Juno Rylee Schultz
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GIRL MUSIC 012: THE WHITE STRIPES | MEG WHITE AND JACK WHITE | “HEY LITTLE APPLE BLOSSOM, COME AND TELL ME WHAT YOU’RE THINKING”
Girl Music
October 9, 2025
Juno Rylee Schultz
“With the White Stripes, we were trying to trick people into not realizing we were playing the blues.”
GIRL MUSIC is independent music journalism for anyone that loves pretty art and music.
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Words: Juno Rylee Schultz (she/her)
Edits: Morgan Shaver (they/them), Nathan Miller (he/him), and Bex Stump (she/her)
“I got into blues in my late teens. I knew about Robert Johnson from the bands that covered him. And when I heard him, I thought it was OK. Then I heard Son House’s a cappella song “Grinning in Your Face” [from the 1965 Columbia album Father of Folk Blues]. That was a transformative moment. There’s nothing there, just that voice. And what he was singing made so much sense to me.”
— JACK WHITE, Rolling Stone, 2005](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2nqc2rnyz2hco3uqxc457cd/bafkreiglvcr344yadr26bjbnqmv57tqsnwmbh6baglsc4l2nyu77x7jmzu@jpeg)
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![Girl Music 013 | Rivers Cuomo, Weezer, and the Blue Album | "Do You Believe What I Sing Now"
“ ’Yeah, let’s not be grunge. Let’s be more like the Beach Boys. But loud.’ ”
Publishing 10/23/25
by Juno Rylee Schultz
Edits by: Morgan Shaver (they/them), Nathan Miller (he/him), Bex Stump (she/her)
[IMG // would love to have a sketch that's playful, blue, and colorful, of the band members against blue]
"I think I had two stories in my head. One was we're gonna sell a hundred copies and that's it. I'm gonna have to go back and work at Tower Records, or whatever. But the other one was like, 'Man, this album feels so powerful, so moving and special to me. I think we're gonna find a big audience, and this is gonna be an important record.'"
"Rock bands were getting more and more outrageous with tattoos and piercings. We came out completely clean-cut, four guys standing in a line, singing songs in major keys, about girls or whatever. It didn't quite make sense how that was the next step for rock and roll."
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![“The other far-hipper employees at Tower Records kind of educated me. I remember they played “Sliver” for me, [by Nirvana] and I was immediately in love. It had the aggression that I needed from my upbringing as a metalhead, but paired with strong, major-key chord progressions and catchy, emotional melodies and lyrics that felt so nostalgic and sweet and painful. It just sounded like it was coming from the deepest part inside of me—a part which I hadn’t yet been able to come close to articulating in my own music.” – Rivers Cuomo, American Songwriter, 2024
"It’s like, 'Oh, my God. This is so beautiful to me. And I identify with it so much.' Hearing [Kurt Cobain] sing about Mom and Dad and Grandpa Joe, these personal family issues, in a really heartbreaking kind of innocent, childlike way, over these straightforward chords in a major key." – Rivers Cuomo, GRAMMY, 2024
"When we made the 'Blue' album, I saw myself in a completely different light. I thought we were going to be the next Nirvana, that we were going to be taken very seriously as an angst-filled rock band. And I was completely shocked and surprised and disappointed when we put the record out to find that the press story was: 'This is a band of geeks.'' That story had never occurred to me. But it was universal around the world, that's what everyone said about us. So I guess it must be true. I just don't fit in and I don't even realise it. Put me in the wider society and I stand out as a misfit.” – Rivers Cuomo, Louder Sound, 2024
"I got their [demo] tapes from Geffen Records when I was out in LA working on another project. I listened to it in the car and just thought it was ph](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2nqc2rnyz2hco3uqxc457cd/bafkreiedfzkbvrvcrqp5y36iqky6h7fhny2trew7ex72usvwmi5egdrsde@jpeg)
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