{"id":759,"date":"2009-07-16T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2009-07-16T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:53:01","slug":"regina-spektors-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/regina-spektors-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Regina Spektor&#8217;s &#8220;Far&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reginasplash.warnerreprise.com\" target=\"_blank\">Regina Spektor<\/a> has been compared to former Beatle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulmccartney.com\" target=\"_blank\">Paul McCartney<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Without taking anything away from her, I don&#8217;t think that analogy quite works.  Paul McCartney wrote mainstream pop, and commercial interests defined success in that arena.  She just seems to be having a lot of fun with her talent, and it shows, and it works.<\/p>\n<p>If asked make a comparison, I&#8217;d offer that Regina is more of a cross between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulsimon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Simon<\/a> and the brilliant and talented <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Lehrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Lehrer<\/a> (he who sang the Periodic Table of the Elements to the tune of &#8220;A Modern Major General&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Lynne\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Lynne<\/a>&#8216;s contributions to &#8220;Far&#8221; are restrained&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">ELO<\/a>philes will recognize the signatures, but will have to listen for them.  No one song stands out as &#8220;Oh, that was produced by that ELO guy&#8221;.  Rather, all the songs blend together as an understated whole.  <\/p>\n<p>And again, it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regina Spektor has been compared to former Beatle Paul McCartney. Without taking anything away from her, I don&#8217;t think that analogy quite works. Paul McCartney wrote mainstream pop, and commercial interests defined success in that arena. She just seems to be having a lot of fun with her talent, and it shows, and it works. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}