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Although John Mayer sings about [wanting to] run through the halls of his high school and singing to the top of his lungs [after having found out] there’s no such thing as a ‘real world’—just a line we’ve got to rise above…the self-proclaimed former “recovering ego addict” who will be the first to tell you these days: “First Things First I’m a realist” is doing just that: being real.
FIRST THINGS FIRST IM A REALIST
— John Mayer (@JohnMayer) August 10, 2014
And part of being real is not only having gotten in touch with his former ego-mania but realizing that no matter what, and no matter how he peaks up or peeks out the industry’s door; the questions regarding Blank Space singer Taylor Swift will always be there to greet him.
Mayer, 37, who dated Swift, 25, in late 2009 into early 2010 (and is the subject of a few songs of hers) recently sat down with MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow to talk about his: music, his persona, his ego—and his chart-topping ex: Taylor and even congratulating her removing herself from Spotify was “really cool.”
Typically John has been very mum about his short-lived relationship with Taylor who (typically) leaves no blank spaces where her fans can connect the dots and know (without a doubt) just who the guitar-playing pop damsel is strumming her pain with her fingers and singing their lives with her words about.
“We have to be able to talk about Taylor Swift professionally.”
As well, John put out a song in 2013 called “Paper Doll” that he declares didn’t get much a listen to past the assumption that (because of the lyrics) got instantly as a song and his story about Taylor Swift:
“The song never got listened to as a song. It became a news story because of the lyrics. I’m not in the business of telling people what the song’s about. Now I can just go, ‘Look, I can say the name Taylor Swift.’ She’s an artist. I’m an artist. Everybody stop, nobody’s got cancer. We’re rich people who get to live out our dreams. Let’s just stop it. I’m a musician who’s bigger than one song or one record.”
Mayer, all grown up now (and on again) with former Swift BFF (and one time off-again girlfriend): pop start Katy Perry, the “recovering ego addict” humbly declares that his plans are to have “one wife and a certain number of children.”
Being in recovering for his ego is certainly working out well for the Wonderland singer who too, acknowledged that (although still rich and living his dreams) he will never be as big a star as let’s say…Swift (or Perry):
“Nothing bothers me anymore. There are going to be times when I make music as popular or empirically valuable as [Swift’s] in terms of making pop music that won’t sell as many copies and I’m fine with that. Look, if I save a baby from a burning building and Kanye West saves a baby from a burning building, Kanye’s going to get more Google News hits.And I’m fine with it.”
Let’s not forget:
FIRST THINGS FIRST IM A REALIST
— John Mayer (@JohnMayer) August 10, 2014
And when asked [to me is], that annoyingly “deep” question about what he would say to his younger self (the part) where, John says:
“There was never a shot of doing this perfectly.”
…For somebody like me, who is very demonstrative in the same philosophy that I share with Mayer: First Things First: I am a Realist: And therefore the answer to that question is such that I never understood the necessity for deep, profound long and drawn out philosophies about talking TO about what WAS, when it was necessary to be where and who you were then, in order to be and become who you are now, regardless.
So to that very same question, I have never had anything deep or profound to say [to my younger self ] other than:
“Angie. Keep living, keep breathing, keeping loving and keep growing. You’ll get “there” whenever you get there–whenever and whatever “there” is.”
