A Good Name for a Rock Band: Talked about in "Making Records":. Fiery Redhead: It can be hard to tell due to its darker shade that can make it appear brown, but Regina has red hair. Everything Is an Instrument: The famous percussion chair. Even the Girls Want Her: Quite a few women have indicated an attraction to her. 
Erudite Stoner: Played for Laughs in "That Time". "Chemo Limo", "Obsolete" and "Back of a Truck" are around 6 minutes, which is still long for her. Epic Rocking: "Pavlov's Daughter" at nearly 8 minutes long. For a comparison, compare "Pavlov's Daughter" or "Oedipus" to "Two Birds" or "Better". She seems to be reverting back to that style though, primarily with "What We Saw From the Cheap Seats" and various performances. While her recent work is far from normal, her earlier work has much more Mind Screw, Black Comedy, mentions of violence and drugs, among other things, and it can be quite jarring to listen to her newer work and then her older work, or vice versa. Early Installment Weirdness: Everything before "Begin to Hope". Eagleland: "Us" is a deconstruction of Type 1, and immigrants' yearning for the "American dream" is a frequent subject of Regina's work. Dream Team: Her first major tour? With the Strokes and Kings of Leon. In her dream, Benjamin Franklin watches her kids while she hires a limo, reflecting her real-life wishes. Dream Sequence: "Chemo Limo" has one about a dying mother of four. 
Double Vision: The music video for "Better". Does This Remind You of Anything?: "The premature ejaculation of his death sentence hit Daniel in the face like a big spitball," from Daniel Cowman. A conversation between Regina and her brother Bear appears on "Soviet Kitch" under the cryptic title "* * *". Cryptic Conversation: her appearance on Jenny Owen Youngs's "Voice on Tape" has her speaking on Youngs' answering machine about some Noodle Incident in an adorably Russian-accented voice. Breaking the Fourth Wall: From "Firewood":. REGINA SPEKTOR SOVIET KITSCH RAR FULL
Black Comedy: "That Time" is full of this, from the protagonist having to bury pieces of a bird she was caring for after a cat got it, to her finding her friend overdosing on drugs twice in the same day, only to realize that she's high as a kite herself."Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas)", both the English and Russian version."Après Moi" has some French (the title references and includes the famous Louis XV quote, "Après moi, le deluge"), as well. Bilingual Bonus: Both "Après Moi" and "8th Floor" contain untranslated Russian, the former featuring a poem by Boris Pasternak.Big Applesauce: New York is frequently mentioned in her songs, including locations such as the Williamsburg Bridge.Regina has casually admitted to directly telling loud or unruly audience members to shut up during live performances.She's also posted on her Myspace blog about her support for Israel because of how the Jews have been exploited and massacred throughout history. It has some uncharacteristically gory imagery ("so who'll be the Jew to make the papers / drenched in blood up to your blue Jew eyeballs") and the song ends with an angry, emotional wail. Berserk Button: Most of Regina's songs are either quirky and adorable or balladic and depressing, but the live-only song " Ink Stains " is her only genuinely angry song, about her rage towards Holocaust Deniers.Bathos: Epic and beautiful songs will occasionally be peppered with terrible dolphin impressions or beat-boxing that sounds like spitting, and it somehow works.During her appearance on The Colbert Report, Colbert questioned whether or not she was a Soviet sleeper agent, bringing up her awesome "sexy spy name" as evidence. Awesome Mc Coolname: Not only is Spektor an awesome name (it sounds like it could be a G.I.
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