A Letter From Jack White to the Media: "i can't even make kool aid"
LatestPoor Jack White just can’t catch a break with the media, it seems: first, his tour rider was leaked by the University of Oklahoma’s student newspaper, where it was revealed he likes a very specific type of guacamole, among other delicacies; then, NPR took a gentle ribbing to the rider, where an acclaimed chef weighed in and rated White’s guacamole recipe as “biting into little explosions of flavor,” followed by sharing the recipe on its website.
It was all too much for our former White Stripes frontman, though, who, through his publicist, released an “open letter to the media,” subject line: “FOR GOD’S SAKE!”, decrying the whole leak as a bunch of “click bait hoo haa.”
dear journalists and other people looking for drama or a diva,
even in the age of the short attention span internet article, it’s still hard to believe you are STILL writing about this.
wow. classy.
seems like there’s a new rule number one for up and coming journalists: don’t let the facts get in the way of click bait. at the risk of incurring even more of this hoo haa (and i’ve definitely turned my cheek more than once lately) and even though our management sent out a letter to clarify this, and since this seems to be all anyone can ask me about lately, here’s the real deal, and hopefully it’ll explain this nonsensical scenario and we can move on with our lives. (or what have you).
first off, this is none of your business, but i have no specific demands in my dressing room. i know i could ask for lots of things but i actually don’t ask for ANYTHING. i take with me what i need, and that ain’t much. anything on the rider is for the band and the crew. this “guacamole recipe” is my hilarious tour managers inside joke with the local promoters, it’s his recipe, not mine. it’s just something to break up the boredom, seeing who can make it best. though i wouldn’t know because i’ve never had it. i can’t even make kool aid let alone cook any real food enough to have a “recipe.” sorry, i don’t have that talent.
Interpretation: Sorry you’re so basic that your recipes don’t serve inside jokes, only food.
bananas: did it occur to anyone someone on the tour might have an allergy to them? no? hmmm. one day some fantasy journalist out there will call someone in the biz and actually have a rider explained to them, maybe none of them have ever been on tour.
Yeah, leave it up to journalists to pull the old, “I’m just a journalist so I can’t go on tour with you, not-Rihanna Jack White” schtick.