Jack White Says It’s Boring to Write Songs About Breakups Like Taylor Swift

You won’t catch Jack White taking a page out of Taylor Swift‘s playbook when it comes to songwriting … because the White Stripes frontman says penning songs about breakups is a total snooze.

Jack sat down for an interview with The Guardian over the weekend and threw a little shade Taylor’s way … saying the trend of pop stars writing songs about their public breakups — “in the Taylor Swift way” — just doesn’t interest him.

He added he finds it “a little boring” to write about himself — even if he had an interesting day — because he’s already lived it and has no desire to relive it again.

But there’s a catch … Jack says if he goes through something painful, he’s not blasting it online for “some idiot to stomp all over.” Instead, he’ll channel a part of that experience into his music and “morph it into somebody else’s character.” Jack notes he only really understands himself once he steps into “somebody else’s shoes.”

After headlines spread online, Jack hopped on Instagram to clarify his remarks — saying he never called Taylor Swift’s music “boring.”

He explained what he meant was that he doesn’t “find it interesting at all for ME to write about MYSELF in my own lyric writing and poetry,” adding he feels it could become repetitive and uninteresting for listeners. Instead, he says writing through imaginary characters is far more appealing to him as a songwriter.