Jack White Responds to Backlash for His Comments About Taylor Swift
Jack White is reacting to backlash.
The 50-year-old The White Stripes musician is speaking out amid anger for his comments about the 36-year-old “Karma” singer-songwriter in an interview with The Guardian.
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During the conversation, he was asked if his songs are entirely autobiographical.
“Not too much. Now it’s become very popular in the Taylor Swift way of pop singers writing about all of their publicly aired break-ups, which I don’t find interesting at all. I think it’s a little bit boring for me to write about myself. Even if I’ve had a really interesting day, I feel like I’ve already lived that, I don’t need to go through it every time I sing this song,” he said.
In a since-deleted statement, Jack spoke out about his words.
“Putting this up for a day and then taking down to just put this to bed. I didn’t say that I think Taylor Swift’s music was ‘boring’ or whatever click bait the net is trying to scrape together. What I was trying to say in an interview I did about poetry and lyric writing, was that I don’t find it interesting at all for ME to write about MYSELF in my own lyric writing and poetry because I think that it could be repetitive for ME to always write about and It could be uninteresting for people who listen to my music to delve into, and that imaginary characters are more attractive to me as a writer,” he clarified, per Rolling Stone.
He also shouted out the “tremendous success” of Taylor and other stars who do so, adding “because I say I have a way of doing things doesn’t mean that I think that EVERYONE should do it the same way. They should do what works for them, And they do, and it is obviously appealing to many people, and I’m glad to hear that.”
He added that he’s been “made less and less interested in doing interviews” amid the “age of this massive demand for click bait and content” and that any “scrape of anything interesting” can be used as drama and “spit out as bait.”
Jack said he did “not want to answer questions with any sort of romance or passion or reflection as I’m too busy having to worry about accidentally triggering nonsense like this from so called ‘journalists’ and ‘editors.’”
This has always been a problem as it encourages artists to give ‘safe’ answers to any question and stifles artistic vision and imagination and pushes all of us to not share anything interesting, which was one of the points I made about keeping private things private in that same interview. But yeah, content,” he concluded.
Selena Gomez also just revealed the handmade gift Taylor Swift gave her.