{"id":488560,"date":"2022-08-25T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/regina-spektor-has-stories-to-tell\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:00:10","slug":"regina-spektor-has-stories-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/regina-spektor-has-stories-to-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"#Regina Spektor has stories to tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3667f7b5944\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/regina-spektor-has-stories-to-tell\/#%E2%80%9CRegina_Spektor_has_stories_to_tell%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Regina Spektor has stories to tell&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRegina_Spektor_has_stories_to_tell%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Regina Spektor has stories to tell&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-media .caption {\n   color: #2a0d07;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: #2a0d07;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .content_block blockquote.pull_quote {\n   color: #2a0d07;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236072\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Regina Spektor on the importance of good posture\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      One of pop music\u2019s greatest anomalies recounts the little things that have shaped the arc of her 20-year career on the new episode of The FADER Interview.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Kim Taylor Bennett<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\" image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor_lud8cu\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor_lud8cu\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor_lud8cu\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 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src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\" alt=\"Logo snapchat\"><br \/>\n        <!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-236073 {\n   background: ;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-236073,  #content_block-236073 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-236073 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #2a0d07;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236073\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span class=\"\u201dlead-text\u201d\" style=\"color:#2a0d07\">With each of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#da4615\" href=\"https:\/\/reginaspektor.com\/\">Regina Spektor<\/a>\u2019s eight albums,<\/span> the Moscow-born singer has solidified her unique place in the pop pantheon. The classically trained pianist\u2019s talents were forged in Russia and blossomed in the Bronx \u2014 her DIY explorations in the early aughts, Lower East Side indie rock scene evolving into her current brand of widescreen, orchestra-embellished hits.<\/p>\n<p>            Spektor\u2019s songs \u2014 which reveal slice-of-life truisms wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed in fanciful storytelling \u2014 have won the singer an ardent fan base, not to mention powerful syncs for film and TV. She\u2019s lent her music to to countless classics: from <i>Girls<\/i> to <i>Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/i>, <i>Sex Education<\/i> to <i>500 Days of Summer<\/i>, the opening of <i>Orange is the New Black<\/i> to the end credits of <i>Bombshell<\/i>, and even <i>The Hamilton Mixtape<\/i>. All of which is to say, her music is part of the fabric of pop culture.<\/p>\n<p>            In June, Spektor returned with her first album in six years: <i>Home, before and after<\/i>, recorded at the height of the pandemic in a converted church just outside Woodstock, New York. And on Friday, she\u2019ll reissue her 2002 debut, <i>11:11<\/i>, along with a box set of unreleased early recordings titled <i>Papa\u2019s Bootlegs<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>            Earlier this week, I caught up with Spektor, who, in conversation as in song, skips from one unexpected tangent to another. We discussed the nebulous nature of inspiration, what\u2019s revealed in her dad\u2019s \u201cbootlegged\u201d camcorder archives, how the #MeToo movement galvanized a reframing of the past, and what, exactly, the deal is with Regina Spektor Day.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236122\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236074\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/regina_spektor2_bow5be\/regina-spektor-the-fader-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Regina Spektor has stories to tell\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Shervin Lainez<br \/>\n        \/<\/p>\n<p>      Sacks and Co.