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Michelle Zauner Explores 'Sad' Side of Fame on New Japanese Breakfast Album
Michelle Zauner exclusively spoke to Us Weekly about her new Japanese Breakfast album, ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)’
Zauner isn’t complaining about that success, but she knew that she wanted her conflicted feelings to inform Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women), which dropped Friday, March 21. While Sasami has always slipped easily between genres, her latest career move surprised even her most ardent fans — but her pivot to pop is just the next stop on a trajectory that’s been in motion since she released her debut album in 2019. Zauner also looked to books and art for inspiration while working on For Melancholy Brunettes, including Thomas Mann ’s The Magic Mountain and the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich.
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