On the heels of the release of “Orlando In Love” last week, their first new single off the highly anticipated album For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)—slated for a March 21 release, Japanese Breakfast has unveiled the track’s official music video.
Frontwoman Michelle Zauner (formerly of the emo outfit Little Big League) shares, “‘Orlando in Love’ is made up of a hodgepodge of odd references. The title comes from an epic poem by Matteo Maria Boiardo called Orlando Innamorato, which ends abruptly at 68.5 cantos because Italy was invaded by French troops, and that’s as far as he got before he had to flee. I fell in love with the title and envisioned a sort of whimsical, foolish male protagonist who lives by the sea in a Winnebago RV and is seduced by a siren. After writing it, it felt like the perfect thesis statement for an album that is largely about people, often men, who find themselves seduced by temptation and are duly punished for it.”
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She continues, “Somewhere along the way, I came across Eduard von Grützner’s painting ‘The Connoisseur,’ and I started to picture Orlando as a daydreaming friar who can’t help but tipple of the Abbey’s brews. He dreams of his siren and despite the dream’s foreboding imagery, decides he must run and find her. The siren is played by my dear friend Jungle, whom I spent most of my time within Korea this year. The friars are played by Missy Dabice from Mannequin Pussy, making her return to the Jbrekkie Cinecanon and Molly Germer. We filmed half of the video in Korea with Peter Ash Lee, who shot the cover of Jubilee, and half of it at my alma mater, Bryn Mawr College, with my longtime collaborator and DP, Adam Kolodny.”
The group will be hitting the road this spring, including back-to-back weekend performances at Coachella in April and dates across the U.S., London, and Paris, to name a few. You can purchase tickets here and check out their full touring schedule below.
Tour Dates:
- April 12—Indio, CA @ Coachella Music and Arts Festival
- April 19—Indio, CA @ Coachella Music and Arts Festival
- April 23—Austin, TX @ Moody Theater (ACL Live) *
- April 24—Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
- April 26—Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle *
- April 27—Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore *
- April 28—Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium *
- May 3—Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *
- May 5—Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall *
- May 7—Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
- May 9—Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount *
- May 16—Philadelphia, PA @ The Met *
- Jun 24—Oslo @ Rockefeller
- Jun 25—Stockholm @ Filadelfia
- Jun 26—Copenhagen @ VEGA
- Jun 29—Manchester @ Academy 1
- Jun 30—Glasgow @ Barrowland
- July 3—London @ O2 Academy Brixton
- July 4-6—Ewijk @ Down The Rabbit Hole 2025
- July 8—Paris @ Le Trianon
- July 10-12—Bilbao, ES @ Bilbao BBK Live
- Aug. 20—San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre *
- Aug. 28—San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic *
- Aug. 30—Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater *
- Sept. 1—Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum Theater *
- Sept. 9—Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory *
