- Hi, I'm Tegan. - I'm Sara.
- And today we're gonna play a game
of song association with Elle.
- We're gonna be given a word,
and we have 10 seconds to come up with a song
that has that word in it,
and then we have to sing it or rap it,
or do a spoken word with an improv dance.
- But before we get into it,
I wanna take a second just to tell you
that Sara and I have a new album.
It's called "Crybaby",
I think it's one of our best records ever,
and we also have a TV show.
- We do have a TV show, based on our memoir
called "High School".
It's out on Amazon now.
It's about our time in high school,
which was like five minutes ago.
- Yeah, this was like a couple years ago
that we graduated high school,
and then they made a show about us already.
(chuckling)
And when I read the instructions for this,
I thought we probably would do okay,
but now that we're sitting here in the chairs,
I think we'll probably not do super awesome at this,
but maybe it's just
'cause I'm very bad at karaoke,
and this feels like karaoke adjacent.
- We're about to find out.
(laughing)
♪ Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ♪
♪ Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma mum ♪
- [Tegan] I'm ready.
Love.
♪ When I'm feeling blue ♪
♪ Da na data na ♪
- Haven't heard love yet.
♪ Da na in my arms ♪
♪ Wouldn't you agree ♪
♪ Baby you and me ♪
♪ We got a groovy kind of love ♪ (bell dinging) ♪
- Wow, pulled it off.
- I just had to like, it's hard to work backwards.
Had to sing the whole as much as I could remember.
- I expected you to sing it with a little more like,
you know.
- I'm not really a song, a singer,
it's more like a Milli Vanilli situation,
where there's some other people who sing our songs.
But, you know.
- Me. - Yeah.
I'm the other person who sings our songs.
(laughing)
- [Sara] Rain.
♪ Blame it oh the rain. ♪
(bell dinging)
Yeah, we're really showing our age here.
Milli Vanilli.
- That's also, is that also Milli Vanilli?
- No, it's not, also Milli.
No, "Groovy Kind Of Love" is Phil Collins.
- Oh sorry, sorry, I got confused.
(laughing)
- Milli Vanilli is "Blame It on the Rain."
♪ Blame it on the rain ♪
That, people are gonna think that that was fed to us.
But I, was randomly.
- Heart.
Oh, well we have a song called "19."
♪ I felt you in my legs, before I ever met you. ♪
♪ And when I laid beside you for the first time ♪
♪ I told you, I feel you in my heart. ♪
(bell dinging)
If someone ever, you just met lays down with you
and tells you that they feel you in their heart.
Make an excuse to go to the bathroom
and get the hell out of there.
- [Sara] Ghost.
(clock ticking)
♪ I was walking with the ghost. ♪
I mean, has anyone ever written a song
with ghost except for me?
- Yes, actually, Lil Yachty did.
It was called,
"Running With a Ghost." - "Running With a Ghost."
- And then we'd be. It went like this, it went like this.
♪ I was running with a ghost ♪ ♪ I was running with a ghost ♪
And so then we had to write them
and say, that's our song.
(laughing)
- True story.
Nothing but love, though, for Lil Yachty.
- Yeah.
- Actually I was just grocery shopping in Vancouver,
up in Canada,
and I, all of a sudden I was like,
"What is this song, it's so familiar."
It was "Walking With a Ghost,"
and I was like, this feels so embarrassing.
Like, I don't know why I don't often hear my music,
like, in just regular life.
I think it still sounds amazing.
2004, that song sounds like
it could have come out yesterday.
- It was like our first, that was our first big hit.
It went on to alternative radio.
It was very exciting.
It changed our band, like overnight.
You know, when we signed our record deal, we were 19.
I don't think people really took us that seriously,
and so, I feel like we had to like prove ourselves,
and we went out on the road for like five years.
And then that song just did so well,
and then the White Stripes covered it,
and that was like, then people were like,
"Okay, this is legit."
- But then we spent the rest, like,
the rest of that decade having people say,
"What made you wanna cover that White Stripe song?"
"Walking With A Ghost"?
(laughing)
- That didn't happen that often.
- That often, it happened a lot.
It did, trust me, it happened a lot.
- Yeah, it's a cool, it's a good song.
