![]() And I never think when I see a band talking about something that is important to them that they're preaching, or that they're trying to push something down, you know, your throat. So when you see people not just talking about themselves or their music, I find it inspiring. And, in Montreal, for example, I'm really aware of, I love that the people in the Arcade Fire are constantly talking about Haiti and the things that are going on in the countries that are important to them, or where they're from or whatever. Tegan and Sara made their triumphant return last week with the release of their new album Hey, I’m Just Like You and their first official memoir, titled High School. ![]() But you have tons of people who are talking eloquently in the press right now about things like health care. You know, for us, obviously, we talk a lot about gay rights and being gay and sexism and feminism, and all of those kind of things. So I'm thinking that, currently, though, you have really articulate, well-spoken musicians who are out canvassing and talking about things that matter to them. Sara: Obviously, there's not been some huge wave of political music which is tough because and sometimes I find that political music is usually is so marginalized because it's political, that it doesn't have the impact that say, a pop band, like U2 being political, but still making pop music, with the occasional political song, how impactful that can be. We're obviously still monitoring all of that and doing what we can to make sure that people know that still needs to change obviously. It was very anti-climatic to hear that President Obama was President, and then to hear that Prop 8 passed - it was like "ehh, I'm sad and happy all at the same time." So confusing.so Prop 8 was kind of the last thing that we got involved in. Like how California itself wasn't supportive of gay marriage just didn't seem to make much sense at the time. We really tried to get involved and sort of wrap my head around how that happened. ![]() Sara and I both did the Love Unites posters. I was here for a month and a half after that, so I went to all the marches and you know, blogged online and tried to get people to support. Obviously the election itself was extremely important to us, but the whole Prop 8 thing was very close to home for us as gay artists we were obviously really hoping that Prop 8 would not pass in California. There really weren’t that many people doing what we. It was a deliberate choice to make an album like Heartthrob that would gain access to the mainstream so that we could queer it a little bit, says Tegan. Tegan: Well, obviously most recently, our last American tour kind of fell at the exact same time as the American election. Tegan and Sara’s mid-2010s pop domination was driven by their dedication to expand possibilities for queer people in music.
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