When Tegan and Sara hit the road 10 months ago to play their new album “Crybaby,” the indie pop duo wasn’t sure what to expect on their first big tour in five years, says singer-songwriter Tegan Quin, who with her identical twin sister Sara Quin make up the indie pop duo.
“Our last big band tour before we put out ‘Crybaby’ was in 2017,” she says. “Because we wrote (the memoir) ‘High School’ and put out “Hey, I’m Just Like You’ and toured just Sara and I. We hadn’t done the big hurrah in a while. So we when we went out last fall, it was actually really fun.”
“I was shocked to be honest,” she continues. “Because we toured around the release of ‘Crybaby’ and people already were reacting to songs like ‘Yellow’ and ‘(Bleeping) Up What Matters’ and ‘Smoking Weed Alone.’”
And sure, some of those songs had been released as singles or performed on late-night TV talk shows, but still it felt good to see more than two decades after their first few albums that fans were embracing this new one.
“I was actually very heartened, you know, because I feel like these days, I don’t know, the music business has become this very mysterious thing that I don’t really understand,” Quin says. “It’s like a safe we can’t crack. And in a way, that’s sort of always been our career.”
Which is not to say Tegan and Sara’s career has been anything but fruitful in recent years. In addition to the ongoing Crybaby Tour, which brings them to the Bellwether in Los Angeles on Monday, Aug. 14, their 2019 memoir, “High School,” was adapted into an acclaimed TV series on Amazon Freevee last year.
When Quin called from her Vancouver B.C. home on a break in the tour, she was packing for San Diego Comic-Con where she and Sara Quin had a panel to talk about their new autobiographical graphic novel, “Junior High.” There’s also a new set of chapter books for younger readers that is set for 2024.
In an interview lightly…
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