- [Tegan] Stay.
♪ Stay ♪
(bell dinging)
♪ I'll leave you in the morning anyway ♪
- Tegan is just continuing,
she can only think of Tegan and Sara songs.
It actually makes me feel really sad for her.
(laughing)
Okay, Shakespears Sister.
- Wow.
- Great song called "Stay."
- Sing it.
- It's like, um.
- 10 seconds.
- Hold on.
(chuckling)
- It's okay, I got it, I got it.
♪ You better hope and pray that in my own world. ♪
♪ Stay, stay with me ♪
- That's how that song goes. - I think it goes like that.
- Yeah, huge hit, huge hit.
- You guys, look it up, it's amazing.
Everyone watching this is like, oh that song.
- It's "Stay" by Shakespears Sister, so Good.
- It is a really good song. It's a horrible version of it.
♪ Stay with me ♪
- It's outta your range.
Hands down, the most challenging experience
I've ever had in the studio was cutting the vocals
for a song called "Everything is Awesome".
The song was in a movie called "Lego Movie"
and I flew to LA
and I recorded it with Mark Mothersbaugh
who's in a band called "Divo"
and the film studio that was making the movie,
they wanted four different versions
in four different tempos, in four different keys.
And it was, they had booked me for two hours
and the song is not even meant for a human to sing.
And it was very stressful.
But we got through it.
I left my body.
I basically don't even really remember recording the song
because I was like, this is so stressful,
I'm gonna let everybody down.
And I couldn't believe that Sara wasn't there.
She was in Montreal
and she just got to like phone her vocals in herself
from her own studio.
- That was in New York.
- Whatever.
- [Sara] Hello.
♪ Hello ♪
(bell dinging)
♪ It's me ♪
Is that how the Adele one goes?
- Not really.
But that counts.
I mean you used it in it.
I mean the fact that you're tone deaf is troubling but.
- How does the chorus go?
(chuckling)
Does she say hello?
Cause the song's called "Hello".
Does she say hello a lot in the chorus
or is it just hello off the top?
♪ Hello, it's me ♪
- I think she just says it off the top, I don't really know.
- How's the chorus go?
♪ Hello from the other side ♪
♪ I must have called a dozen times ♪
- It's such a good song.
♪ Stay ♪
- Does that song say stay as well?
(chuckling)
It might, no, I don't actually have a clue.
- We're getting confused.
- Yeah.
Close.
♪ Don't stand so close to me. ♪
- Okay, "The Police".
Great.
God, I feel like, is this like a,
did our managers or our wives put you up to this?
Is this like a cognitive, like dementia exam?
Like I'm a little bit.
I'm scared.
Obviously when we first started our band
in some ways we were still fans of music.
We were avid listeners of music.
We were still kind of part of an audience
I guess you could say.
And so I think in some ways
my relationship to music has really changed.
And it's not, it's really rare actually
that I can just sort of like listen to music
without like, I guess thinking about it.
And I know that sounds kind of strange,
but so much of our consumption of entertainment
is really joyful and a release
and a way to kind of,
I guess maybe check out a little bit from life
and our jobs and our stressors
and in some ways music is my stressor.
(chuckling)
It's like the thing that I think about all the time.
So I actually feel like trying to find a way
to like tap back into music and be a music lover
and a fan is like, is the ongoing challenge for me.
Good.
- We have a new song on our new album "Cry Baby"
called "Pretty Shitty Time" and the chorus is.
♪ Never been good enough ♪
(bell dinging) And then I have a song
called "Where Does the Good Go" which is
♪ Where does the good go ♪ (bell dinging) ♪
♪ Where does the good go ♪
- You could show this video to like
a classroom of students or like strangers
and be like, what do you think they do for a living?
And they'd be like, I don't know, not music.
(laughing)
Or if you like gave them multiple choices
and they were like an accountant, magic,
a doctor, a musician.
- I think out of those options.
- Automotives.
- I think out of those options
people would clearly decide we're musicians.
I think we like,
like what doctor's gonna wear a designer sweater
with teddy bear, fuzzy teddy bears on it.
- A pediatrician.
(laughing)
- Sure, got me there.
Act.
