Regina Spektor - "Open" captured in The Live Room

[@billc2850]

I heard this song a 100 times and then a few nights ago, I had a few beers and had the headphones on and it was a religious experience. She is magic.

[@Taniere]

You get absolutely lost in her songs. Amazing

[@yonggdavalos]

I secretly love that she isn't mainstream. Sometimes I feel selfish i just want her music for people who can understand her art. and to myself.

[@krysanthemum6528]

Yes! I feel this way a lot. I'm not proud to say it, but I have pretended to forget "the artist's" name when my friends ask me, though I know it's her, or sometimes it will "accidentally" slip my mind that I was going to tell them the name of the song later. Most music I listen to is little known, and some songs are even songs unknown to people around me by groups or people who are known for one, or a few other things. We will all always be connected through Regina. She is one of the best artists I think anyone could ever encounter. But she is not meant for all. Everyone here, have a great day, and great lives!

[@StaceyStaser]

YNG I 100% agree,cit makes her more special and appreciated to us

[@rheabruen]

I don't think people understand how difficult it is to make that noise in the third verse and sing straight after...regina is a goddess

[@Skullz930]

The song is called "Open," the inhale is her trying to catch her breath in the closed room she "built herself." It's supposed to emphasis the panic in claustrophobia and knowing people who have claustrophobia, it's a very nice touch. If you don't agree with me, it's alright. To each their own. I'm not trying to start an argument. I'm just hoping to shed some light on it possibly.

[@joeyjoe7930]

Some of the notes she makes in this performance shows clearly how amazing she is.

[@mariatibaduiza4417]

this woman makes me fall in love every time she opens her mouth, she is magnificent.

[@njdxnjdx]

You fall in love with her every time she opens her mouth? You may need a cold shower

[@emilierapportmunro7595]

HOW does this woman manage to perform live and make her songs sound exactly the same as they do on her CDs? Magical.

[@thisevinj]

I was about to type the same :D

[@gidyou567]

She's actually a classical pianist, songwriter and composer adapted to 21th century popular culture.

[@CaptainFSU]

It took me awhile to like this song, but now I realize its THE best song on Cheap Seats...One day I will see Regina live and I think I will have to call it quits, and this is coming from a Tool loving, Opeth heavy, Metalhead. Her music, the realism of it is something else...

[@randmiller88]

Easily the best song on an otherwise pretty weak album.

[@IHMadeThis]

I don't hear this autotuning, pitch correction that people are talking about in these videos...sounds like normal sound reflection in a big room recording.

[@simplestuniverse]

To me this song is about the claustrophobic feeling you can get from being human, being trapped in your own mind and wanting to break free from all your limitations and fear. Sometimes you can feel like you can be on the brink of that, you can see life as 'open', beautiful, free... but then your mind can suck you right back into that confined dark space, but in a way it's not so bad, because you know they're just walls.

[@sandrelio33]

she's absolutely gorgeous and amazing.

[@temujin1234]

I think it portrays an anxiety attack well. The impersonated drums in some of the other songs are fun too. The unusual vocalizations are my favorite part of this album.

[@akiholicforevah]

This made me cry... it's too powerful.

[@zenithquasar9623]

Potentially lovely, perpetually human!

[@davidmatthews3131]

Best line, agree!

[@theproleswillrise]

I love Regi. I finally got to see her perform live in Toronto a few months back and was just in awe the entire time.

[@cait72590]

This sounds almost EXACTLY like the studio version. The fact that her voice is like that in real life is amazing.

[@teawithcinnamon]

She is so insanly talanted. And beautiful. It's almost unbelivable.

[@nizzystar]

Everytime I hear this song I feel like we're dying and I'm all cold and we're choking and she 's breathing air for me. It's too much for a song

[@taralemnios1252]

Absolutely brilliant. Genius

[@kpacubo.]

this performance will always be a classic for me.

[@hemmojito]

omg why do I get wet eyes a few seconds into this? Regina, you're the one!. Just chosen to play music and create beautiful songs with poignant lyrics always leaving us food for thought. I love this.

[@assassinofcydonia]

She never fails to blow my mind. Absolutely incredible.

[@evilmnky742]

She is perfection....Her music makes life sweet.

