But Tegan really pushed the 34-year-old former "Saturday Night Live" funnyman when she spoke of another celebrity that stole her heart as a kid. "Bad-ass," Sara said.įrom then on, the Calgary-born girls took Samberg through myriad looks, including Kris Kross’s signature backwards clothes, a mullet, a multi-coloured neon workout outfit, and a Joey McIntyre-inspired acid washed jeans and leather jacket combo. Sara, dressed in a short-sleeved striped t-shirt showing off her tattooed arms, said: "A big thing personally for me is a rebel," to which Samberg responded by pouring water on the ground. See also: Andy Samberg talks chemistry with Rashida Jones in 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' Next was generosity and being charitable (Samberg handed the girls his shoes, encouraging them to auction them off for charity). First thing: confidence (Samberg: "I'm the best"), but not arrogance (Samberg: "What?"). COVID times really slowed them down hard right when they were gaining such great momentum again with HIJLY.To celebrate their new album "Heartthrob," which was released this week, Tegan and Sara Quin have been conducting interviews with real-life heartthrobs, including Samberg, “"Pitch Perfect" actor Skylar Astin, and "Glee" actor Cory Monteith.īut it seems like Samberg was more interested in interviewing 32-year-old twin sisters Tegan and Sara to find out what they thought a heartthrob should be. I still can’t wait to see them back in action.
Honestly I’m looking forward to the ballads most of all, which is where they seem to shine most these days. And what’s with the trend of them cussing in every other song over the last few years now? It doesn’t bother me at all but it’s such an odd and marked shift over the last twenty years of their career. They’ll never abandon this mostly bland as hell pop production that, so far with this and the last song is unfortunately seeming to waste Jason McGerr’s renewed presence in the lineup. As much as I love them, if this whole album sounds like this, I simply can’t take them for their word on this kind of thing anymore. As of right now, all their talk over the last couple years of “getting back to their roots” is seeming to be more and more like permanently unfulfilled promise. It’s way better than that first song, which I simply can’t get into. Their 2019 tour was amazing and that was one of my favorite T&S shows ever. Hey, I'm Just Like You was an album I really loved and it was the first one I felt strongly about since Sainthood. Even in the weaker pop days, they clearly retained their ear for a good melody, and I can still hear it. I still think they have options and are fully capable of writing good music. I'm now older than they were when they released Sainthood and the years go by fast. When Heartthrob and LYTD were new that was hard for me to accept, but I've made peace with it now.
One thing I've come to accept as the years have gone by is that they'll never be in their 20s again and that my expectations of them are at a different set-point now. So they're in midlife crisis mode as a band. Dance pop just isn't "them" and we all know it and so do they. They aren't the indie rock darlings they once were and they refuse to try to resemble that anymore, for better or worse. So now what? I think they're still figuring that out themselves. The sad part is that Sainthood was still a successful record and what's worse is that the pop experiment failed to deliver on what they were reaching for as well. It's exactly why they went for broke and went full blown radio dance pop the second that Sainthood didn't quite do the trick. They're obviously thankful for the career and fans they've always had and will no doubt continue to have, but it's painfully obvious, at least to me anyway, that they will always secretly feel dissatisfied by the fact that they'll never be the Taylor Swift on stage that they performed with and they will most certainly never be the Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys of the world they idolize so much. You can tell by the way they talk over the years. What was it about that album that messed them up so much? I deeply and truly believe they had massively unrealistic expectations with that album and thought it would more or less launch them into that rock star class of fame and fortune that they simply were never destined for.