Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner is Inspired by Melancholy Women and Angry Men

Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner is Inspired by Melancholy Women and Angry Men

The music of Japanese Breakfast builds worlds upon lush and deeply felt emotion, from the all-encompassing grief and longing of their 2016 debut, Psychopomp, to the euphoria of 2021’s Jubilee. On the band’s new record, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), lead singer and songwriter Michelle Zauner embraces a different kind of sadness…

Michelle Zauner Is Japanese Breakfast—But at What Cost?

Michelle Zauner wears Jacket and Skirt Prada. Michelle Zauner is in limbo. After years of nonstop motion—writing the bestselling memoir Crying in H Mart, adapting it for the screen, touring the world, and moving to Korea—she’s switching gears. Her latest album as Japanese Breakfast, For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women), ditches her previous record’s shine for something moodier. To mark its release, she and designer Sandy Liang hop on a call …