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There are a few fleeting moments in (relatively distant) history when I’ve actually found John Mayer physically attractive, and I’ve felt incredibly guilty as a result. Thankfully — I’ve just now realized (from the above photo) that these brief instances of weakness only occur when John is looking vaguely Jack White-ish, which makes me feel a bit better about the whole situation. After all, Jack is a very decent fellow (or rather, a fine bloke) who takes great pleasure into turning women into rock goddesses, so I think the fact that I’ve been occasionally intrigued by douchebag John (again, only for a few seconds) can easily be explained away as such. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself.
By and large, these last few years without John sticking his face into paparazzi cams has been a blessedly peaceful run. It couldn’t last forever though, for now John is making the rounds to promote his new album, Shadow Days, which is the record that features a song about his breakup with Jennifer Aniston. So naturally, John’s trying to dance around those disastrous interviews wherein he rambled on about his white supremacist d-ck and Jessica Simpson-associated sexual exploits. Will it work? Well he’s claiming that he doesn’t even remember the Playboy interview and calls it “a very strange time.” Here’s a preview of his interview on today’s “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” with video below as well:
It’s no accident that John Mayer has been avoiding the press for the past two years. Following two explosive interviews with Playboy and Rolling Stone in 2010, where he likened his chemistry with Jessica Simpson to “sexual napalm” and blamed his split with Jennifer Aniston on his frequent tweeting, Mayer felt the need to escape.
“It was a very strange time and it sort of rocketed me into adulthood. It was a violent crash into being an adult,” Mayer, 34, said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday. “For a couple of years it was just figuring it all out, and I’m glad I actually stayed out of the spotlight. Because I think back then I would of said, ‘Give me two weeks or let me get out and do Ellen and let me explain myself.’ It was like, ‘No, idiot. Go away and be 33 and 34 instead of 28 for the fourth year.’”
Mayer said he “had to go home for a minute” to heal from the backlash in 2010. “The plan that originally gets you out of high school and your hometown, in front of people, that plan was over. I had done it. I just sort of lost my head for a little while.”
The “Shadow Days” singer — whose new album, Born and Raised, will be released May 22 — was forced to cancel his 21-city tour in March in order to remove a granuloma just above his vocal cord. (He first had surgery to remove the enlarged nodule in October 2011.)
“It’s not a health concern whatsoever, but it has taken me out of singing,” Mayer told host Ellen DeGeneres, 54. ‘I tried to beat it the first time and couldn’t.”
Mayer then explained how the medical procedure works. “They cut this thing out of your throat and then they inject your vocal cords with Botox, which freezes your vocal cords so that this thing can heal without smacking up against the other side,” he said. “I just need more Botox next time.”
[From Us Weekly]
Aside from John’s botched vocal chord surgery (which really is a terrible thing for any singer to face), I don’t really get John’s explanation for his past behavior. At least he’s not still trying to blame his management because he couldn’t keep his verbal diarrhea from spilling out at every opportunity. But it really feels like he’s trying to explain his past douchebaggery away as just trying to be a 28-year-old dude for several years, and that makes no sense. Plenty of 28-year-old guys hold down real jobs, maintain families, and still don’t cave to the unyielding pressure of needing to say stupid sh-t and act like immature idiots. So basically John is still the same douchebag that he’s always been, and nothing (even slight humility) will ever change that. John didn’t say those terrible racist things because he was experiencing growing pains — that’s just how he really is as a person. He’s only sorry that we didn’t find his shtick to be charming.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN
Written by Bedhead
Posted in Ellen DeGeneres, John Mayer
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Well, let’s just wait and see if he does grow up already this time around. Maybe his management should check every question and approve the answer before any interview for some times. Or it might be better if he stop giving an interview at all.
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His face always bothered me, like his big forehead juts out over his creepy eyes. He is great at playing the blues, but he’s always come off as someone who is really narcissistic and annoying.
He and Joe Francis will probably open A “Girls Gone Wild” theme park. Mayer is obsessed with porn.
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His face always bothered me, like his big forehead juts out over his creepy eyes. He is great at playing the blues, but he’s always come off as someone who is really narcissistic and annoying. He thinks he’s deep but he’s as deep as as a puddle after a drizzle.
He and Joe Francis will probably open A “Girls Gone Wild” theme park. I can see that happening.
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What I read came across very differently. He seemed to be owning it and not making excuses. He did n’t say “you have no idea what it’s like to be a mega star; the pressure!” or blame substances or anything. He said “I was acting like an idiot and I took time to get my head out of my ass.”
I thought it seemed mature and humble.
I’m interested to hear his new album.
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Yeah, but isn’t this an opion he has in general?
Stress and pressure just showed his true colours.
