wrote her first song, Tegan was sick, and so Sara wore her twin sister’s favorite pair of shoes to high school.
Later that afternoon, Sara retired to her bedroom, grabbed her mother’s boyfriend’s guitar and adopted a fake English whine to sing, “Tegan didn’t go to school today/Left me all alone to play,” before changing the chords, “Took her favorite shoes when she went back to bed/Could have kicked her in the head.” When Tegan heard it, she shouted, “We have to record that!” and so their songwriting days began.
would kickstart a lifelong career, one that, so far, has stretched over 20 years and nine full-length albums. They were in 10th grade at the time, newly obsessed with ’90s groups like the Smashing Pumpkins,, and whatever local punk bands played free matinees at all-ages venues in their native Calgary. They were wholly unglamorous teenagers, and just as embarrassing as those simple lyrics suggest.
Most music memoirs include a similar origin story—the “before they were famous” posturing that feels simultaneously distant and relatable, as if anyone with a support network and good ol’ fashioned talent could’ve made it, too. And yet, Tegan and Sara’s book, published September 24, differs slightly from the predictable format.
struggle to entice listeners across the border. Instead, they offer a hilarious, cringe-y distillation of their adolescence, the holistic portrait of artists as young women that goes beyond your run-of-the-mill biography.They offer a hilarious, cringe-y distillation of their adolescence... that goes beyond your run-of-the-mill biography.
Tegan and Sara trade off each chapter—written separately and combined in a cohesive fashion I imagine only identical twins could—and detail their first loves, first songs, first kisses, first time fooling around, first time sneaking out of the house, first boyfriends, first breakups with said boyfriends, first girlfriends, first hickeys, first time their mom questioned their sexuality, and so on.
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