Show business is full of interesting and often cruel ironies. Take, for instance, the number of incredibly well-respected actors (Orson Welles, Raul Julia, Philip Seymour Hoffman) who died soon after filming parts in not-so-respectable kids’ movies (the 1986 animated Transformers: The Movie, Street Fighter, and the final installments of the Hunger Games series, respectively), ending critically lauded careers with the equivalent of a sad trombone.
The last (and, until now, only) time Tegan and Sara appeared on the chart was back in the fall when their single “Closer” made it all the way to number 90. “Closer” and the album, Heartthrob, that it was taken from, were big, ostentatiously catchy works that were explicitly intended to finally convert the twins’ massive cult popularity (mostly among Canadians, lesbians, and emo kids) into even more massive mainstream success.
