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* SurpriseCreepy: People who listen to her "main" musical output will probably be very surprised when listening to her side work, especially "Songs".
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* SurpriseCreepy: People who listen to her "main" musical output will probably be very surprised when listening to her side work, especially "Songs". For reference, compare the dark and calm "Edit" with the peppy and upbeat "Ne Me Quitte Pas".
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** [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext "The intervals, they get so crunchy..."]]
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* {{Moe}}: Perhaps accidentally.
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** The video for "Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas). It features Regina doing random stuff around an apartment [[spoiler: and then a tiny, flaming guy with a trumpet appears out of the trashcan of stuff she just lit on fire]].
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** The video for "Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas). It features Regina doing random stuff around an apartment [[spoiler: and then a tiny, flaming guy with a trumpet appears out of the trashcan of stuff she just lit on fire]].fire]].
** Daniel Cowman. The song is a 5-minutes presumably drug fueled mess, ending with Regina telling the listener to go away because she wants to take a fucking bath. Still a pretty cool song though.
** Daniel Cowman. The song is a 5-minutes presumably drug fueled mess, ending with Regina telling the listener to go away because she wants to take a fucking bath. Still a pretty cool song though.
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* MemeticMutation: From Your Honor, "I'm a pizzaterian".
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** "Us" is downright beautiful. A lot of her older work also counts; just about everything from Begin to Hope count, though she's very dismissive of her older work.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Bobbing for Apples": 'Someone next door is fucking to one of my songs.'
** Your Honor.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=__fvJZCFiYE#t=170s Regina suffers a fan's unfortunate attempt to give her a T-shirt.]] [[NiceGuy Of course,]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments she was totally sweet about it.]]
** "Oh Marcello", which seems to be a joke about the famous stereotype about all Italian men growing up to become mobsters. Complete with a ridiculous accent and HamAndCheese.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Bobbing for Apples": 'Someone next door is fucking to one of my songs.'
** Your Honor.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=__fvJZCFiYE#t=170s Regina suffers a fan's unfortunate attempt to give her a T-shirt.]] [[NiceGuy Of course,]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments she was totally sweet about it.]]
** "Oh Marcello", which seems to be a joke about the famous stereotype about all Italian men growing up to become mobsters. Complete with a ridiculous accent and HamAndCheese.
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** "Us" is downright beautiful. A lot of her older work also counts; just about everything from Begin to Hope count, though she's very dismissive of her older work.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Bobbing for Apples": 'Someone next door is fucking to one of my songs.'
** Your Honor.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=__fvJZCFiYE#t=170s Regina suffers a fan's unfortunate attempt to give her a T-shirt.]] [[NiceGuy Of course,]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments she was totally sweet about it.]]
** "Oh Marcello", which seems to be a joke about the famous stereotype about all Italian men growing up to become mobsters. Complete with a ridiculous accentwork. Better and HamAndCheese.Edit, from Begin to Hope, both deserve a special mention.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Bobbing for Apples": 'Someone next door is fucking to one of my songs.'
** Your Honor.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=__fvJZCFiYE#t=170s Regina suffers a fan's unfortunate attempt to give her a T-shirt.]] [[NiceGuy Of course,]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments she was totally sweet about it.]]
** "Oh Marcello", which seems to be a joke about the famous stereotype about all Italian men growing up to become mobsters. Complete with a ridiculous accent
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** [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Pavlov's Daughter]] is about [[StealthPun Pavlov's dog]]; a dog trained to drool whenever it heard a bell being rung. The song has a section in it about the eponymous character waking up, hearing the afternoon bell of her town ringing, and losing all motivation to wake up, instead drooling on her pillow and going into a trance-like state.
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* GeniusBonus: "Samson" features many allusions to the Biblical story and is much more poignant if you're familiar with it.
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* GeniusBonus: "Samson" features many allusions to the Biblical story and is much more poignant if you're familiar with it.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "Bobbing for Apples": 'Someone next door is fucking to one of my songs.'
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Silly Eye-Color Generalizations" is enough to show how she can turn an audience speechless with her voice alone. The finale of "Human of the Year" can also produce chills of happiness.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Bobbing for Apples": 'Someone next door is fucking to one of my songs.'
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Bobbing for Apples": 'Someone next door is fucking to one of my songs.'
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=__fvJZCFiYE#t=170s Regina suffers a fan's unfortunate attempt to give her a T-shirt.]] [[NiceGirl Of course]], [[HeartwarmingMoments she was totally sweet about it]].
