Japanese Breakfast play their song "Be Sweet" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, California on November 7, 2021. Be Sweet was co-written with Jack Tatum of Wild Nothing and appeared on Japanese Breakfast'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).

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Be Sweet lyrics:

Tell the men I'm coming
Tell them count the days
I can feel the night passing by like a mistake waiting for me
Caught up in my feelings
Overthink the truth
Fantasize you've left me behind and I'm turned back running for you

Make it up to me, you know it's better
Make it up to me, you know it's better
Be sweet to me, baby
I wanna believe in you, I wanna believe
Be sweet to me, baby
I wanna believe in you, I wanna believe in something

So come and get your woman
Pacify her rage
Take the time to undo your lies, make it up once more with feeling
Recognize your mistakes and I'll let you back in
Realize not too late, love you always

Make it up to me, you know it's better
Make it up to me, you know it's better

Be sweet to me, baby
I wanna believe in you, I wanna believe
Be sweet to me, baby
I wanna believe in you, I wanna believe in something
Be sweet to me, baby
I wanna believe in you, I wanna believe
Be sweet to me, baby
I wanna believe in you, I wanna believe in something

Written by Michelle Chongmi Zauner / John Alexander Tatum

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Jubilee live tour dates:

Sept. 9-10 - Boston, MA @ Royale
Sept. 11 - Asbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony Summer Stage
Sept. 12 - Harrisburg, PA @ Midtown Arts Center
Sept. 14 - Columbus, OH @ The Athenaeum Theatre
Sept. 15-16 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Sept. 17 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
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

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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.