.teganandsara's debut memoir, HighSchool, is officially out today! We spoke to them about their writing process, their differing memories & more
The duo unpacks their debut memoir ‘High School’ and ninth studio album ‘Hey, I’m Just Like You,’ both out this week.are both fresh-faced and in short sleeves, tattooed arms bared. We’re meeting for breakfast, but Tegan’s already eaten, having forced herself to wake up at 5:00 a.m. in preparation for day one of what’s about to be a long week of consecutive press days -- today, involving a trip to The New York Public Library, fittings at their publicist’s hotel, and many, many more interviews.
“I'm not like, ‘Oh, God, everyone's gonna hate it,’” she explains. “But these days my fear is, ‘Are people going to really take the time to really hear what we're doing here? Hear how powerful these songs are? Will they take the time to learn the lyrics, to feel passionate? Have we been around too long that we aren't able to generate the excitement and passion we did 10 years ago?’” explaining that she'd tried writing, to no avail.
Now, they had a daunting task ahead of them. How to turn 40 songs -- all of which needed tons of work -- into 12? “There was going to be splicing and sewing things together,” Tegan says, exhaling at the memory, “but by the time we finished writing the book, I was really ready for it.” Hope fondly remembers "going on long tangents and talking about aliens for an hour,” and how Sara and Tegan’s mom, Sonia, would pop in and out of the studio. Still, the pressure was on to make a record in two short months. Fortunately, they’re some of the most organized people on the planet. “Working with two Virgos is kind of a dream for me,” Hope jokes. “They love a fucking spreadsheet.
Tegan points out that as teenagers, you allow yourself to feel overwhelmed by the grandness of what's to come; to get existential and spiritual. “That's what's beautiful about the songs. To have the bravery and honesty -- there's something so powerful about singing songs that we wrote about the present [2019] that we used to sing right to the people we were talking about,” she says. “It feels so profoundly powerful that it's as if the songs were written today.
"Grown-Up Sara" couldn’t be more intent on telling the truth. She shares a story about leaving the garage door open at her house overnight, and waited a week to tell her girlfriend -- the longest secret she’d ever kept from her. When she finally told her, she felt like she’d been absolved of a murder. “Of course it's right there, both consciously and subconsciously,” she says now of baring those past lies -- and therefore setting them free -- on the album.
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