Love Interruption - Jack White

This piece, once again by Jack White, is a shining example of the culmination of years of evolution and an example of all those tributaries of jazz and sound coming together to create a simply brilliant piece in the short span time of 2:36. I have mentioned before the brilliance that Jack White does, and now that I have seen him live, it only furthered my conviction that he is clearly a descendant of the Kings of Jazz and Blues. A combination of Ray Charles, B.B. King, with country-jazz influences.

This song, Love Interruption, starts out with a steady rhythm set down by an organ, guitar, and bass sax. When the first verse starts, the guitar starts in by itself, and then is slowly joined by the other two instruments, beginning to build the emotion as the lyrics and singing get more intense. Then we go into the Chorus.

The chorus has all parts playing hard, letting the feeling of love corrupting wash over the audience. Then it fades out to Jack and the female vocalist all by themselves, singing a duet a-capella, before the instruments come in again. The style is just the same as the first verse, but played with much more passion and drive. We then go into a refrain of the chorus, after which the outro is very similar to the intro, if not extended slightly.

So the pattern of this piece was ABAB, with an intro and outro covering both ends. What I believe to be the driving factor on this piece, other than the lyrics, is the bass sax. The repeating descending scale it has effects the listener in a way of dragging down the emotions to the recesses of their minds, as if walking down a winding staircase into the basement. It is a constant reminder that this is a dark song. But the sudden cancellation of this when the chorus comes rushing back in mirrors the breath of fresh air we get when we break the chains of poised love and escape to the freedom of revelation and epiphanies. The second A serves as a reminder though, that we always will fall again, but with the knowledge that we can found our way back out, as indeed happens when the chorus once again explodes onto the scene.

Also, the second verse is much stronger in intensity than the first one, providing us with the example of insight into love that comes from having battled its demons before. Yet, when the chorus once again comes around, saying how we will not give in to love destroying us, it proves that there is always a way back out.