I’m willing to over look the off key or the pitchinesss, because I think it’s neat to share the beginning of the song writing process. When you hear these demos these are the first times we ever sang these songs and they’re recorded for everyone to hear. We were just starting to really develop our skill set in terms of practicing.
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We were just learning how to record ourselves. But when it comes to the music, I’m proud of the demos, of the b-sides, of the roughness. But now when I leave my house I think long and hard that someone might want to come up and take a picture and it will be saved digitally, forever! Most of the content in the book, we did 14 drafts of the book so it really evolved, there was a lot of things where I went ‘Hell no!’ or ‘That shirt is a bit tight!’ I was editing to some degree. “If I got on stage in this terrible wrinkly ugly trench coat T-shirt, I wasn’t thinking this is literally going to be out there forever. “We weren’t thinking about the internet,” Tegan said. Even the remixes now make it sound so much different than it did ten years ago.”Īlthough a lot has changed in 10 years-hairstyles, producers, collaborators, locations-Tegan said she’s proud of So Jealous, especially because they were so young and didn’t have to overthink what they were doing or wearing. I feel really excited about it, I love the demos, the remixes, and it’s so neat to hear the evolution. It kinda became a monster of a project, as usual. “In the end there’s 22 additional pieces of music, of course the book itself, and a million different oddities that you can order along with it. “We paired it down to the smallest package we could but it’s still a massive amount of stuff,” Tegan said.
The new collection, called So Jealous X, includes a book with the essays, photographs and other pieces of visual memories from recording and touring, and also remixes, demos, unreleased B-Sides and select covers of songs like “Walking With a Ghost.” The success of their 2009 book, On, In, At, hinted that another book dedicated to the So Jealous era might be as popular with fans, especially those who, like me, found them at an age in which they’ve grown alongside them, with them as fans and people. And based on the content we started writing essays,” Tegan said. So there was so much content that no one had ever seen or was lost in the last ten years of the internet, so for months we contacted anyone we could think of that had been around during the time period of So Jealous. “When it came out, there wasn’t really that social media constant updating that we happening see now. In a decade, so much has changed in how fans interact with artists, and the internet has become integral to connecting the two a shared learning experience that benefits everyone involved. It’s just that now is a completely different time. Tegan and Sara started playing together as an official band close to 10 years before So Jealous came out, so anyone who considered them an overnight success then or now would be mistaken. There’s also new fans who are just getting on board in the past couple of years and that’s so great but there’s this whole world of Tegan and Sara they probably didn’t know that exists.” And it’s so neat to be able to share that with our audience. So many firsts so it was a really emotional thing to relive it all. “I hate to use the word ‘success’ because we had already been on the road for five years and it was success in our minds but-it was the first time where we played crowds who knew who we were and sang along, it was the first time we hopped on a bus, the first time we sold out shows. “It was the first time we experienced any amount of success,” Tegan said. It was put on several Best of 2004 album lists, including Rolling Stone‘s top 50. So Jealous marked a pivotal turn for the duo, bringing them to bigger venues and opening for established acts like The Killers and The Black Keys. This is likely a shared experience, although your affinity for each track on Tegan and Sara’s fourth studio album will have different meaning for you. And damn, there were truly some moments where “I get so jealous, I can’t even work” was all too real. We worked “Downtown” together at our art school in Chicago.
Talk about a soundtrack to our relationship. Tegan and Sara‘s So Jealous came out right in the thick of it. We met at the college newspaper and wooed each other with our shared love of band Ts and lady-led indie rock. Where were you 10 years ago? I had just turned 21 and was in a relationship with my first girlfriend.
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