Lets try reading, y'all *gumsnap*
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He said: “I don’t know if Bob Dylan and Tom Waits are as authentic as I think they are. Perhaps they’re not.”
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See, Jack White thinks that Dylan and Waits are authentic artists. Maybe they're less than he imagines. Thus, the title is stupid.
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White continued: “Sometimes you start thinking that maybe Britney Spears or someone like that who’s doing exactly what they want to do in the way that they best know how, is more authentic than any of those people you could mention.”
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I'd argue she's not doing what she wants - it doesn't involve driving up and down Robinson Bvld looking for a 7-11. Nor is this "critical" acclaim. This is Jack White saying that people like Britney who "do" what they want in "their" way could be more authentic. I'd compare it to, say, John Mayer who we're expected to believe is really a blues artists at times even though he's a pompous arrogant douchenozzle from Connecticut. Britney owns her crazy when not drugged up by daddy, John pretends to be something he's not.
It's not like he's saying Tom or Bob are fake and Britters is real, he's arguing they all are in comparison to others people think are "real" artists.
get that critical acclaim 
