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hardparade) wrote2010-08-23 05:04 pm
hardparade) wrote2010-08-23 05:04 pm
to be soft is too easy, huh? don't get soft on me
I knew this post would happen eventually. I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about shipping Alison Mosshart/Jack White (it's like I have a love-hate relationship with it or something), but here is a post full of shippiness anyway.
Whenever I see them practically making out while sharing a mic singing Will There Be Enough Water, half of me squees, and the other half wishes Jack White didn't exist because ALISON IS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THAT WITH JAMIE, DAMMIT.
But man, their dynamic is so intriguing. I like how it's similar to Alison/Jamie in a lot of ways, but a lot more violent and volatile. Like Alison and Jamie seem a lot more SECURE somehow, whereas with Alison and Jack it seems like anything could happen, at any time. In my mind, they totally want to fuck each other, but Jack is all married and conflicted, and Alison likes to kinda tease him and tempt him and get him all riled up. Actually, I say 'in my mind', but really, it seems pretty much canon.
LET ME SHOW YOU, THROUGH PICTURES AND VIDEOS AND QUOTES. This isn't as long as my Kills primer, I promise. (I'm not sure anything actually could be.)
First of all, some cuteness. Watch from 1:05 onwards. Jack keeps saying 'fruitless' and 'bore no fruit', and Alison hops up and returns with a bunch of grapes and a bag of apples. BEST EVER. I love how afterwards Jack's like "in a nutshell...and don't go get a bag of nuts, either." But also I love the way that the second Alison gets up, Jack says "Can you come back for one second?" He phrases it as a question like that, but it still sounds so demanding. Especially considering Alison doesn't actually need to be there for what he's saying. I also, for some reason, love that he puts his hand on LJ's knee so casually, like it's his own knee, idek.
This is the BEST. At 8:12, Alison is blowing the paper from her straw at Jack, lol. Jack refers to her as 'it' and Alison is like "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," and strokes his arm, and then immediately is like "Ew. Do we have handwipes?" wiping her hand on the seat. Ahahaha. 9:40 is INTERESTING. Alison appears just to be innocently walking over to Jack, and Jack elbows her for no apparent reason. Their manager has to split them up, and Jack says "I'm just trying to make sense of her, Lalo. She says a lot of shit I don't understand." He has to be reminded that "she's in the room, she can hear you", and be told that "what you're trying to do is fight, and as I told you yesterday, it's not conducive to a healthy relationship." OOOOOOOOH.
This continues on from the last video. Right at the start it shows Jack and Alison sitting as far away from each other as possible, on the longest sofa ever. At 3:45, Alison is deciding where to put all her shit in the van, and generally pissing Jack off and being adorable at the same time. And when Dean warns Alison it's going to be hot, Jack says "so keep the whining down to a minimum."
From 2:00. Jack is trying to trip Alison up or something? And then she sits down and prods his leg and winds him up and generally acts like a twelve year old with a crush. Until he gets up and leaves...probably because he can't trust himself with the flirting.
I would like to draw attention to how tightly Jack is gripping her waist, here.
At about 3:43, Alison pushes Jack. She gets in his face and he pushes her away so hard that she literally falls over. But it doesn't put her off. The second she gets back up she storms over to him again, and then gets up on the speakers and practically yells the next line of the song at him. AND THEN THE BEST BIT. She goes back to him and he just advances on her, backing her right up into Dean. And she still keeps on singing right in his face.
I would now like to draw attention to the fact that you can see Alison's bra. Is anyone else surprised that it looks kinda lacy? /pervert
At 2:22, in this one, she grabs him by the hair. I don't understand how if she gets a little close to him without warning, she gets knocked the fuck over, but apparently she's allowed to grab a handful of his hair and push him back and it's all good.
...
Oh, Jack White. ♥ IT IS WORTH WATCHING ALL OF THIS ONE. For Jack's utterly bizarre, but hilarious, sense of humour. At 1:00 is when Jack just starts cracking Alison the fuck up. It's the cutest. The best bit is at 2:18 when Jack insults The Kills, OMG THE NOISE ALISON MAKES. It's hilarious.
