![]() On top of that the ensuing album tour where unresolved tensions spilled over into physical fights between the sisters almost spelt the end for the Quins. ![]() In fact there was no shortage of incredibly sexist and disgustingly homophobic views in certain music press reviews that would not be tolerated today. Though it didn't guarantee the sisters or their album universal acceptance. The Con shows the sisters absorbing and weathering the intense highs and lows of a truly tumultuous point in their lives and career, and forging that emotion into concisely crafted pop gems. Not because it was their breakthrough or when they crossed over to being mainstream pop stars, those records would be 2004's So Jealous and 2013's Heartthrob respectively. The Con remains a pivotal work in the Tegan and Sara creative timeline. You see who you are, and Sara and I think of ourselves as good, generous, thoughtful people that have this very full and great life." "When you look in the mirror, you don't see this horrible thing that people see. "And I think that song, Sara really summed up this idea that, pure true love is just like, you see someone you just love them, you just connect to them. There's all these misconceptions about who we are. Some people think that's like, 'Oh, you must be drinking and doing drugs and partying’. "Even the fact that we're tattooed, or musicians. "We're so well liked and beloved in so many circles, but there's still this underlying conflict in our life, which is that we know that we aren't necessarily always seen as great because of our sexuality. "'I Was Married' really reflects the part of us that struggles sometimes with our sexuality and the way that we see ourselves," Tegan explained to Zan Rowe. I look into the mirror, for evil that just does not exist' They seem so very tough, They seem so very scared of us 'Now we look up in, Into the eyes of bullies breaking backs The vibrance of the sparse piano led song make it feel like a song you could walk down the aisle to on a brisk spring day, though the dark clouds of prejudice and discrimination were never far away 'I Was Married' is both sweetly blissful and political. Like, I bought a place and it's so great from the outside, but maybe inside there's all these things happening."īeneath the surface there was certainly a lot happening.Īside from relationship turmoil, the sisters were also dealing with the loss of their grandmother expressed in songs like 'Knife Going In' and 'Burn Your Life Down'.Īlso, although they'd both long been open about their queer identities, there were very clearly issues of deep rooted homophobia and misogyny that they were ready to tackle head on. "So The Con was just like this idea that, in a way, life's a bit of a con. And Sara was in a very settled long term relationship and had bought a place. I was kind of traveling and floundering a bit. "I was newly single out of a five year relationship and didn't own a place. ![]() So a lot of those themes felt very consistent between the songs that we were writing, even though we were writing from very different places in our lives. "Sara and I spent a ton of time reflecting on the first 10 years of our adult life while we were writing this record.
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