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Tegan & Sara screamed at each other and pretended to be other people while making 'Heartthrob'

  • February 11, 2013
  • Brad O'Mance

teganandsaraTegan and Sara, aka Tegan & Sara, have been chatting away about how they con­sciously wanted their new album to be catchier.

"I stood over Sara the whole time in the studio, yelling: 'Verse, chorus, keep it simple'," Tegan explained to — YOU KNOW IT! — the Daily Star Playlist.

For Sara it was all about trying to be someone else while she was putting pen to pad: "I tried writing as if it were someone else singing it, like Alicia Keys."

"Before, I'd say: 'You've made me very upset, and here's why.' But now it's: 'You've fucked me up'."

They also talked a bit about writing a song for David Guetta and basically they never met him and it was all done via email or something.

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