Tegan And Sara schrijven voor Carly Rae Jepsen

Hoewel Tegan And Sara momenteel hard werken aan hun nieuwe album heeft het duo genoeg tijd om ook een ander te helpen. “Call Me Maybe”-zangeres Carly Rae Jepsen heeft namelijk in een interview met Stereogum laten weten dat niemand minder dan Tegan And Sara haar helpen schrijven voor de opvolger van Kiss. Lees hieronder een fragment uit het interview.

JEPSEN: It’s not necessarily indie versus pop, it’s just that every single person comes at writing a song differently. I think I take away something from each session. I’ve learned a lot from writing with some of the Swedes, and I’ve learned a lot writing with Tegan And Sara.

STEREOGUM: What did you do with Tegan And Sara?

JEPSEN: We did a few tracks together, actually. I haven’t picked the tracklisting for the album, so it’s hard to name titles, but I’ve been a fan of them since childhood, and yeah… This Business Of Art, I’ve been with them since their first album. They are two of my favorite writers, I think.

STEREOGUM: For this album, what kind of songs inspired you? What were the songs that you heard and made you go, “I really wanna make something like that“?

JEPSEN: I think Tegan and me and Sara had a day where we were like, “God, we ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ by Cyndi Lauper is the best pop song of all time. How did they do it?” And we spent like three days trying to emulate it… It was a swing and a miss, so we just kind of gave up on that. But yeah, I think every once in a while you kind of get hooked onto an idea. But I still find that, from all the different ways of going at songwriting, it’s best to come from something that you’re naturally inspired by. For me, a lot of time that happens late at night or at weird moments when I’m not in a session. So I generally collect a lot of ideas that are voice memos where I have a verse or I have a hook idea, and then I’ll show up to a session with my little library of ideas. And sometimes we’ll work off one of those, and we’ll start from there and chip away at the thing until it’s done.