Jack White Shares Two New Singles, “Hi-De-Ho” feat. Q-Tip and “Queen of the Bees”
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Jack White is back with two more previews of his forthcoming pair of albums, Fear of the Dawn (April 8) and Entering Heaven Alive (July 22), among Paste’s most-anticipated releases of the year. “Hi-De-Ho,” off the former album, features A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip, while “Queen of the Bees” appears on the latter album.
White’s new singles are each unusual in their own divergent ways. “Hi-De-Ho” is a kitchen sink shape-shifter that comprises skronky guitar noodling, a sample of Cab Calloway’s “Hi De Ho Man,” a rhythmic guitar riff that loops under Q-Tip’s characteristically acrobatic raps, a Spanish guitar bridge, backward White vocals and more. “Queen of the Bees,” on the other hand, is a jaunty love song that brings marimba and organ to the forefront.
“Hi-De-Ho” and “Queen of the Bees” are the fourth and fifth singles from White’s forthcoming albums, following lead track “Taking Me Back” and another two-track release, “Love Is Selfish” and White’s Fear of the Dawn title track. That album will be White’s first in four years, following 2018’s Boarding House Reach.