But then the chapters had to be shoved into some sort of order and there was negotiation that had to happen in terms of where the story went, and what the themes and topics were, and what we were going to reveal and what we weren’t. I think the biggest effect that writing a book had on making an album is that we were very collaborative in writing the book, because we wrote the chapters on our own, which is how we write songs. We weren’t as heavily involved in making Hey, I’m Just Like You because we were so focused on the book, so it had been a long time since we’d sat down to write music.
Tegan Quin: I do think that our foray into writing the last five years has definitely influenced our songwriting. He spun around about three hours into the first session and was like, ‘So we’re making an album, right?’ By day two, I was out in the parking lot calling our management and saying, ‘I think we should schedule more time and make an album.'”īelow, Tegan and Sara dig into the making of Crybaby.Ĭonsequence : How has working on projects besides music affected your songwriting? “But we were working on so many other things, we decided to let it simmer and thought, ‘We’ll be ready when we’re ready.’ Then we went to Seattle in August, and we recorded a few songs with John Congleton. “We started to have these new songs piling up,” Tegan Quin recalls in a separate phone call. Tegan and Sara both serve as executive producers and co-writers on High School, and it was in between penning the script when Crybaby began falling into place. “I think partly it’s due to our age, but also because we were working on these other projects that kind of tell our origin story during this time when we were figuring out a lot of important things about ourselves as individuals, as artists, as sisters.” “I think we’ve been in a really reflective period in our career,” Sara Quin tells Consequence over video chat.
Tegan and sarah interview series#
Since reaching mainstream success with their fourth album, 2004’s So Jealous, the duo have essentially turned their charming indie pop into an enterprise of sorts - culminating in this month’s release of their tenth studio album Crybaby (out Friday, October 21st) along with High School, the new Amazon Freevee series based on the twins’ 2019 memoir of the same name. Tegan and Sara aren’t exactly known for being secretive.
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