Sainte: "Sainte is my outlet to be happier"

"I just want people to realise that life doesn't have a rulebook," starts Tay Jardine. Colouring outside the lines "doesn't need to be destructive or a menace. You just need to trust your gut. Even if it's not what the rest of the world is doing, just do it as long as it makes you happy." She knows better than most her way around ripping it up, starting again and going your own way. For two very good albums, she led sugary pop-punkers We Are The In Crowd through the trials and Warped Tour tribulations of adolescence, all heartbreak, diary confessions and youthful determination. As they set to work on album three though, something felt strange. "It was this feeling that, as the songs were coming together, it was different. It naturally just felt like they came together differently. As that was happening, I looked around at everyone and asked, ‘What if we call this something different?'" That something different grew into Sainte, a solo vision backed by her bandmates. "Let's treat it the way it should be treated, as growth." That embrace took Tay time. "I was afraid to let go of anything. I didn't want people to feel like I was letting go of We Are The In Crowd," but was something she needed. "I was just really learning to grow and break out of this shell, in a sense. I had just been changing over the past few years as a woman, as a girl growing up, and it just felt natural. "It is my vision and how I want to be perceived just as me. Mike [Ferri] and Cam [Hurley] are still part of this project. I still write with them, and they are the most supportive people. It was almost more their idea than mine for the project in the first place. ‘You have something you need to share, you should go do it, and we'll be by your side'."