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Jack White writes poem to defend Meg White from Twitter criticism

Jack White writes poem to defend Meg White from Twitter criticism
Music fans, including her former bandmate, have spent the week defending the drummer online.

By David Renshaw

March 16, 2023

Patrick Pantano

Elon Musk’s best efforts to crater Twitter hasn’t quite happened just yet and, as such, there are still countless people logging on every day to fire off their takes and start a new cycle of discourse about just how wrong they are. This week a big subject between music fans on Twitter has been the relative merits of The White Stripes drummer Meg White. This was started Lachlan Markay, a politics reporter at Axios, tweeted that the band would have been much better without having such a “terrible” drummer. He was met with a strong backlash, including a tweet from Questlove, and subsequently deleted the tweet before issuing an apology.

Jack White, Meg’s one time partner in music, has now joined in the conversation. On Wednesday night he posted a picture of the drummer alongside the following poem:

To be born in another time,

any era but our own would’ve been fine.

100 years from now,

1000 years from now,

some other distant, different, time.

one without demons, cowards and vampires out for blood,

one with the positive inspiration to foster what is good.

an empty field where no tall red poppies are cut down,

where we could lay all day, every day, on the warm and subtle ground,

and know just what to say and what to play to conjure our own sounds.

and be one with the others all around us,

and even still the ones who came before,

and help ourselves to all their love,

and pass it on again once more.

to have bliss upon bliss upon bliss,

to be without fear, negativity or pain,

and to get up every morning, and be happy to do it all again.

III

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Also joining the ranks of Meg White defenders was Karen Elson, to whom Jack White was married from 2005-2013. She wrote that she was a “fantastic drummer.” Adding: “Jack also said the White Stripes would be nothing without her.”

Meg White, meanwhile, has kept her trademark silence on the whole subject. Perhaps a lesson to all involved.

By now you’ve probably seen an ill-advised (and since-deleted) tweet I sent out yesterday about the White Stripes and Meg White. It was an over-the-top take on TWS and White as a drummer, and was, let's face it, just truly awful in every way. Petty, obnoxious, just plain wrong.

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 14, 2023

Listen to Jack White’s “Love Is Selfish”

Listen to Jack White’s “Love Is Selfish”
White will release two albums in 2022. Listen to the first track from the second album now.

By David Renshaw

January 14, 2022

Jack White is getting ready for a busy 2022 with two new records in the pipeline. The first, Fear of the Dawn will arrive in April with the second, Entering Heaven Alive, due on July 22. Today White has shared the mellow and charming “Love Is Selfish” from Entering Heaven Alive. Check out a video, in which a blue-haired White performs the song in an intimate setting, above.

Fear of the Dawn will be White’s first solo album since 2018’s Boarding House Reach and features the lead single “Taking Me Back.” It features Q-Tip on a track titled “Hi-De Ho” as well as two songs titled “Eosophbia” (that’s the technical term for a fear of dawn).

The album will be available on standard black vinyl as well as five limited edition vinyl variants: a midnight blue vinyl version with a screen printed jacket available to Third Man Records Vault Members, astronomical blue vinyl at select independent record stores, moon glow white vinyl at Target, and a split moon glow white & astronomical blue LP with an 11”x11” screen printed poster and Third Man Records compilation CD at Rough Trade Records.

Jack White confirms details of two new albums for 2022

Jack White confirms details of two new albums for 2022
Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive are out in April and July respectively.

By David Renshaw

November 11, 2021

David James Swanson

Jack White has confirmed details of two new albums, both due in 2022. White will release Fear of the Dawn on April 8 with second album Entering Heaven Alive following on July 22. Both albums will be available via White’s own Third Man Records. “Taking Me Back,” which features on Fear of the Dawn, is available to listen to below.

Fear of the Dawn will be White’s first solo album since 2018’s Boarding House Reach. It features Q-Tip on a track titled “Hi-De Ho” as well as two songs titled “Eosophbia” (that’s the technical term for a fear of dawn).

Fear of the Dawn tracklist:

“Taking Me Back”
“Fear of the Dawn”
“The White Raven”
“Hi-De Ho” Feat. Q-Tip
“Eosophobia”
“Into The Twilight”
“Dusk”
“What’s The Trick?”
“That Was Then (This Is Now)”
“Eosophobia (Reprise)”
“Morning, Noon, and Night”
“Shedding My Velvet”

Entering Heaven Alive tracklist:

“A Tip From You To Me”
“All Along The Way”
“Help Me Along”
“Love Is Selfish”
“I’ve Got You Surrounded (With My Love)”
“Queen of the Bees”
“A Tree On Fire from Within”
“If I Die Tomorrow”
“Please God, Don’t Tell Anyone”
“A Madman From Manhattan”
“Taking Me Back (Gently)”

Jack White to replace Morgan Wallen as SNL musical guest

Jack White to replace Morgan Wallen as SNL musical guest
Wallen was uninvited from performing after breaking COVID-19 protocols.

By Sajae Elder

October 09, 2020

Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images.

Jack White will appear as this week’s musical guest on Saturday Night Live, replacing country star Morgan Wallen who was uninvited from the show after a video surfaced of him partying without a mask.

In an Instagram post shared on Thursday, Wallen apologized to the show, his fans, and his team for his “short-sighted” decision. “I respect the show’s decision because I know I put them in jeopardy, and I take ownership of this,” he said in the clip.

In a recent promo clip for the upcoming episode, this week’s host Bill Burr made a joke alluding to the switch. “Hey Kenan, maybe they’ll let me do my music too,” he said jokingly.

News of White’s SNL appearance comes just a few days after the White Stripes’ official greatest hits collection was announced and is slated for release on December 4.

