#Tegan and sarah the con full#
You see who you are, and Sara and I think of ourselves as good, generous, thoughtful people that have this very full and great life." "When you look in the mirror, you don't see this horrible thing that people see. "And I think that song, Sara really summed up this idea that, pure true love is just like, you see someone you just love them, you just connect to them. There's all these misconceptions about who we are. Some people think that's like, 'Oh, you must be drinking and doing drugs and partying’. "Even the fact that we're tattooed, or musicians. "We're so well liked and beloved in so many circles, but there's still this underlying conflict in our life, which is that we know that we aren't necessarily always seen as great because of our sexuality. "'I Was Married' really reflects the part of us that struggles sometimes with our sexuality and the way that we see ourselves," Tegan explained to Zan Rowe.
I look into the mirror, for evil that just does not exist' They seem so very tough, They seem so very scared of us 'Now we look up in, Into the eyes of bullies breaking backs The vibrance of the sparse piano led song make it feel like a song you could walk down the aisle to on a brisk spring day, though the dark clouds of prejudice and discrimination were never far away 'I Was Married' is both sweetly blissful and political. Like, I bought a place and it's so great from the outside, but maybe inside there's all these things happening."īeneath the surface there was certainly a lot happening.Īside from relationship turmoil, the sisters were also dealing with the loss of their grandmother expressed in songs like 'Knife Going In' and 'Burn Your Life Down'.Īlso, although they'd both long been open about their queer identities, there were very clearly issues of deep rooted homophobia and misogyny that they were ready to tackle head on. "So The Con was just like this idea that, in a way, life's a bit of a con. And Sara was in a very settled long term relationship and had bought a place. I was kind of traveling and floundering a bit. "I was newly single out of a five year relationship and didn't own a place. So a lot of those themes felt very consistent between the songs that we were writing, even though we were writing from very different places in our lives. Much like the duo's voices, which share a timbre, a clear relationship, even if their actual tonality differs, the songs on the album complement each other, play off the other's strengths, and make the record very much an entity instead of simply a collection of tracks, setting it off as an impressive step forward in their already commendable discography."Sara and I spent a ton of time reflecting on the first 10 years of our adult life while we were writing this record. But this isn't to say that there's a kind of disparity or harsh contrast on The Con. Though each sister writes and sings lead on seven tracks, it is Sara especially who writes the more intricate pieces ("Relief Next to Me," "Like O, Like H"), showing a more adult songwriter, one who has matured since her first work came out, while Tegan draws more from simpler emo and pop-punk arrangements ("Nineteen," "Hop a Plane"), her songs more straightforward, both compositionally and lyrically, than her sister's. Produced by Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla, the album is full of quirky, Aqueduct-like keyboards, punchy bass from Weezer's Matt Sharp and AFI's Hunter Burgan, and even some guitar help from Kaki King that stretch and shove their way into the spaces between Tegan and Sara's hook-driven melodies and clean harmonies, more complex than anything they've done before. It was a progression, to be sure, from This Business of Art to their fourth Vapor full-length - one that can be heard in the time spent on production, the louder guitars - but that still may not prepare listeners for The Con. Although identical twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin first appeared in the music scene in the late '90s playing the kind of folk-rock and folk-punk more associated with other Lilith Fair (in which they participated) artists of the time, by the time 2007 rolled around they had moved into much poppier territory.
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