Watch the video for That Girl by Tegan and Sara.Įverything is pretty much awesome about Tegan and Sara – their long-haul business acumen, their candour, their onstage banter. Written by two thirtysomethings, its natural habitat is high school, both sonically and lyrically. It grouses magnificently about falling in love with a straight girl who kisses you like her boyfriend but treats you like her best friend. Boyfriend – from 2016’s Love You to Death – is a case in point.
TEGAN AND SARAH NINETEEN MOVIE
The Quin sisters started off “niche”, became “cult”’, and ended up writing Everything Is Awesome for The Lego Movie all this while being not only open, but nonchalant and universalising about their sexuality. (More recently, Mancunian pop producer Shura has written about how inspirational Tegan and Sara were to her, in both incarnations.) Heartthrob was not only a success: its 80s soundbed came to be an acknowledged influence on Taylor Swift’s colossal 1989 and Carly Rae Jepsen. Tonight, Closer is perhaps its highest point its bittersweet verses and pumping choruses spell lust out quite clearly: “All I’m dreaming lately is how to get you underneath me.” The twins embraced the mainstream in the body of producer Greg Kurstin (Katy Perry, Kesha, Sia) and channelled their songs about unrequited love and affective disparity into aerodynamic, 80s-indebted vessels. Six albums into a career of singing earnest, mimsy indie rock, the Quin sisters abruptly morphed into a synthpop outfit for their seventh. It changed everything for the duo, leading them triumphantly to this sweet spot – success without compromise. It, and the next pristine nugget, Goodbye, Goodbye, date from the identical twins’ Heartthrob album of 2013. But she jumps anyway as they start the next number: Drove Me Wild, a perky pop song about a love affair in which one party is holding back. She is worried about jumping herself, in case she hurts her back (worrying is what Sara does). Sara Quin – white leggings, hair up – is trying to persuade the crowd to jump.
Tegan Quin – hair down, black leggings – jokingly lists her tour injuries so far: her foot, her hand, her burnt mouth, the popcorn that got stuck in the burn. Tegan and Sara started off ‘niche’, became ‘cult’, and ended up writing Everything Is Awesome for The Lego Movie
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