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I’m a fan too.
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I’m sorry. I don’t think so. That response wasn’t an explanation so much as it was a disavowal. His answer is the kind that I file under the “I’m sorry. I was drunk” bullshit reason. It’s never a legit excuse.
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He is so gross, those beady eyes, the limp d-ck music… Yeah, no
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OMG LMFAO “limp dick music” LOVE IT QQ
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he’s full of it.
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John Mayer doesn’t recall his racist Playboy interview
Oh, but I do, John. I remember it very well.
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As do I.
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Me too. What a douche.
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How very convenient, non? Still said it, still happened, still stings…the inconvenience of recorded history John.
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Very clearly.
Dick like David Duke. Heart like United Colors of Bennetton.
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In the last picture it looks like he wet his khakis…wtf
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I smell douche.
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+1
the douche is strong with this one.
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+2 he definitely smells strongly of vinegar and water to me.
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John always looks ill to me. He has that yellowish cast to him & seems so low energy. I enjoy some of his music but not enough to delve into his personal life.
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…but I looove that walnut Stratocaster.
Alright fine, AND I love his gee-tar o-face. Anybody who was on Chappelle’s Show gets at least half a pass from me.
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Well, many people recall that you’re an a$$hole, John.
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And we remember it from a time long before the Playboy interview.
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it would of been better to own up to it.
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And apologized.
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yeah, he’s good looking…when he keeps his mouth shut. I like the fact that he actually went away and ate humble pie after making a complete douche of himself. I just wish more jack ass celebrities would follow his lead. Its a little unfair that some people’s transgressions follow them further (not that I am insinuating that he didn’t deserve the shit storm that came his way). There are plenty of other celebs who deserve to be taken down a peg permamnently (ahem*Kanye*ahem) for being tools but somehow always seem to get back up and keep going with the public’s forgiveness.
Unrelated, John Mayer raises the ire of so many of the men I know. Like NO ONE else can…I think he makes most men insecure for some reason.
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Love Jack White!! Some posts about him would be welcome!!!
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agreed! but he tends to keep under the radar.
i don’t really see a jack white resemblance here. more low-rent johnny depp knock-off.
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WAIT WAIT WAIT!! I MISSED THIS ONE!!WHAT RACIST THINGS DID HE SAY??? SOMEBODY FILL ME IN PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!!
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Here’s a sample:
On whether he dates black girls: “I don’t think I open myself to it. My d-ck is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a f-ckin’ David Duke c-ck. I’m going to start dating separately from my d-ck.”
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So basically he is saying that he isn’t sexually attracted to Black girls but would not be averse to dating one cause he is not racist. Surely there was a better way to phrase it…
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John Mayer is a ‘good man’ To quote JM ” One day you wake up and find there is no bigger bed to crawl into”
My friend John Mayer, I know I will looove his new album.
May 22nd release date. On my list of things to buy myself.
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What was that release date? Maybe you can double your pay by saying it again….
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He’s a drifter, agreeable to take advantage, enjoy then spoil for he is shallow.. and ever curious.. not staying long..
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I will never support a racist.
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There’s nothing attractive about him, neither his looks or his personality does anything for me. He looks like a homeless junky.
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+1
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Limp d-ck music, haha! brilliant whoever said it upthread.
Also, let’s not forget he made out with Perez….URGH!
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How convenient. He’s still a d-bag moron.
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He doesn’t remember? Not sure I’m buying that – was he black out drunk? On drugs? Having a psychotic episode? If not, I’m thinking you would remember that.
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‘He’s only sorry that we didn’t find his shtick to be charming.’
Exactly.
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I don’t even understand why they asked him that question to be honest. It’s opening up a whole can of worms.What he said was racist as f–k but for the life of my I don’t understand why people can’t be tactful about certain things, especially as entertainers. If he would have said that he’s not really attracted to black girls in that way then I would understand that. Having a preference is not racist in the same way that I’m a stick to my own kind type of person but that doesn’t mean I should walks around saying my whoo ha is Angela Davis and my heart is like Joan Baez. The way he said it was just so nasty and wrong.
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It was for playboy mag they ask those type of questions and other stuff.
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Reading comprehension. It wasn’t sexually nasty, it was racially nasty. He said “I have a David Duke c8ck.”
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Agreed.
Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks, but the problem was that his subversive psuedo-intellectual metaphor fell horribly flat.
And when he tried to back track on Twitter shortly after the interview leaked, it just made matters worse. He still couldn’t allay his arrogance, and it completely invalidated his apology. He claimed that he tried to intellectualize a sore subject (whilst giving himself a pat on the back for his superior wit, I’m sure.) But he apologized in such a way that condescended to those poor lesser-minded philistines rather absorbing the shame and being honest with himself that his joke just wasn’t clever or funny. His clay of feet is that he always likes to sell himself as the smartest guy in the room. He failed that time, and his ego took a beating.
