Are tegan and sara gay
Tegan and Sara's memoir 'High School' reveals they never came out to each other
Identical twins sisters Tegan and Sara Quinn are, undoubtedly, musical legends. The Grammy-nominated duo from Canada are known for songs ‘Walking With a Ghost’, and ‘Closer’, while anyone who loved The LEGO Movie (how could you not?!) will know the earworm ‘Everything Is Awesome’ that they wrote for the film. Both identify as lesbians, and are legit icons within LGBTQ+ circles for their open and honest discussions about their sexuality in their music.
After the sisters graduated high educational facility, they decided to pursue a career in music rather than going to uni. 20 years later, here they are. And, with their new revealing memoir 'High School' (which coincides with the release of their ninth studio album 'Hey, I'm Just Like You' - all re-recordings of demos from their elevated school days), they are returning back to those early days.
“Our start was kind of tough and figuring out who we were was hard,” Tegan tells Cosmopolitan UK. The memoir takes us through their younger years, their struggles with
During their down time, the duo expanded into the gyrate world a bit, working with Tiesto, Morgan Page and David Guetta on various tracks.
We tracked down Tegan to chat a bit before their upcoming concert in Chicago.
Windy Urban area Times: Hi, Tegan. I interviewed Sara for the album Sainthood back in 2009 so I am excited to talk to you about Heartthrob now.
Tegan Quin:
Oh, sweet. That’s awesome!WCT: First off, where is your name from? Do you grasp any other Tegans in the world?
Tegan Quin:
I meet a million Tegans now. I face a lot of babies, dogs and cats named after me but when I was growing up I never met another Tegan. My parents named me from an unusual baby-names guide.
In last week’s Music Issue, we had a review of the hot new CD from gay musical twins Tegan and Sara. Now, our Chris Azzopardi sat down with the sister behave for this one-on-one … or, one-on-two.
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They’ve been on the verge of straight-up pop song for years, but Tegan and Sara are going all in with Heartthrob. Don’t think they’re all happy and stuff, though.
“It’s our most heartbreaking record,” says Tegan Quin. “It’s a great record for people who loved our past music. It’s just that they have to get past the sound.”
The sound she’s referring to was captured in all its heavenly bliss when their seventh album’s first single, “Closer,” instantly aligned itself with some of the best pop songs of the mid ’90s. We revisited that defining era in music — and even before then, when the girls were hanging Adj Kids on the Block posters in their bedroom — during our interview with the Quin sisters.
Dallas Voice: Are your house parties anything like the one in the video for “Closer”? Sara: We were reimagining our teen years when we were putting this vid
Sara, of Tegan and Sara, on Growing Up Gay
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With a memoir and album about to drop, Sara Quin of Canadian indie pop band Tegan and Sara opens up about her youth and about the complicated emotions she experienced while working on these projects
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Tegan and Sara aren’t scared of musical evolution. The Canadian twin sisters have always written super-catchy songs, but over the years their early indie-pop sound has blossomed into something glossier and more electronic: for their last two albums, 2013’s Heartthrob and 2016’s Love You to Death, they collaborated with Adele-producer Greg Kurstin; Closer, a joyous head-rush of a club banger, was even featured on Glee.
As their profile has grown, the Quin sisters have also established themselves as significant queer voices in the music industry. In 2016, they launched the Tegan and Sara Foundation with the stated aim of ‘fighting for health, economic justice and representation for LGBTQ girls and women’.
Now, 20 years after they released debut album Under Feet Like Ours,