4/2/2023 0 Comments Tegan and sara hair![]() ![]() Although we have so many records and we've toured so much and we have all this experience, in a strange way it feels like it just was overnight. Was that closing a chapter of your career? TEGAN: Sara and I definitely describe Get Along as a closing of a chapter. Last year, you released a live album called Get Along, which was sort of a greatest hits collection, plus a tour documentary and a boxed set of all of your records. So it's like, what feels more satisfying? Does it feel more satisfying to just be yourself and risk it all and have people critique you, or does it feel better to keep yourself in a really safe space where you control all the variables and you know what kind of audience you're going to have and how they are going to respond to you? For a lot of our career, I felt very comfortable in that world, and now I'm sort of like, "Well, what's the harm in allowing yourself to expand or change, even if it's at the risk of losing people or having people criticize you?" Is the more electronic direction in your new music that same thing-being older, being more comfortable in your career? SARA: It's all of those things and it's also the realization that if you play it safe, you can sort of incubate yourself in a part of the industry or in a part of the world that feels familiar and where you have a lot of control, however safe you make the world you're in, there's still going to be criticism. I don't feel like I'm acting or playing a role that isn't actually how I am in my real life. And it's on our own terms and it's in a way that feels comfortable for us. And now that I'm older, I don't care what people think. But we have felt like we have had to prove it so there was a concern or a nervousness around playing up our image too much. This of course, no man would ever have to prove. So we've really tried to negotiate not looking like pieces of shit, but also we have been very aware of the fact that we wanted to prove that we were a band. ![]() ![]() As much as I hate that, I'm incredibly aware of it. Or exploiting what we look like, because I think in today's society it's very institutionalized that if you become too much about something to look at and to observe as a woman, people just assume that your art has less value or that you're being duped or something. We've been very conscious of not exploiting our sexuality. It is novel, because I think it's about the specific type of objectification that happens for us. When people notice I'm like "Yes! Thank You! Thank you for objectifying me, this one time."įrom my understanding of your fans, and seeing their Tumblrs devoted to you, your being objectified doesn't seem very novel. I'm a 30-year-old woman who's never worn tights. And all day long I was massaging my legs and touching my butt and I was like "This is the most comfortable thing I've ever worn." It feels like you're wearing nothing. So the stylist gave me these Spanx and I went into the bathroom and put these tights on and put the polka dot pants on. And Spanx underneath them." I was like, I don't know, this feels very feminine and I'm not sure if I really understand it or feel it. And I was like "How does this all work?" You know? And everybody that was there, they were making fun of me because they were like, "Oh my god, you are not a girl. We were shooting a music video and we were picking out clothes, whatever, and at the last minute Tegan had these pants hanging in her closet and I was like "These are awesome," and then when I grabbed them they were see-through tights with polka dots on them. That seems like a weird and good place to start this interview… Why the switch? SARA: You know, it started a few months ago. Here, meeting at a midtown hotel before Tegan headed home to Vancouver for the first time in a month, the sisters talk Spanx, turning 30 and still being each others yin and yang after all these years.Īt your concert at Bowery Ballroom, someone yelled out 'Nice tights!' and, Sara, you said thank you, and that wearing them was new for you. On Heartthrob, the turn to more electronic pop music might surprise fans of their "folk-Wiccan nightmare" early days (a phrase Sara remembers from an old Spin review), but the screaming, instantly-sold-out crowd at Bowery Ballroom last week seemed wholly on board. ![]() Tegan and Sara will release their seventh studio album in January, called Heartthrob, and while the Canadian twins have rarely been championed around these parts, their career longevity and obsessively supportive fan base ought to be an inspiration to any on-the-rise subject of a GEN F. ![]()
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