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Regina lives and breathes this trope. She's so endearing, and she always has a [[http://www.last.fm/music/Regina+Spektor/+images/23221547 huge smile on her face]]. It makes you want to hug her and protect her.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Regina lives and breathes this trope. She's so endearing, and she always has a [[http://www.last.fm/music/Regina+Spektor/+images/23221547 huge smile on her face]]. It makes you want to hug her and protect her.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=__fvJZCFiYE#t=170s Regina suffers a fan's unfortunate attempt to give her a T-shirt.]] [[NiceGirl [[NiceGuy Of course]], [[HeartwarmingMoments course,]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments she was totally sweet about it]].
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*CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Regina lives and breathes this trope. She's so endearing, and she always has a [[http://www.last.fm/music/Regina+Spektor/+images/23221547 huge smile on her face]]. It makes you want to hug her and protect her.
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** Likewise, at an outdoor concert in Brooklyn in 2008, a sudden rainstorm soaked the audience. Regina left the covered stage, and returned with a bucket of water, [[IAmSpartacus which she poured over her head!]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Silly Eye-Color Generalizations" is enough to show how she can turn an audience speechless with her voice alone. The finale of "Human of the Year" can also produce chills of happiness.
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** Likewise, at an outdoor concert in Brooklyn in 2008, a sudden rainstorm soaked the audience. Regina left the covered stage, and returned with a bucket of water, [[IAmSpartacus which she poured over her head!]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Silly Eye-Color Generalizations" is enough to show how she can turn an audience speechless with her voice alone. The finale of "Human of the Year" can also produce chills of happiness.head]]!
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* LesYay: "Hotel Song" features the main character waking up in a hotel room next to some cocaine and questioning who a woman wearing her dress is. Other songs, such as "Somedays" and "Summer in the City" feature the narrator talking about being in love with and going to a protest to rubbing up against other women, [[TheCoverChangesTheGender but Spektor has said that she frequently writes songs from the perspectives of male characters]].
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* LesYay: [[HoYay Les Yay]]: "Hotel Song" features the main character waking up in a hotel room next to some cocaine and questioning who a woman wearing her dress is. Other songs, such as "Somedays" and "Summer in the City" feature the narrator talking about being in love with and going to a protest to rubbing up against other women, [[TheCoverChangesTheGender but Spektor has said that she frequently writes songs from the perspectives of male characters]].
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** "Long Brown Hair" is sung from the point of view of a [[VillainSong self-justifying]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]], while "Belt" is a twisted, very, very BlackComedy about an abused woman and her abuser, alternating between both point of views.
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** "Long Brown Hair" is sung from the point of view of a [[VillainSong self-justifying]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]], {{rap|eIsASpecialKindOfEvil}}ist, while "Belt" is a twisted, very, very BlackComedy about an abused woman and her abuser, alternating between both point of views.
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* TearJerker: Regina [[TearJerker/ReginaSpektor now has her own page.]]
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* TearJerker: Regina [[TearJerker/ReginaSpektor now has her own page.]] page]] .
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** [[IsntItIronic Which is ironic]], considering that ''Far'' sounds nothing like [[{{Madonna}} actual]] [[LadyGaga mainstream]] [[BritneySpears pop]].
** I think they mean people like [[Music/IngridMichaelson Ingrid Michaelson]] and SaraBareilles.
* UglyCute: Baby Regina. See All Grown Up.
** I think they mean people like [[Music/IngridMichaelson Ingrid Michaelson]] and SaraBareilles.
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** [[IsntItIronic Which is ironic]], considering that ''Far'' sounds nothing like [[{{Madonna}} [[Music/{{Madonna}} actual]] [[LadyGaga [[Music/LadyGaga mainstream]] [[BritneySpears [[Music/BritneySpears pop]].
** I think they mean people like[[Music/IngridMichaelson Ingrid Michaelson]] Music/IngridMichaelson and SaraBareilles.
* UglyCute: Baby Regina. See She Is All Grown Up.
** I think they mean people like
* UglyCute: Baby Regina. See She Is All Grown Up.
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** The video for "Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas). It features Regina doing random stuff around an apartment [[spoiler: and then a tiny, flaming guy with a trumpet appears out of the trashcan of stuff she just lit on fire.]]fire]].
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* UglyCute: [[http://www.last.fm/music/Regina+Spektor/+images/8382309 Baby Regina.]]
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* UglyCute: [[http://www.last.fm/music/Regina+Spektor/+images/8382309 Baby Regina.]]Regina. See All Grown Up.
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** "Long Brown Hair" is sung from the point of view of a [[VillainSong self-justifying]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]], while "Belt" is a twisted, very, very BlackComedy about an abused woman and her abuser, alternating between both point of views.
