"Am I even Korean anymore if there's no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?" Zauner wrote in the essay.įor longtime fans, "Jubilee" might sound like a drastic departure in both sound and subject matter from the Japanese Breakfast they're used to. In it, she examines her upbringing in Eugene, Oregon her mother's battle with - and ultimately, death of - pancreatic cancer and her Korean identity at the root of it all. The memoir expounds on an essay Zauner wrote by the same title for The New Yorker in 2018. It arrived on the heels of the April 20 release of Zauner's debut book, "Crying in H Mart." "Jubilee" is Japanese Breakfast's third studio album. "Of all the songs to cover, I was so happy that he covered that one because it is probably my favorite song on the record, and I think it's the most impressive composition that I've written." "I was like, mouth agape, rolling around on the ground for at least half an hour the night that I saw it," she said. Zauner called it "a real career highlight." Singer and guitarist Jeff Tweedy covered the song in a video posted to YouTube on July 1. "That's the song title."Īlong with the Beatles, Zauner also drew inspiration from the strings in Wilco's "Jesus, ETC." The arrangement was "so elegant and what we were really trying to capture on the song," she said.Īnd "Kokomo, IN" caught the attention of a Wilco member himself.
"That's even better," Zauner recalled saying. "It's like a fanfiction of his teenage years in Bloomington," Zauner joked at the time.Įxcept the project manager grew up in Kokomo, not Bloomington. When Zauner explained the concept to her drummer, she said he was immediately reminded of the project manager of the band's record label, Dead Oceans, which rose to fame out of Bloomington. And so the song goes: "I'll wait, passing time just popping wheelies / And kicking round this flyover state / Watching you show off to the world the parts I fell so hard for.
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