The sisters had recently lost their grandmother, and Sara was approaching the final months of her marriage before it broke down irrevocably. I was in the beginning stages of what was gonna be a complete explosion of my own personal life.вЂќ We were writing very authentically about some really big things that were happening in both of our respective worlds. вЂњI donвЂ™t think we yet knew just how much damage there was. вЂњI think we were in the eye of the storm,вЂќ Sara tells me over the phone. For the Quin sisters, it was a tough year, where they evolved painfully and personally, producing their darkest, most vulnerable and industry-shaking release yet: The Con. Instead of playing on the glittering grrrl rock of the previous record, they dove into deep, intimate anxieties.

Sara was in Montreal, while Tegan bounced around the west coast, and both were still fresh from their last studio album So Jealous вЂ“В their first significant crossover into a faction of pop-punk populated by Avrils and Ashlees, and one of their most financially successful to date. Tegan & Sara spent that year crafting songs back and forth over email. Then came Sound of Silver, James MurphyвЂ™s melodic, ennui-filled antithesis to bad pop-rock. Britney became a renewed, subversive pop boss to beat with Blackout and RihannaвЂ™s вЂњUmbrellaвЂќ kickstarted her enduring legacy as a banger-making juggernaut. In our Under the Influence series, we trace the ideas of underground artists, designers, labels and collectives and the impact that theyвЂ™ve had on pop culture as we know it, examining how the revolutionary aesthetics and attitudes of outsiders make their way into the mainstream, and importantly, how much that should be valued and not forgotten.Дў007 was a year of transition: Fall Out Boy and their beefed up song titles were streamlining a new era of syrupy emo in Infinity On High.

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