Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner tells us how she made her brightest-sounding album yet and explored the many meanings of joy on 'Jubilee.'
, Zauner’s heart-wrenching memoir about her late mother and the Korean food they bonded over. While the first two Japanese Breakfast records — 2016’sembraces joy. “It feels like a summer album to me,” Zauner says. “I knew that I wanted my third album to be the most drama and the strongest foot forward — every muscle flexing and using all the tools that you have in the toolbox. Because by the third record, you should really know who you are and what you want to be doing as an artist.
I’m obviously a poptimist. I especially like pop music that isn’t formulaic and has depth to it. I was really cognizant of that going into this album. I think as a lot of indie bands get bigger, it’s a very obvious move to pivot to the pop realm, because you’re kind of like, “What’s going to get me into a bigger room?” But I wanted to make sure that I was well-intentioned with my music. I was very scared of making a poppy record.
I felt like there was no question that the album had to open with “Paprika.” I actually fought with the label to make sure that it wasn’t a single. It felt like such a thesis statement for the album. We really went all out for that one. The strings and horns — it was everything that I wanted.
It was getting to meet all these great musicians in your life that help you not be intimidated. For a long time, writing arrangements for strings and horns was so mysterious and sounded like something that only like classical composers could do. But nowadays it’s so easy to write like that on keyboards and stuff. If you have this network of musicians that you don’t feel stupid around, it makes it a lot easier to have those things come through it.for a long time.
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