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* [[Author Appeal]]: As mentioned below, Jack seems to have a thing for redheads, and several of the band's songs make reference to (or are just plain about) sexy red-headed women ("Fell In Love With a Girl", "Take, Take, Take", "300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues", etc.).
* [[Badass Boast]]: These occur in a few of their songs, but "Ball and Biscuit", which is basically 7+ minutes of continual [[Badass Boast|Badass Boasting]], particularly stands out: "Right now you could care less about me / but soon enough you ''will'' care by the time I'm done."
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* [[Boy Meets Ghoul]]: "Little Ghost".
* [[Break Up Song]]: Many ("I'm Bound to Pack It Up", "There's No Home For You Here", "Red Rain", "You've Got Her In Your Pocket", "The Denial Twist", "I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman", etc.) covering the topic from every conceivable emotional angle. Kind of funny when you consider that they were once a couple themselves.
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* [[Chorus-Only Song]]: Frequently inverted; many of the band's songs only have ''verses'', with an [[Epic Riff]] substituted where the chorus would be in a normal rock song ("Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", "Seven Nation Army", "Icky Thump", "I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman", etc.).
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Meg White, who often performed and posed for photos barefoot.
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* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Jack White producing Loretta Lynn's album ''Van Lear Rose''. He also wrote one song and performed on most of the rest.
* [[Protest Song]]: The Stripes had two of these: the first being "The Big Three Killed My Baby" about [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Retraux]]: Jack consciously appropriates imagery and music from everything from [[The Thirties]] (Robert Johnson, ''De Stijl''), [[The Fifties]] (portions of ''Get Behind Me Satan'') to [[The Sixties]]. There is also the Victorian-style video for "Blue Orchid".
* [[Self-Backing Vocalist]]: "There's No Home For You Here", which features a chorus of backing vocals, all by Jack White.
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* [[Studio Chatter]]: The end of "It's True That We Love One Another".
* [[Textless Album Cover]]: ''White Blood Cells'', ''Elephant'', and ''Get Behind Me Satan''.
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* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: Jack is part Scottish -- see [[Hair-Trigger Temper]].
* [[Working
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