Pop Quiz: Feist

Pop Quiz: Feist

Aidin Vaziri | We have a love-hate relationship with Leslie Feist. We love her breakthrough 2004 album, "Let It Die," but hate her for taking a million years to record a follow-up. Now that the Canadian singer- songwriter has finally gotten around to issuing the equally spectacular "The Reminder," all is forgiven. Recorded in less than a week at a rented home outside of Paris, the disc offers a treasure trove of subdued folk-pop gems, including "My Moon My Man" and "1234." The only problem is, it's already left us wanting more.

Leslie Feist
Q: So are you topless on the album cover because you are using sex to sell your music?
A: Americans get right to the dirt. No, I am wearing a shirt. It was the summertime, so it's one of those shirts that just wraps around your body. Sorry to disappoint you, you sensationalist journalistic pervert.
Q: Is that why you sound so depressed on this album?
A: Do I? Well, the way you look at a man, so he appears to you; the way you hear a song, that's the way it sounds to you.
Q: Can you say that again, slower and more like you're speaking to a dumb person?
A: It's an old saying: The way you look at a man, so he appears to you; the way you hear a song, that's the way it sounds to you. See how I flipped that back on you?
Q: Are you saying I'm depressed?
A: I'm saying that's up to you to determine. Any album, if it's open enough and it has a lot of hinges and pivots in it and doesn't nail itself down to one concrete reality, it's basically a mirror. That's why the title is what it is. I'm not on a podium saying anything. I'm just asking myself a bunch of questions, and they're audible in the form of song. Any potential perspective could be true -- it's just not necessarily my truth. It's yours.
Q: I kind of feel like I need a therapist after that answer.
A: I'm only 70 bucks an hour. We can just keep talking now, and I can start asking you questions.