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Can we update the main image of the article? It seems outdated being from 2008 and all; possibly replace it with the image of them performing at the Polaris Music Prize which is found further down in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.139.192.153 ( talk) 18:49, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I really think there should be a section to mention all the videos and homemovies and films they produce themselves. Such as backstage bilingual, trailer talk, the Con DVD, and it's not fun, don't do it. It's a huge part of Tegan and Sara, the fact that they're so open with their fans make so many videos and DVD's (they have another one coming late this year). I'm going to create this section right now, feel free to add or edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.60.74.227 ( talk) 20:35, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
I added a blurb about the Tegan and Sara in Doctor Who.. coincidence? -—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kether83 ( talk • contribs) 10:43, 1 December 2005 (UTC).
Just curious, if they're categorized as LGBT, shouldn't there be a mention in the article about that? -- nae'blis (talk) 15:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
They Played a song on VH1, "Speak slow" (which is an obvious lesbian Love song by the lyrics) in which the one sister says to the other "I dedicate it to you."
So My query is not that they're lesbians, but what is the extent of their interpersonal relationship, cause it seems (*How can I write this objectively when I was being kinda grossed out by her comment) I'm sorry to say this that they may have an incestious relationship between the twins Therubicon ( talk) 01:33, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Are you taking the piss? they're both gay, but not together. anyone who actually knows anything about the band knows this. get a hobby. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.12.222.122 ( talk) 09:10, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
No, that's not true. They have debunked this rumor in radio interviews and on live bootlegs of their shows. Trimp 01:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
So are they Bisexual or Lesbian or not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.156.190 ( talk) 03:57, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I think including their orientation is no more detrimental to the appreciation of their music than mentioning they are Canadian, or showing a photo which shows they are obviously female and caucasian. I think the argument that someone's non-heterosexuality should be conveniently omitted is just a fashionable homophobia. It's a leftover of the victorian age, when one "dare not speak its name." Nowadays, this omission is dressed up with the rhetoric of sensibility, i.e., not wanting to be "lurid" or "focusing on the life of the art rather than the artist." But the presumption that homosexuality is lurid or dirty IS homophobic, and one can't focus on the art without knowing something about the artist. Should we omit that Basquiat was Haitian and Puerto Rican? Should we omit that Warhol was part Jewish? How about Jimi Hendrix? There's no need to point out he was left-handed, or took drugs, or was not white. There are people who find all those things to be unrespectable and even vile. They're called bigots. Wiki shouldn't cater to them. There is nothing POV about simply providing people with facts, to make their own decisions as they please. 72.78.154.193 ( talk) 02:59, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
The song "when you were mine" from "songs for christoff" is about a finished lesbian relationship though. ("when you were mine I let you wear my dresses" etc) so it's not true they don't mention it, it's just no big deal. besides the LGBT-community loves them, so they should be in the category. -- 85.179.90.226 ( talk) 18:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
No it's not. "When You Were Mine" is a Prince song that they covered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.89.122.61 ( talk) 22:40, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Sara wrote a foreward to the book Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World and I feel like it would be nice to mention but I'm not sure where it fits, especially since it's only about Sara (she doesn't have her own page.) See http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1569242739/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-7309068-6407050#reader-link to verify. 67.168.191.3 04:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Can see absolutely no evidence anywhere that this is anything other than a bootleg. Certainly not an official T&S release or promotional release anywhere in the world, including Canada or Japan!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.179.115.21 ( talk • contribs) 15:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
It is a promo release for Japan and Canada released in 2006 by Universal Records. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.226.142.248 ( talk) 04:09, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I argue that it should be mentioned, though, because I know that I heard about it in several places that made it sound like an official release of some sort, so I wanted to know more about it, and wikipedia's the go-to place for things people want to know about. Then when I learned it was a fan-made compilation, I wanted to know whether I could purchase the songs on it, and it was very difficult to find out what some of them were called and to confirm that some of them were not on any official releases. I think it was be reasonable to mention it, confirm that it isn't an official release, and provide info about what the songs are and what albums (if any) they are from. Rehjanis ( talk) 11:37, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
I question the correctness of the phrasing "Matt Sharp and Maya Rudolph of The Rentals." Maya has only performed some backup work on a few tracks of their 2nd album, and apparently some accompanying touring, I'm not sure that constitutes being in the band; although the band entry page does list her, and for such an intermittent group things are admittedly less cut and dry. Indeed, the only consistent members to date have been Matt Sharp himself and Petra Haden. Maya's own page seems to give a more reasonable description of her affiliation. -- Belg4mit 15:12, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Maya Rudolph was officially a Rentals member. She is in the video for "waiting" as well as being mentioned as a previous member on The Rentals official website. And since "Waiting" is from the first album you are completely wrong for saying she only did back-ups on their second album. Do your research. —Preceding
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Removed vandalism from accomplishments, DVDs, band members (spurious keytar player), trivia.
