Once upon a time (or something like three or four years ago) John Mayer and Taylor Swift were quite the secret couple. Then the relationship abruptly ended, and the scorned Taylor recorded “Dear John” for her 2010 Speak Now album. On the song, Taylor aired Mayer out with lines of ether like:
“Dear John, I see it all, now it was wrong. Don’t you think 19 is too young to be played by your dark twisted games, when I loved you so?”
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Mayer, who has been quiet over the last three years, hasn’t yet publicly talked about the song — until now. The singer spoke to RollingStone for their upcoming issue. During the interview, Taylor’s album cut became a point of conversation, and Mayer had a mouthful to say about the song:
“It made me feel terrible…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.”
Mayer also said the song in its whole caught him by surprise:
“I never got an e-mail. I never got a phone call. 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?”
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Mayer also wasn’t shy when talking about the quality of the actual record:
“I will say as a songwriter that I think it’s kind of cheap songwriting…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 bullsh*t.”
Mayer kept it most blunt and straight to the point when asked about the song’s famous “19 is too young” line:
“I don’t want to go into that.”
Expect “Dear John 2” any day now, folks.
SOURCE: RollingStone
