John Mayer Mocking LeBron James' Announcement

John Mayer attempts humor by mocking LeBron's announcement. Includes cities in which he'll be performing this summer

John Mayer "Half of My Heart" Video Premiere

Billy Corgan says John Mayer looking to destroy own career

John Mayer’s wacked-out interview in which he called Jessica Simpson “sexual napalm” is a not-so-subtle attempt to blow up his career. So says Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, who knows a little something about self-destructive behavior. “He’s trying to destroy his career,” Corgan, 42, tells Rolling Stone in an interview. “Rather than take a year off or change his musical direction, some part of it is irritating his soul to the point where he’s trying to blow it up. Certainly a talented guy, but empathetically, standing on the sidelines, it’s hard to watch someone literally burn their career to the ground speaking as somebody who’s done it.” Mayer, 32, has apologized repeatedly for the interview in which he kissed-and-tattled about Simpson, called his penis a white supremecist, discussed his love of porn and threw around the N-word.


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Now Letting His Guitar Do the Talking

The defining document of the John Mayer Implosion Era will not be the Q.&A. in the current issue of Playboy magazine, in which he made flip and unfortunate use of a racial epithet. That will survive, for better and worse, mostly in Twitter-bursts and sound bites and only fully in the outlets where that slur is reprintable.

Instead, it will be the shaky video, recorded from the audience at a Nashville concert the night the news broke, in which Mr. Mayer addresses the crowd and thanks his band members — the majority of whom are black — for their support. It was his Oprah moment. “They’ve done an unbelievable thing by standing on this stage and standing by my side and playing tonight,” he said, seemingly in tears.


It was an act of humility and contrition, and certainly Mr. Mayer’s only option. His unfortunate comment had the potential to stain everyone in his blast zone, and this was his attempt to shield those people, or maybe more troublingly, for him to control their message.

But it’s also the last significant public statement he has made about the controversy, a silence that is threatening to become too much of a comfort zone. Right after the interview was publicized, there were murmurs of backlash against Mr. Mayer, but mostly his high-profile peers were forgiving. ?uestlove of the Roots said he would give Mr. Mayer the “benefit of the doubt,” saying he’d “assume that was a punchline gone awry.” In the last week or so there’s been little conversation about Mr. Mayer’s faux pas. The result is an implicit and worrisome approval of Mr. Mayer’s quick fix, as if it were enough.

With no need for continued accountability, the normally garrulous Mr. Mayer has largely kept mum, as he did at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night during the first of his two shows there, part of a tour that continues through June.

He referred to his troubles only obliquely. “I have never in my entire life intended to come off like” a terrible person, he said near the end of the show, using considerably stronger language, “and thank you guys for not believing I’m” a terrible person.

Most of the apologizing, though, he did with his hands. Mr. Mayer is an astonishing blues guitarist, both in his technical gifts and in his ability to make those gifts appear accessible. From “Heartbreak Warfare” at the beginning of the show, when he marked the song’s rhythm with quick percussive taps of the guitar strings, all the way up to the end of his set, when he laid his guitar on the ground and, hunched over it in a feral crouch, played it with one finger, he was virtuosic. He found spots to show off everywhere from “Crossroads” to “Why Georgia” to a cover of Bill Withers’s “Ain’t No Sunshine.” He closed “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room,” which had been one of the night’s lumpier songs, with a bit of pealing Black Sabbath theatricality.

Overhead lights rotating and slowly dropping down around him, he stretched “Gravity” into Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind,” recalling the last time he’d been on this stage: a triumphant turn at last September’s 9/11 memorial concert by Jay-Z. (There was no Jay-Z, who was on tour elsewhere, to return the favor.)

At the end of “Vultures,” the intimate back-and-forth between Mr. Mayer and the guitarist David Ryan Harris, who is black — each with head bowed toward the other — played like an absolution, the night’s most emotional moment.

As a bluesman — a pop star, but always a bluesman — Mr. Mayer is playing black music that’s been appropriated and popularized by white musicians for decades. He’s not a rapper like Eminem or a modern soul singer like Justin Timberlake; his sphere is less immediately fraught with concerns about race.

Still, his fame can place those issues front and center, and Mr. Mayer would never settle for just being Jonny Lang or even Stevie Ray Vaughan: in other words, for the version of his career that doesn’t involve getting interviewed by Playboy. He may be an old-fashioned sort of musician, but he’s a hypermodern sort of celebrity, and that can lead to trouble, real or imagined.

