Japanese Breakfast and Machine Gun Kelly are quite different. However, according to some fans, there are similar images between the upcoming 2022 release. blanket sale and japanese breakfast Anniversary. For Michelle Zauner, however, these album covers have completely different concepts.
Fans noticed some similarities between the album covers of Machine Gun Kelly’s ‘Mainstream Sellout’ and Japanese Breakfast’s ‘Jubilee’.
Following the release of Psychopomp and Soft Sounds from Another Planet, alternative band Japanese Breakfast released the album Anniversary in 2021. This production came with songs like “Be Sweet” and “Paprika,” earning praise for their unique sounds, creative lyrics, and yellow-toned album cover.
A few months later, Machine Gun Kelly announced the release of general sale, scheduled for a March 2022 release. Although not much is known about the song in this collection, fans were able to see the cover of this album.
To match the blanket sale vibe, Machine Gun Kelly’s album features the artist with purple-pink hair and a black guitar. He was standing in the center of the picture, purple-pink tomatoes visibly thrown around him.
Some fans noted similarities between this and Japanese breakfast. Anniversarywhich featured singer Michelle Zauner dressed in yellow in the center of the image. She was surrounded by yellow persimmons hanging around her.
“A bit like Japanese breakfast Anniversary,” a Reddit user noted after Machine Gun Kelly’s announcement.
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Michelle Zauner thinks her and Machine Gun Kelly’s album is a ‘different concept’
Some noted similarities between these albums and their fruit-inspired imagery. Even Zauner, composer of Japanese Breakfast, commented on these comparisons on social networks.
“Fight of the Year 2022”, Zauner tweetedalong with a link to the Rolling Stone article comparing the two projects. This was sarcasm, as the artist thinks that the album covers feature different concepts.
“Actually, I don’t think it looks anything like my album cover,” Zauner said during an interview with Pitchfork, “but I think it’s really fun that Rolling Stone put an article about it just because there is a circular fruit in the foreground.”
“I mean he’s people throwing tomatoes at him, and mine is persimmons hanging peacefully around me, so I think they’re very different concepts,” she continued.
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Michelle Zauner/Japanese Breakfast earned their first Grammy nominations
In addition to receiving praise from fans, Jubilee earned japanese breakfast his first Grammy Award nomination.
That was in the category of Best Alternative Music Album, appearing alongside Bank by fleet foxes, If I can’t have love, I want to be able to by halsey, collapsed in sunbeams by Arlo Parks, and Dad’s house by Saint Vincent. The Grammy Awards also nominated Japanese Breakfast for Best New Artist.
Some also know Zauner from Japanese Breakfast for his New York Times best-selling novel, Crying at H Mart. Japanese Breakfast’s music is available on most major streaming platforms.
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