regina spektor - Chicken Song (Demo)

[@awasalsecka]

She is just everything beautiful about art, all at once.

[@llaflotte]

God, I played this CD-R so many times in the Purchase dorms. This and Hounds of Whoop Ass

[@readingtimewithpickle]

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.

[@readingtimewithpickle]

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.

[@kazuogo]

Relationship wisdom so subtly and accurately sung.

[@scarletpeoni9347]

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.

[@user-kh9ki3kq8m]

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.

[@giordkat]

+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.

[@AnonymousAnonymous-xy9tz]

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.

[@katharsis5601]

My jam!

[@user-kh9ki3kq8m]

It makes no sense to me how she sounds older here, yet she recorded this song when she was 19.

[@oliviapeters8629]

She sounds like Ani DiFranco

[@karenljuarez]

i thought she said dead waiter. lol