For example, after he played “Half of My Heart,” from his latest album, “Battle Studies” (Columbia) — a song that features the young country star Taylor Swift on record — Mr. Mayer segued into Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” which set off a couple of triggers: Mr. Mayer and Ms. Swift were recently pegged in the tabloids as a possible item, and Ms. Swift performed with Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks at the Grammy Awards a month ago. Was it all a coded message?

Intentionally or otherwise Mr. Mayer, whose highly performative public life has become almost impossible to disentangle from his creative life, courts that sort of convoluted reading. After the Playboy interview, tabloids feasted on his comments about his famous ex-girlfriends, restarting the gossip cycle he had been so adept at steering for the last couple of years. But despite the bonus details — Jessica Simpson as “sexual napalm” — this was old news. His status as a lothario had been damaged before and survived. This time is likely to be no different.



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John Mayer Thanks Fans For 'Believing' In Him At NYC Concert

The fans at Madison Square Garden didn't let a little snow keep them from John Mayer's sold-out concert on Thursday night (February 25). Mayer has also had some adversity come his way over the past few weeks, after the backlash from his controversial comments in Playboy magazine.

Mayer took a moment onstage to thank his fans for believing in him through the uproar.

"I hate to come off like an a--hole ever, and thank you guys for believing that I am not an a--hole," he told the crowd. "Never, ever in my entire life did I ever think that it would be a good idea to be an a--hole. But you know what? There's plenty of a--holes who think the same thing, so I have to thank you."

Mayer said he's ready for a fresh start: "It's a clean me now, people, clean me."

When Mayer wasn't thanking his fans for braving the elements, he and his five-piece band were rocking out the stage to a set list of songs from his current album, Battle Studies, as well as hits from his past, including "Waiting on the World to Change" and "Your Body Is a Wonderland." He even succumbed to a section of cheering fans calling out for him to perform "City Love" from his breakthrough 2001 album, Room for Squares.

Even if the public isn't convinced by his numerous apologies, Mayer had the Madison Square Garden concertgoers on their feet from show-opener "Heartbreak Warfare" to his encore — snow boots and all. The singer/songwriter even checked in with the crowd on Twitter after the show: "MSG crowd, will you tweet me when you get home safe? It's bad out. Oh and HOLY SHNIKES. You were unreal tonight."

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John Mayer Breaks Down in Tears After Public Apology

"I'm out. I'm done. I just want to play my guitar," said Mayer during the closing song, "Gravity."

Jessica Simpson Amused By Mayer’s Sexual Banter

Shortly after John Mayer’s explicit comments about his love life were made public, ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson has already chimed in on the situation.

Having chatted with Playboy magazine, Mayer described Miss Simpson as “crack cocaine” and “sexual napalm” during the course of his discussion.

Tweeting about the newly released words, Jessica tweeted, “interesting day so far...hmm. at least i am boxing 2-a-days this week.”

As for Mayer’s interview, the “Why Georgia?” rocker told, “That girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy...Did you ever say, ‘I want to quit my life and just f*****’ snort you? If you charged me $10,000 to f*** you, I would start selling all my s*** just to keep f****** you.’”

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Taylor Swift and John Mayer Collaborate over Dinner

It's not all work for John Mayer, who is in Nashville and slated to film an upcoming episode of CMT's Crossroads with Keith Urban Tuesday.

On Sunday, the rocker stepped out to dinner with Nashville resident – and good friend – Taylor Swift, at hot spot Cabana. The two, who recently recorded "Half of My Heart" for Mayer's latest album Battle Studies, were joined by a group of about 15 friends and sat next to each other throughout the meal. But the gathering was friendly – and not romantic. "It looked like a big group of Nashville friends," a source says of the group.

"They were so nice," the source says of the two singers, who enjoyed their meal at a quiet table away from other diners but were also chatty with restaurant and bar staff.

And Swift is one dedicated diner. According to the source, this was her second visit to Cabana in one week. She stopped in on Jan. 19 with a smaller group of friends and ordered the Blanco pizza with provolone cheese and roasted garlic. – Eileen Finan


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John Mayer talks girlfriends, tabloids and his sexuality

The soulful and evocative John Mayer sat down for an interesting interview with Rolling Stone magazine, spilling the beans about nearly everything you’ve never even knew you wanted to know.

On relationships:

John Mayer wants a girlfriend – like, a real life-partner one, he told Rolling Stone. The problem is, when he meets a girl, they’re all, “But you’re John Mayer!” Which means he’s stuck with girls he’s already been with. Poor John.

Ladies, if you’re not overcome by his John Mayer-ness and think you’d be a good match, here’s what he’s looking for:

“You need to have them be able to go toe-to-toe with you intellectually,” he told the magazine, among other things too explicit to post here.