*** Other songs can be more eerie and unsetting than something sung in that voice should be - the nightmarish "Ezra Pound/If You're Never Sorry" and "Apres Moi" come to mind.
*** Other songs can be more eerie and unsetting than something sung in that voice should be - the nightmarish "Ezra Pound/If You're Never Sorry" and "Apres Moi" come to mind.
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: Regina was an awkward looking child to put it nicely. Now, look at her today.
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: Regina was an awkward looking child to put it nicely. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lonao9q28X1qfaa08o1_500.jpg Now, look at her today.]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs - "Pavlov's Daughter".
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs - "Pavlov's Daughter".Daughter".
** The video for "Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas). It features Regina doing random stuff around an apartment [[spoiler: and then a tiny, flaming guy with a trumpet appears out of the trashcan of stuff she just lit on fire.]]
** The video for "Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas). It features Regina doing random stuff around an apartment [[spoiler: and then a tiny, flaming guy with a trumpet appears out of the trashcan of stuff she just lit on fire.]]
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** To say nothing of her dolphin impression in "Folding Chair". Or [[HellIsThatNoise whatever the hell]] it is she's doing in "Open".
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* SignatureSong: "Fidelity" is her best-known, but "Samson" is quite popular too.
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* UglyCute: [[http://www.last.fm/music/Regina+Spektor/+images/8382309 Baby Regina.]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs - "Pavlov's Daughter".
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs - "Pavlov's Daughter".
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: Regina was an awkward looking child to put it nicely, but is decently attractive as an adult.
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: Regina was an awkward looking child to put it nicely, but is decently attractive as an adult.nicely. Now, look at her today.
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** I think they mean people like [[Music/IngridMichaelson Ingrid Michaelson]] and SaraBareilles.
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** Your Honor.
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* LesYay: "Hotel Song" features the main character waking up in a hotel room next to some cocaine and questioning who a woman wearing her dress is. Other songs, such as "Somedays" and "Summer in the City" feature the narrator talking about being in love with and going to a protest to rubbing up against other women, [[TheCoverChangesTheGender but Spektor has said that she frequently writes songs from the perspectives of male characters]].
* NarmCharm: The [[OverlyLongGag car impressions]] in "Lounge" come to mind.
* NarmCharm: The [[OverlyLongGag car impressions]] in "Lounge" come to mind.
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* PuritySue: Run her through the Litmus test. I dare you.
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* {{Moe}}: [[http://www.muvids.com/6149_video_regina_spektor_dance_anthem_of_the_80s_viral_video She's tiny, quirky, blue-eyed, and adorable]], and just look at that endearingly dorky smile. One time she even came to a concert inexplicably [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCURZGFC4Ao dressed as Zorro]].
** Plus the fact that she's packing large breasts. No, seriously, [[http://thelastminuteblog.com/2007/08/10/mp3-modern-girls-and-old-fashioned-men-the-strokes-ft-regina-spektor/ look.]] [[http://www.last.fm/music/Regina+Spektor/+images/465496 I am now officially angry with rage at whoever she marries]].
*** She's basically [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Mikuru]] if she were real and [[MatzoFever Jewish.]]
** Plus the fact that she's packing large breasts. No, seriously, [[http://thelastminuteblog.com/2007/08/10/mp3-modern-girls-and-old-fashioned-men-the-strokes-ft-regina-spektor/ look.]] [[http://www.last.fm/music/Regina+Spektor/+images/465496 I am now officially angry with rage at whoever she marries]].
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* {{Moe}}: [[http://www.muvids.com/6149_video_regina_spektor_dance_anthem_of_the_80s_viral_video She's tiny, quirky, blue-eyed, and adorable]], and just look at that endearingly dorky smile. One time she even came to a concert inexplicably [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCURZGFC4Ao dressed as Zorro]].
** Plus the fact that she's packing large breasts. No, seriously, [[http://thelastminuteblog.com/2007/08/10/mp3-modern-girls-and-old-fashioned-men-the-strokes-ft-regina-spektor/ look.]] [[http://www.last.fm/music/Regina+Spektor/+images/465496 I am now officially angry with rage at whoever she marries]].
*** She's basically [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Mikuru]] if she were real and [[MatzoFever Jewish.]]
** Plus the fact that she's packing large breasts. No, seriously, [[http://thelastminuteblog.com/2007/08/10/mp3-modern-girls-and-old-fashioned-men-the-strokes-ft-regina-spektor/ look.]] [[http://www.last.fm/music/Regina+Spektor/+images/465496 I am now officially angry with rage at whoever she marries]].
*** She's basically [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Mikuru]] if she were real and [[MatzoFever Jewish.]]