Is it "Teegan" or "Taygan" (like Megan/Meghan)? Should this be noted in the article? 71.234.105.190 03:59, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Also could be noted that Sara is pronounced "Sare-ah" as oposed to "Sar-a", as Sara would be pronounced (incorrectly) as the latter in many european countries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.139.192.153 ( talk) 18:44, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I have reservations about Tegan and Sara being called a "Duo". They have said themselves that they hate the label "duo" - seeing as they have always played with a 5 piece band etc. "Tegan and Sara" is the name of their band - as obvious as this is, some people seem to forget this fact.
In the CBC Radio 3 Podcast # 109 "Twin Power Summer" released on 22/6/2007, Tegan herself said: "...We're not a duo. Yes, there's two of us...but we're a band, we play with a five piece band."
So, in light of this, I think the article should stick to calling them a band or singer-songwriters. Emerald.Atoms ( talk) 06:42, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I agree with this. The "band members" section of this page lists 3 other musicians besides Tegan and Sara. I don't know too many 5-member duos. They might be the only permanent members, but if they always (or at least usually) tour with a full backing band, then they're a full band.
Hello! I just went in and cleaned up the section about Sara's relationship with Emy (it ended?! I'm so sad!) so that there's actual citation for the claims listed. I hope it turned out well :)
Here's the original text:
"Sara was in a long relationship with Emy Storey, who sold their merch at shows and did many of the designes. She is a Graphic Designer and has her own site. Their relationship became legal in 2007. Sara's song "I Was Married" referred to the common law marriage to Storey.
They have now since broken up." JamisonK ( talk) 03:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
74.195.204.223 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been changing the spelling of "Kiersten" to "Keirsten" for the past few days. Cursory Google searching reveals no hits for "Sarah Keirsten Quin" and many for "Sarah Kiersten Quin". I even sourced the spelling of her name, only to be reverted. Just letting everyone know so I don't get tagged for WP:3RR, though I'll be bowing out soon if this continues. - FrankTobia ( talk) 06:47, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi - please see [1] for proof of spelling Superclose Music ( talk) 22:03, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kimpurrs.
Do you have any source for her middle name being Keirsten instead of Kiersten? I haven't found a reliable source for either spelling, so I'm of a mind to remove it completely for now.
Concerning Kaki King, as far as I can tell there are two sources confirming the relationship. On what grounds do you say that it isn't true?
Cheers,
Amalthea
Talk 21:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
This is more of a question. I see that all their vinyl albums are not available other than The Con. Is it that they never produced their other albums in vinyl or that they have been discontinued? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.84.239 ( talk) 01:15, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
---they have other albums on vinyl but are out of stock at the moment —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.229.180 ( talk) 09:58, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
There is little to no flow in this article as it is almost wholly a collection of bullet points masquerading as a series of sentences within topics. There are many, many other awful Wikipedia articles just like this but I just don't have time to rewrite any. This is my first comment ever so maybe this proves to be my toe-dipping moment and the water won't turn out to be so cold. But, my, this article is marygawdandjoseph awful. I would hope T&S' fans would want better, no? TeenageCynic ( talk) 20:22, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
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Well, it seems no one else is going to weigh in, but the edit war is continuing, so I have added a sentence that adds Emy's verifiable legal former relationship, but does not add any speculative information about Tegan's (presumably non-legal relationship with someone who is not notable enough for a wikipedia article, and thus need not be mentioned according to WP:BLP#Privacy of personal information. I hope this satisfies the inclusionists and the exclusionists alike. Rehjanis ( talk) 18:43, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
this is NOT a cover from HeyHiHello. if it is can anyone provide proof? 96.51.17.141 ( talk) 04:26, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
The section "Cover songs, songs about, and collaborations" is a bit excessive. I haven't seen anything similar on any other band pages (though a few have separate articles of covers). Could we perhaps create a new article "Songs related to Tegan and Sara"? I don't know what the best way to preserve this information is (if it all needs to be preserved), but I don't think it should be in this article in its entirety.
