Jack White speaks out on recent Meg White drumming controversy - NME

The discourse was revived again recently when journalist Lachlan Markay tweeted: “The tragedy of the White Stripes is how great they would’ve been with a half decent drummer.

I’m sorry Meg White was terrible and no band is better for having sh*tty percussion.” Markay has since deleted the tweet.

Now, Jack White himself has stepped in to celebrate the drummer, posting a photo of Meg at her drum kit on social media yesterday (March 15) along with a poem that read: “To be born in another time, any era but our own would’ve been fine.

Markay has since responded to the backlash, writing on Twitter: “It was an over-the-top take on TWS and White as a drummer, and was, let’s face it, just truly awful in every way.

And to women in the music business generally, who I think are disproportionately subject to this sort of shit, I am sorry to have fed that as well.

In 2002, White said of the criticism around her drumming: “I appreciate other kinds of drummers who play differently, but it’s not my style or what works for this band.