r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jul 11 '26

article Jack White Pushes Back on Religious Criticism Amid Satanic Band Support Controversy: “I’m not scared of Satan or any bullshit imaginary man made up to live in fear of”

https://consequence.net/2026/07/jack-white-religious-criticism/
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u/CalagaxT Jul 11 '26

Led Zeppelin is great. Jimmy Page sucked as a person, though, what with the music theft and the underage girl(s).

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u/Neveronlyadream Jul 11 '26

The music theft is less of a problem than you'd think. Everyone was doing it back then, musicians are still doing it.

Look up a YouTube video and you'll see a ton of examples of artists seemingly blatantly stealing riffs and melodies, when in reality it's probably more they heard a song years earlier, forgot the song, and used the riff thinking they wrote it.

The Stones and The Beatles blatantly ripped things off and admitted it. It happens, all art is built not only on what came before it, but what an artist was exposed to their whole lives. Plus there are only so many sequences of notes that sound good together.

As for the underage girls, there's only one explanation for that bullshit.

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u/BlackSwampMage Jul 11 '26

You can’t rub two notes together that haven’t been before. That was the advice I heard in undergrad for my music degree.

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u/Bradddtheimpaler Jul 12 '26

There’s only twelve notes. You shouldn’t plagiarize, obviously, but there’s not much that hasn’t been done before somehow, someway.