mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band". The statement denied any Creative Differences or health issues, but instead cited "a myriad of reasons.
In a statement released on the band's website in February 2011, it was announced that the band had disbanded after 14 years of existence. Jack publicly hinted on several occasions about the duo recording new music or planning an official reunion, but this ultimately would not come to pass. The duo went on hiatus in late 2007, releasing a concert film titled Under Great White Northern Lights in the meantime that documented a summer 2007 tour they embarked on in support of Icky Thump. The duo's music featured a mix of Garage Rock and Blues influences, and Jack and Meg themselves were also noted for their distinctive fashion and design aesthetic, revolving around a simple red-white-black color scheme as well as recurring use of the number 3. The height of their popularity would likely be in 2007-08, around the release of the single "Icky Thump" (their only US Top 40 hit, something they achieved without bothering with pop radio airplay), though the 2003 release of the single "Seven Nation Army" (which reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart without crossing over) was a previous peak. The duo first rose to prominence with their third and fourth albums, White Blood Cells and Elephant, which propelled them to the forefront of the garage rock revival movement in the early 2000s. Jack was the lead singer and played guitar, piano, and bass while Meg covered drums and percussion while also occasionally contributing vocals. The video later builds up with an elephant and marching skeletons (refrencing the name of the album), and later with the speed and intensity the triangles move towards the viewer.The White Stripes were an Alternative Rock duo consisting of Jack and Meg White, who initially formed in Oak Park, Michigan (one of Detroit's smaller northern suburbs) in 1997. The whole video is filmed only in black, white and red colours, with triangles in between Jack and Meg play the song. The video gives you an impression that the whole video is filmed as a continuous shot through a kaleidoscopic tunnel. The music video was directed by Alex and Martin, a music directing duo whom also worked with U2. The song was recorded, mixed and mastered at Toe Rag Studios in London without the help of computers, which is traditional for White, because he claims that technology destroys his creative and working process. Jack also stated that he wanted to write this song without having a chorus but only a bridge, solo and verses.
White later decided to make the riff into a bass line, using an effect pedal that sets all the notes to be played one octave lower than a guitar (the same as a bass guitar), with his semi acoustic Kay Hollowbody guitar from the 1950's. On a related note, Jack actually ended up doing a James Bond theme song with Alicia Keys in 2008 for the film Quantum of Solace with the song ✺nother Way to Die«. Later he decided that this offer just isn't going to happen so he decided to use the riff in the upcoming album that he was recording with Meg White. The riff that White came up with, was at first reserved in case he gets an offer to do a James Bond theme song. It's about me, Meg and the people we're dating." Writing/Recording Process White stated: "He feels so bad he has to leave town, but you get so lonely you come back.
It tells a storyline of a protagonist that comes into his town where all of his aquaintances are talking behind his back and gossiping about him. The lyrics in the song itself talk about how the duo deals with increasing popularity and the negative things that come with being in popular rock band. The song's title came from Jack White's childhood, when he though that the Salvation Army (Protestant Christian movement and an international charitable organization) he visited was actually called Seven Nation Army. Later it also won the Grammy Award for the Best Rock Song. The song got the number one spot on the Modern Rock Tracks list for three consecutive weeks and was the third best selling rock song of the decade. The song was the lead single from the iconic fourth album Elephant, which was released in 2003.
Seven Nation Army is a song by the American blues-rock duo The White Stripes.
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