’s probably best known in the mainstream world for her hit “Fidelity” (which is what I first heard from her).

Not only is she crazy talented, but she’s gorgeous and adorably humble to boot. I would love love love a chance to see her live — she seems like one of those unfortunately seemingly uncommon performers that is if anything better live than they are recorded. Here she is singing “Ghost of Corporate Future” live:

Besides her excellent songwriting (other songs of hers I’ve been in love with lately include Braille and Eet), she has done my favorite cover ever of the ubiquitously-covered Hallelujah and has contributed vocals to Ben Folds’ You Don’t Know Me.

They say she’s one of those artists you either love or hate, and I definitely love her. For me she’s definitely an artist where the songs I first fell in love with are not always the songs I ultimately come to love the most — a lot of her stuff feels like it needs to sink in over time, and that always gives me something new to fall in love with.

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