<br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-236075,  #content_block-236075 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-236075 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #2a0d07;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236075\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>This Q&amp;A is taken from the latest episode of The FADER Interview. To hear this week\u2019s show in full, and to access the podcast\u2019s archive, click <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#da4615\" href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/thefaderinterview\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n          <\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236076\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TFI7834680816\" width=\"100%\" height=\"482\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236123\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-236077,  #content_block-236077 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-236077 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #2a0d07;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236077\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER: The last time I saw you play was when you did this wonderfully intimate set at Rough Trade in Williamsburg, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#da4615\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/rough-trade-nyc-is-moving-from-williamsburg-to-midtown-manhattan-051021\">R.I.P.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Regina Spektor:<\/b> I get so bummed when great places like that close. Something of New York gets less New Yorky when things like that happen, in the same way that, for humans, things tend to get out of hand, and then you start looking back, like, \u201cWhere did it go wrong?\u201d I always think about posture. You can have bad posture when you\u2019re a teenager and you\u2019re fine. And then, at a certain point, if you don\u2019t look out, you become a bad-postured adult, and you have all this pain in your body. And then, one day\u2026 you can\u2019t unbend because you have this hump, and that hump started somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>            I don\u2019t wanna be one of those people who\u2019s lamenting this nostalgia world. But at the same time, I\u2019m like, \u201cI have to be vigilant so that my beloved city doesn\u2019t wake up one day and doesn\u2019t know how it got there, and all the artists can\u2019t function.\u201d I know there are really cool things happening all the time, so it\u2019s not there yet. But sometimes, I get very protective of New York.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>There has to be a balance of evolution and preservation.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It\u2019s funny, because I made this box set for the 20th anniversary of <i>11:11<\/i>, which I made in college. I had nothing from the era, really, because it was before camera phones and nobody was making demos of anything. If you were broke, you weren\u2019t doing anything like that. My dad had come to my earliest shows at [SUNY Purchase] and on the Lower East Side, and he recorded them with his camcorder just for us. He gave those to me when I was telling him I didn\u2019t have anything to even make a special birthday re-release of the record, and I ended up making a whole other double LP for this box set out of those little bootlegs. It sent my mind to that 1999, 2000 New York \u2014 how many places you could walk in for free and see people play music. You could be kind of broke and still live.<\/p>\n<p>            I grew up, musically, in the immigrant bubble: You live somewhere new, but you don\u2019t have the money to actually partake in things. I never had money to buy records. I was a record company\u2019s worst nightmare because I lived in the time when people could burn CDs. And once I was in college, it was like my entire music education was the five people who would come and hear me play at the little campus corner. [They would] come up to me, like, \u201cThis song made me think of Tom Waits.\u201d I\u2019d be like, \u201cWho\u2019s that?,\u201d and they\u2019d give me, the next day, a stack of all of his records burnt, and everything would blow my mind. That happened to me with all of the musicians. I\u2019d really only been exposed to classical music, classic rock, Soviet bard singers\u2026 So when I got to Purchase, it was the first time I heard jazz and blues, and I became obsessed. I didn\u2019t know how to play jazz, but I loved it, so I started trying to make my own version of that. That\u2019s why I started writing a bunch of a cappella songs: because I didn\u2019t have the chords. But in my imagination, they had big bands under them playing these big arrangements. <\/p>\n<p>            When we move on from different stages of ourselves, we accept the person that we were or we get disgusted and mad at that person. When you\u2019re really young and creative and you\u2019re try[ing] to find [your] own self expression\u2026 you\u2019re super influenced and malleable, and the cycles pass really fast. You get so filled with embarrassment for the previous you. I\u2019d be playing my next songs [at] these shows downtown, and somebody would come up to me after the show, like, \u201cDo you have a CD I could buy?\u201d And I\u2019d have a backpack that was so heavy full of these <i>11:11<\/i> CDs, [but] I\u2019d be like, \u201cYou can\u2019t buy this because it\u2019s not gonna sound like what I just played.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <b>When you were looking back through all this footage, what surprised you? What did you see in this girl who was up on stage, playing these songs you have a conflictual relationship with?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            At first, I was like, \u201cOh, there\u2019s nothing here. I can\u2019t do this.