Sara: My first choice as a child was New Kids on the Block. GC: For this album you really immersed yourself in ’80s and ’90s pop music. I wasn’t like, "Oh, gross." And then I kissed a girl and was like, "One’s not right and one is definitely awesome."
(Laughs) In my teen years I dated boys but I didn’t hate it. If anything, I loved having boyfriends because I could talk about how much I liked girls with them all the time. It’s so weird that I was naked the whole time. I was also really into Ace of Base and I would sit in my parents’ huge Jacuzzi tub in their bathroom and fill up the tub after school and sit in it and talk on the phone (with my friends) and listen to that Ace of Base record over and over again. Tegan: I remember discovering Ani DiFranco and really embracing the side of me that liked girls. I never could have told her that I felt something for her, that I had a crush, so whenever I hear any songs off of Post I immediately go there. Sara: There’s something about Björk, because this girl I had a crush on loved ( Post), and if I hear it now I’m completely transported back to high school. GC: "Closer" could really be the theme song to somebody’s first kiss. I still think we can throw down a pretty mean shindig, but we don’t generally do karaoke. Tegan: Our house parties have gotten quite a bit less interesting than they were when we were younger. A house party for me now means more than two people over and me going to the store to get wine. We were fairly disgusting and doing things that I would be embarrassed to have on camera. Our house parties then would’ve been an R-rated version of this. In middle school and high school, we loved house parties. Sara: We were reimagining our teen years when we were putting this video together. GC: Are your house parties anything like the one in the video for "Closer"? We revisited that defining era in music – and even before then, when the girls were hanging New Kids on the Block posters in their bedroom – during our new interview with the Quin sisters. 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. It’s just that they have to get past the sound." "It’s a great record for people who loved our past music. "It’s our most heartbreaking record," Tegan reassures. They’ve been on the verge of straight-up pop music for years, but Tegan and Sara are going all in with Heartthrob.ĭon’t think they’re all happy and stuff, though.
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