Second, could we only include artists who have Wikipedia articles? While I think the Heyhihello song might be appropriate, the Uranus Beats song definitely isn't and seems to be more promotion than anything. As far as I can tell, they have a following of 11 people on YouTube, but I can't find anything else. I'm going to remove it again, but if it gets re-added I don't want to start an edit war. Klubbit ( talk) 04:37, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
This is my first ever post and Im not sure on the rules and stuff but one of you guys could add this in somewhere.
Tegan did a song with punk rock band 'Against Me' didn't see it listed anywhere. Its called 'Bourne on the Fm radio waves' Or something of the sort.
Thanks
Mark —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.103.171.30 ( talk) 09:43, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I feel that many of the revisions made today to the touring and collaborations sections should be reverted ( before, after, and diff). For example:
There is simply too much going on here, too many sections, and it makes the article less useful. I realize this represents a lot of work by 64.183.188.29 so I wanted to discuss it here before reverting. Some of the additions can be incorporated into the article, but I think that the organization at least should be returned to how it was. -- Klubbit ( talk) 03:23, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
>Tegan and Sara are a Canadian indie band >implying indie is a genre
Should be indie pop, summerfags
I'm curious what people think about the "New Wave" genre being applied to Tegan and Sara. I can't say that I've ever seen this anywhere else, and while I don't mind it being in the infobox, I think it's excessive to have 3 genres listed in the opening sentence. For what it's worth, the labels Tegan and Sara apply on their MySpace are Indie / Pop / Alternative (of which indie pop and indie rock are subgenres). New Wave seems a bit overly specific, or something... Klubbit ( talk) 15:51, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
"Tegan and Sara is", or "Tegan and Sara are"? I realize that AmE generally prefers the former, and BrE the latter, but I'm not quite sure which is the more usual in Canadian usage. Where the "name of the band" just happens to be a two-part list of the first names of the two permanent members, I have to say that to me, "is" seems extremely jarring. Smartiger ( talk) 18:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Remember back in the 1980s when the trademark name "Sony Walkman" would be pluralized as "Sony Walkmans"? This might be a relevant argument for keeping "Tegan and Sara is". 99.231.241.146 ( talk) 19:03, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Eightminuteepic removed sourced information about the women's respective relationships, and then I reinstated it. Eightminuteepic then removed it again by stating that this was confirmed in a podcast...without actually linking to said podcast. I then reinstated the information again, but then EME removed it a third time. Aside from him/her violating WP:3RR (and I didn't reinstate the info because I don't want to violate 3RR myself), I wonder if EME doesn't quite understand what a source is. Simply saying something happened without backing it up doesn't really prove anything. Erpert blah, blah, blah... 03:50, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Any reliable source for them being in the Feminist musicians category? 158.222.167.170 ( talk) 04:29, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
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Were they named after two of them? :) Tegan Jovanka, Sarah Jane Smith 2001:56A:F03F:5200:D584:A02A:6743:60C1 ( talk) 06:20, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
It's kind of interesting that the "personal lives" section hardly talks about their personal lives at all and focuses instead almost entirely on their mostly public gay rights activism and prominent involvement in the LGBT community. Certainly not arguing that any of the information in that section should be removed, but I think it's kind of weird how "Personal lives" is being used de facto as a euphemism for "Activism and Involvement in the LGBT Community"... I think it's odd that a group so prominently and widely associated with LGBT people and anglophone lesbians in particular is being written about as though their homosexuality were something ancillary and private, requiring euphemistic discretion.
I'm not logged in because on my phone but my wiki username is rainspeaker I'm p sure.
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Commenting both to confirm that the above comment is by me and also to note that on a reread the "Personal lives" section contains quite a few pieces of information about their career (e.g. their memoir) that just shouldn't be in that section. I'm going to be bold and see if I can make some changes to deal with both of these issues. I'll make them in two passes so ppl can revert the possibly contentious change to the article organization w/o referring the obviously necessary imo move of the career information into history.
