Searching for Meg White of the White Stripes
Via ELLE
Summary
In a widely read 2023 profile published in ELLE magazine, journalist Melissa Giannini spent roughly three years attempting to reach Meg White — the enigmatic drummer and co-founder of the White Stripes — for an interview, ultimately writing about the experience of searching for someone who simply does not wish to be found. The piece ran around the time of the White Stripes' nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, making White's continued absence from public life all the more striking.
The article painted a portrait of a musician who helped define the early-2000s garage rock revival yet has retreated entirely from the spotlight since the band's dissolution in 2011. The New York Times described her as "one of the great recluses of 21st-century pop," and the ELLE piece became a meditation on fame, privacy, and the right to disappear.