[@StuMckay]

To the people that are questioning that her voice is auto-tuned - I know it's hard to believe in a world that glorifies mediocrity like Nikki Minaj that someone could actually sing live without the aide of technology, but there are people like Regina with a truly amazing voice, talent and a depth of lyricism that most pop stars will never traverse. These are the people we should be glorifying and if we don't then talent like this will be supplanted by vacuous, auto-tuned repugnancy. BE WARNED!

[@Blockistium]

there are a lot better examples of excessive auto tune than nicki minaj

[@stormblaster6781]

Stu Mckay the point isn’t to belittle modern music just because we don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s bad. I get your point to be frustrated because people don’t appreciate the art of music and it’s exquisiteness. But I’d rather focus that music is still being appreciated and still is relevant to this modern age.

[@stormblaster6781]

Makes it easier to cope

[@transientsmile]

I don't think people are complaining about autotune because she sounds too good to be true. I've been lucky enough to see her live a couple times and know she's absolutely perfect, and that's why I hate that this video has a couple bits that make her voice sound robotic and inhuman. I think it does her voice a disservice and her fans know that sounding human and expressive is more important to her music than being pitch perfect, so it just sounds funky and a little off and detracts from what is an otherwise really gorgeous video of a live performance.

[@StaceyStaser]

This is of her biggest masterpieces, a true piece of painful, beautiful art.

[@redchris05]

Pure magic. Best song on the album.

[@laformadelaluna4459]

genia

[@emmemem]

I *inhales* am *inhales* in a room I've built myself *inhales* Four *inhales* straight walls *inhales*, one /foo-lor/ *inhales*, one ceiling *inhales* and day after day I wake up feeling *inhales*...

[@brynasims6791]

Agreed. I saw her in concert and was like she's a bit too perfect to be mortal!

[@LeilaHMPN]

She's so wonderful *-*

[@AndyPanganYTC]

REGINA is an ART.. LOVED HER MUSIC EVER SINCE❤❤❤

[@jvollnogel]

Beautifully done

[@Rickoholic]

Such a dynamic pianist! She doesn't even need a bass player!

[@mainerblainer1]

how does she not need to cough after inhaling like that! She's amazing

[@ariskaraihan3965]

ok i don't understand what you guys are saying about pitch and all, i'm no musician at all but pls the song itself is totally mesmerizing. i mean........just.......i don't know, this song needs your heart to listen as well as you ear :) damn this song moves me to the point where i really wanna cry right now. the lyrics are too emotional. and that grasp during the verse "i'm in a room"... this deserves way much more recognition

[@LightsOnTrees]

Eff me, I know a lot of this stuff is timing but that was a punch in the gut.

[@SmoSte]

When I heard you sing this song at the Tower back in May. I loved the way it sounded!

[@aextjt]

Enchanting...

[@GreatNPowerfulnessOz]

Chills!

[@IAintOverYet]

Sorry if I came off a bit passionate. Whether she knew about or not (if in fact there was some "correction") is immaterial to me. She is a genuine musician, songwriter, and vocalist. I never once heard any claim that her voice is perfect. Instead, it's the slight imperfections in her voice, especially when young and starting out, that gave it a unique character. But what I have been hearing in the last 2 years or so is a more mature, controlled singing voice that comes with age and experience.

[@KaritKtana]

she's like an angel

[@HollyClothier]

blaghhh tooo amazing for words!

[@SuperMemzzz]

Friggen amazing!

[@EverythingMe15]

LOVE!

[@anniethesponge]

Oh Regina... Couldn't be better. :)

[@JeanieZZZ]

Wow amazing!!!!!

[@mrkarma85]

*inhale* is an euphemism - she literally swallows the air!

[@jeffpogue6962]

Nicely done.

[@yosoybangoo]

WOW!

[@dawnluvs2play]

Totally agree 100%

[@Skullz930]

That's very interesting. I actually like that examination more lol. Thanks for sharing.

[@20CarLex]

Ohhhh my fuckin God....no pinches mames que preciosa pieza de arte...simplemente FENOMENAL...eso es ser artista...!!!

