3/10/2023 0 Comments Tegan and sara the conDo you hear that sentiment expressed often? When I think about The Con, it’s hard to even remember what songs were singles because all of the tracks were so specific and nostalgic for me. There’s just been so many - I mean literally hundreds of thousands of people that have listened to those songs, that I feel like it’s more important to sort of let them have control over it, you know? Those are their stories and their memories - I’m just a jukebox, you know? And also the songs don’t really feel like mine or my story anymore - they feel the audience’s. And now it’s just such a gift to be able to go back and really actually be able to enjoy the music. I was embroiled in personal drama that I was drowning in and it’s hard to get on stage and then be like, “And now, ‘Back In Your Head.’ Everybody, sing along!” It was like masochistic, you know? It felt horrible. And for me to actually want to play the music again, for many years - well, for the time that we were actually touring The Con, I actually found it almost physically unbearable to play those songs. So, for me, as much as I had creatively felt really stimulated by writing and recording the album, almost immediately, the record became actually sort of a burden and I think now to go back and reflect on the songs and that period of our lives from the vantage point of not depressed, confident, life is in control 37-year-old, like, it’s way more fun. I think it almost took three years for me to get back into a good place. And then on top of everything that was happening personally, I sort of retreated into a depression that was very challenging to get out of. For me, the added stress of, while we were excited that our band was getting bigger, there was also sort of crippling amount of anxiety and stress and expectations that I had a hard time really coping with. And I think at 27 years old, it’s not an uncommon experience to feel sort of like everything is out of control and death and taxes and all of that. We had experienced some very substantial losses in our lives - some deaths that were really, really hard. My life really exploded around the time the record came out. It was a really profoundly depressing and sad time for me. I know for myself, I hated The Con and touring it. īut I also think that on a personal note, I think that for us it was really the beginning of a totally different stage in our lives, both personally and professionally, and so it feels very significant to go back out and sort of talk about the album again and the songs. And I think to go out and force our audience to listen to - if we had to go out and force our audience to listen to a full album, it felt like The Con was the best one to do that with. It really was sort of a record where our visibility increased tenfold. ![]() While we sort of coming off of the momentum of So Jealous it was really with The Con that we started to see opportunities like festivals - festivals were suddenly booking us and we were on MTV. It was a real pivot toward soft of being a mainstream act in terms of, like, all of a sudden the visibility of the band was really different. I think for us The Con is kind of one of those albums that undeniably our fans talk about it all the time. Why was the decision to resurrect The Con? Your previous album, So Jealous, was arguably as critical for your careers and fans. Sara Quin: It just feels like that community has supported us so much and it’s also, I don’t know, it’s the only thing that keeps me from turning into a nihilist and thinking an asteroid should hit earth is to give back to people who are constantly giving. You’ve done so much already for LGBTQ women and girls. In advance, Billboard spoke with Sara Quin about the choice to bring back The Con and how Tegan and Sara have stayed ahead of music industry trends throughout their career.įirst, congrats on your success and work with the new Tegan and Sara Foundation. with a portion of the proceeds from the tour and album going to The Tegan and Sara Foundation, their non-profit dedicated to economic justice, health and representation for LGBTQ girls and women. The Con X comes out Friday on Warner Bros. Songwriting was a kind of painful excavation for them with The Con and so it might seem strange that the pair are resurrecting the album in its entirety for an all-acoustic tour, as well as releasing a covers album with friends like Ryan Adams, PVRIS, Muna and Paramore‘s Hayley Williams performing their own renditions of songs from The Con called The Con X. The Con marked a sea change for Tegan and Sara, as it would be the last album they wrote songs individually instead of together, and also personally, as both were going through major relationship hardships and the loss of their maternal grandmother. Tegan and Sara's 'The Con': The Duo, Sara Bareilles & More Talk 10-Year Anniversary Covers Album
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