Well… I like Mushaboom! Is that helpful?

hi mike. i’m 28. i like a few things about feist. for one, i like the sleek, luxuriant arrangements on several songs on let it die, like “one evening” and “leisure suite” and “inside and out”: these are great jazz-inflected pop songs, and i like them in the same way i like sade. and when she goes stark, i especially like the grain of her voice, which is warm and rich and breathy and a little scratchy. i guess i also like her eclecticism, that she’s equally capable of sounding like smooth lite-soul on a dusties radio station, a melodramatic piano-led michel legrand-penned ballad, and a hypnotically intimate acoustic cat power song. she’s also great to listen to in the bathtub.

25 here, and I like, uhm… she did good on that remake of “Lover’s Spit” from Bee Hives. That’s about it.

i like her voice in ewan pearson’s remix of inside and out. that’s pretty much it. i am 25.

I am 25 years of age.

a) Feist has a wonderful profile, as evidenced by the cover of “The Reminder; b) her take on the treadmill/people mover video dance craze is effortlessly cool, as opposed to oppressively geeked out and strangely aggressive; and c) the song it is wedded to (”My Moon My Man”) is easily one of those “can’t get it out of my head” large-type jams of 2007.

The only problem is, like “Let It Die” I probably won’t care too much about “The Reminder” two months from now.

I’m 30. I find nothing redeeming in Feist’s new album, The Reminder. It’s a sweet record for folks with early-onset senility who’ve forgotten that Cat Power made a perfectly acceptable adult contemporary record that actually had a soul just scant months ago. I’m indebted to Liz Colville for voicing my concerns at Stylus.

[And I listened to this for my job. My pleasant, ineffectual blurb runs Sunday on Comcast’s music page. I’m so reaching out to Feist’s target audience, viz. if NPR were actually a genre of music, Feist would be it.]

it’s the eyes… those cold, crisp Canadian eyes hinting that she’d rather stay in bed and smoke dope, then actually get up and do something, anything really. save for maybe drinking lemon and honey spiked tea.

28, i thought people said she’s hot? she doesn’t look that way in this picture, therefor i shall not investigate her music. yes, men can be like that. i also like my music more adventurous and the norah jones for the indie set doesn;t strike me as being that way. maybe i’m gonna start hating her. i need to hate more artists

i like the vibes on “lonely lonely” a lot. she’s a very engaging performer, also. gets a bit more “experimental” than one would think. i just turned 33 - i hope this doesn’t disqualify me from the survey.

i’m 21 and one of randoms who visit you. I don’t like Feist that much. Really I haven’t given her enough of chance to find out what ’s wrong or right with her but… If you’re in the mood for the Woman/Song kind of thing, Aimee Mann probably does it better with better songs. And if you’re the mood for the kitsch pop side, i dunno, good Of Montreal?

I’m actually a little confused why Feist/Cat Power/etc don’t get thrown in the Norah Jones category. Because they write their own songs?

also i forgot to say your field research will probably be a little skewed here. Don’t you think the Feist base is not reading obscure-ish (no dis) blogs?

You guessed correctly. I know nothing of her work.

31, nada.

i work at a record store and they’re buying two at a time when they could just as easily be getting haircuts.

I only know her as the happy backdrop to my old buddy’s first tour: as seen here.

Beyond that, I don’t have any real insight to contribute to proving your point or padding your survey figures.

Oh, I’m 23.

i like that it’s fun, catchy and exciting. but i guess those are sucky things to look for in music.

mike, all ears to read about this “thesis” of yours. should i be checking the goat blog for it?

Feist is an aural garfield comic. thats my theory.

Valtrex….

Valtrex….