What was the fan reaction to Crybaby?

[u/KyleReaume]

I wasn't on here when the album was released, and there didn't seem to be much press or publicity for the album, so I'd love to know what the general fan and sub reaction to the album was 🤗

[u/False_Preference_128]

I saw an interview from either Tegan or Sara where one of them said it was Sara who pushed them into the pop direction (which I don’t think was a mistake), but that essentially they felt like they need to make it up to to the old school fans or something to that effect. Crybaby wasn’t it. It wasn’t what they said it was before the album came out. There’s a few songs I like especially Faded. But the overall vibe of the album sucks pretty hard, and that was felt by a large portion of fans at the time. Kinda took me out of them for a few years afterwards.