Screenshot: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Last week, Michelle Zauner announced that Japanese Breakfast was finally “Jimmy Fallon Big!” enough that her band had been booked to play on last night’s
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Now, the sideways prophecy of the song’s title has been fulfilled: Japanese Breakfast has played “Jimmy Fallon Big!” on Jimmy Fallon.
In his introduction to the performance, Fallon explains the track’s genesis, summarizing how the bassist in Zauner’s previous group, Little Big League, left to play in a band that he thought would go on to become “Jimmy Fallon big.” Years later, he returned and ended up in Japanese Breakfast, which now, unlike his other band, are actually, very literally “Jimmy Fallon Big.”
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The upcoming record will mark Zauner’s first solo work since 2019, when she released a pair of standalone singles – a cover of Tears For Fears‘ ‘Head Over Heels’ and an original song titled ‘Essentially’.
In September last year, Zauner also teamed up with Crying’s Ryan Galloway for a four-track EP, ‘Pop Songs 2020’, under the group name Bumper.
Crying In H Mart, arriving on April 20 this year via Knopf Publishing. The book, based on Zauner’s 2018 essay in
The New Yorker, will explore how the death of the musician’s mother forced a reckoning with her Korean-American identity.
Zauner said of the memoir in a press release: “I wrote two albums worth of material in an attempt to encapsulate all of that heavy darkness, confusion and loneliness, and then I spent another three years writing pages and pages to try and capture my mother’s brilliant character and spirit, what it was like to be raised by a Korean immigrant in a small west coa