Regina Spektor - Summer in the City

Telling strangers personal things.

Album: Begin to Hope [4th album]
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, antifolk
Album Release: June 13th 2006
Length: 3:50
Producer: Regina Spektor & David Kahne
Vocalist: Regina Spektor [age 26]
Label: Sire Records [subsidiary of Warner Records]

Official Audio


Live in 2004


Live at Lollapalooza 2007

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Spotify: Over 4 million
YouTube Music: Over 250 thousand

Credits & Gear

Piano [Spektor]

Details

• 'Summer in the City' is about a lonely person pining for a former or absent romantic partner 'I start to miss you, baby, sometimes', the use of the pet name baby suggests affection so the lover is most-likely absent. The singer wiles away their summer in bars and sweaty streets yearning for a human connection that isn't there. Although they do seem to be enjoying the 'cleavage, cleavage, cleavage'.
  
  The theme is loneliness amidst separation from a lover manifests in moments of sexual tension throughout. Especially on the bridge, which is about 'castrated ones' who get angry because they can't get erections; their frustration at a lack of intimacy mirroring the feelings of the singer. Another section describes going to a protest to 'rub up' against strangers, declaring 'I did feel like coming, but I also felt like crying' to express shame.
  
  

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