This is from the tour that The Dead Weather spawned from. When Jack was ill and could barely sing or something and so he recruited Alison to sing with The Raconteurs for him? I think. NOTABLE TIMESTAMP TIME. 1:11, Jack gestures for Alison to get out of the way. And idk, I love how she steps back instantly and then has this moment of "wow, hang on, that was rude" and laughs at him. At 1:48, they mic-share, which Alison...enjoys. And again at 2:24. It's so adorable how Alison has the lyrics on a piece of paper. ♥
THE KILLS WITH THE RACONTEURS, PLAYING 'KISSY KISSY'. This means that Jack and Jamie are sharing a mic as they sing things like "I'm gonna stab your kissy, kissy mouth." I don't understand why this seemed to make more sense than Jamie and Alison sharing the mic, BUT I AM THANKFUL. I love the moment at 0:30 when Jamie turns back to Alison (like he's kinda out of his comfort zone) and they clink glasses. Gah, it's so interesting, idk. I hadn't seen this when I started writing a Jamie/Alison/Jack fic set in the future where they're on tour together for some reason, and I was thinking about what it'd be like for them all to be onstage together. I imagine it'd be very different, now, in the post-Dead Weather kind of atmosphere, where Alison's performed with Jack alone.
This is just so, so pretty.
God. Her face. That look in her eyes.
This is awkward, don't watch all of it. Seriously. Unless you don't get secondhand embarrassment easily. But one of the interviewers is such a weirdo! I don't even know. At 4:40, they mention the art on Jack's drumkit, and Alison asks "what is that?" and Jack teases her about never actually looking behind her onstage. At 6:10, Jack says they were busy with other bands, "which, do you guys want to apologise for?" And Alison DOES. "Sorry...Jack." Whatevs, unhealthy love for submissive!Alison. Also notable, 12:08, when one of the interviewers opens up the record to show a giant picture of Alison with Jack's hand clamped over her mouth. Alison's reaction to this is INTERESTING. Her eyes kinda dart around when she realises what's happening, and she goes kind of blushy and grins. Oh Alison.
Yeah, um. This picture.
0:28, Alison lights Jack's cigarette for him. NOBODY CARES ABOUT THIS BUT ME. Moving on, 2:47, oh Jack. "I don't care if it's not as good as The Kills..." (more cackling from Alison) "...even if there's a Kill in the group." And then something that could be interpreted as either "Sometimes I want a Kill" or "Sometimes I wanna kill." XD
♥
Watch from around 3:35. Alison hangs her head right down to Jack's guitar, sings into it, gets down on her knees in front of him, and shoves her head right up against the guitar. Unf.
From 0:40. I don't even know what's going on here. It's pretty much the closest I've ever seen their bodies get. The tension is insane.
Aaaaaand finally, for the lulz:
Whenever I see them practically making out while sharing a mic singing Will There Be Enough Water, half of me squees, and the other half wishes Jack White didn't exist because ALISON IS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THAT WITH JAMIE, DAMMIT.
But man, their dynamic is so intriguing. I like how it's similar to Alison/Jamie in a lot of ways, but a lot more violent and volatile. Like Alison and Jamie seem a lot more SECURE somehow, whereas with Alison and Jack it seems like anything could happen, at any time. In my mind, they totally want to fuck each other, but Jack is all married and conflicted, and Alison likes to kinda tease him and tempt him and get him all riled up. Actually, I say 'in my mind', but really, it seems pretty much canon.
LET ME SHOW YOU, THROUGH PICTURES AND VIDEOS AND QUOTES. This isn't as long as my Kills primer, I promise. (I'm not sure anything actually could be.)
