"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.
"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. "Better" and "Edit", from Begin to Hope, both deserve a special mention.
"Pavlov's Daughter" is about 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.
"Samson" features many allusions to the Biblical story and is much more poignant if you're familiar with it.
Heartwarming Moments: Regina lives and breathes this trope. She's so endearing, and she always has a huge smile on her face. It makes you want to hug her and protect her.
It's worth noting that during her live performance at Lollapalooza 2007, she saw someone in the audience getting sick and stopped performing until they were helped. During this time, she bantered with the audience, asking them how they were doing.
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, which she poured over her head!
Ho 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, but Spektor has said that she frequently writes songs from the perspectives of male characters.
Signature Song: "Fidelity" is her best-known, but "Samson" is quite popular too. To younger audiences, she's far and away most famous for "You've Got Time", the theme song to Orange Is the New Black.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some reviews have derided Regina, particularly for Far, for smoothing out eccentricities, being overly cute and becoming commercialized main-stream pop. An example here.
. It makes you want to hug her and protect her.
