Closer song tegan and sara lyrics free#

We were going to break free from our parents. We were not going to do post-secondary schooling. SARA: We were also teenagers who were finally breaking free of the institution of education. Because we were too young, too unsure of our sound, they said that we werenвЂ™t able to be commercial. We were afraid because our mom was like, you canвЂ™t sign this deal until youвЂ™re 18 years old, and we had friends who were in the industry on major labels that told us that if we signed a record deal, weвЂ™d get dropped.

It wasnвЂ™t that we were rejecting it - itвЂ™s that we were afraid.

We didnвЂ™t take it not because we didnвЂ™t want to sell out or whatever - we didnвЂ™t have that vernacular yet, we wouldnвЂ™t have been thinking that way. TEGAN: I think itвЂ™s interesting because at that point, we had played three gigs professionally and got offered a record deal. STEREOGUM: Do you feel itвЂ™s ironic in a way that, being where you are today, youвЂ™ve kind of becomeвЂ¦ I donвЂ™t know if вЂњsuperstarsвЂќ is the proper term, but that after saying fuck you to this notion of commercialized music, youвЂ™ve found yourself in that world? In terms of the actual song, itвЂ™s just so weirdвЂ¦ We were weird songwriters. So yeahвЂ¦ It was painful to listen to in a weird way because we were so naГЇve and young. I donвЂ™t even know if I truly didnвЂ™t want to be commercial - I think I just needed to be able to explore that idea within a song. I use the term вЂњdemosвЂќ in an affectionate way, but weвЂ™re literally trying things out. TEGAN: Exactly, thatвЂ™s why itвЂ™s so funny when I listen back to it. SARA QUIN: As if we had any idea what we were doingвЂ¦ I wrote that song as almost an answer to that, because I was just 100% rejecting the idea of being some commercial band.

We had this crazy experience where we got home the day after the festival and every major label had called and left a voicemail asking us for more information. I remember we had played this contest and got to go play a big industry festival out in Vancouver, and heard all these other female Canadian artists - I had been so inspired and excited. ItвЂ™s so funny to me that itвЂ™s on two records - like, we re-recorded it because we thought, hey, we need to hear this another way. ThereвЂ™s so many left turns, so many weird elements. WeвЂ™re exploring, even within the song, what kind of songwriters we are, what kind of singers we are, what we wanted to talk about. Good, higher-end demos because we actually did them with producers and proper engineers in a studio, but I think we were still discovering ourselves, and вЂњSuperstarвЂќ is a prime example of that. We were so young for both those records - Under Feet Like Ours and This Business Of Art - that they feel more like demos, really. ItвЂ™s not like I even think that I think itвЂ™s good or bad. I listened to it recently because I had talked about it with somebody and wanted to see if it was as bad as I remember it, and it wasnвЂ™t. TEGAN QUIN: I wrote this song right after we graduated high school. Take it as a quasi-oral history of a band that has made it through two decades and is still putting out vital and constantly evolving music. To celebrate their eighth album and reflect on their storied career, we sat down for a long, winding talk that charted their stylistic progression by looking at specific songs, from their early days through to their most recent album. Love You To Death continues this gradual transformation, marrying their fresh new bombastic вЂ™80s pop sound with the emotional exactitude of their earlier work. While the sonic departure of Heartthrob may have come as a surprise to some, the truth is that Tegan And Sara have been flirting with inorganic sounds and conventional pop structures since their inception. While the Canadian duo scored their first mainstream hit only three years ago with вЂњ Closer,вЂќ theyвЂ™ve been a formative influence throughout my entire life, shaping my identity and what I learned to value in music. Tegan And Sara changed my life, or at least thatвЂ™s what I dramatically wrote when I did a deep dive into the groupвЂ™s discography two years ago.