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It feels very emotional - lots of tears in the front row. Our musical director suggested doing it on piano, and it really transports me back to the first few times we played it live. It still feels the same performing it now, though obviously, we’ve updated it. When I say exactly how I feel, it really seems to connect. But that was the moment where I was like, no, no, this really is cathartic to sing this, to scream on stage every night, and watch everyone else scream along. Even when I wrote it, I remember calling Sara and her girlfriend in the middle of the night in Montreal and telling them to wake up and go listen, and I was like, “I think I wrote something really sad, accidentally.” It was very cathartic, which throughout the early part of our career, I had rejected that word - like when people would be like, “Do you find writing cathartic? It’s like reading out of our diary” - because I thought it was really sexist. It was sort of obvious right from the beginning that it was gonna be everybody’s sad, weepy breakup song.

But this was probably the first song that I wrote that had a connection with the audience, which I hadn’t yet had a song accomplish. As an added bonus, they’ve shared some advice for songwriters.Īt that point, Sara had written “Walking With a Ghost,” and that had done really well for us.

Oh yeah, did we mention that one run-in with some LEGO-ized statue named Oscar? Since the secret to their longevity can only be found in their discography, Vulture asked Tegan and Sara to pick the 10 best songs they’ve written. They’ve graduated from emo heartthrobs to queer influencers to pop songwriting elite without ever losing momentum.

Tegan and sarah nineteen full#

With their eighth album, Love You to Death, out Friday, boasting at least one viable Song of the Summer contender - not to mention some of the the year’s best songs, full stop - the Quin twins find themselves in rare territory. Even if you didn’t hear your first Tegan and Sara earworm until their 2004 breakthrough hit, “Walking With a Ghost,” by now, their canon of pop masterpieces has become even more inescapable. If you’ve been following Tegan and Sara since their debut album, 1999’s Under Feet Like Ours, you know they’re the type to make you love them to death.