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Intervju med Tegan & Sara om Taylor
When Tegan and Sara showed up Tuesday as Taylor Swift's surprise guests to sing "Closer" at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the Calgary twins had friends in the audience. "I was like, 'Be prepared. We pop out of the stage,'" Tegan Quin tells Rolling Stone with a laugh. Afterwards, she asked them in a text: "Was it a lot to see me jump up and down with 15,000 teenagers?"
If some of Tegan and Sara's hardcore fans were surprised (or alarmed) by their one-song collaboration with the multiplatinum pop princess, it was a comfortable fit for the Quins. Their latest album, Heartthrob, shows them evolving from indie singer-songwriter mode to something closer to pure, danceable pop, including the Top 40 single "Closer."
The day after appearing with Swift onstage, Tegan spoke with Rolling Stone about their visit to the massive arena production, and their shared commitment to bringing genuine feeling to pop music. "We always say we're emo — that's our genre," says Tegan. "And I think Taylor's emo. She talks about her feelings. She doesn't pretend or hide who she is or how she feels about things. We have that in common."
How did you meet Taylor Swift?
Yesterday was actually the first time we officially met. I remember hearing through the grapevine that she was a fan. I was like, there's no way! Then her manager called a couple of months ago and said Taylor is obsessed with the record and she'd love to have the girls up. I made a joke that we'd change the date of the birth of our child to make it happen. We're such huge fans.One of the bands that inspired us to want to make a bigger record and cross over to pop was Taylor. She's flawlessly moved [between] genres and she has such integrity and depth in her music. She's proven you can make a pop record that still has an incredible feeling in it.
Was your first meeting to rehearse?
We came in the afternoon and we rehearsed. Her band is incredible. Taylor is the boss, man. You walk onstage and she's like, "OK, here is what's going to happen." She's like, "I'm obsessed with the second verse – I want to sing that." And I'm like, fuck yeah, you can sing whatever you want. She walked us though the whole thing like an old pro.
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Backstage With Taylor Swift on Her Huge Summer Stadium Tour Onstage
You discussed writing a lot of songs in your bedroom at 2 a.m. What's it like to go from that to playing it for a huge stadium? I think the most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea that you have in the middle of the night to a song that a group of 55,000 people is singing back to you so loudly that you can hear it louder than your own voice coming out of the speakers, in a concert in a stadium. And I think that for me, that's the final part of the process. You know, I'm still so in love with songwriting because it's never the same. You never get the same fragment of information as an idea. It's never just a chorus or a first line – it's always something different. And to piece it together in the crossword puzzle that ends up being your song and have it end up here is so rewarding, you know.
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Billboard Magazine intervju
Looking back on the past year, what was the highlight for you?
Taylor Swift: For me, the highlight of this year was that fans went out and bought more than a million copies of "Red" in its first week of release. That was such an unbelievable feeling, knowing that many people wanted to hear about the last two years of my life. When I put out an album, it’s like me releasing my version of events, the way I felt at my highest and lowest points. Sharing that with the world is a vulnerable position to put yourself in, and having it be so celebrated by my fans was almost an indescribable feeling of joy and relief and "Oh, good, they understand me."
What song really made an impact on you this year?
I’m obsessed with "Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line. It’s the catchiest thing I’ve heard in years, and I love the Nelly version too. They’re out on tour with us right now, so I get to hear it all the time. I’m also absolutely smitten with “I Love It” by Icona Pop. It’s the way reckless abandon sounds in my head. I play it right before I go onstage.
What new talent emerged or came into his or her own this year that blew you away?
Tegan & Sara have been around for years and I’ve always loved them, but I feel like they really stretched sonically on this new album, "Heartthrob." I was just so impressed by it, and there isn’t a song on it I don’t love. So I guess, in my mind, I categorize them as the new Tegan & Sara. To see artists evolve like that is so inspiring.
What to you was one of the biggest losses this year in music?
I think losing George Jones deeply saddened everyone in Nashville. His influence on country music and his legacy will last forever. On top of all of that, he was a very sweet man and I'm so sorry we've lost him. George Jones never stopped wanting to be onstage. He played live shows until the day he died, and that passion for performing is something I look up to.
What was your favorite music-related meme or viral video this year?
I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends. I also love basically any cat-related YouTube video. Yes, I’m that girl. And I thought the goat video for “I Knew You Were Trouble” was brilliant—I showed it to everyone on my tour.
Was there a surprising sound or music trend that pricked up your ears?
I love that ballads became huge hits this year and that unexpected songs and artists got lots of airplay. Ed Sheeran, the Lumineers and fun. are some of my favorites right now, and they’ve all had big hits with songs that have substance and real instruments. I like it!
What music trend hurts your ears?
I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
How do you live like a high roller when you're in Las Vegas?
Room service. I don’t care. I love it.
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From Wonderland Magazine:
Us and Taylor really got on, not least because of all the inflatable animals and suchlike that Taylor messed around with on set, but because she’s genuinely a good egg: honest, expansive, funny, and full of odd, touching analogies about what it’s like to be so young, so famous, and so thoroughly hounded by blogs and tabloid newspapers all the time. For the full story (including giraffes, pink phones, Prada sunnies and white loafers) be sure to pick up the new issue, which is available in all good newsagents this week. Until then, here’s the topline bits everyone needs to know about our girl Tay.
1. She likes M.I.A.
(‘Bad Girls’ was the first track she whacked on the stereo for the Wonderland cover shoot. Other surprises from Taylor’s iPod: Muse, Gucci Mane.)
2. She wasn’t all that sure about ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’
“When I wrote [that song], first of all, I thought it was the longest title ever written. I thought, “I don’t know how well this is going to go over.”
3. She has a lot of feelings.
“If you’ve ever experienced great pain, loss or heartache, you know there are probably about 50 different mini-emotions going on throughout the course of a day. It’s very complex; you’re never feeling just sad. Maybe you wake up and you feel sad, and then you get angry, and you feel like, ‘I’m fine!’, and then you feel confident, and then you feel a sense of doubt, and then you’re insecure, and then there’s jealousy, and then you’re back to sad – and then you feel fine again! All in the course of an afternoon if you’re going through something difficult.
4. She DID NOT buy a house in London just to be close to Harry Styles.
“When I go out in public or go to the grocery store, if someone asks me about something then I know it’s a big deal. If the check-out cashier says ‘I heard you bought a house in England,’ I’ll be like, ‘no, I didn’t.’ And they’ll be like ‘well it said it when I checked my email this morning.’
5. Despite being the only popstar to make a hit with the phrase “like, ever”, she wants to tighten up her syntax. (Well, kind of).
“I’m trying to say ‘like’ less… It makes me sound like I’m seventeen. [But] I only just decided that five minutes ago. It’s not a thing I’m actively doing.”
6. She is not dating a cowboy (as predicted here), or a foreign stranger, (as predicted here).
“I’ll be interested to see how it all plays out. [But] so far, none of that has happened.”
7. She doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing, and doesn’t mind.
“Well, I’ve kind of realised that I have no idea where I’m going to be next year, or in six months, or in two months. I mean, I know where I’ll be on tour in two months, but no idea where I’m going to be mentally, emotionally, dreams, goals, wishes, hopes. I have no idea if I’m going to get married or be single forever or have a family or just be on my own. You know, paint in a cottage by the ocean by myself. You know, I just have no idea and I’m kind of into that.”
Read the full interview with Taylor Swift in Wonderland’s summer 2013 “Outspoken” issue. Buy the issue online, on iPad, or at all good newsagents.
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