Rainspeaker ( talk) 19:30, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
I've made the changes. I'll add that in addition to being a clearer and more logical section organization, the new "Activism and involvement" section gives readers completely unfamiliar with the band a hint at a glance that this is a group with a widely acknowledged and well-known significance in LGBT culture -- without editorializing, OR, or treating the frontwomen's sexualities as though they in themselves were a subject of encyclopedic importance. Rainspeaker ( talk) 19:56, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
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Can we update the main image of the article? It seems outdated being from 2008 and all; possibly replace it with the image of them performing at the Polaris Music Prize which is found further down in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.139.192.153 ( talk) 18:49, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I really think there should be a section to mention all the videos and homemovies and films they produce themselves. Such as backstage bilingual, trailer talk, the Con DVD, and it's not fun, don't do it. It's a huge part of Tegan and Sara, the fact that they're so open with their fans make so many videos and DVD's (they have another one coming late this year). I'm going to create this section right now, feel free to add or edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.60.74.227 ( talk) 20:35, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
I added a blurb about the Tegan and Sara in Doctor Who.. coincidence? -—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kether83 ( talk • contribs) 10:43, 1 December 2005 (UTC).
Just curious, if they're categorized as LGBT, shouldn't there be a mention in the article about that? -- nae'blis (talk) 15:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
They Played a song on VH1, "Speak slow" (which is an obvious lesbian Love song by the lyrics) in which the one sister says to the other "I dedicate it to you."
So My query is not that they're lesbians, but what is the extent of their interpersonal relationship, cause it seems (*How can I write this objectively when I was being kinda grossed out by her comment) I'm sorry to say this that they may have an incestious relationship between the twins Therubicon ( talk) 01:33, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Are you taking the piss? they're both gay, but not together. anyone who actually knows anything about the band knows this. get a hobby. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.12.222.122 ( talk) 09:10, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
No, that's not true. They have debunked this rumor in radio interviews and on live bootlegs of their shows. Trimp 01:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
So are they Bisexual or Lesbian or not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.156.190 ( talk) 03:57, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I think including their orientation is no more detrimental to the appreciation of their music than mentioning they are Canadian, or showing a photo which shows they are obviously female and caucasian. I think the argument that someone's non-heterosexuality should be conveniently omitted is just a fashionable homophobia. It's a leftover of the victorian age, when one "dare not speak its name." Nowadays, this omission is dressed up with the rhetoric of sensibility, i.e., not wanting to be "lurid" or "focusing on the life of the art rather than the artist." But the presumption that homosexuality is lurid or dirty IS homophobic, and one can't focus on the art without knowing something about the artist. Should we omit that Basquiat was Haitian and Puerto Rican? Should we omit that Warhol was part Jewish? How about Jimi Hendrix? There's no need to point out he was left-handed, or took drugs, or was not white. There are people who find all those things to be unrespectable and even vile. They're called bigots. Wiki shouldn't cater to them. There is nothing POV about simply providing people with facts, to make their own decisions as they please. 72.78.154.193 ( talk) 02:59, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
The song "when you were mine" from "songs for christoff" is about a finished lesbian relationship though. ("when you were mine I let you wear my dresses" etc) so it's not true they don't mention it, it's just no big deal. besides the LGBT-community loves them, so they should be in the category. -- 85.179.90.226 ( talk) 18:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
No it's not. "When You Were Mine" is a Prince song that they covered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.89.122.61 ( talk) 22:40, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Sara wrote a foreward to the book Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World and I feel like it would be nice to mention but I'm not sure where it fits, especially since it's only about Sara (she doesn't have her own page.) See http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1569242739/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-7309068-6407050#reader-link to verify. 67.168.191.3 04:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Can see absolutely no evidence anywhere that this is anything other than a bootleg. Certainly not an official T&S release or promotional release anywhere in the world, including Canada or Japan!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.179.115.21 ( talk • contribs) 15:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
It is a promo release for Japan and Canada released in 2006 by Universal Records. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.226.142.248 ( talk) 04:09, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I argue that it should be mentioned, though, because I know that I heard about it in several places that made it sound like an official release of some sort, so I wanted to know more about it, and wikipedia's the go-to place for things people want to know about. Then when I learned it was a fan-made compilation, I wanted to know whether I could purchase the songs on it, and it was very difficult to find out what some of them were called and to confirm that some of them were not on any official releases. I think it was be reasonable to mention it, confirm that it isn't an official release, and provide info about what the songs are and what albums (if any) they are from. Rehjanis ( talk) 11:37, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
I question the correctness of the phrasing "Matt Sharp and Maya Rudolph of The Rentals." Maya has only performed some backup work on a few tracks of their 2nd album, and apparently some accompanying touring, I'm not sure that constitutes being in the band; although the band entry page does list her, and for such an intermittent group things are admittedly less cut and dry. Indeed, the only consistent members to date have been Matt Sharp himself and Petra Haden. Maya's own page seems to give a more reasonable description of her affiliation. -- Belg4mit 15:12, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Maya Rudolph was officially a Rentals member. She is in the video for "waiting" as well as being mentioned as a previous member on The Rentals official website. And since "Waiting" is from the first album you are completely wrong for saying she only did back-ups on their second album. Do your research. —Preceding
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Removed vandalism from accomplishments, DVDs, band members (spurious keytar player), trivia.
