Trivia / Regina Spektor

• Black Sheep Hit: "Fidelity", the only song of hers to come close to troubling the pop charts, features no piano. While not a bad song, that is her signature thing.
  • For whatever reason, "You've Got Time" is the same. No piano, but one of her better known songs, especially since Season 2.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: More than two thirds of her catalogue is unavailable on her CDs - the rest exists only as live bootlegs and studio demos that she appears to be fine with, with one exception - her 1999 Demo. Also, her first album, 11:11, is only available as a (legit) digital download.
  • Songs was also only ever legally available from an online indie music store (which, thankfully, is still going), and her concerts.
  • "Regina at the Market", an old candid video from 2006 of her wandering around an open market eventually got scrubbed from her YouTube channel, but still gets circulation among fans because it's such an incredibly cute moment from when she was more socially awkward.
• Nice Girl: Regina is pretty much the living embodiment of this trope.
• No-Hit Wonder: For all her success, Spektor has never had a top 40 hit. The closest she has had to a hit single is "Fidelity", which reached 51 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Old Shame: She may feel this way about some songs, they way she talks about her own work, but her true old shame is her appearance in the super-obscure film Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control, which she has never, ever mentioned in interviews.
  • "Regina at the Market" may count given that it eventually got deleted off her YouTube channel.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: She writes about whatever pops into her head.