John Mayer Chokes Up at Show Over Playboy Scandal

By Marc Schneider Posted Feb 11th 2010 07:48AM

His Twitter mea culpa behind him, John Mayer asked a crowd of actual people on Wednesday to forgive him for those race-tinged, hyper-sexual and wholly inappropriate comments made in a newly published Playboy interview. The blues-rock singer teared up as he spoke to fans in Nashville about descending into a "wormhole of selfishness" with his "quest to be clever" in the media. He said he's "done" acting foolish and just wants to "play my guitar."

Mayer's interview went awry in so many ways, including a casual use of the N-word, graphic thoughts on his sex life with ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson and, perhaps most bizarrely, that his sexual member was a "white supremacist" and prevents him from having intimate relationships with black women.

At the concert Wednesday night, Mayer said he had lost sight of what's important to him: "the people that I love and the people that love me."

"I went as I've begun to do, into a wormhole of selfishness and greed and arrogance," he said, adding he'd begun "thinking that if I just continued to be witty and pull together the most fast phrases that I could, that I could be clever enough to buy myself another day without thinking that anybody had finally pinned me down and said, 'you're a creep.'"

Mayer said he "feels absolutely terrible" for hurting people with his comments. "It feels worse than any headline I thought I could get my way out of."

He then changed the focus of his speech to his band, which includes many African-American musicians and singers, in an apparent attempt to defuse the scandal boiled up by his N-word use. His voice wavering with emotion, he said:

"I think it's important to know that everybody on this stage is here not because they condone what I say in any given interview -- and certainly not the interview that's arisen today. They're on this stage because they support myself as a possible future grown-up.

Maybe they see something that I haven't looked at in a while. So maybe I need to take a break from trying to be clever and just spend a little time looking at what they see. Because they've done an unbelievable thing tonight just being on the stage."

Mayer then made clear his game plan going forward: "I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done," he said. "I just want to play my guitar to whoever's around."

The "game" as he calls it is one he plays often, both on Twitter and in numerous interviews that tend to teeter on ridiculousness.

Just last week, the singer was quoted by the New York Post as saying, "When I get married that's gonna be my vows, 'Do you, John Mayer, take this woman to have and to hold, to wear her ass like headgear?' Yes, I do -- you're the one whose ass I wanna wear like a hat for the rest of my life."

In an interview with Rolling Stone in January, Mayer introduced his views on the kind of woman he'd settle down with. "You need to have them be able to go toe-to-toe with you intellectually. But don't they also have to have a vagina you could pitch a tent on and just camp out on for, like, a weekend? The Joshua Tree of vaginas?"

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Thursday 11 February

By sstmargaret

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Your sexual member is a white supremacist? Nahh...John Mayer you are the racist! And not suprisingly, your organ has a higher IQ than you!
I'm done with you! I will not buy another record of yours! This sister will keep her hard earned cash in her pockets! You are too arrogant to be sincere! Not a word of that trite verbage was believable!

By M

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He is the white equivalent of Kanye. Both jackasses and important only in their own minds.

By Liz

Kanye makes way more interesting music, though.

By Angie

The same thought had crossed my mind. Both tout their "greatness" while being, categorically, a couple of the biggest douches on the planet. Still waiting for either to shut up and go away....

By SexymanNOT!

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Hollywood Women Beware .......

"CAUTION, Sexual and Stupid Idiot Crossing"

If it looks like a Idiot, plays like a Idiot, and Talks like a Idiot- IT IS A IDIOT ! ! !

By byrdog

Gotta admit. This is just one plain ole creepy guy. Period. Obviously, he has very little goin' on- either in the brain cell sensitivity dept, or in the groin. No surprise -these days.

By tookie9293

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Whoopee, John Mayer expressed himself in an interview. He's not entitled to his opinions? My life goes on. How about yours?

By suzybear78

People who like John Mayer's song Waiting on a World to Change should listen to The Impressions "People Get Ready"...the melody sounds suspiciously similar!

By Debbie

Some famous people shouldn't give interviews such as John Mayer. He needs to continue singing, playing his guitar and leave it at that. As for these stupid women that know all about him....If you want to have a sex buddy, he would be the guy to go too (I'm guessing). If they want a relationship, they should keep looking. Guys like John Mayer usually end up a lone. He's young but will figure it out when it's much too late. Too bad so sad.

By Jenna

He's such a douche.
Next stop in his career:
reality show on VH1.

By k

Scripted by his PR people!!!

By LA

note to John ... first ... not a fan and second ... you are being lead by either the Holy Spirit or demonic spirits ... which do you think had you by the short and curlies when you spoke ... oh and one more thing ... never MISS an OPPORTUNITY to keep your mouth shut

Monday 15 February

By The Hutch

J. Mayer is the epitome of a racist in our society that lie to everyone else that they are not racist. I will never buy your music nor listen to it.

By chris

Remember the scene in animal house"learn how to play a guitar"... get laid. Well, Mayer paid attention. All of his fans who bought his records because "he was a touchy feely guy.... Have now learned it was a clever ruse to get laid. Hopefully his act is done and he will meander off into a quick sunset. But, then again keep in mind the hill side strangler got married After he went to prison. No doubt there are lots of people who will "buy" mayer's apology and say he is just mis understood.

By rick

We have ourselves to blame. We treat these marginally-talented people as if they are gods and they lose sight of reality. This guy is just another Kanye West. He "apologizes" only because his BS blew up bigger than he expected and he is trying to salvage his career. Another loser who gives nothing to society, while the average American works his butt off and gets little except more robbery from our elected "leaders".

By steve

He's not that good. His guitar playing is mediocre at best. This generaton has no Clapton, no Hendrix, no Page. Probably because they're too lazy to practice.

THANK YOU. He is the embodiment of mediocrity and so are his girlfriends. He's just trying to justify feeling superior. And failing miserably.

By lethabovegod

Isaac Brock, Johnny Marr, Kurt Cobain, Rodríguez-López.

By Laura

When you are in the whole, stop digging! Any man that has to keep announcing his lovemaking capabilities, well, it's cause no one is affirming he has any.

By fricaseedsoul

goes to show you can get to know someone just 15 minutes after they open their mouth.

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