John Mayer Writes Love Song About Jennifer Aniston Break Up---John Mayer Writes Love Song About Jennifer Aniston Break Up, John Mayer has written his fair share of revealing songs about love won and lost, yet in an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine he has slammed Taylor Swift for writing about their break-up in her song; ‘Dear John,’ branding it ‘cheap songwriting.’ It’s common knowledge that Taylor Swift writes songs about the men she dates, but that didn’t stop John Mayer from having a brief fling with the then-19-year-old in 2009, and then dumping her cruelly – at least according to her song “Dear John.”
So then why is he now acting surprised that she used their romance to inspire one of the best songs off her 2010 album Speak Now? In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Mayer complains how “really humiliated” he was by the country superstar’s song. “It made me feel terrible,” he says. “Because I didn’t deserve it.
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.”
John Mayer and Taylor Swift are reported to have dated briefly in 2009. Credit: Columbia Records.
Whether or not he deserved it is debatable. Mayer, 34, is notorious for loving and leaving – just ask Jennifer Aniston or Jennifer Love Hewitt, two ladies the singer has written his own songs about.
And if Swift’s “Dear John” is true to reality, he wasn’t any better with her. “Dear John, I see it all now that you’re gone/Don’t think I was too young to be messed with?/The girl in the dress cried the whole way home/I should’ve known,” is the chorus of the ballad.
In one of the verses, Swift is much more direct with her aim at her ex: “Well, maybe it’s just me and my blind optimism to blame/Or maybe it’s you and your sick need to give love then take it away.”
In the Rolling Stone interview, Mayer adds that he was even more upset that Swift, now 22, didn’t give him a heads-up that she planned to skewer him on her album. “I never got an e-mail. 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?” Yet when asked about the chorus, in which Swift sings that he was too old to “mess with” a teenager like her, he suddenly doesn’t “want to go into that.” Mayer and Swift perform during Z100′s Jingle Ball in December 2009.
Mayer and Swift were never spotted out in public together, although the rumors were rampant that something was going on between the two musicians behind the scenes after they worked together on his song “Half of my Heart” from his 2009 album Battle Studies, which was released in the wake of his second split with Aniston.
So then why is he now acting surprised that she used their romance to inspire one of the best songs off her 2010 album Speak Now? In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Mayer complains how “really humiliated” he was by the country superstar’s song. “It made me feel terrible,” he says. “Because I didn’t deserve it.
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.”
John Mayer and Taylor Swift are reported to have dated briefly in 2009. Credit: Columbia Records.
Whether or not he deserved it is debatable. Mayer, 34, is notorious for loving and leaving – just ask Jennifer Aniston or Jennifer Love Hewitt, two ladies the singer has written his own songs about.
And if Swift’s “Dear John” is true to reality, he wasn’t any better with her. “Dear John, I see it all now that you’re gone/Don’t think I was too young to be messed with?/The girl in the dress cried the whole way home/I should’ve known,” is the chorus of the ballad.
In one of the verses, Swift is much more direct with her aim at her ex: “Well, maybe it’s just me and my blind optimism to blame/Or maybe it’s you and your sick need to give love then take it away.”
In the Rolling Stone interview, Mayer adds that he was even more upset that Swift, now 22, didn’t give him a heads-up that she planned to skewer him on her album. “I never got an e-mail. 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?” Yet when asked about the chorus, in which Swift sings that he was too old to “mess with” a teenager like her, he suddenly doesn’t “want to go into that.” Mayer and Swift perform during Z100′s Jingle Ball in December 2009.
Mayer and Swift were never spotted out in public together, although the rumors were rampant that something was going on between the two musicians behind the scenes after they worked together on his song “Half of my Heart” from his 2009 album Battle Studies, which was released in the wake of his second split with Aniston.
