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"The Union Forever" contains allusions to Citizen Kane (1941), reportedly Jack White's favorite film. A common theme throughout the record is the morality of persistent attention, most prevalently profiled in "Little Room".

The lyrics relate and touch upon subjects of love, hope, betrayal, and paranoia, brought on by the increasing media attention the duo began receiving. And it was good to put them all together at once, put them all in the same box and see what happened." All material on the album is original, a contrast to numerous covers on the band's first two efforts. Regarding the four-year time span in writing for the record, Jack White said "It was cool because a lot of things had been sitting around for a long time, stuff I had written on piano that had been just sitting around not doing anything. Some material for White Blood Cells was also inspired by Jack White and the Bricks, a side-project formed in 1999. The lyrics for the album were written over various points in the band's early career, including unrecorded songs for the duo's debut album The White Stripes (1999) and Jack White's previous band Two-Star Tabernacle. Wondering if it’s good or bad." Composition Lyrics Is the attention good or bad? When you open the CD, it’s a picture of us with these cameras. "It just seems to us that there are so many bands from the same time or before we started that were playing and are still playing that didn’t get this kind of attention that we’re getting. "The name, White Blood Cells, for the album, is this idea of bacteria coming at us, or just foreign things coming at us, or media, or attention on the band,” Jack White explained in a 2001 interview. The album's title alludes to the increasing media attention the band was receiving, which would only increase after release. "When does music become a business and why do we have to be suckered into it? Why do we have to buy a cell phone, you know what I mean? A lot of that stuff upsets me. The images poke fun at the music industry and promotion surrounding it.

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The cover art of White Blood Cells depicts the duo getting both attacked and enamored by a clan of people wielding TV and video cameras. It was the first time for the band recording in a 24-track recording studio, and Jack White asked recording engineer Stuart Sikes more than once "not to make it sound too good." Packaging The record was "rushed" and a final day was saved for mixing and mastering the record this was the first White Stripes album to be mastered in the studio.

The record's quick production was intentional in order to get "a real tense" feeling, as well as capture the band's energy. Meg White was initially hesitant to commence immediate recording, as she thought the songs were "too new."  The album was recorded in less than four days, to try to keep it "as unorganized as possible," according to Jack. The band rehearsed for one week and began recording at Easley-McCain Recording, in Memphis, Tennessee in February 2001. In recent years, the album has been, along with the band's follow-up Elephant (2003), featured on several music publications' lists of the greatest albums of the 2000s as well as all-time. It helped define the band's sound and shape the band's role in the garage rock revival of the early 2000s. Praised for its simplicity and straightforward sound and instrumentation, White Blood Cells set the stage for The White Stripes to breakthrough into the mainstream and is often compared with classic rock influences. The album's cover art satirically parodies the amount of increasing mainstream popularity the band was receiving, which depicts the duo attacked by photographers. The White Stripes followed with a worldwide tour and the record peaked at number 61 on the Billboard 200, later being certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Following a major label re-release on V2 Records in 2002, the album became promoted throughout the music press, bringing the band critical acclaim. The album's lyrical themes, which were written by White over a period of four years, touch on themes relating to love, hope, betrayal, and paranoia. Continuing the stripped-down garage rock nature of the duo, White Blood Cells attempts to do away with the band's blues rock influences, instead displaying a more raw, basic, and primitive rock and roll sound.