Is it "Teegan" or "Taygan" (like Megan/Meghan)? Should this be noted in the article? 71.234.105.190 03:59, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Also could be noted that Sara is pronounced "Sare-ah" as oposed to "Sar-a", as Sara would be pronounced (incorrectly) as the latter in many european countries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.139.192.153 ( talk) 18:44, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I have reservations about Tegan and Sara being called a "Duo". They have said themselves that they hate the label "duo" - seeing as they have always played with a 5 piece band etc. "Tegan and Sara" is the name of their band - as obvious as this is, some people seem to forget this fact.
In the CBC Radio 3 Podcast # 109 "Twin Power Summer" released on 22/6/2007, Tegan herself said: "...We're not a duo. Yes, there's two of us...but we're a band, we play with a five piece band."
So, in light of this, I think the article should stick to calling them a band or singer-songwriters. Emerald.Atoms ( talk) 06:42, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I agree with this. The "band members" section of this page lists 3 other musicians besides Tegan and Sara. I don't know too many 5-member duos. They might be the only permanent members, but if they always (or at least usually) tour with a full backing band, then they're a full band.
Hello! I just went in and cleaned up the section about Sara's relationship with Emy (it ended?! I'm so sad!) so that there's actual citation for the claims listed. I hope it turned out well :)
Here's the original text:
"Sara was in a long relationship with Emy Storey, who sold their merch at shows and did many of the designes. She is a Graphic Designer and has her own site. Their relationship became legal in 2007. Sara's song "I Was Married" referred to the common law marriage to Storey.
They have now since broken up." JamisonK ( talk) 03:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
74.195.204.223 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been changing the spelling of "Kiersten" to "Keirsten" for the past few days. Cursory Google searching reveals no hits for "Sarah Keirsten Quin" and many for "Sarah Kiersten Quin". I even sourced the spelling of her name, only to be reverted. Just letting everyone know so I don't get tagged for WP:3RR, though I'll be bowing out soon if this continues. - FrankTobia ( talk) 06:47, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi - please see [1] for proof of spelling Superclose Music ( talk) 22:03, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kimpurrs.
Do you have any source for her middle name being Keirsten instead of Kiersten? I haven't found a reliable source for either spelling, so I'm of a mind to remove it completely for now.
Concerning Kaki King, as far as I can tell there are two sources confirming the relationship. On what grounds do you say that it isn't true?
Cheers,
Amalthea
Talk 21:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
This is more of a question. I see that all their vinyl albums are not available other than The Con. Is it that they never produced their other albums in vinyl or that they have been discontinued? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.84.239 ( talk) 01:15, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
---they have other albums on vinyl but are out of stock at the moment —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.229.180 ( talk) 09:58, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
There is little to no flow in this article as it is almost wholly a collection of bullet points masquerading as a series of sentences within topics. There are many, many other awful Wikipedia articles just like this but I just don't have time to rewrite any. This is my first comment ever so maybe this proves to be my toe-dipping moment and the water won't turn out to be so cold. But, my, this article is marygawdandjoseph awful. I would hope T&S' fans would want better, no? TeenageCynic ( talk) 20:22, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
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Well, it seems no one else is going to weigh in, but the edit war is continuing, so I have added a sentence that adds Emy's verifiable legal former relationship, but does not add any speculative information about Tegan's (presumably non-legal relationship with someone who is not notable enough for a wikipedia article, and thus need not be mentioned according to WP:BLP#Privacy of personal information. I hope this satisfies the inclusionists and the exclusionists alike. Rehjanis ( talk) 18:43, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
this is NOT a cover from HeyHiHello. if it is can anyone provide proof? 96.51.17.141 ( talk) 04:26, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
The section "Cover songs, songs about, and collaborations" is a bit excessive. I haven't seen anything similar on any other band pages (though a few have separate articles of covers). Could we perhaps create a new article "Songs related to Tegan and Sara"? I don't know what the best way to preserve this information is (if it all needs to be preserved), but I don't think it should be in this article in its entirety.
