Just wanted to add - I also recently realized that the title, "Chicken Song", is likely a play off of the metaphorical phrase "swan song" (a final gesture, effort, or performance given just before death or retirement). The narrator in this song isn't as graceful as a swan, so instead, this is their chicken song.
She sounds like Christina Aguilera, so surreal that her voice sounds more 'grown up' than it does now. I can see why she changed it though, if it was a concious choice.
I honestly prefer how she sounds here than now. I'm still a giant fan, but she sounds so soulful here compared to what we saw from the cheap seats and far. I also like the Kind've bluesy aesthetic to her old songs and her voice in them.
She sounds like people sounded in the ninties. When I hear this, it reminds me of Fiona Apple and that type of artist, sounds like she's beautifully contorting her voice to get a folksy sound. She also ran way more in this time frame than she does now. I don't necessarily compare to see which version of Spektor is better. It's like comparing oranges and apple. They are both fruit but different and good in their own way.
She is just everything beautiful about art, all at once.
God, I played this CD-R so many times in the Purchase dorms. This and Hounds of Whoop Ass
Relationship wisdom so subtly and accurately sung.
The first song on her demo, and still among her best. So sad this one didn't make it onto 11:11. I wish she'd rerelease it.
Just wanted to add - I also recently realized that the title, "Chicken Song", is likely a play off of the metaphorical phrase "swan song" (a final gesture, effort, or performance given just before death or retirement).
The narrator in this song isn't as graceful as a swan, so instead, this is their chicken song.
She sounds like Christina Aguilera, so surreal that her voice sounds more 'grown up' than it does now. I can see why she changed it though, if it was a concious choice.
I honestly prefer how she sounds here than now. I'm still a giant fan, but she sounds so soulful here compared to what we saw from the cheap seats and far. I also like the Kind've bluesy aesthetic to her old songs and her voice in them.
+Jackson Catlett Agreed. I like all of her music but I definitely find myself coming back to this sort of stuff rather than the more produced stuff.
She sounds like people sounded in the ninties. When I hear this, it reminds me of Fiona Apple and that type of artist, sounds like she's beautifully contorting her voice to get a folksy sound. She also ran way more in this time frame than she does now. I don't necessarily compare to see which version of Spektor is better. It's like comparing oranges and apple. They are both fruit but different and good in their own way.
My jam!
It makes no sense to me how she sounds older here, yet she recorded this song when she was 19.
She sounds like Ani DiFranco
i thought she said dead waiter. lol