Regina Spektor/YMMV

"Margaret Atwood, she could not stop me Virginia Woolf, she could not stop me The truth is I wanted to go He is all I know, he is all I know..."
 * Award Snub: the Grammies hate her, along with all goodhearted people.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: "Bobbing for Apples": 'Someone next door is fucking to one of my songs.'
 * Your Honor.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: 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!
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: "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.
 * Genius Bonus: "Samson" features many allusions to the Biblical story and is much more poignant if you're familiar with it.
 * Les 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.
 * Narm Charm: The car impressions in "Lounge" come to mind.
 * Nightmare Fuel: The studio version of All the Rowboats.
 * Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Discussed in "Paris"


 * She Is All Grown Up: Regina was an awkward looking child to put it nicely. Now, look at her today.
 * Tear Jerker: Regina now has her own page.
 * They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Some reviews have derided Regina, particularly for her latest album Far, for smoothing out eccentricities, being overly cute and becoming commercialized main-stream pop. An example here.
 * Which is ironic, considering that Far sounds nothing like actual mainstream pop.
 * I think they mean people like Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles.
 * Ugly Cute: Baby Regina.