Regina Spektor at Coachella - “Apres Moi” video
Just last night I was thinking whatever happened to Regina. Well, two things happened: she got herself a band and her fan base got really annoying. When she was playing “Apres Moi” at Town Hall and she got to the part of the Russian poem, I heard a woman say, “What language is that?” Inexcusable. Another time, and this is unrelated, at a different venue someone said, “I love your boobs,” and she said, “Well you don’t know them.”
Her band’s instrumentation sounds just a little boring, especially when compared to her solo arrangements. There was a Warsaw show in Williamsburg, towards the beginning of the Begin To Hope tour (it might’ve been the first show of that tour), when she played some songs off that album without a band. Bandless versions sounded much more interesting. It’s also irritating to get newsletters asking me to vote for her on TRL. Despite it all though, she is terrific. It seems she’s stopped playing the Baby Jesus song as often, however, and that is a little sad.
Here’s “Apres Moi,” captured from the live webcast. Arcade Fire next:
