On Japanese Breakfast’s melancholic report, Michelle Zauner is likely to be ‘the happiest’ she’s ever been : World Cafe : NPR

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It should have felt like destiny to have a report you titled Jubilee be as celebrated as a lot as Japanese Breakfast‘s third album was in 2021.

From the skin trying in, frontwoman Michelle Zauner was having the type of yr most indie musicians can solely dream of: a report acclaimed by critics and followers alike, plus a bestselling memoir referred to as Crying in H Mart.

Now, on the heels of a brand new album referred to as For Melancholy Brunettes (& unhappy ladies), the truth of Japanese Breakfast’s breakout yr turns into clearer.

“It is type of ironic,” Zauner says. “I used to be type of depressing on the Jubilee tour — this joyous report — as a result of it was such a grind. And on this report, I really feel so at peace and so snug and simply actually joyful … Humorous sufficient, on the melancholic report, I am possibly the happiest I have been.”

At present, Zauner joins us to speak about their fourth album, the books and artwork that influenced it, and the themes that run via it.

“A number of what the report is about is each alternative you make robbing you from one other expertise and the type of melancholy that elicits,” she says.

Zauner additionally talks concerning the yr she spent dwelling in South Korea in between recording and releasing this album and about her subsequent e-book that she’s presently engaged on.

Plus, Japanese Breakfast performs songs from the brand new album dwell within the studio.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The net story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.

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