Pretty much from the time I was 12 until I was 20 I lived in my Doc MartensĪnd that was just, like, not cool. I am so excited that '90s fashion is coming back. We are fans of more androgynous, tomboy cuts. This season we have pretty much been wearing everything that Rag & Bone and ACNE put out. TQ: Sara and I love going to Opening Ceremony for the stuff that they carry including their own brands. It really makes sense why musicians just wear black on stage, because it photographs well, it makes you look thin, and it's easy to just look cool.ĮLLE: What designers do you like to wear? TQ: I've always a mixture of having fun and having some flair-we love Cyndi Lauper-so from '80s and '90s fashion and mix that up with straight-up rocker fashion. I would spend a few days working on a track, and then I would email it to Sara and she would fill in the holes, fill in the bridge, and send back some vocal ideas.ĮLLE: Are there any style icons you identity with? On Heartthrob, specifically, we co-wrote five of the tracks. TQ: Right from day one, when we were 15, we would write separately and then bring the song together. When I talked to the director, I just said I loved the idea of reflecting our teenage youth, a simpler more loving time.ĮLLE: Tell us about your relationship with Sara, in terms of how you create an album and play off one another. Hanging out with all your friends and having a crush on someone that you were friends with was like the most exciting thing that had ever happened to you. Even though I'm in love and in a great relationship, I was feeling very nostalgic about that time in your late teens before you really get into serious, heavy relationships. TQ: I tend to really write about heartbreaks, so I was trying to be romantic. Then we kind of transition into our teens when we fall for people who are real, and I was really intrigued by how much of our projections, that we take from loving celebrities and people that we don't know, play into our real relationships.ĮLLE: What was the theme behind the music video for "Closer?" You project what they are like and what being with them would be like. You obsess and you put their picture up on the wall. TQ: Sara and I really played with the idea that up until you have your first real love, heartthrobs are your love. So Sara and I felt more confident that we could bring something to the pop world.ĮLLE: What was the concept behind Heartthrob? The average music listener right now doesn't just want to hear pop music, they want to hear pop music that has depth and a lot of meaning in it. Pop music has been a big influence on our writing through the years, but it definitely feels like there is a resurgence of cool in pop music. Tegan Quin: We went for a much bigger sound. Yet the sisters were gregarious and charismatic, bantering comically between songs, and grateful to headline the same venue where they had played ten years earlier, only at that time, as the opening act.ĮLLE.com caught up with Tegan Quin about the making of Heartthrob and the re-emergence of '90s style.ĮLLE: How has your sound has evolved for this album? Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĪfter 90 days of touring, the show had been postponed for a month due to illness (Tegan had strep, and Sara a 24-hour flu).
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