John Mayer is known for spilling intimate details of his past loves, including Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Love Hewitt. But when the tables are turned on him, the musician is not a fan.
“It made me feel terrible,” Mayer, 34, tells Rolling Stone in its latest issue of the “Dear John” song written and performed by another of Mayer’s exes, Taylor Swift.
“As a songwriter … I think it’s kind of cheap songwriting,” he said.
“I know she’s the biggest thing in the world, and I’m not trying to sink
anybody’s ship, but I think it’s abusing your talent to rub your hands
together and go, ‘Wait till he gets a load of this!’ That’s bull—-.”
Swift, 22, has never confirmed that the song - whose lyrics include,
“Don’t you think I was too young to be messed with?” – was about her
brief fling with the rocker, but Mayer seems to think so.
“I didn’t deserve it,” he tells the magazine. “I’m pretty good at
taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It
was a really lousy thing for her to do.”
Mayer famously gave a pair of headline-grabbing interviews
in 2010 to Playboy and Rolling Stone magazines in which he revealed
intimate details of his sex life with Simpson during their two-year
relationship and said that he still hadn’t gotten over his romance with
Aniston.
He explained his thought-process at the time in an interview with NPR last month, saying he, in part, did not want to appear boring.
“There was a part of me that was dead, a certain thoughtfulness that was gone,” Mayer said.
Swift’s “Dear John” song, from her 2010 album “Speak Now,” was
released just after Mayer went on a self-imposed, two-year hiatus after
his controversial interviews.
In an interview of her own at the time, Swift said the public would know who the song was about without her having to explain or make it public.
“There are things that were little nuances of the relationship,
little hints,” she said. “Everyone will know, so I don’t really have to
send out emails on this one.”
Mayer confirmed to Rolling Stone that Swift was not joking on that last account.
“I never got an email. I never got a phone call,” he says. “I was
really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I’d
already been dressed down. I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest
you’ve ever been, someone kicked you even lower?”
Mayer’s interview with Rolling Stone was done to promote his new
album, “Born and Raised,” his first album in three years. The album
debuted as the nation’s bestselling album last week.
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