![]() There was a lesson for White in all of this. It becomes something that, the more people don’t know where it came from, the happier I am.” ![]() It becomes folk music when things like that happen. “Nothing is more beautiful in music than when people embrace a melody and allow it to enter the pantheon of folk music,” White told O'Brien. Meanwhile, the accompanying music video, with its hypnotizing kaleidoscopic visuals, was put into heavy rotation on MTV. The cultural impact struck even deeper: The riff of “Seven Nation Army” has become a rallying cry at sporting events across the globe and remains ubiquitous decades later. ![]() 1 on Billboard’s Alternative chart and later earned a Grammy for Best Rock Song. 17, 2003, “Seven Nation Army” received widespread acclaim. Still, White championed the song, and it was ultimately issued as the first single from Elephant. “The labels didn’t want to release it as a single when we were coming out with the album,” White later said in an interview with Conan O'Brien. Watch Jack White Perform 'Seven Nation Army' at Glastonbury “Seven Nation Army” doesn’t contain a chorus, instead relying on a key-changed version of its riff for the refrain. Part of the reason could have been the song’s structure, which isn't built with a traditional verse-chorus-verse framework. “Seven Nation Army” was “not considered anything interesting” by those in the White Stripes camp during sessions for 2003’s Elephant. The results didn't garner much little attention at first. The third verse could be something from a hundred years ago.” To me, the song was a blues at the beginning of the twenty-first century. But I never set out to write an expose on myself. In the end,” White added, “it started to become a metaphor for things I was going through. It came from the frustration of watching my friends do this to each other. It was about gossip, the spreading of lies and the other person’s reaction to it. Jack White told Rolling Stone that “Seven Nation Army” was initially “about two specific people I knew in Detroit. “It’s about me, Meg and the people we’re dating.” “The song’s about gossip,” Jack later told The Independent. Eventually, the song developed an identity, built around themes of betrayal, celebrity and resentment – all things the White Stripes were experiencing during their rise in fame. The title was not supposed to stick but was simply intended as a placeholder until he crafted some lyrics. Jack White himself came to his ex-wife’s defense, posting an original poem in which he imagined a world “without demons, cowards and vampires out for blood, one with the positive inspiration to foster what is good.White called the tune “Seven Nation Army,” after his mispronunciation of the Salvation Army as a kid. Naturally, a slew of musicians pointed out both the misogyny in the long-running, misplaced ire for White, and the fact that her streamlined style of percussion was essential to The White Stripes’ garage rock revivalism, helped drive Jack White’s riffs, and simply sounded badass. I’m sorry Meg White was terrible and no band is better for having shitty percussion.” Yeah yeah I’ve heard all the ‘but it’s a carefully crafted sound mannnn!’ takes. Last week, in a since deleted Tweet, Markay wrote, “The tragedy of the White Stripes is how great they would’ve been with a half decent drummer. “They moved me at 5 years old to want to play the drums and still move me today! My screams are for you Meg! You are and always will be my role model and hero!” Check out her full post below. “Meg and Jack wrote some of the best songs in rock history,” the young drummer concluded.
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