You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece

tell the story of how they remained.

My name is Tao Wen.

Just a heads up for any parents who listen to their kids, there's some maybe PG-13 stuff

in this episode, nothing major, but use your discretion.

Japanese breakfast is the musical project of Michelle Zonner, who's been making music

under that name since 2013.

In July 2017, she released her second album, Soft Sounds from another planet.

In this episode, Michelle breaks down a song from that album called Boyish, along with

her co-producer and bandmate Craig Hendrix.

We'll hear the original demo, plus a version Michelle recorded with her old band.

And she'll talk about how her perspective on the song has changed over the years.

I can't get you off the drain.

I'm Michelle Zonner, and my band is called Japanese Breakfast.

The first version of Boyish was written and recorded in June of 2013.

I was in another band called Little Big League, and we were just starting to work on our

second album, but I felt creatively stifled.

So I started this sort of like low-fi recording project called June, which was actually the

first thing I ever made as Japanese breakfast, where I wrote and recorded songs every day

for the month of June.

So at the end, there were like 30 tracks of material.

And Boyish started as Day 6 on the projects.

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