Was The White Stripes’ breakout success a product of Jack White’s genius for the zeitgeist? Not to hear him tell it. (Not anymore, anyway.) At a KROQ interview, Jack attributed the band’s success to Meg White, the less heralded but equally important member of White Stripes. “I think it was really Meg,” Jack says — with what some may call false modesty – when asked about the band’s rise. “Her appeal and what she brought to the band was this amazing minimalism that broke things down, much like many of the artists in the cubist movement or things like that, the De Stjil movement in the ’20s.” (Note: De Stjil translates simply as “the style.” Which obviously Meg has in spades.)
The most famous of the Cubists is, of course, Pablo Picasso, who with Georges Bracque is widely considered to have invented the movement which gained practitioners like Juan Gris and Fernand Leger.
