History Music / ReginaSpektor

** Regina herself was more of a shy [[SociallyAwkwardHero]] in her public appearances in the early years, as immortalized in the "Regina at the Market" video. This trait began to fade around the time ''far'' came out.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Theatre/OedipusRex Long live]] [[StealthPun the queeeeen...]]]]

A Moscow-born singer/songwriter, known for her [[CloudCuckooLander quirky lyrics]]. She has quite a large range, from ear worms to downright depressing ballads. Immigrating from Russia with her parents owing to rising antisemitic pressures, her family lived briefly in Austria and Italy before she moved to New York at age nine - something she [[ArtImitatesLife has sung about]]. She has since gained a steady ground in the alternative music and anti folk scene.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Not only is Spektor an awesome name (it sounds like it could be a ''Franchise/GIJoe'' villain). During her appearance on ''Series/TheColbertReport'', Colbert questioned whether or not she was a Soviet sleeper agent, bringing up her awesome "sexy spy name" as evidence.

* MatzoFever

Spektor has been married to Moldy Peaches/Only Son musician Jack Dishel since 2011; they have one son together.

* EpicRocking: "Pavlov's Daughter" at nearly 8 minutes long. "Chemo Limo", "Obsolete" and "Back of a Truck" are around 6 minutes, which is still long for her.

* RepurposedPopSong: Microsoft used her song "Us" to promote one of their projects, despite the fact that it's partially about [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the fall of the Soviet Union]] and [[LyricalDissonance contains such lines as "We're living in a den of thieves" and "It's contagious."]] Was the "we are a crumbling EvilEmpire" vibe really what Microsoft was going for?

* RealityEnsues: Not existing means that you don't exist. You can't fly or haunt people; you never died because you don't exist.

** "Pound of Flesh" is arguably a Take That to the famous poet, [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespearean critic]], [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and Nazi collaborator]] Ezra Pound. The name of the song originates from Shakespeare's play ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' that features a stereotypical GreedyJew Shylock who wanted to cut a pound of flesh out of a debtor's body for not paying his debt. During WW2, Ezra Pound used the character of Shylock for the purpose of anti-Semitic propaganda - and in the song, [[KarmicTransformation Pound himself appears as a restless ghost who asks for a pound of flesh to cover his bare bones]].

* ShoutOut: To Music/TomWaits in "Prisoners" (compare it to his song "9th & Hennipen" from ''Music/RainDogs''), Music/PattiSmith in "Poor Little Rich Boy" with the repeated "so goddamn young", Boris Pasternak in "Après Moi," and about a hundred literary references, from Andersen to Margaret Atwood to Creator/VirginiaWoolf to Edith Wharton's ''Ethan Fromm.'' A darker, more ambiguous one is to the famous antisemitic poet Ezra Pound in a song named either "Ezra Pound" or "If You're Never Sorry." She is the Umberto Eco of pianists.

* {{Adorkable}}: Normally well composed in interviews, though she shows a few signs of this.

* EpicRocking: "Pavlov's Daughter" at nearly 8 minutes long. "Chemo Limo", "Obsolete" and "Back of a Truck" are both around 6 minutes, which is still long for her.

* EpicRocking: "Pavlov's Daughter" at nearly 8 minutes long. "Chemo Limo" and "Back of a Truck" are both around 6 minutes, which is still long for her.

* OlderThanTheyLook: You would be forgiven for thinking that Spektor isn't in her late thirties.

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** [[https://www2.pictures.zimbio/com/gi/Regina+Spektor+13th+Annual+Women+In+Film+Female+nSnQ2WZxy0dl.jpgMore so]] in recent years.

** [[https://www2.pictures.zimbio/com/gi/Regina+Spektor+13th+Annual+Women+In+Film+Female+nSnQ2WZxy0dl.jpg More so]] in recent years.

** [[https://www2.pictures/zimbio/com/gi/Regina+Spektor+13th+Annual+Women+In+Film+Female+nSnQ2WZxy0dl.jpg More so]] in recent years.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer:Quite a few [[https://www.reddit.com/r/ladyladyboners/comments/1unb5t/regina_spektor/ women]] have indicated an attraction to her.

* FieryRedhead: It can be hard to tell due to its darker shade that can make it appear brown, but Regina has red hair

* EvenTheGirlsWanrHer:Quite a few [[https://www.reddit.com/r/ladyladyboners/comments/1unb5t/regina_spektor/ "women"]] have indicated an attraction to her.

A Moscow-born singer/songwriter, known for her [[CloudCuckooLander quirky lyrics]]. She has quite a large range, from [[EarWorm earworms]] to downright depressing ballads. Immigrating from Russia with her parents owing to rising antisemitic pressures, her family lived briefly in Austria and Italy before she moved to New York at age nine - something she [[ArtImitatesLife has sung about]]. She has since gained a steady ground in the alternative music and anti folk scene.