Jack White Sets the Record Straight on His Opinion of Taylor Swift: ‘I Didn’t Say I Think Taylor Swift’s Music Is Boring’

Despite what headlines you might have read, Jack White does not in fact think Taylor Swift ‘s music is boring. On Monday (March 9), White shared a lengthy text post to his Instagram , with the White Stripes co-founder explaining that he’s putting the post up for just a day and then taking it down. (In fact, it’s already been deleted just a few hours later.) In the post, White got straight into business.

“I didn’t say I think Taylor Swift’s music is ‘boring,'” White says. “Or whatever click bait the net is trying to scrape together.” The post was a direct response to backlash from a Sunday interview with The Guardian . When asked if any of his songs were entirely autobiographical, White said that they are not. “Now it’s become very popular in the Taylor Swift way of pop singers writing about all of their publicly aired break-ups.” He then says that he doesn’t find this style of songwriting “interesting at all.” In response to the flak, the “Seven Nation Army” singer cleared the air in his since-deleted...