![]() ![]() “I think women are told, ‘you couldn’t figure yourself out back then, only show this version, this perfected version of you.’” The television show is in early development: “Stories like ours in the TV world are really still such an anomaly,” Tegan notes. It reverberates off the pages of High School, how music is a guiding light as the twins untangle their identities, discover their sexuality, and navigate first love. Sara hopes she arrives at that feeling again, the one she had as a teenager when just stepping onstage was magic. And tapping into these other artistic mediums has made me reevaluate why I don’t feel that way about music.” I will work tirelessly if something is inspiring and exciting. In my life, I’m in pursuit of inspiration. But in these other worlds, I do feel that. ![]() “I understand music and performance so well that it’s hard to be mesmerized by all of that. “I think I’ve lost touch with what makes playing music magical to me,” she admits. A podcast Sara recently listened to discussed how understanding a magic trick can sometimes make the trick better. What matters most is we’re getting to be creative, and we get to be in charge of the creative ventures that we’re headed into.” It’s also the allure of the unknown. These are not surprising: Tegan and Sara have often ventured outside the sonic scope with web series, art books, documentaries, and more.Įvolving and educating yourself is part of life, Tegan says: “It’s adding more skills and more experiences that we get to pull from as artists, as people, as human beings. There’s also a television adaptation of their memoir for Amazon/IMDb in the works. The stories, aimed at younger teens, follow the twins at age 12 as they realize they’re gay and start a band. They’re writing graphic novels, illustrated by cartoonist Tillie Walden. ![]() Their upcoming projects take profound looks inward and outside the realm of music. We are so deeply invested in our queer community, the ecosystem around our band, our fans, our art, each other, our partners.” I’ve been thinking about this a lot, because it sort of suggests that you don’t consider other people’s feelings or concerns or whatever. “I think we employ the word selfish to describe ourselves as the childless and the self-focused. Sara, more pensive where her twin is upbeat, squints. The Quins spend a moment in debate: Tegan half-jokes that adopting a dog has destroyed the control she had over her life, the selfishness she relished. To contemplate what it means to be selfish. It’s allowed for reflection on where they are in their lives, on their individual journeys as women, as queer people, as siblings, as artists. Tegan wears Louis Vuitton slippers Tegan’s own socks.īut this past year or so, they’ve been catching their breath, rooting in ways they otherwise couldn’t have. An impressive body of work spanning over 20 years followed, in a versatile trajectory moving from echoes of their Kurt Cobain–scored upbringing to perfectly crafted synth-pop, with accolades including a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award-one of the highest honours in the country-peppered along the way. They’ve been sprinting a long time, practically since winning the Garage Warz band battle in Calgary, where they grew up, in 1998. The pandemic pressed pause on that, of course, and they say the break hasn’t been unwelcome. ![]() Tegan and Sara were to tour following the 2019 release of their memoir, High School, and its companion record-their ninth studio effort- Hey, I’m Just Like You. They give her a thumbs-up she waves back.Ĭhaos, yes. Tegan, in her cabin on Pender Island, is also dealing with household stuff: behind our Zoom call, she’s looking out the window at contractors measuring her property for a fence. She sold her house on the North Shore to relocate to the hum of Vancouver’s core, and instead of Grouse and Seymour’s peaks, she’s now surrounded by mountains of things to unpack. The morning has been, Tegan and Sara Quin tell me, total chaos. ![]()
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