Japanese Breakfast, Posing For Cars (live), UC Theatre, Berkeley, CA, November 7, 2021 (HD)

Japanese Breakfast play their song "Posing For Cars" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, California on November 7, 2021. Posing For Cars appeared on the band's third studio album, Jubilee, released in June 2021. Japanese Breakfast is an indie rock band headed by Michelle Zauner (lead vocals / guitar / keyboards) with Peter Bradley (guitar), Craig Hendrix (drums), and Deven Craige (bass). Joining them onstage were Adam Schatz (saxophone / keyboards) and Emily Wells (violin / keyboards).
Zauner has said this about the song: "I love a long, six-minute song to show off a little bit. It starts off as an understated acoustic guitar ballad that reminded me of Wilco’s ‘At Least That’s What You Said’, which also morphs from this intimate acoustic scene before exploding into a long guitar solo. To me, it always has felt like Jeff Tweedy is saying everything that can’t be said in that moment through his instrument, and I loved that idea. I wanted to challenge myself to do the same-to write a long, sprawling, emotional solo where I expressed everything that couldn’t be said with words."
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Posing For Cars lyrics:
Woke from a dream in which you'd left me
Posing for cars on the American stoop
Don't make me beg you just 'cause you can
I'm just a woman with loneliness
I'm just a woman with needs
And how could you ever conceive
How much I need you, how truly barren I can be?
They say that time, it is the only certainty
But it's been one o'clock for hours
Oh, the day is long, untangling
Can't sort release from what I sold you
Is this what it takes to enjoy the day?
All of my pleasures left on display
I'm just a hollow root pushing through
I'm just the empty space inside the room
And how could you ever conceive
This adolescent heart skipping beats?
When all your love, it grows full and firm beneath
Without a festered thought, without an emerald want
Just a single slow desire fermenting
Posing For Cars written by Michelle Zauner
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Japanese Breakfast official bio:
From the moment she began writing her new album, Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast (@jbrekkie) knew that she wanted to call it Jubilee. After all, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time-a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor. Zauner’s first two albums garnered acclaim for the way they grappled with anguish; Psychopomp was written as her mother underwent cancer treatment, while Soft Sounds From Another Planet took the grief she held from her mother‘s death and used it as a conduit to explore the cosmos. Now, at the start of a new decade, Japanese Breakfast is ready to fight for happiness, an all-too-scarce resource in our seemingly crumbling world.
In the years leading up to Jubilee, Zauner also took theory lessons and studied piano in earnest for the first time, in an effort to improve her range as a songwriter: “I’ve never wanted to rest on any laurels. I wanted to push it as far as it could go, inviting more people in and pushing myself as a composer, a producer, an arranger.” She pours that sentiment into the album from the very beginning.
Jubilee is an album about processing life and love in the quest for happiness, and how that process sometimes requires us to step outside of ourselves. Throughout Jubilee, Zauner is hardly fictionalizing her lyrics, instead pouring her own life into the universe of each song to tell real stories, and allowing those universes, in turn, to fill in the details. Joy, change, evolution-these things take real time, and real effort. And Japanese Breakfast is here for it.
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Jubilee live tour dates:
Sept. 18 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
Sept. 19 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Sept. 21 - Ogden, UT @ Ogden Twilight
Sept. 23 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Festival
Sept 24 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
Sept. 25-27 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
Sept. 28 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Sept. 30 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
Oct. 1 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
Oct. 2-3 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theatre
Oct. 4 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
Oct. 5 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
Oct. 7 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
Oct. 8 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
Oct. 9 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
Oct. 10 - St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
Oct. 11-12 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Oct. 14-17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Oct. 29 - Dallas, TX @ Studio at the Factory
Oct. 30 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Oct. 31 - Austin, TX @ Stubb’s (Levitation)
Nov. 1 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
Nov. 3 - Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
Nov. 4 - Tempe, AZ @ Coca-Cola Sun Deck at Sun Devil Stadium
Nov. 7 - Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre
Nov. 9 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace Of Spades
Nov. 11 - Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery
Nov. 12 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ The Alex Madonna Expo Center
Nov. 13 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
Nov. 14 - Perris, CA @ Desert Daze Festival
Nov. 15-16 - Pomona, CA @ The Glass House

[@0xCaroline]

No matter how many times I listen to the outro,it can always draw me crazy

[@TrippedGian1]

So beautiful and she KILLS the solo

[@rexisnervous]

my god i love this song so fk much

[@craigjones9809]

Michelle Zauner deserves to be on the Mt. Rushmore of Rock-N-Roll Goddesses! This song leads me into the stratosphere every time.

[@thegirlwhohasflown]

I've loved every video from this concert, thanks for uploading!

[@_yeyooo]

thank you for uploading all the songs! i'm on a japanese breakfast live performance binge watch session right now after finding her out and the playlist you made truly helped me. every song was beautiful, thanks again! ❤️

[@cya5983]

😌

[@reidjohnson9308]

japanese has many great songs-this is good video-needs new cd and music to buy-has great looks too-nice looking gal