- So like, there are just like random chairs in the world
if you like cut them open
like you would find like Jack White poetry.
And it is my ultimate dream to cut open a chair
find Jack White poetry in it.
Hey, I'm Olivia Rodrigo
and right now I'm doing an episode of Fanning Out.
I am a huge White Stripes fan,
so today we are going to put my knowledge to the test
and see how big of a fan I really am.
(Olivia chuckling)
I mean, I think everyone's like first White Stripes song
they listened to was probably "Seven Nation Army".
Like, if you're my age, like "Seven Nation Army"
is just so iconic,
and like, you just know it.
It's just like in your blood.
So, yeah, probably that one.
White Stripes is my all-time favorite band,
and they have been for the past, like, five years.
I'm obsessed with them.
(Olivia sighing)
My favorite song changes, like based on the mood
that I'm in.
I love like "Ball and Biscuit",
I love "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine",
I love "Icky Thump",
I love "Little Room",
I love like "Little Bird".
I love all of their songs.
I like can't choose.
But, yeah.
(Olivia chuckling)
What was Jack White's former occupation
before becoming a full-time musician?
So, B, he was an upholsterer.
(applauding)
I'm obsessed with this story.
He says that he used to write poetry
and put it like in chairs and then upholster over it.
So, like, there are just like random chairs in the world
if you like cut them open,
you would find like Jack White poetry.
And it is my ultimate dream to cut open a chair
and find Jack White poetry in it.
And also,
sorry, just like random tidbits in my head.
It is also why he loves the number three so much,
is because he used to upholster chairs,
and he was like, the essential number of legs
for a chair to stand is three.
And so, the white stripes is like all about
the number three.
Guitar, drums, vocals.
Red, white, black.
So, and he like learned that from upholstering, so he says.
So, yes, big part of his upbringing.
(Olivia chuckling)
What popular TV comedy featured the White Stripes
in September, 2006?
Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, The Simpsons, Parks and Rec.
I think it's The Simpsons, right?
It's either Simpsons or Family Guy
but I think it's Simpsons.
C?
(applauding)
(Olivia chuckling)
What's the name of the record store, performance space,
and label Jack founded in March of 2009?
Third Man Records, D!
(applauding)
I've never been,
and I literally wanna go to Nashville.
I think they have a location in Detroit too.
But I wanna go to Nashville so bad,
just to go to this place.
I think it's like one of the only places
in the world you can like get into a booth
and like record your voice
and it can like go straight to a vinyl
and you can take the vinyl home.
It's so cool.
People always say it's Indie Kid Disneyland,
which I like.
(Olivia chuckling)
Besides white and black, what main color appears
on nearly every White Stripes' album cover?
Red.
B, easy one.
(applauding)
Which White Stripes song was famous for challenging
the unfair treatment of immigrants in America?
Icky Thump.
(applauding)
And apparently, like, he said that his wife at the time
was like British and it was like "ecky thump"
but he always thought it was "icky thump",
so it was like something that he like heard wrong
and that's what he liked titled it that,
which is cool.
But that song is iconic and so good.
I have an Icky Trump shirt at home too.
And on the back it says, "What, nothing better to do?
Why don't you kick yourself out?
You're an immigrant too,"
And I wear it proudly around my house.
Which White Stripes song
takes the perspective of a young boy
who befriends a schoolgirl named Suzy Lee?
"We're Going To Be friends", A.
I love that song.
(applauding)
Fun fact, he actually made
"We're Going To Be Friends" a children's book.
And he was doing like a book tour,
and he was like doing like a signing at The Grove.
And I waited in line for like an hour to try to go meet him.
They cut off the line, like five people in front of me.
So, I was like five people away from getting to meet him,
but I didn't get to meet him.
But it's okay.
Maybe one day we'll meet.
"We're Going To Be Friends" plays at the beginning
of which 2004 comedy film centered around an awkward teen
who has trouble fitting in?
A, "Napoleon Dynamite".
(applauding)
I watched that movie for the first time
like a year and a half ago.
It's not my humor,
but, you know,
it having I can tell that we're gonna be friends
at the beginning
made up for me, not, you know,
resonating with the humor totally.
Also, fun fact,
I have so many fun facts with the White Stripes.
They shot "Napoleon Dynamite"
at the high school that I filmed
"High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" at.
So, that's a little tidbit.
Which White Stripes music video
was considered the most innovative of its time
as it was made entirely out of Legos?
Oh, "Fell in Love with a Girl", right, C?
