{"id":1213,"date":"2006-11-19T20:03:34","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.com\/blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2006-11-19T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T01:03:34","slug":"a_merry_melody_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/a_merry_melody_\/","title":{"rendered":"a merry melody from Regina Spektor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Regina9b_1\"<\/a>I was listening to the latest Regina Spektor<\/a> song, Fidelity<\/a> in the car while running my errands today and couldn’t help not to get this merry melody in my head.  <\/p>\n

So there I am… pushing my grocery cart down the cereal isle singing (in my head of course) ha..ah.ah..ah.ah.ah…ah…ah. ah.ah.. ha .ah ..ah. ha heart"<\/span>…. you’ll see what I mean when you watch her lovely video.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what they say about her latest album, "The style known as "anti-folk," as realized by practitioners like Ani DiFranco and Billy Bragg, is derived from a punk aesthetic, and thus tends to be spare and confrontational. But while Regina Spektor’s music is anti-folk in the way it subverts the traditional coffeehouse vibe, it’s less interested in rebellion and more concerned with the joy of eccentricity, melody and surprise.  It’s a consistently intelligent and daring record, yet remains enormously listenable–a neat trick for anti-folk, or any other genre of music for that matter." \u2013Matthew Cooke<\/em><\/p>\n