Tegan and sara are gay
In last week’s Melody Issue, we had a review of the hot brand-new CD from same-sex attracted musical twins Tegan and Sara. Now, our Chris Azzopardi sat down with the sister perform for this one-on-one … or, one-on-two.
Sister Act
They’ve been on the verge of straight-up pop melody for years, but Tegan and Sara are going all in with Heartthrob. Don’t think they’re all happy and stuff, though.
“It’s our most heartbreaking record,” says Tegan Quin. “It’s a great record for people who loved our past harmony. It’s just that they have to get past the sound.”
The sound she’s referring to was captured in all its blissful bliss when their seventh album’s first single, “Closer,” instantly aligned itself with some of the best pop songs of the mid ’90s. We revisited that defining era in music — and even before then, when the girls were hanging New Kids on the Block posters in their bedroom — during our interview with the Quin sisters.
Dallas Voice: Are your house parties anything like the one in the video for “Closer”? Sara: We were reimagining our teen years when we were putting this video together. In middle school and tall school, we loved house parties. Our house parties then would’
Want to learn more about everyone’s favourite queer duo?
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The iconic indie pop duo that has all the sapphics screaming, Tegan and Sara, are Canadian twins, snapping in both looks and sexualities (have you gathered that they’re both gay yet?) Whether you’ve been following them since the late 90s or soon 2020s here are 5 amusing facts about Tegan and Sara.
Their first songs
In 1995, when they were 15 years old, they started sneaking out a guitar they found in their stepdad’s basement; thus, beginning their journey in writing and recording their own songs, evolving into their first band “Plunk.”
Sara’s first tune was Tegan Didn’t Go To School Today and Tegan’s first song was called Condamnation.
Their inspirations
The same as writers write what they study, the same goes for musicians, with a variety of albums inspiring their own work. The Quin twins love Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 album She’s So Peculiar with Tegan noting “we were a Cyndi Lauper household”. Their mother had a blue Aerostar minivan where most of their favourite albums were blasted.
Other inspirational albums for the duo enclose Bruce Spring
Tegan and Sara's memoir 'High School' reveals they never came out to each other
Identical twins sisters Tegan and Sara Quinn are, undoubtedly, musical legends. The Grammy-nominated duo from Canada are established for songs ‘Walking With a Ghost’, and ‘Closer’, while anyone who loved The LEGO Movie (how could you not?!) will recognize the earworm ‘Everything Is Awesome’ that they wrote for the film. Both identify as lesbians, and are legit icons within Gay circles for their open and loyal discussions about their sexuality in their music.
After the sisters graduated high university, they decided to pursue a career in music rather than going to uni. 20 years later, here they are. And, with their new showing memoir 'High School' (which coincides with the release of their ninth studio album 'Hey, I'm Just Like You' - all re-recordings of demos from their high college days), they are returning back to those early days.
“Our start was kind of tough and figuring out who we were was hard,” Tegan tells Cosmopolitan UK. The memoir takes us through their younger years, their struggles with acceptance and their gender non-conforming identities, drugs and alcohol, fear and love and, ultimately, what happen
Sara, of Tegan and Sara, on Growing Up Gay
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With a memoir and album about to drop, Sara Quin of Canadian indie pop band Tegan and Sara opens up about her youth and about the complicated emotions she experienced while working on these projects
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Tegan and Sara aren’t scared of musical evolution. The Canadian twin sisters have always written super-catchy songs, but over the years their early indie-pop sound has blossomed into something glossier and more electronic: for their last two albums, 2013’s Heartthrob and 2016’s Love You to Death, they collaborated with Adele-producer Greg Kurstin; Closer, a joyous head-rush of a club banger, was even featured on Glee.
As their profile has grown, the Quin sisters have also established themselves as significant queer voices in the music industry. In 2016, they launched the Tegan and Sara Foundation with the stated aim of ‘fighting for health, economic justice and voice for LGBTQ girls and women’.
Now, 20 years after they released debut album Under Feet Like Ours, Tegan and Sara are allowing themselves to demonstrate on their personal evolution. Their excellent new m