Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has said that she has grown to “appreciate” her late mother’s lack of support throughout her career – crediting it with making her into the artist she is today.The alt-pop singer discussed her tumultuous relationship with her parent in a new interview on Conan O’Brien’s podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend – explaining how she believes the backlash she received ultimately led to her success with Japanese Breakfast.
Asked if her complicated relationship with her mother acted as a catalyst for her creativity, Zauner replied: “I think, if anything, […] it really affirmed how badly I wanted it.
It’s almost like, if your parents are like, ‘Oh great, yeah, go be an artist’, you almost don’t want it anymore. Her being so adverse to me following that path […] made me so much more drawn to it.”She continued, adding that although these opposing attitudes continued throughout her first decade as a musician, she believes this made her into the artist she is today.“That’s a big reason why I’m still doing it, in a way.
I was told no many many times, for many years,” she added.“I had a very embarrassing career for like 10 years, sleeping on floors strewn with cat poop… Now that I look back at that, it’s like ‘that’s exactly why you are the way that you are’.
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