First of all, some cuteness. Watch from 1:05 onwards. Jack keeps saying 'fruitless' and 'bore no fruit', and Alison hops up and returns with a bunch of grapes and a bag of apples. BEST EVER. I love how afterwards Jack's like "in a nutshell...and don't go get a bag of nuts, either." But also I love the way that the second Alison gets up, Jack says "Can you come back for one second?" He phrases it as a question like that, but it still sounds so demanding. Especially considering Alison doesn't actually need to be there for what he's saying. I also, for some reason, love that he puts his hand on LJ's knee so casually, like it's his own knee, idek.
Jack: Only one girl can offset a whole gang of guys … That's the beauty of collaborating with males and females...There's something in the room, there's a new energy, and it sort of wipes the slate clean. It gets rid of all the bullshit, and you can get some place really fast...It's almost a good idea for an all-guy band just to have a girl sitting there, an engineer or something, in the room. Or a puppy. Or an axe murderer. Something extreme. That's why we have Alison. We tried to get all three in one.
This is the BEST. At 8:12, Alison is blowing the paper from her straw at Jack, lol. Jack refers to her as 'it' and Alison is like "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," and strokes his arm, and then immediately is like "Ew. Do we have handwipes?" wiping her hand on the seat. Ahahaha. 9:40 is INTERESTING. Alison appears just to be innocently walking over to Jack, and Jack elbows her for no apparent reason. Their manager has to split them up, and Jack says "I'm just trying to make sense of her, Lalo. She says a lot of shit I don't understand." He has to be reminded that "she's in the room, she can hear you", and be told that "what you're trying to do is fight, and as I told you yesterday, it's not conducive to a healthy relationship." OOOOOOOOH.
This continues on from the last video. Right at the start it shows Jack and Alison sitting as far away from each other as possible, on the longest sofa ever. At 3:45, Alison is deciding where to put all her shit in the van, and generally pissing Jack off and being adorable at the same time. And when Dean warns Alison it's going to be hot, Jack says "so keep the whining down to a minimum."
From 2:00. Jack is trying to trip Alison up or something? And then she sits down and prods his leg and winds him up and generally acts like a twelve year old with a crush. Until he gets up and leaves...probably because he can't trust himself with the flirting.
I would like to draw attention to how tightly Jack is gripping her waist, here.
Alison (about how the first album came about): I was standing at a Starbucks in Sheffield outside a Mighty Boosh performance, and Jack called me, and I said, 'Who the fuck is this? You sound like a woman.' I immediately got into a fight with him on the phone. He said, 'Why don't you come to Nashville tomorrow?' I was like, 'Okay, I got nothing to do, Jamie is on holiday, so fuck it!'
At about 3:43, Alison pushes Jack. She gets in his face and he pushes her away so hard that she literally falls over. But it doesn't put her off. The second she gets back up she storms over to him again, and then gets up on the speakers and practically yells the next line of the song at him. AND THEN THE BEST BIT. She goes back to him and he just advances on her, backing her right up into Dean. And she still keeps on singing right in his face.
I would now like to draw attention to the fact that you can see Alison's bra. Is anyone else surprised that it looks kinda lacy? /pervert
At 2:22, in this one, she grabs him by the hair. I don't understand how if she gets a little close to him without warning, she gets knocked the fuck over, but apparently she's allowed to grab a handful of his hair and push him back and it's all good.
...
Jack: She's very emotionally inspiring. She can just say out loud, almost magically, exactly what she likes and doesn't make any apologies. So when somebody's doing something interesting, she's clapping and is genuinely into it, which a lot of people are afraid, or too cool, to do. There's a hostile side to the two of us, and maybe we're trying to balance out our gentle and hostile sides. I was like, 'Okay, Alison, I'm your drummer now, what are you gonna do with that?' She definitely wants to be challenged.
Oh, Jack White. ♥ IT IS WORTH WATCHING ALL OF THIS ONE. For Jack's utterly bizarre, but hilarious, sense of humour. At 1:00 is when Jack just starts cracking Alison the fuck up. It's the cutest. The best bit is at 2:18 when Jack insults The Kills, OMG THE NOISE ALISON MAKES. It's hilarious.