- Act, it's not singable really.
- [Tegan] Don't act.
- It's kind of an ugly word.
- That's what I'm saying, it's like kind of harsh.
Do you know a rap with act in it?
- No. - Do you know any raps?
(buzzer buzzing)
- I know some raps.
♪ I woke. ♪
No.
♪ I pulled up to a house about seven or eight ♪
♪ and I ♪ That doesn't have act in it. ♪
- No, I think we ran out of time.
I think this is the one we couldn't do.
- You act like a fool.
- No.
- Million.
These are all Tegan and Sarah songs, right?
Like that's what you do is you just troll our lyrics
so that if all else fails we can just use one of our songs.
♪ A million hours left to think of you ♪
♪ And think of this ♪
♪ Calm down ♪
♪ I'm calling you to say ♪
- There's gotta be a song with million in it
that isn't ours.
What about, there's that.
♪ I would walk a billion miles just to be ♪
- First of all, what is happening.
Every song is from between 1984
and 1991 that we can recall.
If we can recall something,
it's from when we were five years old to nine years old.
It's like that was the last time
our brain opened the vault for that information.
- What's that song? Does it say a million miles, no.
- It's a Proclaimers.
♪ I would walk 500 ♪
- Oh, 500.
It was in "Benny And Joon".
- Yeah. - Great movie.
- Great movie, but not a million.
Well, we already got a million.
It was in my song, "19". - "The Con".
- Oh, "The Con."
It's my column again.
Friend.
♪ Call your girlfriend ♪
(bell dinging)
♪ Tell her duh duh duh ♪
♪ Cause you, you found somebody new ♪
"Call Your Girlfriend" by Robyn.
- I don't think you needed to go that far.
Yeah, and we've got like.
♪ Call your girlfriend ♪
♪ You treat me like a boyfriend ♪
We got that song.
♪ I couldn't be your friend ♪
That's another one of our songs.
What's that song about high school, Vitamin C?
- Don't.
- That was like the big 90s song.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- No, an early 2000s song.
Yeah, you do, everyone knows the song.
They play it every. ♪ You've got a friend in me ♪
(bell dinging)
- [Tegan] What's that one?
- I don't know.
I think that's how one goes.
- That's how one goes.
(chuckling)
That's the one we wanna submit.
(laughing)
- [Sara] Wild.
♪ You carried romance in the palm of your hand ♪
♪ You called the place for us ♪
♪ and it drove me wild ♪
(bell dinging)
- Why, you just looked at me like I was disgusting.
I've never, it was like I'd never heard that song before
and then I was like, she's singing our song.
- Yeah.
One.
♪ Take one ♪
(bell dinging)
♪ One, one 'cause you left me in two ♪
♪ Two ♪
Yeah, great. ♪ Two cause of a ♪
- Violent Femmes. - Violent Femmes.
- [Sara] Baby.
♪ Hit me baby one more time ♪ (bell dinging) ♪
♪ Ooh baby baby ♪
- She says baby a lot on that song.
I used to sing baby in my songs a lot.
- Mm.
There's also a good,
what's that band that they,
there's like a hundred people on stage
and they're so good and everyone loves them
and the lead singer has a big giant, James Murphy.
- LCD Sound System? - LCD Sound System.
- Are you okay?
- LCD Sound System.
They have a song with baby that I really like too.
That's it, that's what I know.
Steal.
♪ And you steal my sunshine ♪
(bell dinging)
♪ If you steal my sunshine ♪
- Yeah, Len. - Len.
- Okay, great Canadian band.
Big hit, great music video.
♪ If you steal my sunshine ♪
That's all we can remember
'cause it's kind of like a talky song.
Like, it's like. - It's talky.
♪ I was on the hills above ♪
- And then the chorus comes in, it's like
♪ If you steal my sunshine. ♪
- It's a good one
- You guys are gonna love it.
- I think this should be like our tour bus drinking game.
You know, this could be like,
we could get better at this.
You could have us back
and we could be better than we were this time.
Thank you so much for watching us
suffer through playing a game we weren't very good at
which is song association.
Don't forget to check out our new album "Crybaby"
or watch our new TV show "High School" on Amazon.
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(mellow music)