1/5 Tegan & Sara - I Can't Grow Up (Acoustic) First Performance! @ Rough Trade, NYC 10/21/22

FIRST PERFORMANCE IN THREE YEARS, BITCHES! (Missed the beginning where they came out and Sara was talking about feeling emotional to be there, lol)
In the two-plus decades since twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin started making music together, they’ve become more than just a beloved pop duo; High School, the Clea DuVall-created TV show based on their joint memoir of the same name, debuted on Amazon FreeVee earlier this month, and their LGBTQ activism has included a foundation, a covers album saluting their 2007 smash The Con, and even an ice cream flavor.
But music has always been at the center of their partnership, and on their tenth album that core has been changed up a bit - they’re on a new label, working with new management, and collaborating with a new producer, John Congleton. Perhaps appropriately, Crybaby explodes all preconceived notions about the Tegan & Sara sound from jump: “I Can’t Grow Up” opens with distorted vocals and firework synths - as well as a frenetic beat that’s the pace for the rest of the track, which feels like an uneasily exhilarating race to the finish between the vocals and the bassline; the lyrics, which wrestle with passion and how it meshes with ideas of “maturity” and self-doubt, only heighten the intensity.
Crybaby is a wild ride, with Tegan and Sara’s voices twinning and uncoupling on songs that vibrate with feeling while having the kind of lightness that comes with wrapping up larger-than-life sentiments in glittering pop gems. The title has an irony to it; there’s a grappling with the big emotions that come with getting older on songs like the galloping “Fucking Up What Matters,” which spins out of a drum-and-bass-inspired beat into a thrumming synthpop cut, and the hyperattenuated “Under My Control,” which turns the common resolution-time refrain “I should start working on myself again” into a pop confection underscored by wariness about what internal excavation might entail.
The less fevered songs, too, have an energy that makes them compelling. “Yellow,” which the twins have said is the album’s one selection that touches on their own relationship, has crushing drums and lyrics about long-festering wounds and remorse. “This Ain’t Going Well” is a pensive ballad accentuated with slide guitars that add heaviness to its regret-soaked chorus; the midtempo lament “Whatever That Was” looks back on a relationship that seemed bigger in the moment, with the refrain “I don’t think about you much at all” answered by a taunting guitar line that seems to say “come on, this song is a sign that you’re lying to yourself.” It’s a tenderly delivered self-criticism, though - the type that Tegan & Sara have honed over the years in their increasingly innovative, yet fundamentally openhearted pop.
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wojo still the GOAT

[@wojo4hitz]

Awww man *blushes*

[@preranachatterjee2195]

Thanks wojo4hitz for keeping up the TnS documentation and bringing great stuff to us… these girls are still crushing it!!! Love them so much 💗💕

[@shraman108]

I missed this wojo4hitz! This feels like home!

[@chloedivers6886]

I am so grateful you were there to record this, thank you! I'm so happy they're back, I've missed their banter and performances.

[@megan1026]

eeeee thanks so much for recording and posting!!! i lost track of time and didn't even realize they'd done their first show. so glad we're in a world where your channel is back, the archive is so precious to all the fans!

[@r0mana]

Thank you Jaime!

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Thanks Jaime!!!

[@wojo4hitz]

I'm here for you dude! :D

[@julesy101]

they're back! so we're back. thanks so much for recording the whole thing, j. 😁 see you next week!!

[@sarahmcnair2755]

Wow they didn't slow this down at all for acoustic. No wonder Sara messed up the lyrics at the beginning.

[@wojo4hitz]

I mean it was a great moment

[@JosephZygnerski]

Thanks so much for this!

[@zonnytiger2371]

i love how they included the repeating voice lines

[@_ingens_]

Jamie!! Thank you so much!

[@tonigray2319]

So awesome

[@olga90005]

Yaaaaaassssssss y’all are back!! thank you Jaime!! Seriously I don’t think I would have become such a fan of TnS if it wasn’t for you and your channel. Can’t wait to see them at their LA show, might even spot ya 😊 Cheers 🍻

[@chaelrodgers6024]

Man the nostolgia this brings up. I watched a record store performance that T&S did back in 2009 I think, that Spin magazine recorded. Before that I only knew The Con, and it made me fall in love with their earlier songs. From that I found your channel, and have watched pretty much every video you've ever recorded of them. I want to echo everyone else and say thank you for recording this. I have a deep love for Tegan and Sara, and for your channel.

[@louloyola]

thank you soooo much sharing this! 💖

[@allisonweaver5392]

You're still at it! :D Which shows are you going to be at on this tour?

[@sh0rtness11]

thank youu!! hope you'll be at the Philly show!

[@wojo4hitz]

I will be!

[@nonope9870]

it's not a tegan and sara performance unless they mess up somewhere 😆 love this band tho their acoustic performances are inspiring me to take up guitar again

[@wojo4hitz]

You are exactly right with that! XD

[@songsthatarecatchy]

Can't wait to see you in a few days in NYC for my very first VIP concert.

[@wojo4hitz]

I'll be there!

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@@wojo4hitz oh snap freaking sweet.

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2:35

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[@user-xm6by5ot4s]

Thanks so much for sharing! Did you record Yellow also?

[@wojo4hitz]

Yes of course! :) It's still uploading but should be finished soon!