This is from the tour that The Dead Weather spawned from. When Jack was ill and could barely sing or something and so he recruited Alison to sing with The Raconteurs for him? I think. NOTABLE TIMESTAMP TIME. 1:11, Jack gestures for Alison to get out of the way. And idk, I love how she steps back instantly and then has this moment of "wow, hang on, that was rude" and laughs at him. At 1:48, they mic-share, which Alison...enjoys. And again at 2:24. It's so adorable how Alison has the lyrics on a piece of paper. ♥
Jack: Which artist am I most excited about in 2010? Alison Mosshart.
THE KILLS WITH THE RACONTEURS, PLAYING 'KISSY KISSY'. This means that Jack and Jamie are sharing a mic as they sing things like "I'm gonna stab your kissy, kissy mouth." I don't understand why this seemed to make more sense than Jamie and Alison sharing the mic, BUT I AM THANKFUL. I love the moment at 0:30 when Jamie turns back to Alison (like he's kinda out of his comfort zone) and they clink glasses. Gah, it's so interesting, idk. I hadn't seen this when I started writing a Jamie/Alison/Jack fic set in the future where they're on tour together for some reason, and I was thinking about what it'd be like for them all to be onstage together. I imagine it'd be very different, now, in the post-Dead Weather kind of atmosphere, where Alison's performed with Jack alone.
This is just so, so pretty.
God. Her face. That look in her eyes.
If you have a sort of brother-sister relationship with Meg White in the White Stripes, what member of your family is Alison Mosshart?(I kind of want weird, AU incestuous fic about this.)
Jack: She's some strange cousin that comes and stays for the summer. Which is funny, because Alison used to spend her summers in Detroit.
This is awkward, don't watch all of it. Seriously. Unless you don't get secondhand embarrassment easily. But one of the interviewers is such a weirdo! I don't even know. At 4:40, they mention the art on Jack's drumkit, and Alison asks "what is that?" and Jack teases her about never actually looking behind her onstage. At 6:10, Jack says they were busy with other bands, "which, do you guys want to apologise for?" And Alison DOES. "Sorry...Jack." Whatevs, unhealthy love for submissive!Alison. Also notable, 12:08, when one of the interviewers opens up the record to show a giant picture of Alison with Jack's hand clamped over her mouth. Alison's reaction to this is INTERESTING. Her eyes kinda dart around when she realises what's happening, and she goes kind of blushy and grins. Oh Alison.
Yeah, um. This picture.
0:28, Alison lights Jack's cigarette for him. NOBODY CARES ABOUT THIS BUT ME. Moving on, 2:47, oh Jack. "I don't care if it's not as good as The Kills..." (more cackling from Alison) "...even if there's a Kill in the group." And then something that could be interpreted as either "Sometimes I want a Kill" or "Sometimes I wanna kill." XD
♥
Jack: It wasn't too long ago I saw Amy Winehouse give someone a smack for someone touching her hair. It's the same for Baby Ruthless [Alison]—if you touch her hair you'll get a smack.
Watch from around 3:35. Alison hangs her head right down to Jack's guitar, sings into it, gets down on her knees in front of him, and shoves her head right up against the guitar. Unf.
Alison (about recording the first album): "Not a day went by that he didn't punch me in the face. No, not literally. But we do kind of hit each other and make fun of each other and pick on each other quite a bit. That's our relationship, really. I don't think I'd ever forgive myself if suddenly he just stopped talking to me. But I feel like I've pushed it to that point every now and then.
From 0:40. I don't even know what's going on here. It's pretty much the closest I've ever seen their bodies get. The tension is insane.
Aaaaaand finally, for the lulz:
In the course of our conversation, I asked Fertita and Mosshart to describe their very famous and highly revered bandmate Jack White. Their initial response?
A great kisser.
Lots of giggles. Ok, no, but really.
Nice and pleasant, with serial killer potential.