He may have started out as an altar boy, but he has become one of the most revered musicians of our generation. This is Jack White. More »
This week, The New Republic somehow sold enough ad space to let a bit of wankery about the Led Zeppelin reunion by music writer David Browne into its pages. You can probably guess what the piece’s “angle” is from its subhead–“Explaining Led Zeppelin’s enduring hold on our collective conscious”–but here’s a rundown: OMG LED ZEP REUNION, by the way the White Stripes canceled their tour, Led Zep is “ageless” and so is Nick Drake, “‘The Crunge’ could almost be a rap boast,” and hey, those kids today really do seem to like the Arcade Fire. (Also: Radiohead!) And then there’s the closing graf, which tries to tie together the legends of Led Zeppelin and the White Stripes in a horrifically clumsy way:
When I first mentioned the sudden popularity of the search term “meg white sex tape” to a friend of mine Sunday night, we had the following exchange:
maura@idolator: so do you think the meg white sex tape is legit
unidentified_lurker: oh my god where did you see that?
unidentified_lurker: i mean i’ve seen it
maura@idolator: it was on google trends
unidentified_lurker: i’m saying who is purporting it’s legit
unidentified_lurker: it’s a message board joke
unidentified_lurker: i was thinking about forwarding it to you
unidentified_lurker: as a funny joke
unidentified_lurker: it’s great to have a video on the internet for indie rock people to jerk off and pretend it’s meg white tho
And we all know how that turned out. Anyway, The Daily Swarm plumbed the archives of the message board Hipinion and found where the clip was born–the mind of a poster named Itsmecraig:
Since today seems to be a slow enough news day that people will believe almost anything, let’s turn to the case of the alleged “Meg White sex tape,” which has been burning up Google since news of it first surfaced over the weekend. I watched it and am pretty unconvinced of its veracity–the necklace she’s wearing is of the letter “D,” the images are worse-than-webcam blurry, the whole thing seems to be set in a dorm room–but then again, my vision kind of sucks. (UPDATE: Meg’s publicist is saying that it definitely isn’t her in the tape.) So I turned to an ad hoc panel of semi-experts–a.k.a. “writers who are on IM right now”–and got their take (anyone who used the old “well that girl had rhythm so it had to be fake” chestnut was summarily deleted from my buddy list):
Meg White’s publicist issues a statement on this morning’s hottest viral video: “Some people have a very twisted sense of humor and this prank is in particularly bad taste. The tape circulating on the internet as featuring Meg White is fake. It’s definitely not Meg.” More »
Meg White’s publicist issues a statement on this morning’s hottest viral video: “Some people have a very twisted sense of humor and this prank is in particularly bad taste. The tape circulating on the internet as featuring Meg White is fake. It’s definitely not Meg.” More »
NME to not-really-Meg White-tape-crazed bloggers: “Tut tut, you people are so gullible. And now, it’s time for another item on the Razorlight frontman’s horrible body odor!” More »
NME to not-really-Meg White-tape-crazed bloggers: “Tut tut, you people are so gullible. And now, it’s time for another item on the Razorlight frontman’s horrible body odor!” More »
After cancelling their performance at the Austin City Limits Festival this weekend, the White Stripes have canceled their entire fall tour because Meg White is suffering from “acute anxiety.” [AP via Yahoo!] More »
