"Love Is Blindness" - Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film: The Great Gatsby - Jack White

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Jack White - Love Is Blindness

Jack White was a teenager in blue-collar Detroit when he purchased U2’s heavy left turn of a seventh album, Achtung Baby. “I listened to that a lot in my headphones,” he says. Almost immediately, the bluesman was drawn to the LP’s closing track, “Love Is Blindness.” “I listened to that on repeat quite often,” says White, whose cover of the U2 classic appears on the soundtrack for The Great Gatsby.

Before White entered the studio, the guitarist engaged in brainstorming sessions with Jay-Z (who, in addition to his duties as executive producer, also wrote and performed the original song, “100$ Bill”). “I talked to Jay-Z a lot,” White says. “We went back and forth on a lot of ideas. But the one that I kept thinking about, the one that was interesting just for me, was the “Love Is Blindness” track.”

White was confident that his grimy rendition, one he characterizes as “almost violent,” would fit in well with director Baz Luhrmann’s vision for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic tale of wealth, privilege and deception. “I could imagine it in hundreds of different scenarios,” he says. [source]