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The White Stripes were an American rock duo, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of a couple, married at the time, Jack White and Meg White. They had many successful albums during their career, some of them including, White Blood Cells (2001), Elephant (2003), Get Me Behind Satan (2005). After a 14 year career they decide to call it quits and end the band in 2011.
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**Seven Nation Army:** Seven Nation Army is in the genre "rock" and was released in the White Stripes album ‘Elephant’ in 2003. The song received several awards including Grammy Award for Best Rock Song (2004), MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing (2003) and NME Award for Best Track. media type="youtube" key="0J2QdDbelmY" width="420" height="315"

**Structure:** Intro --> Verse 1 --> Chorus --> Verse 2--> Chorus x 2 --> Verse --> Chorus --> Outro In this song, the choruses don’t have vocals, they only have instruments playing the main riff. **Instruments Used:** Drums, Bass, Electric Guitar. The main riff is play by the bass. It plays almost continuously throughout the song. **Dynamics:** The song starts off with the bass playing the main riff. Compared to the rest of the song this seems to be quiet. After the riff is repeated twice, the drums are added, creating a louder sound with more depth. This continues through out the verse. Once the song hits the chorus, the electric guitar is added and the bass is amped, to make the song nearly twice as loud as before. Once the chorus is finished, this pattern is repeated for the rest of the song. **Temp:** The tempo seems to be quite steady throughout the song. **Vocals:** Jack White has the clichéd rock n roll voice. With a low sound and heavy auto tune his voice sounds very electronic, but fits in to perfection with the music behind it. This song has no back up vocals, making Jack's vocals stronger and clearer. **Texture:** The texture is really strong throughout the is song, creating an interesting and fun song to listen to. Its quite a heavy song and good vibes coming from all angles. **Repeated Patterns:** The song repeats the same riff the whole way through.

**Hypnotise:** Hypnotise is also placed in the rock genre. Unlike 'Seven Nation Army' The With Stripes did not receive any awards for this album. But it was also released at the same time in the same album as 'Seven Nation Army' (Elephant). media type="youtube" key="NMDgHDC1ZMU" width="420" height="315" **Structure** Intro --> Verse --> Chorus --> intro --> Verse --> end In this song, the choruses don’t have vocals, they only have all instruments playing the main riff.

**Instruments Used:** Drums, electric guitar

**Dynamics:** The song starts with a cute little beachy tune with a rock spin on it. This plays for a few seconds before vocals are added in for the verse. The vocals are loud, it nearly feels like Jack White is yelling at you. The song then goes into a heavy, loud instrumental for the chorus, with more instruments added as it continues. Once the chorus finishes, the same music that is used for the intro, plays again. The song then jumps in to another verse using the same dynamics as the first verse. Just as you are expecting another chorus, the song is cut off and ends on a drum beat, leaving the listener hanging. **Tempo:** The Tempo is very steady all the way through the song with no drastic changes. **Vocals:** Jack White again showing us his clichéd rock n roll vocals. His low voice matches with the accompanying music really nicely. In this song it feels like he is yelling and at times it is uncomfortable to listen too. No back up vocals were used in this song. **Texture:** The texture is very strong and heavy all the way through. It is fun and edgy to listen to, but in some parts of the song feels awkward and uncomfortable. **Repeated Patterns:** The song had the same pattern nearly the whole way through with every now and then a change.