Lady Gaga Is 'All Artifice,' Jack White Says

This may not come as much of a surprise, given that he often dresses like an old-country mortician and has spent much of the past year behaving like an eccentric millionaire on par with Howard Hughes, but Jack White isn't really feeling Lady Gaga.

In a new interview with Esquire, White takes a swipe at Gaga over what he perceives to be her lack of authenticity, and suggests that her music suffers because of it.

"I don't think she lives it, because it's all artifice," White says. "It's all image with no meaning behind it. You can't sink your teeth into it. It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want."

And speaking of "this age," well, it turns out White isn't much of a fan of it, either, condemning celebrity culture, reality television and the instant-gratification (and lack of substance) of sites like Twitter.

"The goal of modern celebrity is to make yourself into the lowest common denominator: 'Hey, I'm a guy just like you. I like a beer, a football game,'" he says. "Especially in reality television, you'll see people will go as far as to make a fool out of themselves just to prove that ... Twitter is the most perfect example of modern living. I think the only people who should have [Twitter accounts] are comedians. Because it's all about one-liners."

We wonder if he and Adam Levine have exchanged hand-written letters about "Here Comes Honey BooBoo?"

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