History Music / TeganAndSara

* SillyLoveSongs: "Underwater" actually uses the phrase: "For now, my head is in the clouds / I'm a silly love song / A twisted elbow crush song..." Meanwhile, "Closer" is a poppy and happy song about being excited to get intimate with a new flame, while Tegan even admits how cheesy "Love They Say" is.

-->'''Mom:''' [[SarcasmMode Yes, talk like that, so when you're 18 and you listen to this you can hear whar a brat you were]].

* IntercourseWithYou: A handful of their songs contain cursory suggestive lyrics, but "All You Got", "Closer", and "Bodywork" with Morgan Page are probably the most directly and specifically about sexual encounters.

-->'''Mom:''' [[SarcasmMode Yes, talk like that, so when you're 18 and you listen to this you can hear whar a brat you were]]. * StalkerWithACrush: "Living Room" comes off this way: "My windows look into your bathroom, where I spend the evening watching you get yourself clean..."

-->'''Mom:''' [[SarcasmMode Yes, talk like that, so when you're 18 and you listen to this you can hear whar a brat you were]]. StalkerWithACrush: "Living Room" comes off this way: "My windows look into your bathroom, where I spend the evening watching you get yourself clean..."

-->'''Mom:''' [[SarcasmMode Yes, talk like that, so when you're 18 and you listen to this you can hear whar a brat you were]]. StalkerWithACrush: "Living Room" comes off this way: "My windows look into your bathroom, where I spend the evening watching you get yourself clean..."

* StalkerWithACrush: "Living Room" comes off this way: "My windows look into your bathroom, where I spend the evening watching you get yourself clean..."

* IntercourseWithYou: "All You Got" is the best {{YuriFan}}s will get out of them.
%% ** "Closer" and "Bodywork" with Morgan Page could count too.
%% * LimitedLyricsSong: "Walking With A Ghost".

* SillyLoveSongs:
** If nothing else, "Underwater" actually uses the phrase: "For now, my head is in the clouds / I'm a silly love song / A twisted elbow crush song..."
%% ** "Closer."
** "Love They Say." Tegan even admits how cheesy the song is.

%% * TwinBanter: And HOW!

They'd prove to gain popularity two albums later (after ''If It Was You,'' starting with ''So Jealous,'') and have come out with another four albums since then (''The Con,'' ''Sainthood,'' ''Heartthrob,'' and ''Love You To Death'').

The two live and songwrite separately, each sister usually writing the music, and singing the melody to her own songs, which often results in their albums being interestingly divided stylistically in music and lyrics. In addition to [[CaptainObvious their music]], they're known among fans for their concert banter; approachable, likable, and very "real" personas; and, to a level, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the fact that they're both lesbian]].

* AmbiguouslyChristian: Both girls are practicing, devout Roman Catholics.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin.
* BreakupSong: A few various ones. They'd include "Not With You," "You Went Away," "City Girl," "Don't Confess," "Where Does the Good Go," and "Call It Off." In general, their lyrics are often a bit melancholic.
** All of Tegan's songs in "The Con" was inspired by a breakup.

* CanadaEh

** "Closer" and "Bodywork" with Morgan Page could count too.
* LimitedLyricsSong: "Walking With A Ghost".

* NewSoundAlbum: Synthed up ''So Jealous'' is a notable change from the comparatively folky ''If It Was You.''
** Then "Sainthood" was the rockier departure from "The Con."
*** Don't forget "Heartthrob" is a huge departure from *everything* they've done.

* OlderThanTheyLook: They're now 37, but could easily pass for [[http://www.soundcheck-live.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/photo-credit-pamela-littky-extralarge_1464364032141.jpg early to mid-twenties]].

* SiblingTeam
* SillyLoveSongs: If nothing else, "Underwater" actually uses the phrase: "For now, my head is in the clouds / I'm a silly love song / A twisted elbow crush song..."
** "Closer."

** '''Sara''': "...I think “White Knuckles” is a better version of “Like O, Like H.” It’s got a better structure. It’s sort of hard to articulate that — I know it as a feeling and a visual, but it’s almost as if you’re writing the same kinds of songs and making them better. Just rewriting them over and over and over again."

* TwinBanter: And HOW!
* VitriolicBestBuds: They bicker on stage and in interviews. A ''lot.''
** '''Sara:''' I wouldn't say I miss her [Tegan], but sometimes when we've taken a month off or something, we'll be flying somewhere and I'll see her at the airport, and I'll get excited like: "Look there's Tegan!" And then she'll start talking and I'll be like: "I hate you, you're so annoying!"
* VocalTagTeam

'''Tegan and Sara''' are an Indie {{Pop}} / Rock / Synth Pop band hailing from Alberta, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, led by identical twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin.

* RedOniBlueOni: Tegan and Sara, respectively. Or at least, you could make the argument for it, given Tegan's extroverted, passionate nature and Sara's more toned down intellectual, introverted one.

* MisattributedSong: After TheWhiteStripes covered "Walking With A Ghost", a lot of people mistakenly believed it was their song.

* TheAllConcealingI: Most of their songs are written from the first person perspective and rarely use any gender specific pronouns or language. So the relationships described in the songs can be read as straight or gay depending on the listener's preference. Although, recently, Sara seems to be less ambiguous. (She mentions her girlfriend's makeup in the song "Now I'm All Messed Up", as well as mentioning "''all the girls I've loved before..''" in a line from the song "BWU".)

* TheAllConcealingI: Most of their songs are written from the first person perspective and rarely use any gender specific pronouns or language. So the relationships described in the songs can be read as straight or gay depending on the listener's preference. Although, recently, Sara seems to be less ambiguous. (She mentions her girlfriend's makeup in the song ''Now I'm All Messed Up'', as well as mentioning "''all the girls I've loved before..''" in a line from the song ''BWU''.)

* NonAppearingTitle: The titles of ''Under Feet Like Ours,'' ''This Business of Art,'' ''If It Was You,'' and ''Sainthood'' don't actually appear in the albums. ''Sainthood,'' however, is titled after the Leonard Cohen lyric that inspired its songs.

* TheAllConcealingI: Most of their songs are written from the first person perspective and rarely uses any gender specific pronouns or references. So the relationships described in the songs can be read as a heterosexual or homosexual depending on the listener's preference.

* Ted Gowans - Guitar, keyboard
* Shaun Huberts - Bass
* Johnny "Five" Andrews - Drums

They'd prove to gain popularity two albums later (after ''If It Was You,'' starting with ''So Jealous,'') and have come out with another three albums since then (''The Con,'' ''Sainthood,'' and ''Heartthrob''). Their next album, ''Love You To Death'', will be released on June 3rd, 2016.