![]() ![]() I thought for a while that maybe there was a level of craftsmanship that I wanted to explore with the Raconteurs. What are some of the lessons you’ve learned this decade? You can get away with a lot of interesting stuff in hip-hop and he’s really good at it. And I’m envious of that because he can stretch into metaphors that I would love to do. He can get away with a lot more than I can. He has a lot more room to work than I do. His ideas about metaphor are really reflective about what struggle is. I think that what he’s saying in his lyrics is honest. When you say you’re working on the same world or the same level as Jay-Z, what does that mean exactly? The Black Album is one of the best albums of the decade. I love hip-hop if it’s done with a sense of the blues, even if the person who is creating it isn’t thinking that at all. We got along like gangbusters with the Strokes, though.ĭo you like Jay-Z? People may think you don’t like hip-hop. But for some reason, we did shows with the Strokes, and in a lot of ways we had absolutely nothing in common with them. Like for example, when all the garage rock bands blew up at the beginning of the decade, the Hives and the Strokes… we visually had a lot in common with the Hives and the same sort of sense of humor, I thought. And I don’t know what that is, it’s just a feeling. I feel like I’m a lot more to do with Jay-Z than I do with the Black Keys. Do you feel like you have peers out there now that aren’t necessarily doing the same kind of music, but work on the same level? There was a time this past decade when the idea of “”garage rock”” included bands that sounded nothing like the White Stripes. Jack White Joins the ‘SNL’ Five-Timers Club With Electrifying Performances ![]() It just shows you that you really never know. I was playing it for Meg and he was walking by and I said, “Swank, check this riff out.” And he said, “It’s OK.” The even funnier thing about that song is that the labels in America and in the U.K., neither of them wanted to put that out as the first single. ![]() There’s an employee here at Third Man named Ben Swank, and he was with us on tour in Australia when I wrote that song at soundcheck. Some of the grunge bands used to say it was punk-rock guilt.ĭo you remember anything about writing the riff to “Seven Nation Army?” I can’t win either way.” So I finally released myself from any of that… I don’t know how to word it exactly. I always considered it and thought about it and at times felt guilty about it, but it wasn’t until maybe about Get Behind Me Satan when I finally said, “I can’t stand even thinking about anyone else’s reaction to how this goes down. I never stopped thinking what I wanted to do for their sake. Was there kind of a breakthrough moment when you said, “I’m completely not going to worry about the scene I came from”? It was about those ideas but it ended up having a whole new meaning before the year was out. And it takes a lot of time for people to really realize how much truth there is in that. ![]() There’s a photograph of Meg and I and people attacking us but then they turn out to have cameras… the idea of the name of the album was White Blood Cells with an “S” instead of a “C.” I was trying to make the point to myself that there’s an idea about authenticity and pureness in art that everyone has a different take on. People were starting to become disinterested in us in that underground garage-rock cool world. That was enough to compel me to keep going and going and going, but I had no illusions at all about the mainstream ever thinking it was interesting.īy the time you wrote “Little Room” the next year, it felt like there were some clues that you were starting to think the room might get bigger? Jack White: the many guises of rock’s multitasker.Īt the beginning of this decade, you had just released the second White Stripes album - what were your goals and expectations for yourself as an artist at that point?Ī hundred years had passed since people could sort of determine the beginning of the blues, and there was an illusion in my head that a new blues was emerging in the scene that we were from - that bands like the White Stripes and the Soledad Brothers and people like that that were bringing a new take on the blues. Here’s more of our conversation with Jack White. The Rolling Stone editors picked eight stars - from Bruce and Beyoncé to Radiohead and U2 - who not only made the best music but also led the way as Artists of the Decade in our decade-end issue. ![]()
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