Regina Spektor
So I’m behind the curve on this one: but I am officially obsessed with this NY woman of Jewish-Russian decent. She first got into my consciousness from a NYTimes popcast a few months ago, and there’ve been several times when I’ve heard someone and gone “Is that the girl from the interview?”, so she sort of kicked around in the back of my mind for a while, until finally I got around to full investigation, and wow. I haven’t been moved by a songwriter like this in a long time - I feel like some kind of gushy schoolgirl (’Golly, I wonder what she’s doing right now…’) and can’t rule out the possibility that Kabbala majik may somehow be at work. Here’s the cool animated video for ‘Us’, directed by Peter Sluszka.
So this is the “jewish beyonce.”
Way to ‘call me out, Doc’, I guess what I meant was she is very sexy and rhythmical…perhaps what I meant when I made that unguarded statement-