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[doritojoe89]

regina spektor has a new song called "the call"   

and it plays at the end of the new narnia movie "prince caspian"

i went to see it last night, and i kinda freaked when i heard it...

it also pissed me off that people started to rise from their seats and leave...

i was like " WHOAH... this is REGINA F&#@ing SPEKTOR!!!!!"

i don't think the "Narnia" crowd is right for her....


thoughts?

[Brittany]

meh.  She's pretty "mainstream," now.   She'll probably be a household name, soon enough.  I think that, if there is such a thing as a Narnia Crowd, they'd be a better audience for her music than the Crowds of many other movies...

[colordeaf]

Hm, anyone got the alternate take of "Better"? I have the album version, but the one that plays in the video with lots of Reginas sounds much better.

Well, this is news! I saw the soundtrack for sale at Borders. I wonder when she's going to record another album.

[doritojoe89]

i wish that she would do music for small quirky indie type films..

 not huge christian-fueled kiddie disney stuff...

[$ethie]

She's a little too mainstream for my tastes. I still love her, but it upsets me when little scene kids buy begin to hope and think they're cool for liking her. It's like, bitch, Begin to Hope sucked hardcore. Get your bitch ass some pre-Soviet Kitsch material, and then we'll talk.

[CeeGBee]

Funny, what I hate is when people think they're too cool to like someone who's achieved
"mainstream commercial success".   Ooops, she's got a single on the charts.  I guess she sucks now.




[I'm not actually picking at Seth.  I was just reminded of this all too common phenomenon, and he's
the closest offender.]

[Emaline]

Even weirder was when I was watching that Danny Bonaduce reality competition (I Know My Kid's A Star) on VH1. They played an RS song in the background off of Soviet Kitsch (which is my fave RS album.) But I'm really happy that someone else thinks Begin To Hope wasn't that great of an album. Pretty much Apres Moi is the only great song on that album. (And I'm sure some people will disagree.)

I dunno about anyone else, but "Samson" and "Fidelity" drive me NUTS. I spent an hour with a friend who was attacking me for not liking Begin To Hope. It was annoying.

[SeeAnne]

Uhmm I only have Begin to Hope but my friend - who downloaded all her previous albums - gave me some stuff from 11:11, Songs, and Soviet Kitsch. Now by "some stuff" I mean the whole album. My art teacher is a fan and I asked her which song was her favourite, and she said (in a thick English accent) "I only have her first cd, Begin to Hope"....Excuse you? That is NOT her first cd, bitch.

I will always like Regina Spektor mainstream or not. Now the sad part is that Regina doesn't remember half the songs from her previous cd's. This includes: Braille, Ode to Divorce, Somedays, Love Affair and all the goodies. :C

[colordeaf]

Unfortunately, most stores only stock Soviet Kitsch and Begin to Hope

There's places where you can find many of her unreleased songs (Loveology and I Cut Off My Hair for instance). I think my favourite non-single off Begin to Hope is 20 Years of Snow...

[Rob]

Funny, what I hate is when people think they're too cool to like someone who's achieved
"mainstream commercial success".   Ooops, she's got a single on the charts.  I guess she sucks now.




[I'm not actually picking at Seth.  I was just reminded of this all too common phenomenon, and he's
the closest offender.]

A lot of times, it's because they have lost some of their edge; which is why they finally broke in to the main stream.

[colordeaf]

Funny, what I hate is when people think they're too cool to like someone who's achieved
"mainstream commercial success".   Ooops, she's got a single on the charts.  I guess she sucks now.




[I'm not actually picking at Seth.  I was just reminded of this all too common phenomenon, and he's
the closest offender.]

A lot of times, it's because they have lost some of their edge; which is why they finally broke in to the main stream.

Eh, does this count for the Dolls?

[Tamora]

Oh Christ, just because she's finally broken into the scene and people are finally recognizing the fact that she's a good aartist doesn't mean that she's "mainstream".  I mean, granted, her last album was less quirky than the others, but I think that was more of a matter of the producers' decisions than her own.

Why is it that any time a good artist gets recognition, old fans say that he is/she is/they are "selling out"?!?!?!



......sorry.  I just got into this whole big debate about that.  Sorta ticked me off.

I saw Regina in concert just after "Fidelity" started getting commercial success.  And trust me - she's just as awesome as ever.  I wish she'd played "Oedipus", but at least I got to hear "Baby Jesus" which is one of my favorite Spektor songs.

She hasn't lost her edge.  People have just adjusted to it.  I mean "Uh-Merica"?  That song was crazy.

And I like both "Begin to Hope" and "Soviet Kitch" just fine.  They're lovely, in fact.  If she was just doing the same exact thing as in "Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers" and "11:11" it would get boring.  They're different from her other albums.  Not better, not worse.  Different.

...okay, maybe not quite as good as "Mary Ann", but my whole "different" point still stands!

[colordeaf]

Oh Christ, just because she's finally broken into the scene and people are finally recognizing the fact that she's a good aartist doesn't mean that she's "mainstream".  I mean, granted, her last album was less quirky than the others, but I think that was more of a matter of the producers' decisions than her own.

Why is it that any time a good artist gets recognition, old fans say that he is/she is/they are "selling out"?!?!?!



......sorry.  I just got into this whole big debate about that.  Sorta ticked me off.

I saw Regina in concert just after "Fidelity" started getting commercial success.  And trust me - she's just as awesome as ever.  I wish she'd played "Oedipus", but at least I got to hear "Baby Jesus" which is one of my favorite Spektor songs.

She hasn't lost her edge.  People have just adjusted to it.  I mean "Uh-Merica"?  That song was crazy.

And I like both "Begin to Hope" and "Soviet Kitch" just fine.  They're lovely, in fact.  If she was just doing the same exact thing as in "Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers" and "11:11" it would get boring.  They're different from her other albums.  Not better, not worse.  Different.

...okay, maybe not quite as good as "Mary Ann", but my whole "different" point still stands!

I think that aside from the singles off Begin to Hope, it's typical Regina Spektor piano jamming. Field Below, Apres Moi, On the Radio (the live version without the beats), Edit, 20 Years of Snow, Lady, Baobabs, Music Box, December, That Time, and Summer in the City are all outside the typical pop music field. The live version of Fidelity is very typical Regina, except the studio version has a beat added. Wasn't Samson on Songs?

[BATTEREDxBRIDExLUVR!]

I love Regina; I always will.  But Begin to Hope just is not the same.  The production on most of the songs feels like too much for me, and I think I would have enjoyed some of the songs more had they been a bit more "bare." Though the songs are not my favorite, I think that the ratio of Regina to whatever else was my favorite on Soviet Kitsch. It still feels like its all Regina, but there ARE some additional instruments, etc which I think completely improve the songs.  But on BtH, I felt like the band was a bit awkward on 20 Years of Snow and Apres Moi.  They are still wonderful, but its a little overwhelming, and I don't love it.

[music box]

define the "narnia crowd."


i'm a big narnia fan and a big regina fan... so what?