Jack White Clarifies His Comments About Taylor Swift’s Songwriting

Jack White is speaking out after his recent comments about Taylor Swift’s lyrics and songwriting sparked online backlash. Social media users interpreted his words as a dig against the pop star, but White clarified that he was only describing his own songwriting preferences and never criticizing Swift’s work.

In an interview with The Guardian on March 8, White was asked about his songs and whether or not they are autobiographical in nature.

The previous White Stripes member said in response that he doesn’t like doing that an excessive amount of, adding, “Now it’s grow to be highly regarded within the Taylor Swift way of pop singers writing about all of their publicly aired break-ups, which I do not find interesting in any respect.”

He went on to elucidate that he finds writing about himself “boring” and doesn’t wish to relive a “painful” moment in his life each time he hears a song tied to a selected moment in his life.

“I’m not going to place this essential, painful thing that I went through on the market for some idiot on the web to stomp throughout,” he added.

The backlash against White was almost immediate. Swifties defended their idol, and others disagreed with the musician’s opinion.

“Aren’t half the songs on the early White Stripes albums about his break-up with Meg?” one wrote, referring to Meg White, his former bandmate and ex-wife. The couple divorced in 2000, even before the White Stripes gained major recognition.

“Based on his profession trajectory, most individuals don’t find his songwriting interesting in any respect,” one added.

One other user wrote, “Everyone does this. The one difference about Swift is that everybody cares more about who’s behind the song cause she’s big. But every love and breakup song is about someone. Everyone writes about what they’ve undergone!”

White took to social media to reply to the response to his comments about Swift’s songwriting. In a post that has since been deleted, per NME, the singer said that he’s only going to go away the post up for a day before he puts the difficulty to rest.

White said he didn’t say Swift’s music was boring. He was only discussing how he preferred to jot down music.

“What I used to be attempting to sayi n an interview I did about poetry and lyric writing, was that I do not find it interesting in any respect for ME to jot down about MYSELF in my very own lyric writing and poetry because I feel that it could possibly be repetitive for ME to all the time write about and it could possibly be uninteresting for individuals who take heed to my music to delve into…”

He acknowledged that Swift and others have achieved “tremendous success” writing in their very own styles, and he doesn’t have anything against that. Moreover, he believes songwriters should use the method that works best for them.

Along with addressing the backlash, White also criticized publications, journalists, and editors for producing clickbait content. That, he explains, is the rationale why he’s less taken with doing interviews.

“Within the age of this massive demand for clickbait and content, any scrape of anything interesting or off the beaten path that might be became drama is swamped over and spit out as bait,” he wrote.

In response to White, artists are forced to present “protected” answers in order to not have their words twisted and became online fodder.

White said he was a bit apprehensive about putting the gathering on the market, as he said he could seem pretentious. Nonetheless, he said it might be “an honor” for him to have anyone read something that he has written.