\u201d And then my husband Jack [Disher], in his wisdom and kindness, was like, \u201cTry it again. Just remember, you\u2019re listening now that you\u2019ve made records and lived all this life. Try to listen from the place of, \u2018This is a teenager starting to write songs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            I tried again, and as I listened, I realized I didn\u2019t remember any of the songs; they\u2019d completely been erased from my mind. I didn\u2019t know what word was coming next. But then, the next time I\u2019d listen, I\u2019d be like, \u201cOh yeah, I vaguely remember that,\u201d and I started finding things of value, like, \u201cWait a minute. This girl is so free and experimenting all the time.\u201d It was a combination of forgiveness and appreciation: \u201cShe worked so hard. She was obsessed with songwriting. She spent all of her time writing songs. She\u2019s the reason I actually get to make music in my life\u2026 because she decided to write songs and stuck with it until they didn\u2019t suck.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236124\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236078\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Love Affair\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IfXOAOMjjKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('236078');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-236079,  #content_block-236079 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-236079 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #2a0d07;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236079\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>You recorded <i>Home, before and after<\/i> in a church during the pandemic. When did you get into the studio?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I didn\u2019t see any humans outside of my im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te family for the most part during COVID. I was supposed to start recording in April with John Congleton at Electric Ladyland. I remember having a phone call with John when, and he was like, \u201cI could still come. I feel comfortable with it,\u201d but I was already seeing the numbers. I was like, \u201cTrust me, this is not gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            It coincided with me being pregnant, so I made peace with the fact that I wasn\u2019t gonna get to make the record for years. And then Jack [found] this studio not far from where we were staying. At that point, I just wanted to play a real piano, so we reached out and they said, \u201cYou can come and practice.\u201d I would come in and be totally alone with a piano in this huge church. And as I played, I finished some more songs. [Still,] I was like, \u201cThere\u2019s no way we can make a record.\u201d [But] John would keep in touch, and he\u2019d say, \u201cYou don\u2019t understand. Everybody makes records remotely. People send me voice memos, like, \u2018turn this into a banger.\u2019\u201d I was so used to doing it how I do it\u2026 me and a producer\u2026 very intimate, hands-on, in the space all the time together. But I always do feel like if you can capture the heart of the song, you can build on that. And if it\u2019s not there, it doesn\u2019t matter what you do.<\/p>\n<p>            Once I started being able to capture these songs, John was so amazing at working remotely. He was so patient because we worked deeply, and doing it in that way, remotely, is tedious. And then we brought Jherek [Bischoff] on to do all these orchestral arrangements, also remotely. There\u2019s that famous quote: \u201cTalking about music is like dancing about architecture.\u201d But we danced about architecture from morning to night, and it actually got us places.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>I love that your songs are storytelling in the purest form. There are, of course, slivers of you in there, but your songs are not confessionals. So when I listened to \u201cOne Man\u2019s Prayer,\u201d which is very much from a male perspective \u2014 and a very particular kind of male perspective \u2014 I was curious: What was the kernel of inspiration there?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It\u2019s a specific mindset of a very specific kind of man, [but] there are so many of them. He\u2019s not unique in any way. One of my worries is putting too much agenda into art. I know it works for a lot of people \u2014 there\u2019s an entire genre of activist art \u2014 but I think that art serves its most medicinal purpose, where it actually can change or awaken something, when it comes from a place with less agenda and more inspiration. When you\u2019re inspired, you\u2019re not molding something to your own will. That\u2019s more like craft. But when you\u2019re exploring, pulling on a thread, then whatever comes, comes. You might not like it. You might not even agree with it or want it out there, but you\u2019re in the role of \u201cWell, I\u2019m the artist and this is what I wrote and I\u2019m putting it out there with the faith that there\u2019s something useful in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            Art with agenda is propaganda. I come from the Soviet Union, the land of propaganda art. I know what it sounds like, what it looks like. Every once in a while, you can have propaganda art that\u2019s amazing, but it\u2019s once in a blue moon. Usually, it\u2019s because the person who\u2019s making it accidentally put unconscious, deep, soulful things into it and revealed something about themselves that they didn\u2019t mean to.<\/p>\n<p>            When the #MeToo movement happened, it threw this lens onto things, and I looked at my own life anew with this lens. I think it happened to women and men, both, like, \u201cWas that? Was I? Was this? Did he?