20 Years Of ELEPHANT: The White Stripes Celebrate Re-Release With New “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” Video

“WHITE BLOOD CELLS made indie discos sweat in 2001, two years later Meg and Jack White trampled the collective perception on their elephant. The Simpsons picked up Michel Gondry’s video for “The Hardest Button To Button”, “Seven Nation Army” became the “Smoke On The Water” of the ’00s, the album has sold more than four million copies to date”. This is how ME editor Stephan Rehm Rozanes locates ELEPHANT by The White Stripes today. The album was released almost exactly 20 years ago, on April 1st, 2003, and due to this anniversary it was digitally re-released on March 31st, 2023. The vinyl version will follow on April 21, 2023.

Flanking this release is The White Stripes with another re-release: the iconic music video for ‘I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself’, then directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Kate Moss, was released in HD as a Remastered again. This is how it looks now:

And the bonus material of the new edition of ELEPHANT is also worth hearing and seeing: The White Stripes release a complete live album under the name “The Air Near My Fingers (Live at The Aragon Ballroom, July 2, 2003)”. This can be heard in the stream, and all the songs on the album track list are also available on the band’s YouTube channel ready.

Here is a live recording of “The Hardest Button To Button” from that concert:

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