A Tribe Called Quest – Ego (We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service Album)

[Chorus: Q-Tip]
Ego, ego skippin’, trippin’ in my mind
Ego, ego skippin’, trippin’ in my mind
Ego, ego trippin’, trippin’, trippin’, trippin’, trippin’
Ego, ego
I got one, you got one, and now we equal
Sometimes it makes you trip out on your people
Sometimes it has connotations of evil
Sometimes niggas call on it when they need to
It’s called the ego

[Verse 1: Q-Tip]
Ay, it’s hard to really make the subject positively stated
Some may hate it and some may overrate it
It’s a top story and you rarely see a trend
So all you psychoanalysts, pull out your pad and pen
It’s called the ego
Come up with an idea, and no one seems to get it
Then every time you mention it
They stare like you’re two-headed
But one day, in your cubicle, your idea really comes to view
Your boss is walking by, he sees it too and he takes it from you
She put you on the aces of all the stripper places
And has the kinda clientele where niggas trick off very well
You beg her and you plead her and you tuck away your ego
She knows you need the chicken
And you know that she’s your people
They call you fat and lazy, your commentary crazy
They photoshop your face on a box of McCormick gravy
And now that inner voice, that ego, making you get wavy
Change your diet, hit the gym
And say, "What were you saying to me?"
The ego makes you do it, it makes you face the music
Or run away from life so fast that you’ll outsprint Carl Lewis
It has you think your deceptive ways of being are the truest
Had the prettiest brown eyes but you change them shits to the bluest
It’s the ego

[Bridge: Q-Tip]
Ooo, Jack White
Ooo, Jack White

[Verse 2: Q-Tip]
A celebrated genius, my dick game is the meanest
I’ll take the girl that’s augmented, new me is invented
I’ll take the biggest house in Calabassas
Anyone for Michael Phelps swimming classes?
You need it when you’re balling, equally when you’re falling
Or when those kids in school on your locker
They get to scrawling
Epithets that’s racist is stupid and mean in nature
Something that can make you feel stronger when people hate ya
Ego make you violent or govern like a tyrant
Or switch a dictionary’s word from vibrant to vivrant
Fool the thirsty people, selling tap water in bottles
Fooled a girl with NYU scholarship and now she models
Ego has no ending, has people pretending
Religious zealots get jealous ’cause guys want their defending
This is the last Tribe and our ego hopes that you felt us
And closing for our ego, we know only God can help us

[Outro]
Ego, ego skippin’, trippin’ in my mind
Ego, ego skippin’, trippin’ in my mind
Ego, ego trippin’, trippin’, trippin’, trippin’, trippin’
Ego, ego skippin’, trippin’ in my mind
Ego, ego skippin’, trippin’ in my mind
Ego, ego trippin’, trippin’, trippin’, trippin’, trippin’
Ego, ego skippin’, trippin’ in my mind
Ego, ego skippin’, trippin’ in my mind

A Tribe Called Quest – Ego

[Chorus: Q-Tip]
Ego, ego
Skip it, trippin in my mind
Ego, ego
Skip it, trippin in my mind
Ego, ego
Trippy, trippy, trippy, trippy, trippy
Ego
Ego

[Intro: Q-Tip]
I got one, you got one, and now we equal
Sometimes it makes you trip out on your people
Sometimes it has connotations of evil
Sometimes niggas call on it when they need to
It’s called the ego

[Verse 1: Q-Tip]
Ay, it’s hard to really make the subject positively stated
Some may hate it and some might overrate it
It’s a top story and you rarely see a trend
So all you psychoanalysts, pull out your pad and pen, it’s called the ego
Come up with an idea, and no one seems to get it
Then every time you mention it, they stare like you’re two-headed
But one day in your cubicle your idea really comes to view
Your boss is walking by, he sees it too and he takes it from you
She put you on the aces of all the stripper places
That has the kinda clientele where niggas trickle very well
You beg her and you plead her and you tuck away your ego
She knows you need the dicking and she knows you need the people
They call you fat and lazy, your commentary crazy
They photoshop your face on a box of McCormick gravy
And now that inner voice, the ego, making you get wavy
Change your diet, hit the gym and say “What were you saying to me?”
The ego makes you do it, it makes you face the music
Or run away from life so fast that you’ll outsprint Carl Lewis
That has you think your deceptive ways of being untruest
Had the prettiest brown eyes but you change them shits to bluest
It’s the ego

[Bridge: Q-Tip]
Ooo, Jack White
Ooo, Jack White

[Verse 2: Q-Tip]
A celebrated genius, my dick game’s the meanest
I’ll take the girl that’s augmented, new me is invented
I’ll take the biggest house in Calabassas
Anyone for Michael Phelps swimming classes?
You need it when you’re balling, equally when you’re falling
Or when those kids in school on your locker they get to scrawling
Epithets is racist are stupid and mean in nature
Something that can make you feel stronger when people hate ya
Ego make you violent, or govern like a tyrant
Or switch ya dictionary’s word from vibrant to vivrant
Fool the thirsty people, selling tap water in bottles
Fooled a girl with NYU scholarship, now she models
Ego has no ending, has people pretending
Religious zealots get jealous ’cause guys want their defending
This is the last Tribe and our ego hopes that you felt us
And closing for our ego, we know only God can help us

[Outro]
Ego, ego
Spit the truth right in my mind
Ego, ego
Spit the truth right in my mind
Ego, ego
[?]
Ego, ego
Spit the truth right in my mind
Ego, ego
Spit the truth right in my mind
Ego, ego
Spit the truth right in my mind
Ego, ego
Spit the truth right in my mind
Ego, ego
Spit the truth right in my mind