(applauding)
So good.
I also love that song.
It's so good.
That was one of the first songs
I learned how to play on guitar.
On my electric guitar.
I was like so obsessed with Jack White's guitar,
and so I like made my mom take me to guitar lessons
so I could like learn how to play all of his songs.
I didn't learn how to play all of them.
I learned how to play "Fell in Love with a Girl"
and like, "Blue Orchid", I think.
The 'seven nation army' is how a young Jack White
used to mispronounce which organization?
Salvation Army.
I think about this all the time.
(applauding)
I literally will not call Salvation Army anything
but Seven Nation Army.
If like I'm ever going thrifting, I'm like, hey Mom,
you wanna go to Seven Nation Army?
And she knows what I'm saying,
because Jack White takes precedence
over everything in my life.
Yeah, that's also like a really cool story
and obviously like the most brilliant song ever made.
I think it's the most iconic riff in history.
The White Stripes come from which U.S. city?
Detroit, baby.
(applauding)
And yeah, he has a Third Man Records
like a factory for vinyls up there too,
which I really wanna go visit.
Meg White's drumming style is best described
as which of the following?
(Olivia chuckling)
These are funny suggestions.
Latin, Meg didn't play the drums, thrash, minimalist.
Minimalist, definitely,
(applauding)
which is fantastic.
Like Jack always said that, Jack and Meg, I guess,
said that it was like very like childish
the way that she played the drums, which is so cool,
and I think gave them that signature sound.
In the song "Blue Orchid", what was the original color
of the orchid before someone turned it blue?
♪ You took a white orchid and turned it blue. ♪
B.
(applauding)
Obsessed with that song as well,
and obsessed with the music video.
So good.
Name that album.
"Elephant",
iconic album,
best of all time,
so good.
"White Blood Cells".
I have both "Elephant" and "White Blood Cells" on vinyl.
They're two of my favorite records of all time.
"Icky Thump".
Their last record.
Super iconic.
Some of my favorite tracks on that thing.
"Get Behind Me, Satan".
I love his mustache in this one.
It's a good facial hair era for him.
(Olivia chuckling)
"The Nurse" is on that album, which I really like.
Oh, "My Doorbell" is on that record, which is so good.
Such a bop.
Yeah.
"My Doorbell" is probably my favorite on that one.
I don't know how to pronounce it, I think it's "De Stijl".
There's like a "j" in it somewhere.
But, I think it's a Dutch art movement
and Jack actually painted
all of those like squares by himself in his garage.
And the Dutch art movement was like,
it was like art movement
that was centered around simplicity,
and so they thought that was really cool
because their music is obviously also, you know,
very centered around simplicity.
It's guitar, drums, vocals.
And one of my favorite songs, which is "Little Bird"
is on this record.
So good.
I wanna go and listen to it now.
Alright, name that music video.
I'm really nervous, okay.
(Olivia chuckling)
Oh, "Seven Nation Army", of course.
(applauding)
Such a good music video.
That's "My Doorbell", right?
(applauding)
Yay, okay.
There's like a bunch of kids in it, it's super cute.
It's like all like 1930's.
Love it.
"Fell in Love with a Girl",
we talked about, it's the Lego thing
which is so cool.
I wonder who made it.
It's so good, I'll have to do research on it.
(Olivia mumbling song lyrics)
♪ It was a ray gun and it was 1981 ♪
What's the song called?
"The Hardest Button to Button", yeah!
♪ The hardest button to button. ♪
Yes, sorry, I didn't know the title of it
but I can sing it.
(Olivia chuckling)
I love that song.
That's actually, that's my Mom and I's favorite song
to sing together is "The Hardest Button to Button".
Oh,
"Blue Orchid" or, yeah, "Blue Orchid".
(Olivia chuckling)
So good.
Oh my god and like the girl has like super high heels in it
and it's like so, like, ghoulish, ghastly looking
which I just love.
It's like such a great aesthetic for them.
Big Tim Burton vibes.
(drum roll)
(triumphant music)
(applauding)
Hell yeah!
Oh my God, that was so much fun.
That was like, so good,
I wanna go back and like listen to all of their records now.
Yeah, I'm like proud of myself.
I was so nervous because I was like
I'm the biggest White Stripes fan ever
and like, what if I didn't get them right?
I was gonna be so sad.
But yeah, it was super fun.
This has been Fanning Out with Olivia Rodrigo.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
I hope I have officially proven myself
as the biggest White Stripes fan.