Before the Grammys ceremony, Michelle Zauner called up her friend Jeff Tweedy, Wilco frontman and a multi-Grammy winner himself, for some advice on navigating fame.
—has garnered mainstream acclaim seemingly overnight. This year, Japanese Breakfast was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2022 Grammys, and her latest record,is in the running for Best Alternative Album. Before the award ceremony takes place this Sunday, Zauner called up her friend and mentor
TWEEDY: When I was growing up, it was never my ambition to have any of the things that I have now. It was to be in an indie rock, punk rock band, or whatever. That’s all I could visualize—getting in a van and making records and traveling around like the bands that I idolized. And that happened right away. So, every step since then—maybe you can relate to this, I don’t know—has been an effort to keep up with the circumstances I’m in.
TWEEDY: There is something so visceral about how you can express yourself with an electric guitar. I think you’re right, you can say things with a guitar that you couldn’t otherwise. Back to what I said earlier about adapting to the circumstances that you find yourself in—have you had to do a lot of that in the last few years? As somebody who cares about you and your music, that’s a lot of pressure to keep up with.
ZAUNER: Yeah. That’s something that a lot of people associate with your band—the longevity of your career. From album to album, it feels like you guys are always pushing to show a different side of yourselves. TWEEDY: Right. Once you get writing, you’re going to find something that you weren’t picturing, you know what I mean?TWEEDY: You just start getting excited by what you’ve discovered, as opposed to thinking, ” I hope I write something that everybody thinks is smart.”
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