Creativity Quote by Meg White

Meg White’s line lands like a shrug you can hear through the snare drum: not anti-fun, just allergic to the hype machine. “It’s hard” does a lot of work here. It frames the problem as friction, not failure, and it quietly resists the expectation that a musician should treat festivals as pure victory laps. The phrase “that real good feeling” is almost childlike in its simplicity, which is exactly why it cuts. She’s pointing at authenticity in a space engineered for spectacle, branding, and mass affirmation.

The subtext is about scale and performance-as-product. Festivals are sold as communal euphoria, but they’re also industrial operations: short sets, rushed changeovers, distant crowds, press obligations, and the sense that you’re one interchangeable act in a curated playlist. White’s wording suggests an emotional mismatch between what festivals promise (transcendence) and what they often deliver (workflow). “Sometimes” is the escape hatch that keeps it honest. She’s not condemning the format; she’s describing a recurring, nagging gap between the narrative and the lived experience.

Context matters with White because her public persona has long been read as guarded, even misread as fragile: a musician who seemed to prefer the song to the circus around it. Coming from the drummer of a band that thrived on raw immediacy, the line feels like a critique of mediated joy. Festivals can amplify sound; they can also flatten feeling. Her sentence is a small protest against pretending otherwise.