[@IAmPlaysWithSquirrel]

I wonder if she was inspired by Queen when she wrote this song? The melody is pretty similar to "Nevermore". Still, it's easily one of my favorite songs from her.

[@mohamed329b]

So good *.*

[@Ceduria]

i love how one person named her action "inhaling" and now everybody says so, although nobody really knows how to call it.

[@jaraquistain]

me sembra magnifico!!!

[@sweetapplepie]

HOW CAN SHE EVEN PLAY THE PIANO WITH HER EYES CLOSED????

[@Mercutiossword]

that's actually not that hard but she is an amazing artist

[@sweetapplepie]

For me is amazing, since I'm no musician or understand much about that. ♥

[@Mercutiossword]

:)

[@Mercutiossword]

:)

[@harshpeter]

have you heard of people like... Ray Charles? If you want to sing and play, you should be able to play almost like you are blind anyways :D

[@mrkarma85]

it wasn't meant to be offensive. In italian (which is my language) we use the term "euphemism" in association with terms that express lesser an intention than what we mean. For example : "Look at her, she has such curly hair." - "Wow, curly is an euphemism, she has a bush on her head." This is the kind of context where we use the term.

[@LionAmongMen23]

talented

[@MegaFlashash]

I'm a straight female, but I honestly want to marry her. I told my boyfriend and everything. And I don't see anything wrong with this. Regina Spektor is nowhere near "perpetually human", she is a goddess if not god herself. -3

[@LalaLady02]

She's gorgeous! =)

[@Trag3dyInV3nus]

That's regina....I love this song, obviously who ever finds this song weird has never really heard her music

[@NostalgicCurse]

That's just her voice. XD

[@atalanta1021]

respekt that is an AMAZING phrase mind if I adopt it?

[@alondrasanchez7330]

I was so hymotized by the song and her beautiful voice and then I hear " I *inhlae*" and jump! lol it was a cool touch to the song but it scared me and pop out of nowhere :D

[@kallenuppunen2059]

So my hand trembled but it hit the right one. I am open

[@toowarmtoohot]

I cant easily dl this playlist?

[@myuudee]

There's no auto tune at all. o.o

[@jayvincarlogavilanes6930]

song :)

[@RiveaJ]

I personally think this song has something to do with being caught in a concentration camp in world war two, and the walls she built her self are the gas chambers - choking as she inhales the gas. Like you said, to each their own. I just thought I'd share mine.

[@CaroApple]

:O!

[@Freethinker99]

I agree that that is probably what she is trying to do, but the degree to which she does it-the actual sound-to my ears is EXACTLY like the dying gasps of someone being choked or dying than someone actually claustrophic or having a panic attack. For example, I'll bet no psychologist who deals with 'claustrophics' has ever heard them make a sound like this. So my view is that it is exaggerated, and in the exaggeration becomes a different sound altogether...

[@IAintOverYet]

You must NEVER have seen her in person. I've seen her 6 times in the last two years ... once even at a benefit in a museum in NYC where I stood at the foot of the stage a mere 20 feet or so from her. Another time only 4 rows from the stage where I could hear her even without the aid of a microphone. That is HER voice. She does use some of the "normal" effects in the sound, but it is minimal at best. I've even watched her standing close by during sound checks before a show. She's the real deal.

[@Moonlightrealgirl]

that cellist is hot af

[@scarletpeoni9347]

I read that as 'ceiling' and was thinking of the gasping sounds lmao

[@Sportygirl0404]

great song but the inhales where kind of odd. But her music is very complex so i think it went with her personality and kind of music.

[@PanchocoloMan]

tampoco es una hipérbole .-. xD no está exagerando, está minimizando D:!

[@joshuan42]

I don't think you know what auto-tune is...

[@JorechDalc]

To me it's the same

[@Arci5621]

2:39

[@valuableupbeat2576]

wtf are them noises for i liked it till i heard them

[@soupedefromage]

Although she and her voice are all dolled up and pretty in this video, both would be a thousand times better on their own. Natural.

[@dillywillyz]

its not a euphemism (to put in less offensive terms)... its a hyperbole (an exaggeration for effect)...

