John Mayer

John previously faced backlash for making degrading sexual comments about his ex Jessica Simpson and for calling Taylor Swift's songwriting “cheap” in a ...

Do you really hope that I die?” “I will say as a songwriter that I think it’s kind of cheap songwriting,” he continued. I just have dry courage.” In a track titled “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve,” the singer seemingly expressed regret at dating older men when she was just 19. It was like napalm, sexual napalm,” he said. After they split, John publicly condemned a very pointed song Taylor wrote that seemingly discussed their relationship, which was quite literally titled “Dear John.”

Six years of sobriety has radically shifted John Mayer's approach to relationships and dating. The musician opened up about his past failed romances in the ...

[Best Books](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2022/12/best-books-of-2022?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-122022)of 2022 While on tour promoting his new album Sob Rock earlier this year at a stop in Las Vegas, the Grammy winner told his audience that he also wishes people would stop asking when he's going to finally settle down. “And so I felt very deeply when somebody liked me. It was less this [Mayer rubs his hands together] and more like this [Mayer looks around in disbelief], ‘Me?’ Because it was always set forth to me that, like, that shouldn't happen.” Mayer added that growing up he was “made to believe” that “approval” from women was a fleeting thing and any romantic interest shown him was an “accident,” so he learned to “capitalize” on it. “You have to be really, glaringly honest.” “You have to be honest,” he said of making that decision.

John Mayer doesn't want to be known as a “womanizer” anymore, disputing his reputation in a new interview on the “Call Her Daddy” show.

Mayer claimed his Hollywood “playboy” image is unfair, saying, “I think the elephant in the room is that I’m on a show that caters to women, and I have a couple of nameplates on me, like ‘Lothario’ and ‘womanizer,’ and I think that is what that is.” [Dear John](https://youtu.be/5ZT566Kjnz8)” about him on her Speak Now (2010) album. The singer introduced the video by writing, “Watch my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time.” As always, Swift took to Instagram to debut some behind-the-scenes pictures from the “Anti-Hero” music video shoot. In his early career, the “Gravity” singer explained he was “made to believe” he had to “capitalize” on every opportunity when it came to anyone showing any romantic interest as he believed the attention must have been a mistake. John Mayer doesn’t want to be known as a “womanizer” anymore, disputing his reputation in a new interview on the “Call Her Daddy” show.