Karen O + Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast): Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians – Special Series

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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What happens when we take the writer away and ask two great artists to interview each other the first time they meet in person? To kick off this year's Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians podcast – also running as a special series in the Rolling Stone Music Now feed – Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast come together to discuss their songwriting craft, growing up Korean-American, and the cathartic pleasures of smashing glass. In the past two years, Zauner released both a Grammy-nominated album, Jubilee, and a bestselling memoir, Crying in H. Mart. Zauner – who performs as Japanese Breakfast – grew up idolizing Karen O, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer famous for her magnetic stage presence and New York swagger. Recently, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs recently released Cool It Down, their first album in nine years. Now that she’s back and setting stages on fire again, Karen O. was more than happy to sit down with Zauner and be the mentor she wishes she’d had when breaking through. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Words in Music is an intimate groundbreaking audible series that blends in-depth memoir with
0:06.8	exclusive performances to reveal the storied lives and singular creative vision of music icons.
0:13.0	Each thoughtfully crafted volume is as unique and varied
0:15.9	as the artist delivering it.
0:17.6	Words and music brings together an extraordinary roster
0:20.5	of once in a generation artists,
0:22.5	visionaries, trailblazers, and consummate storytellers,
0:26.1	including Smoky Robinson, Alanis Moriss-Morocet,
0:29.0	Billy Joe Armstrong, Sting, St. Vincent, and Beck, among many others.
0:34.0	Hear them and other groundbreaking artists share their stories and songs,
0:38.0	unscripted and unfiltered.
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0:44.0	Go to Audible.com, backslash Words and Music to start listening.
0:50.0	Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, host of Rolling Stone Music Now.
0:54.0	Today you're about to hear an episode of our sister podcast, Rolling Stones musicians on musicians,
0:59.0	featuring Michelle Zoner and Karen O.
1:08.0	Musicians on musicians. What does that mean to you, Karen?
1:11.0	Well, you're sitting across from me, not on top of me, I'm not on top of you, but I guess it's like, we're like, you know,
1:16.4	We were early.
1:17.4	Yeah, yeah, it's true, but like, but we did have like a very close moment.
1:20.4	The very, this is the first time we're meeting a person. We did share a very intimate moment earlier.
1:24.5	So I guess it's kind of... Yeah, with a dream come true for me too. Me too, me too, me too.
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