Eu quero me caar com a Regina Spektor

[@Freethinker99]

Regina is extraordinarily original and a fascinating musician, and the song benefits as usual from her precise and brilliantly expressive singing, but the 'choking gulps' or 'gasps' here I think don't work, since they're so disturbing and thus define what 's important in the song more than anything else-they are more nightmarish 'sounds of death' than sounds of anxiety-and make it difficult to recover the previous, more reflective and introspective mood.

[@sprtichck]

There's literally no auto tune, like at all.

[@angryvader]

I love you!?

[@Xeon979]

Elle me fait penser à Tori Amos

[@monnie100]

I love 2:25 when it goes all eerie and beautiful, she is just so amazing though. WHY AUTO TUNE? Aargh it makes me angry!!!!!!

[@DrizzyBOfficial]

where do u hear autotune?

[@novascottch]

It was really pretty until she started gasping. I know she was probably portraying suffering or suffocation or opening up or something, but it really took away from how hauntingly beautiful the rest of the song is :( Maybe if she hadn't done it so much. Otherwise, this is an incredible piece. I almost cried until she started croaking like a catfish.

[@DanielBayot]

Sorry to break it to you guys, but her voice is being pitch corrected. It doesn't sound like autotune in the traditional sense where the engineer tweaks the vocal track after it's recorded... It sounds like the pitch processing is happening in real-time. You can tell when she glides from a note to another; each pitch shifts to the closest note in the chromatic scale. It's the engineers' crappy decision, not hers.

[@autumnlynn444]

Daniel Bayot you don’t need to ruin everything and how do you?

[@JollyJont]

Okey this is gonna sound creepy, but please marry Gavin Degraw, have a child! I adopt it, my precious!!

[@jlribeiro]

Everything was fine until 2:38 :O

[@kylamariebacarra6470]

BennyGoodTips you're right!!! 😍😍😍 Regina, can I even fall for you moreeeee?!

[@BiggieShnouts]

Auto tune? I don't hear any

[@cmonster101124]

OUHHHHHHHH. OURGH LOL SHE SOUNDED DEMENTED.

[@isuzure7]

her voice has been autotuned?

[@RonanLG1]

Thank god I wasn't the only one to notice. People think I'm a freak when I notice these kinda things.

[@megadiabrous]

is this a song about suicide? "suspended in open"

[@blindertherabbit]

wow. the gasping makes me incredibly uncomfortable lol

[@ioanaanetabadara9976]

Like it should. It's not without intention.

[@blindertherabbit]

@@ioanaanetabadara9976 yeah but, i don't really like it honestly. like i don't come to music for that

[@ioanaanetabadara9976]

@@blindertherabbit I know what you are saying. But sometimea, as I am sure you know, art uses unpleasant ways to convey things. The idea of being trapped and trying to escape is in those "ugly sounds" she makes. And then those sounds are in contrast to the clear, sweet way she sings the words lovely, human, open. It is messy to be human, to be trapped by your own mind, anxiety, depression (whichever thing the song might be about) but trying to overcome it in order to let yourself truly live, experience life. I also "like" the sounds she makes because they are open, aren't they, but when you hear them they make you crawl inside yourself (if it makes sense). Exactly what the songs is about. But it's ok when you don't like a sound, a song etc. There is plently of lovely music out there. Regina also has lots of songs with lovely sounds in it hehe.

[@blindertherabbit]

@@ioanaanetabadara9976 awww, thanks for the explaination. yeah i know it conveys some meaning for sure, i'm not gonna pretend it doesn't!! but maybe just how it sounds and also the kinda elitist comments in here rubbed me the wrong way

[@ioanaanetabadara9976]

@@blindertherabbit I think the best way to consume music and art, in general, is by 1st rule I like it, I don't like and 2nd what does it say to me, what does it make me feel? Yes, you can try to see what others feel and read into it, but never take it as the ultimate truth. Nor beat yourself about it if you don't see what others do. That's the magic of art, it is OPEN. Regina is lovely and has like a cultish fanbase, she has lovely lyrics that usually follow a narative and maybe her fans sometimes feel overprotective towards her and her music. It's ok, in my opinion, to say you don't like something as long as you express your opinion in a respectful way, like you did here.

[@Phizzy]

This sounds really odd with autotune.