Sara: One of the things from an industry perspective and from an art perspective that has always frustrated me is that no straight person is asked, "So this is a very hetero-normative song, how do you expect anyone else to relate to it?" As a queer person, I've never thought to myself, "How will I ever relate to the new Beyoncé song? Or the new National song? It's just so straight." But if I'm being totally honest, I did have this moment of pause: Is my relating to this song, as a straight guy, actually just me taking ownership of something that's not for me? Or does it just further prove that we're all looking for the same thing in a relationship? Tegan: Absolutely we are! And that's what is so hilarious-the music I'm obsessed with, like Depeche Mode or Bruce Springsteen or Tom Petty, I've never been like, "I don't really relate to them because they're straight men." That doesn't make any sense. With "Boyfriend" especially I feel like I've been there I've been really into a girl who had a boyfriend, and plenty of other guys have too. I would say the the same thing goes for your music. So it doesn't ever shock or surprise me to see crossover between straight men and lesbians. And of course now in 2016 it's awesome, because everyone's talking about gender fluidity and the spectrum-and even though we can look really feminine and can embrace that part of ourselves effortlessly, the truth is that even at our most feminine, there's something masculine about the way we wear clothes and the way we hold ourselves. Or there's a certain type of straight guy that we're really into. We are lesbians, but there's always been something about Sara and I where there's a certain kind of straight girl who's really into us. Which is ironic, because I see you both with longer hair right now and my thought is, "Hmm, do I want to grow out my hair?" Tegan : Sara and I always say that we're not just lesbians. If you had said to me at 22, "What is your silhouette going to be for this album cycle?" I would have been like, "Go fuck yourself, that's my silhouette." But I don't think I would have been able to arrive at this place if I hadn't gone through that stage where I was thumbing my nose at the whole idea of femininity and stylists and clothes. It feels good to me sometimes to be really feminine and to go to a shoot and get super glammed up. Sara: But I also can go back really quickly into that feeling of freedom. The asymmetrical haircuts and the mullets and this and that. Tegan: We had some pretty hilarious looks. Though sometimes I cringe at some of the early decisions we made-you know, some of the haircuts and stylings. I had long hair down to the middle of my back, and when I graduated from twelfth grade, I went straight to the hair salon and shaved my head, bleached my hair. I felt so envious of my guy friends who would wake up, throw their clothes on, brush their teeth, and drive to school. I hated that people would get up two hours before school to do their hair and makeup. To be completely honest, I had spent much of my life having a complicated relationship with clothing and with my body and my gender because I felt like such a boy. "People are constantly saying, 'They're gay and they're women, so I won't relate if I'm a guy.' And it's like, we have more in common with you than we have with anyone else."ĭid you think at the start of your careers you would ever be discussing silhouettes? Sara: No. Sara: It's funny that you say women influencing men, because Tegan and I have always taken a lot of our cues from menswear. You always seem to have the coolest shoes, the coolest hair, the coolest clothes. It's a big moment right now for women's looks influencing how men dress-there's Phoebe Philo, Kristen Stewart, Eunice Lee, you guys. We caught up with the sisters ahead of the release of their eighth studio album, June's Love You to Death, to talk about the impetus for their style, their music, and the many levels of crossover between men and lesbians. And while raiding the closets of our female counterparts isn't our usual m.o., just look at their clothes! Exhibit A: Their music video for "Boyfriend," which shows off some drool-worthy vintage tees paired with bomber and leather jackets. No offense to Dsquared2's Dean and Dan Caten, but we've been taking our style cues from another set of Canadian twins lately: Indie darlings-turned-pop tour de force Tegan and Sara, identical twin sisters from Calgary.
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