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March 8, 2008
Singing Saturday -- Spektor Spektakular
For this installment of Singing Saturday I bring you Soviet Moscow-born singer-songwriter Regina Spektor, who now lives in Brooklyn. (Read her biography -- it's fascinating.)
I don't remember who first turned me on to Spektor, but I rushed right over to the iTunes store and downloaded "Ode to Divorce." A few weeks later, another Spektor song, "Fidelity," was the iTunes free song of the week. If you haven't checked her out, do so. Some people will draw an immediate comparison with Tori Amos. I see and hear that, but though I like Amos, I like Spektor better. Not sure why, yet.
Here's my favorite Spektor song so far: "Fidelity":
This is the other song I've had in my playlists for a little while now, "Ode to Divorce":
And she's got a new video out, "Better":
There are two other music videos at Spektor's YouTube page, but the one I recommend the most highly is "Samson," a strangely sweet, slightly bewildering retelling of the old story.
Despite insistences by the music industry (boo, hiss, a plague upon their houses) that making music available online discourages people from buying music, I want to run right out and grab her album. And I wouldn't know about her, to know that I want to buy her album, if the videos weren't out there. And if I couldn't watch them compulsively, as I do. There's a lot of crap out there. Spektor ain't that. She deserves our support. I can't wait to see what she does next.
Posted by reparent at March 8, 2008 3:07 PM
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I hope you did run out and buy the album. It's wall-to-wall fabulous. Nothing else entered my car's CD player for about a week after I bought it.
My current theory about preferring Regina to Tori (which I do as well) is that Regina is a better singer, and, while squirky, quite a bit more accessible, both lyrically and in her song construction. Tori can probably massacre her in a piano competition, though.
Posted by: Gail at March 16, 2008 8:01 PM