Things to Do in metro Detroit this weekend (laughs) They just kind of flowed into each other. There was a lot of Googling - How do you write a script?, stuff like that. It was crazy we had never written a graphic novel before, never written fiction before, never written a script before. “So when Covid happened we were actually kind of relieved - not about Covid but to have time at home to tackle all these things. * Tegan, 42, says by phone that the TV show and graphic novels were in motion before the pandemic hit during the spring of 2020. But even if Tegan and Sara “think about quitting all the time” it seems abundantly clear that the more they do, the happier they are… It’s a lot of work over a relatively short amount of time. They’re back on the road touring, while 2023 will bring a pair of autobiographically-inspired graphic novels, “Tegan and Sara: Junior High” (out May 30) and “Tegan and Sara: Crush.” The Canadian duo, which began recording in 2009, recently released its 10th album, “Crybaby,” just before the TV adaptation of their best-selling 2019 memoir “High School” debuted on Amazon Freevee. By writing songs like "Boyfriend" and "BWU," they’re going above and beyond, and they should be lauded for it.Tegan Quin says she and her twin sister Sara “don’t know how to sit still” - which is why Tegan and Sara has projects blossoming all over the place right now. Who would ask for more? Living a healthy, happy life can feel like a form of quiet rebellion in its own right, even when you’re not a highly visible musician. (Who else called out Tyler, the Creator’s homophobia at the peak of his powers?) They may have been less direct in their songs, but they were out musicians who were loving and taking care of themselves in plain sight. When it came up on songs like The Con’s opener " I Was Married," a refutation of bigots who like to characterize homosexuality as unnatural, it was thinly veiled by poetry: "They seem so very scared of us / I look into the mirror / for evil that just does not exist." It bubbled beneath the surface of their music even as they built a reputation as honest, open role models and willing activists. It’s taken Tegan and Sara time to figure out how to reckon with their sexuality in their art, a process that’s surely familiar to many queer people. (It sounds a little like a pop version of Sufjan Stevens’ " To Be Alone With You," another song about love and the intensity it can achieve.) (Even Heartthrob’s most direct songs shied away from the usage of gendered pronouns.) "Boyfriend" is a playful, frothy disco romp about a love triangle complicated by the closet "BWU" glorifies a lifetime commitment that’s flourishing outside the bounds of marriage. It’s an undeniably queer album, and it’s explicit about that queerness in a way that’s unprecedented in the Quins’ discography. Songs take emotional turns on a dime, pivoting from funny to tender and bruised to brassy before you can figure out what’s going on. You can chalk it up to the kind of writing described above: succinct phrases burrow into your head, even as they take on much greater meaning within larger contexts. On their new album Love You to Death, the Quins and veteran pop producer Greg Kurstin (handling every track here, up from seven on Heartthrob) run back that album’s concise, sparkling New Wave sound, and the few additions - a slight tilt toward the dynamics of festival-tent EDM, some lamentable pitch-shifting out of DJ Snake’s playbook - aren’t glaring enough to throw you off.
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