After releasing several singles and three albums within the Detroit independent music underground, The White Stripes rose to prominence in 2002, as part of the garage rock revival scene. Their successful albums White Blood Cells and Elephant drew them attention from a large variety of media outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The White Stripes used a low-fidelity, do-it-yourself approach to writing and recording. Their music features a melding of punk and blues influences and a raw simplicity of composition, arrangement, and performance. The duo is also noted for their fashion and design aesthetic which features a simple color scheme of red, white, and black.
The White Stripes' discography consists of six studio albums, two extended plays (EP), one video album, 26 singles and fourteen music videos. The band has sold approximately 12 million albums worldwide, 2 million in the US alone, and their latest three albums have each won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
On February 2, 2011, the band announced on their website that they had disbanded.
Official band website: www.whitestripes.com
Sugar Never Tasted So Good
The White Stripes Lyrics
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Sugar never tasted so good
Sugar never tasted good to me
Yeah
Until her eyes crossed over
Until her mind crossed over
Until her soul fell next to me
Now
If the wrinkle that is in your brain
Has given ya quite a sting
Your fingers have become a crane
Pullin' on these puppet strings
What a feelin' that's begun
What a feelin' that's begun
What a feelin' that's begun
What a feelin' that's begun
I felt just like a baby
Until I held a baby
What a fool this boy can be
Yeah
And her thoughts like a daisy
Till my mind gets lazy
I must have been crazy not to see
Now
If the wrinkle that is in your brain
Has given ya quite a sting
Your fingers have become a crane
Your fingers have become a crane
Your fingers have become a crane
Pullin' on these puppet strings
Water never tasted so good
Water never tasted so good
Water never tasted good to me
The White Stripes' "Sugar Never Tasted So Good" is a song about being transformed by love. It speaks about how life was bland and uninteresting until the singer meets the love of his life. In the first verse, the singer says that sugar had never tasted good to him until he met her. The second verse explains that he was transformed by her when her eyes, mind, and soul crossed over to him.
The chorus of the song expresses how the singer feels now that he has met his love, and how it has been a transformative experience for him. The bridge then speaks about the power that love has to change a person, with a metaphor of a wrinkle in the brain causing pain. The metaphor continues with the idea of being a puppet, and love is the thing controlling the singer's actions.
The final verse follows the same pattern as the first two, but instead of sugar, it is water that has now become delicious. This is meant to show that the singer's feelings of being transformed are not just limited to sweet things or food, but everything in life is now better with love.
Overall, the song is a beautiful and heartfelt tribute to the power of love and how it can change a person. The lyrics are full of metaphors that describe the feeling of this change or transformation.
Line by Line Meaning
Sugar never tasted so good
The taste of sugar was never satisfying for me
Until her eyes crossed over
I never experienced a new level of enjoyment until she looked at me
Until her mind crossed over
I never experienced a new level of enjoyment until I was in her thoughts
Until her soul fell next to me
I never experienced a new level of enjoyment until I was in her presence
If the wrinkle that is in your brain
If the stress in your mind
Has given ya quite a sting
Has caused you a lot of pain
Your fingers have become a crane
You feel like you are being manipulated
Pullin' on these puppet strings
Being controlled by someone else
What a feelin' that's begun
A new feeling has started
I felt just like a baby
I felt vulnerable
Until I held a baby
I didn't fully understand vulnerability until I held a baby
What a fool this boy can be
I can be foolish
And her thoughts like a daisy
Her thoughts are refreshing
Till my mind gets lazy
Until my mind gets tired
I must have been crazy not to see
I should have realized sooner
Water never tasted so good
The taste of water was never so satisfying for me
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: JACK WHITE
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Robyn
on Candy Cane Children
The meaning of this song is basically saying the older you get, the less fun Christmas becomes usually do to adulthood. The lines "don't you know your name?...", probably refers to the adults telling kids to grow up as if they're saying "Do you know how old you are? You're getting too old for this stuff." Probably why he put the lines "nobody knows how to talk to children". Also, he puts the lines "think again" after a thought of one of the kids thinking of wishing to participate in Christmas activities. As if they're thinking "Yeah I probably AM too old for this.." "364 more tears girl" the sadness of getting older. Not participating feels like a missed opportunity and causes even more sadness..