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"  Photo: Blair Alley for Express As twin indie-pop sensations Tegan and Sara closed their fifth and final show at SXSW at the Express Rocks! Music Showcase last night, Americans watched their new hit &amp;quot;Closer&amp;quot; get covered by by Jake (Jacob Artist) and Ryder (Blake Jenner) as the big finale on Fox&amp;#039;s Glee. The exposure was huge for the sisters, Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin, who just released a new album Heartthrob. It&amp;#039;s hard to believe how much sound comes out of the pint-sized Canadian twins, as we listened to their perfect-pitch harmonies and watched a packed area of bouncing fans mouth the lyrics along. Though they&amp;#039;ve been performing since the mid &amp;#039;90s, it&amp;#039;s easy to see that their fame status is only about to blow up even more. We caught up with the Quins backstage before their set. On having their hit &amp;quot;Closer&amp;quot; covered on Glee: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re thrilled! We&amp;#039;re big fans of the show. The music aside, it&amp;#039;s such an interesting show because it&amp;#039;s been so popular, and yet there are so many been alternative story lines. You have so many gay characters, and they really make the world seem almost like a better place, which is pretty awesome. &amp;quot;Closer&amp;quot; is obviously going down tons of different avenues, so we just put out the remix album, and it&amp;#039;s in an Express commercial. I was thrilled when I heard that it was the guys singing because that is really cool\u2014even though I love Lea Michele and I kind of wish she was singing it!&amp;quot; \u2014Sara On being nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Long Form Music Video category this year for their DVD, Get Along:&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It was unexpected, and it is something we were very proud of. I think it made it almost weirdly more exciting than if it had been for a record or something, because we put all this time and energy into some of these projects\u2014the DVDs and we&amp;#039;ve done books. In a weird way, even though you want them to have far-reaching impact, the truth is that...nobody is thinking &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m just going to pick up this band&amp;#039;s DVD.&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s for fans, that&amp;#039;s what it is. So, to have such an amazingly respected, established brand, like the Grammys, be able to stamp that approval and acknowledge us was really deeply satisfying. Also, let&amp;#039;s be real: A lot of the things that happen in our life are very niche, like my parents don&amp;#039;t always understand or my friends don&amp;#039;t understand, but when you say something like &amp;#039;We got a Grammy nomination,&amp;#039; pretty much everybody understands what that means, and that&amp;#039;s very exciting for us.&amp;quot; \u2014Sara On transitioning from indie ballads to catchy pop tunes for Heartthrob: &amp;quot;I was really inspired by all the pop stuff we grew up listening to, like Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. But I was also having a weird &amp;#039;90s nostalgia thing kind of last year. So I was listening to Ace of Base, Bj\u00F6rk, and Everything But the Girl...just of lot of electronic-inspired stuff. And we both are huge fans of everything from Katy Perry to P!nk and Alicia Keys. I think there are so many incredible female vocalists right now. I mean, we talked about Beyonc\u00E9 for at least 30 minutes today. As much as I think we got pushed into the indie world for so many years, and we embraced and loved it, Sara and I have always been really in tune and in love with what&amp;#039;s happening in the pop world. I think it just took time for us to gradually move there. We weren&amp;#039;t going to make a record like So Jealous and then make a pop record. I think we realized our songs are super catchy and that we really loved melody.&amp;quot; \u2014Tegan On the biggest heartthrobs in Hollywood right now: &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re not necessarily people that I&amp;#039;m attracted to, but I think that there are people who are iconic, people like Prince and Madonna. For us as kids, we were very impacted by this &amp;#039;80s iconic status symbol of people who were sexual while also being powerful. The objectification didn&amp;#039;t weaken them.&amp;quot; \u2014Sara &amp;quot;Cory Monteith is my answer.&amp;quot; \u2014Tegan Keep up to date with the latest pop culture news. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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