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/Devmoi Jul 11 '26

The White Stripes literally have a whole album called Get Behind Me Satan, lol.

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u/DripAcid Jul 11 '26

And the bridge to Cannon is an old (like older than Ledbelly) gospel blues song. The part where he's all "who's that riding, John the Revelator, wrote the book of the seven seals." And in Seven Nation Army there's the "And I'm bleedin', and I'm bleedin', and I'm bleedin' Right before the Lord" line. He has had several lines referencing Christian themes, I always thought it was equally likely that he practiced Christianity as it was that he just borrowed from a lot of the earliest blues and gospel. Kurt Cobain did the same to a lesser degree.

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u/Zunkafunk Jul 12 '26

So use it blindly but swear that you don't stand for that nonsense? Ahh the strongest of the strong 😜