![]() ![]() There was some magic in me that was making this person question everything and continue this dance with me. “We were talking hours and hours a day and sending hundreds and hundreds of texts and e-mails, and spending all this money on trips, and there would be times where I would pull away and just ask her, ‘Why? Why are you still calling me? Why is this still continuing?’” Tegan recalls. As the two women formed a friendship, Tegan’s pitch became more desperate, more aggressive. The object of Tegan’s affection wasn’t interested in dating women, but, as The Con’s scathing title track details, that didn’t deter Tegan from pursuing her anyway. ' “And,” she adds, “I was trying to date this girl who wasn’t available.” This song is about how Tegan Quin fell in love with a straight girl. I follow suit and laid out on my back, imagine thatĪ million hours left to think of you and think of that I imagine you when I was distant, non-insistent Spelled out your name and lists the reasons Well, nobody likes to but I really like to cry I'm home now, I'm coming around, coming around I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe Yes, I know the feeling, know you're leaving I broke down and wrote you back before you had a chance toįorget, forgotten, I am moving past this, giving notice Club says that "ultimately even The Con's failings work in its favor, providing a macro version of what the best Tegan And Sara songs do, by stumbling along recklessly, then falling together.Yes, I'm guilty of this, you should know this To be more precise, it is one of the best albums so far of 2007 and one of the best recent pop releases." The A.V. On week 2, the album fell out of the top 50, at #69, selling about 10,000 that week, totaling at 29,000.įilter Magazine calls The Con "a startlingly dark, yet characteristically vibrant offering, featuring a band that’s learned to harness the energy-highs, while tempering pretty (even pastoral) pop-folk with a new, deeply-affecting brand of melancholy." PopMatters gives The Con a score of 8 out of 10, calling it "very, very good. ![]() Billboard 200, selling about 19,000 copies in its first week. The album debuted at number 34 on the U.S. The Con received positive reviews from the media, scoring 80 on review aggregator MetaCritic. The DVD also reveals the title track "The Con" was tentatively titled "Encircle Me" and " Like O, Like H" was previously titled "SOS."ĮE Storey, the band's artistic director, designed the album artwork.įor the United States portion of their world tour of this album, they have posted a series of videos called "Trailer Talk" on their MySpace profile.ġ,500 copies of The Con demos were sold for charity at concerts. The music video for " Call It Off" was released September 15, 2008.Īccording to the DVD edition of the album, Sugar, Spell It Out was a tentative album title. "Call it Off" is the third single from the album. The vinyl release of this album includes a promotional copy of "The Con" on CD. " Back in Your Head", the first single, and the second single, "The Con," were used heavily for promotional purposes. ![]() The CD/DVD release has a parental advisory warning for profanity on the DVD, although the CD contains no explicit content. Īs announced on their MySpace blog, a special edition CD/DVD was released at the same time as the CD-only version. Sara was struggling with Canadian immigration to get her American-born girlfriend a working visa so they could live together (she wrote ‘ I Was Married’ about the ordeal), while Tegan was dealing with the break up of a five year relationship. The album was written during a period of intense emotional turmoil for both Tegan and Sara. ![]()
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