Blog → In which I try to make up my mind

I don't think I've ever simultaneously been so intrigued and irritated by one artist. Regina Spektor...her voice reminds me of Bjork or Emiliana Torini, and I like it a lot. Her piano playing, too, it works very very well. The song "Samson" is really pretty. "The Flowers" has lyrics that I LOVE.

But holy CRAP. So many of her songs, I'm listening to them, and I'm like, "This is good; I like this a lot!" Then she does something that really pisses me off. Like, she goes off into I'm-playing-with-a-toy-racecar noises like it's some instrument ("Lounge"). Or she whispers the same lyrics after she's just sung them ("Ode to Divorce"). And the track "Whisper" isn't even a song at all, and I hate when people do that.

I'm sure that she does it all to make a point, for the sake of art, or something. But she reminds me so much sometimes of Maureen's "performance art" in RENT, and how absolutely annoying I find it.

So there are my thoughts for today.