Nandi Bushell is supporting Meg White with a cover of The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” after writer Lachlan Markay called her drumming “terrible”.

“Meg White is my hero,” Bushell Tweeted. “The first day I got drums my dad showed me the video of ‘Seven Nation Army’. I saw Meg playing the drums and thought she was the coolest person in the world. I still do.”

She continued, “The more I learn about music, the more I realize that songs, and art, are created to wake emotions deep inside the soul. No matter how fast my fills get or number rudiments I learn. If I can’t write a song that moves people, then can’t call myself an artist.

“Meg and Jack wrote some of the best songs in rock history. They moved me at 5 years old to want to play the drums and still move me today! My screams are for you, Meg! You are and always will be my role model and hero!”

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Last week, in a since-deleted Tweet, Markay said, “The tragedy of the White Stripes is how great they would’ve been with a half-decent drummer. Yeah yeah I’ve heard all the ‘but it’s a carefully crafted sound mannnn!’ takes. I’m sorry Meg White was terrible and no band is better for having shi**y percussion.”

The Internet quickly came to Meg’s defense, including The Roots’ Questlove, Tom Morello, and Jack White’s ex-wife Karen Elson. Jack White himself penned a poem in Meg’s honor, writing,

“To be born in another time, any era but our own would’ve been fine.

100 years from now, 1000 years from now, some other distant, different, time.

One without demons, cowards, and vampires out for blood, one with the positive inspiration to foster what is good.”

See his full post below.

 

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