Seeing what trajectory his career will take from this point is going to be interesting. I think that becacuse of the nature of his musical expression it was too easy for him to appeal to women as this sensitive, evoled male; and I realized years before this incidenct that that was not really who he was and he was struggling with it. So, at some point he decided to go alpha-male in a pathetic effort to recover his emasculated ego, and it blew up in his face.
Hope you learned a lesson, Johnny Boy.
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I am a black woman and I know this is going to make some of you hate me, but I don’t think what he said was racist. Michael Fassbender answered a question about what he prefers and he said that he prefers dark skinned women. John Mayer doesn’t. True, he was trying way too hard to be funny about it, but sometimes people are simply sexually attracted to specific traits…that includes skin color. Yes, I still think he is a jerk but I refuse to call him a racist.
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…+1.
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The phrase ‘sexual napalm’ has never made any sense to me. I guess he’s saying they were so hot for each other she completely wiped him out? Or something?
Honestly, I only see the comment about his ‘white supremacist dick’ to be racist. The hood pass one, not so much. People got all over him for saying the N-word, when he was saying it to explain how he wasn’t allowed to say it. Still and unfortunate lack of understanding as far as how saying it affects people, but not necessarily racist.
Is he kind of a jack off who lacks understanding about how his words might offend others? Oh yeah, hard core, but I wouldn’t say that he’s truly racist, at least not from those comments.
That said, I hate him. I always have. That one song, Your Body is a Wonderland? It was everywhere for so long, and I HATE it. Every time I heard him say ‘your bubble gum tongue’ I gagged a little.
I find his voice so annoying! I have no idea how he got famous, and I’m someone who can appreciate Katy Perry Ke$ha because they’re ‘fun’. High tolerance for crap, is what I’m getting at.
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It wasn’t just that what he said in that interview was offensive (although it was), it was the complete lack of self awareness about how he was coming across. I’m not surprised he doesn’t remember it, because it was like he wasn’t even thinking about what was coming out of his mouth or the fact that it would be in print for the world to read.
I never really understood why this man had a career in the first place – I don’t think he’s attractive and his music is dull as dishwater – and since that interview it amazes me even more.
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Hmm maybe he’s a junkie and was really high during that interview. That would account for the sweat, sallow completion, verbal diarrhea, and lack of recall.
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He has Douche-nesia
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hahahhahaahahhahah
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I actually don’t think he is a racist. I think he is someone that thinks he is funnier then he is. He tried to be clever and witty in his reply about dating outside his race. It was dumb and again not funny.
I think he is extremely talented. And again got all caught up in thinking he is the “funny guy” and the funniest one in the room. Like he is the only one that gets the joke when no one laughs.
Hopefully this set back has made him grow up.
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he was idolizing howard stern at the time i believe, ugh he is so disgusting. wish he would remain hidden. even his disgusting stupid face is so revolting. not a spark of intelligence in those gross eyes. ugh an the wannabe tattooes. only a true desperate like maniston would date him, and twice *e-vomits*
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….before his PR implosion I was in the 14th street guitar center with my teenage son and John Mayer was there. He was really nasty to the help and acted like he was some sort of king that needed to be bowed down to and we should all kiss his ring.
The young guy was trying to help him and when the guy would ask him questions he would randomly just not answer him. Then he would yell and reprimand him for bringing the wrong thing and the guy was like “But I tried to ask you….” etc etc
It was a major turn off and I was actually really sad that I had bought his first album when he was still considered “under ground” and a no body. I saw that he had become exactly what he started out as looking down on. I gave his CD away and have been disgusted with him ever since. He’s a massive a$$ hole now and I am amazed that he actually thought it’s OK to kiss and tell on all of the women he had been involved with. Like, wow, he’s really that ok with not being a gentleman?? And yet he sings about mothers treating your daughters well?? How about boyfriends and lovers treating those girls well? You jack a$$.
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*side-eye* I have to admit that my best friend and I both have a thing with him. He is on our list of doable as long as he just sings and “No talkie…talkie.” (Bows head and walks away in ashamed silence)
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I actually met John Mayer today when he ate at my restaurant, and it was hard for me to believe that he has ever been a douchebag. He was just quiet and polite, and even posed for a picture with some guy.
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Hm… Not giving him a total pass on all of the things he said, but to be honest it just sounds like he was high when he did the interview. Come on, he described himself as “VERY.” Right about then the interviewer should have asked him if he wanted a bag of Funions and a minute to collect his thoughts.
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