Back from a two-year hiatus and promoting his latest album, Born and Raised, John Mayer is reacting to Taylor Swift’s “Dear John” – a song allegedly written about him.
“I never did anything to deserve that,” the “Shadow Days” singer said about the song, in an interview with Rolling Stone.
“I was really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I’d already been dressed down,” he said. “I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you’ve ever been, someone kicked you even lower?”
In the song from Swift’s Speak Now, the country-pop star sings:
“Dear John, I see it all now it was wrong/ Don’t you think nineteen’s too young/ To be played by your dark, twisted games/ When I loved you so, I should’ve known.”
The pair had been together prior to the song’s release, and Swift told a Yahoo music blog that the subjects of the songs from Speak Now are “all made very clear.”
Mayer, who had to cancel his Born and Raised tour in March due to a throat condition, didn’t go into the age aspect Swift mentions in the song, but he did have criticism for the track.
“I will say as a songwriter that 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 bulls—.”
More from this interview in the latest issue of Rolling Stone on newsstands June 8.
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