Tegan and Sara's new TV series High School features various scenes in which the teenage twins listen to the Smashing Pumpkins and learn how to play the alt-rock hit "Today" on guitar. Now, they have spoken with Billy Corgan about how his band influenced them.
The duo appeared on the musician's iHeartMedia podcast Thirty-Three with William Patrick Corgan, and explained the prominent inclusion of "Today" in High School.
Sara told Corgan, "I actually feel like I'm having an out-of-body experience right now, because 'Today' changed my actual life. Discovering Siamese Dream and the Smashing Pumpkins saved my life. It was that moment that I hope every person gets in their life — if it's music, if it's fucking golf — I don't care. There is the before you have heard that song and there is the after you have heard that song — and it totally changed my life. I was 14 years old and a cute skater guy who totally had a crush on me … He gave me that album and I took it home and I just remember putting on 'Today' and being like, 'I want to understand why this does what it does. I want to make this. I want to create this moment for other people.'"
Sara further explained how Tegan was a Nirvana devotee, but she was a Smashing Pumpkins "superfan." Sara said, "I became an absolutely massive Smashing Pumpkins fan, like a crazy, crazy fan. They are my band — it's mine." Tegan also discussed how she and Sara slept in a mall parking lot to get tickets for the Smashing Pumpkins' tour for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
The episode of Thirty-Three can be heard here.
High School is airing on Prime Video, and Tegan and Sara recently released their album Crybaby. Tegan ranked the duo's five best songs for Exclaim!'s High 5 column.
The duo appeared on the musician's iHeartMedia podcast Thirty-Three with William Patrick Corgan, and explained the prominent inclusion of "Today" in High School.
Sara told Corgan, "I actually feel like I'm having an out-of-body experience right now, because 'Today' changed my actual life. Discovering Siamese Dream and the Smashing Pumpkins saved my life. It was that moment that I hope every person gets in their life — if it's music, if it's fucking golf — I don't care. There is the before you have heard that song and there is the after you have heard that song — and it totally changed my life. I was 14 years old and a cute skater guy who totally had a crush on me … He gave me that album and I took it home and I just remember putting on 'Today' and being like, 'I want to understand why this does what it does. I want to make this. I want to create this moment for other people.'"
Sara further explained how Tegan was a Nirvana devotee, but she was a Smashing Pumpkins "superfan." Sara said, "I became an absolutely massive Smashing Pumpkins fan, like a crazy, crazy fan. They are my band — it's mine." Tegan also discussed how she and Sara slept in a mall parking lot to get tickets for the Smashing Pumpkins' tour for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
The episode of Thirty-Three can be heard here.
High School is airing on Prime Video, and Tegan and Sara recently released their album Crybaby. Tegan ranked the duo's five best songs for Exclaim!'s High 5 column.
