{"id":335540,"date":"2026-03-08T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335540\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:27:07","slug":"jack-white-says-taylor-swift-way-of-writing-about-all-of-their-publicly-aired-break-ups-is-something-he-doesnt-find-interesting-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335540\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack White says “Taylor Swift way” of “writing about all of their publicly aired break-ups” is something he “doesn’t find interesting at all”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack White<\/a> isn\u2019t planning on writing lyrics about his own life experiences, the musician has confirmed in a new interview.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to The Guardian<\/a> about his new book, Jack White: Collected Lyrics & Selected Writing Volume 1, he discussed artists like Taylor Swift, who he said often write about their high-profile break-ups, but explained that it wasn\u2019t for him.<\/p>\n

When asked if any of his songs are entirely autobiographical, he replied, \u201cNot too much\u201d. He went on: \u201cNow it\u2019s become very popular in the Taylor Swift<\/a> way of pop singers writing about all of their publicly aired break-ups, which I don\u2019t find interesting at all. I think it\u2019s a little bit boring for me to write about myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer explained that he doesn\u2019t want to write songs about his own experiences and relive them whenever he sings them. \u201cIf it\u2019s something really painful, I\u2019m not going to put this important, painful thing that I went through out there for some idiot on the internet to stomp all over.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I put a percentage of that into what I do and then morph it into somebody else\u2019s character. I can\u2019t really learn about myself until I put it into somebody else\u2019s shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the interview touched on US President Donald Trump<\/a> \u2013\u00a0someone White has been a fervent critic of. When asked why he\u2019ll make anti-Trump statements on social media but doesn\u2019t tend to write \u201cexplicitly political\u201d songs, he explained: \u201cWell, when [Bob] Dylan<\/a> said the answer was blowing in the wind he didn\u2019t tell you what the answer was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people in the protest days were torn: you want to make a statement but the speaker can be chewed up and spat out,\u201d he added. \u201cThe search for hypocrisy becomes intense once somebody takes the podium and condemns somebody else. When it comes to the president, I know a lot about it so I feel comfortable saying it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if I were to put it in artistic form, I don\u2019t think I would say those things directly. I wouldn\u2019t say the names. I would make up a character.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, White criticised Trump for his military campaign in Iran<\/a> and mocked him for being the leader of the Board of Peace. A couple of weeks before, he called on Trump to be removed from office<\/a> after a racist meme was shared on his Truth Social account, depicting former President Barack Obama<\/a> and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.<\/p>\n

In January, he mocked Trump\u2019s rambling anniversary press conference<\/a>, and in December, he was one of many celebrities to criticise the president for his comments regarding the death of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His book, meanwhile, is out now. Edited by official archivist Ben Blackwell, it follows 2023\u2019s<\/a> The White Stripes Complete Lyrics 1997-2007<\/a> and covers every song White has written outside the band, as well as a collection of poems, notebook scans, and notes from Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to test the waters about doing a full book of my poetry and writings,\u201d he said about sharing the book. \u201cI was a little bit worried about that being taken the wrong way. It\u2019s tough when you say the word poetry out loud. People can immediately think there\u2019s a pretension to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the musician\u2019s first visual art show is set to open in London this spring<\/a>. \u2018These Thoughts May Disappear\u2019 will open at Damien Hirst\u2019s Newport Street Gallery on May 29 and run until September 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack White isn\u2019t planning on writing lyrics about his own life experiences, the musician has confirmed in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[969,93,61,60,278,640],"class_list":["post-335540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}