Michelle Zauner announced on social media that Japanese Breakfast will make its late night debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on March 15. Zauner is currently promoting her third Japanese Breakfast album, Jubilee, coming out on June 4.
This is a huge deal! Zauner’s 2017 album under Japanese Breakfast, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, includes a song titled “Jimmy Fallon Big!” The song really has nothing to do with the late night host, but fans have always wanted Zauner to have the victory moment of playing The Tonight Show because of the story behind the song. As Zauner explained to NPR, “I wrote this song about the bass player of [Zauner’s other band] Little Big League. He’d been offered a better touring gig and so he sat me down at my kitchen table and told me he had to quit the band because this other band were going to be ‘Jimmy Fallon big.’ At the time it felt like losing a brother, and there was this shame, feeling like I was never going to get there myself. Funny enough, he now plays bass in Japanese Breakfast! Now we just need to play Jimmy Fallon and the cycle will be complete!”
The cycle is finally complete and now her bassist can say he’s in a “Jimmy Fallon Big” band! Funny how it all works out.
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Let me know when she’s Gabby Hayes big.
Bring back Little Big League!
Or don’t, Japanese Breakfast is really good. Little Big League was good too, but sometimes one band had to die so that another can emerge, breakfast-potato-like, from the ashes.
I was into them when they were Pat Sajak Small.
Good on Japanese Breakfast for making it this far, and I really hope they get a lot of great exposure out of it. Fallon still sucks though, he has an absolute soulless personality. *Cue dead-eyed laughter from Fallon laugh-o-tron*
Impeach Jimmy Fallon! Not My Late Night Host!!!
The best thing I can say about Fallon is that he is more likable than Leno.
Wait, the story is about a guy who ditched her to go to another band because he thought they’d be more popular. And the happy ending is that he somehow worked his way back into her band just in time for them to actually be the popular band?
Time is a flat circle.
Why don’t we make the comments section a place of…quiet contemplation?
When I saw them about a year and a half ago, the bass player was working the merch table. I always imagined this was penance for the whole Jimmy Fallon Big! incident. “Sure, you can be in the band… but you’re on permanent merch duty.”
That’s exactly how I read it.
Sometimes life is better when you don’t carry around a grudge?
Now I want a Japanese breakfast.
Thanks! That’s what I thought.tje article was promising.
I was hoping for a breakfast picture
“A Free Plant for Fat Slobs is truly John Holmes Big”
I came here for pictures of Japanese breakfast foods, so this was disappointing.