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Michelle Zauner’s Success Nearly Destroyed Her
And then the Crying in H Mart film fell apart. But she’s changing her fortune with a new Japanese Breakfast album.
Taken together, it felt like a genuine celebration: One could finish paging through Zauner’s heart-wrenching story and then witness her bouncing across the stage in a puff of taffeta at Radio City or on SNL with what looked like an inarguably hard-won joy. The project touches on her recent artistic success, though its storytelling is both subtler and meatier than what fans accustomed to her popularized first-person register might expe c t. Instead, she writes vignettes of muddy, moody characters who insist on playing with fire. I also went through some growing pains on this last record around becoming a bigger band: not being able to just be a young person drinking and sounding like shit and instead realizing that there’s a certain responsibility that comes with playing larger rooms and charging higher ticket prices.
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