Second, could we only include artists who have Wikipedia articles? While I think the Heyhihello song might be appropriate, the Uranus Beats song definitely isn't and seems to be more promotion than anything. As far as I can tell, they have a following of 11 people on YouTube, but I can't find anything else. I'm going to remove it again, but if it gets re-added I don't want to start an edit war. Klubbit ( talk) 04:37, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
This is my first ever post and Im not sure on the rules and stuff but one of you guys could add this in somewhere.
Tegan did a song with punk rock band 'Against Me' didn't see it listed anywhere. Its called 'Bourne on the Fm radio waves' Or something of the sort.
Thanks
Mark —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.103.171.30 ( talk) 09:43, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I feel that many of the revisions made today to the touring and collaborations sections should be reverted ( before, after, and diff). For example:
There is simply too much going on here, too many sections, and it makes the article less useful. I realize this represents a lot of work by 64.183.188.29 so I wanted to discuss it here before reverting. Some of the additions can be incorporated into the article, but I think that the organization at least should be returned to how it was. -- Klubbit ( talk) 03:23, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
>Tegan and Sara are a Canadian indie band >implying indie is a genre
Should be indie pop, summerfags
I'm curious what people think about the "New Wave" genre being applied to Tegan and Sara. I can't say that I've ever seen this anywhere else, and while I don't mind it being in the infobox, I think it's excessive to have 3 genres listed in the opening sentence. For what it's worth, the labels Tegan and Sara apply on their MySpace are Indie / Pop / Alternative (of which indie pop and indie rock are subgenres). New Wave seems a bit overly specific, or something... Klubbit ( talk) 15:51, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
"Tegan and Sara is", or "Tegan and Sara are"? I realize that AmE generally prefers the former, and BrE the latter, but I'm not quite sure which is the more usual in Canadian usage. Where the "name of the band" just happens to be a two-part list of the first names of the two permanent members, I have to say that to me, "is" seems extremely jarring. Smartiger ( talk) 18:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Remember back in the 1980s when the trademark name "Sony Walkman" would be pluralized as "Sony Walkmans"? This might be a relevant argument for keeping "Tegan and Sara is". 99.231.241.146 ( talk) 19:03, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Eightminuteepic removed sourced information about the women's respective relationships, and then I reinstated it. Eightminuteepic then removed it again by stating that this was confirmed in a podcast...without actually linking to said podcast. I then reinstated the information again, but then EME removed it a third time. Aside from him/her violating WP:3RR (and I didn't reinstate the info because I don't want to violate 3RR myself), I wonder if EME doesn't quite understand what a source is. Simply saying something happened without backing it up doesn't really prove anything. Erpert blah, blah, blah... 03:50, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Any reliable source for them being in the Feminist musicians category? 158.222.167.170 ( talk) 04:29, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
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Were they named after two of them? :) Tegan Jovanka, Sarah Jane Smith 2001:56A:F03F:5200:D584:A02A:6743:60C1 ( talk) 06:20, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
It's kind of interesting that the "personal lives" section hardly talks about their personal lives at all and focuses instead almost entirely on their mostly public gay rights activism and prominent involvement in the LGBT community. Certainly not arguing that any of the information in that section should be removed, but I think it's kind of weird how "Personal lives" is being used de facto as a euphemism for "Activism and Involvement in the LGBT Community"... I think it's odd that a group so prominently and widely associated with LGBT people and anglophone lesbians in particular is being written about as though their homosexuality were something ancillary and private, requiring euphemistic discretion.
I'm not logged in because on my phone but my wiki username is rainspeaker I'm p sure.
2600:1000:B023:606B:E182:E25A:F133:7B86 ( talk) 19:13, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Commenting both to confirm that the above comment is by me and also to note that on a reread the "Personal lives" section contains quite a few pieces of information about their career (e.g. their memoir) that just shouldn't be in that section. I'm going to be bold and see if I can make some changes to deal with both of these issues. I'll make them in two passes so ppl can revert the possibly contentious change to the article organization w/o referring the obviously necessary imo move of the career information into history.
Rainspeaker ( talk) 19:30, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
I've made the changes. I'll add that in addition to being a clearer and more logical section organization, the new "Activism and involvement" section gives readers completely unfamiliar with the band a hint at a glance that this is a group with a widely acknowledged and well-known significance in LGBT culture -- without editorializing, OR, or treating the frontwomen's sexualities as though they in themselves were a subject of encyclopedic importance. Rainspeaker ( talk) 19:56, 6 December 2021 (UTC)