\u201d I\u2019m always interested in how people perceive themselves [versus] what they actually do. Right now, we\u2019re kind of living in the era of the anti-hero. We live in a way where people can explain their cruelty or their entitlement away because maybe they\u2019re victims of other things. It\u2019s that hero-of-the-story syndrome. <\/p>\n<p>            It\u2019s like where we started, that analogy of posture: Where does it go wrong? Somebody starts out with good intentions, but maybe they really make bad choices and do bad things for 20 years. In their mind, they\u2019re just that young kid who just wants to have a good life and live well and be liked, but they have left a trail of damage behind them. So when does that person who has good intentions wake up and say, \u201cOh my God, I think of myself as good, but am I bad?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            That moment doesn\u2019t happen for most people: They\u2019ll keep being like, \u201cWell, she was crazy,\u201d or, \u201cThey deserved it,\u201d or, \u201cI had to do it \u2019cause what was I gonna do? I was gonna lose my job.\u201d Cut to: \u201cI was just taking orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            I was thinking about the people putting kids in cages at the border. I came here as a refugee to the United States. I\u2019m under the same status, and that one stroke of a pen could make your life one way or a different way. I kept thinking, \u201cHow do they do it?,\u201d trying to figure out excuses: \u201cWell, they have an ailing father, and if they lose their insurance, their father\u2019s treatments go.\u201d I thought, \u201cI bet each person who\u2019s taken a child, screaming, crying, from their parent, and put them in a fucking cage has some excuse for themselves. They\u2019re the hero of their story. They don\u2019t go to sleep thinking, \u2018I\u2019m a bad person.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            The guy in the song, in his mind, is a good guy. Even at the end, he\u2019s justified: He just wants the best for himself. He deserves it because he wants it. That feeling of wanting something, of needing something, is powerful and motivating. For some people, the idea that you could feel that much feeling,  want something that much but not be given it, is almost unfathomable.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236125\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236080\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Regina Spektor - One Man&#039;s Prayer [Official Lyric Video]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pH7EzsFqQ-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('236080');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-236081,  #content_block-236081 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-236081 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #2a0d07;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236081\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>We\u2019ve only got five minutes left, so I\u2019m gonna pivot from this dark-ass place we\u2019ve landed in. Let\u2019s end on your <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#da4615\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/bronx-walk-of-fame-induction-ceremony-3\/\">Bronx Walk of Fame induction<\/a>, and the fact that former mayor Bill de Blasio <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#da4615\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Byl9iAzlhi7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=7c723ec5-d440-4e8a-b084-3f44175c478c\">declared June 11th Regina Spektor Day<\/a>. How do we observe this day? How do we give thanks?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I love your version of Regina Spektor Day [happening] every year, but no: It was just June 11th of 2019. It was one day. It came and went. It was magical. Like all fun parties, it ended up in the kitchen of Gracie Mansion with everybody taking shots and eating leftovers.<\/p>\n<p>            I never pictured any fancy things from my music, \u2019cause I write strange little songs. (Some of them are strange big songs.) I\u2019m an outsider by nature, so in moments like that, when I\u2019m invited so <i>in<\/i>, my mind is always blown. When I got to play for the Obama\u2019s at the White House and I brought my parents\u2026 These are immigrant story book moments. It\u2019s almost too much for my heart, the American dream-ness of it all. <\/p>\n<p>            If you think differently as a kid, and you\u2019re a bit of a dreamer, and you kind of have a hard time concentrating in school, the things you\u2019re good at are not valued much outside of your family. It\u2019s not like your math teacher is excited that you\u2019re practicing piano or reading a lot of books. Being an immigrant, it took me a while to learn the language, and I think there\u2019s some part of me that\u2019s forever,  in my own self-image, cemented as a loner, a quiet observer, not the center of things.<\/p>\n<p>            Having a day in New York City declared by the mayor, getting to be on Broadway, having the Bronx Walk of Fame, it makes me feel like I\u2019m accepted. This tiny little voice inside is like, \u201cEverybody <i>did<\/i> come to my birthday party.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236126\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Kim Taylor Bennett<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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