On the inspiration for “Your Body is a Wonderland”

When you think of John Mayer, you inevitably think of this song. The inspiration may have a husband and kids now, but she and Mayer still keep up occasional communication.

In a recent email, she described what it was like to hear Mayer on the radio. “She said she smiled. I started crying as I wrote her back. This woman is precious…She carries with her information of this 14-year-old boy she knew. She knows the truth.”

On relationships with celebrities:

In the eyes of the media, John Mayer has had two great loves: Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston.

With Simpson, he said, he couldn’t handle all of the media attention in his almost-year long relationship. “I got so many tension headaches from magazine covers it felt like a threat,” he explained.

His breakup with Aniston, he said, was one of the worst times of his life.

“I have this weird feeling, a pride thing, for the people I’ve had relationships with. What would I be saying to Jen, who I think is [expletive] fantastic, if I said to her, ‘I don’t dislike you. In fact, I like you extremely well,' ” Mayer told the magazine. “But I have to back out of this because it doesn’t arc over the horizon. This is not where I see myself for the rest of my life, this is not my ideal destiny.”

On his sexuality:

“I don’t care about anything other than energy,” Mayer told RS. And while he’s never slept with a man, he does say that he gets why people do. “I’ve seen pictures of men on the Internet that are sexier than pictures of most women.”

To read the rest of the interview, look for Rolling Stone’s latest issue, out February 4, 2010.

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John Mayer Covers Rolling Stone

John Mayer may be the king of the confessional Twitter, but all his 140-character missives about spectacular bowel movements don’t measure up to the explosion of deeply personal details he reveals to Erik Hedegaard in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands tomorrow. (Check out exclusive video from our cover shoot below.)


The 32-year-old singer-guitarist admits he prefers Continuum to his 2009 disc Battle Studies (”I know that I’m supposed to say that my newest is the best one. Bullshit,” he says), that he hasn’t stopped thinking about his split with ex-girlfriend Jennifer Aniston (”I’ve never really gotten over it. It was one of the worst times of my life”) and that his sex life has become an endless loop of new girls rejecting him in clubs (”Blowing me off is the new sucking me off!”).

Mayer’s in the midst of a massive 10-year record deal and enjoys the pleasures of late-night weed-and-video-game sessions, as well as his $20 million vintage watch collection, but what he truly wants, he tells Hedegaard, is to finally find a a female companion. But not just any girlfriend — Mayer is after “the Joshua Tree of vaginas.” “I’ll be happy when I close out this life-partner thing,” he says. “Think of how much mental capacity I’m using to meet the right person so I can stop giving a fuck about it.”

Grab the new issue for Mayer’s full advice for Tiger Woods (”I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life”) and more on his journey from bedroom guitar player to the most angst-ridden playboy in rock.

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John Mayer brags about sex and drugs at London gig

Weirdly, after going to a John Mayer gig, we got the munchies in the middle of the night...

Could it have been something to do with the "pot brownies" the American rocker - who has an on-off relationship with Jennifer Aniston - treated fans to at the end of his jaw-dropping London show on Monday?

Smirking waiters gave out the curious tasting chocolate cakes after Mayer launched into his infamous song Who Says (I Can't Smoke Weed)?

He bragged to the audience at the Hard Rock Cafe Q The Music Club gig: "I learned how to make a pot brownie. I went on Google.

"But then I realised the people who put up the recipes are stoners and they were writing a lot about the planet before they actually gave out the recipe. I made them and fell asleep. They should put them in a bottle and manufacture them instead of sleeping pills."

He admitted: "I've lied to America and said this song is not about getting stoned, but I'll tell you guys it is."

John, 32, is off to Amsterdam today.. we're sure will come up with plenty more inspiration for his songs.

And he wasn't just being loose-lipped about drugs - he made some shocking revelations about sex, joking: "I'm going to get someone preggers tonight." Oo-er!

John, who did a fab version of Assassin from his Battle Studies album, also launched into a graphic anecdote about what happens if his performance in bed fails to make the earth move. The only part we dare repeat is the punchline: "You get the hell out."

The rock hunk, who has also dated Jessica Simpson, then turned his attention on the girls in the audience. Laying on the innuendo, he said: "I'm going to do a cover by another artist who has a hard time making it happen in the UK.

"I'm not saying I have a hard time making it happen. I could make it happen with any of you ladies tonight. Someone's getting preggers. Someone's going to have my baby tonight.

"It only takes nine months, and eight hours from now.

"We should f*** on a Leap Year or on Easter Island."

Where are you, Jen? We think you need to keep your Friend under control...

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John Mayer on the cover of DETAILS

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