'To this day, I am haunted by one of the most bizarre scandals of 2000s rock: Jack and Meg White telling everyone they were brother and sister, when they were really a married couple'
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It felt weird, even vulgar, to question whether they were related. In polite society when someone says, “Hey, this is my sister,” you don’t say, “IS SHE REALLY?” because that would be gauche. You usually say, “Nice to meet you,” or, alternatively, “I know,” if you’ve met the sister before. Jack even emphatically denied any untoward rumors about their relationship. “We’re brother and sister,” he said in a 2001 NME article titled “WHITE LIE?.
Ahhh, yes. What a classic trick! But wait, that’s not a regular trick.
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