Jack White is doing a little promo around the release of the White Stripes movie Under Great Northern Lights, and he has found himself leaping to the defense of Meg White’s drumming skills. At times it feels like the White Stripes could have spiraled off into a muso bore nightmare without Meg on hand to steady the ship, but apparently not everyone sees things that way.

“Her femininity and extreme minimalism are too much to take for some metalheads and reverse-contrarian hipsters,” White said in an interview with the New York Post. “She can do what those with ‘technical prowess’ can’t. She inspires people to bash on pots and pans. For that, they repay her with gossip and judgment.”

I’m with Jack on this one, and believe Meg adds an enormous amount to the band that she doesn’t get credit for. But the real question here is: who has got up Jack’s nose with these allegations? Who is this reverse-contrarian hipster, and where can we find him? (I’m assuming it’s a him).

[via Clash Music]