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 wanda

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By the looks of you, your family tree is not entirely anglo. Looks like there might be a little tarbrush in there John. Maybe you could look up that N word you have been using. Suits you to a T.

From, a black woman

By Rose

He can take his guitar and shove it up his ass! Bet that will make his white member happy!! Why women like Aniston and Simpson went out with the creep is well, okay I guess these examples are questionable too:))))

By al483

This guy is a moron. Everytime he does an interview theres contoversy. He acts like a playboy and he is nothing to look at. Lets see if Jen hooks back up with this charachter. Anyone that talks to this guy privately better watch out cuz he will squeel on you......................

By ms nadal

this is nothing but a racist fool. a black woman wouldn't have his puny little THING anyway. He must have been trying to get with some black woman who wouldn't give him the time of day, now he's trying to "get back" at all black women. he needs to get a life! his career is OVER and he'll burn in hell like all the other LOSERS!

Thursday 18 February

By dan

or maybe he just isn't attracted to black women? did you ever think about that? everyone has their preferences. can you honestly say that you are attracted to every single race out there?

By egomaniac

It was REALLY obvious that Mayer had an ego problem wayyyy before this incident occured.

As a Black female I am not offended by his personal preferences. However, what is hurtful is how racist he is...

By J

He's an idiot.

By Beth

What a douchebag! What does Aniston see in this blowhole??? Pitch a tent?? He's a 14 yr old boy, and not a very mature 14 either.

By Marybeth

Disgusting, it will be hard for me to hear his music without wanting to throw up. Shame on you John.

By jaime

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He talks about all these women so much.... but he's nothin but a woman HATER not a woman lover with his ugly azz self. I think people should stop buying his music. Enough of him and his nonsense. He has no class. I don't know who he thinks he is. He's truly delusional.

By maryanne

go away john and stay away please!!!!!

By Fallaya

Wow...I used to like John Mayer...until now. What a creep.

By BoredinOC

This jerk-off needs to shut and sing. What on Earth do women see in this little slice of sludge?

By kc

He knows what he is, too bad these celebrity chicks fall for the facade. Stick to what you know and leave the girls alone.

By nancy

He needs to go to personality rehab with Kanye.

By Jerry

It's always amazing to me how much hate people have for other people they don't even really know. He's a young man who has done some stupid things, we all have.. When he gets older at some point in his life, hopefully one day he will reflect on the things he's done and concentrate on the stuff that really matters... Us older people know all about that.. The people that say a lot of disgusting things about other people are no better.. Think before opening your mouth..

By Luluu

He is 32 years old. That is old enough to act like a MAN!

Monday 22 February

By Helen

Agree with Luluu.

Seriously Jerry, he's past 30 now; just how much 'older' does this guy need get? I'm so very weary of all these 'men' who continue to remain immature/socially stunted (and the boys who continue to defend them)

John's on the Tommy Lee career path now. He's already got one sleeve inked out. Now he just needs a well publicized hookup with a bleached out silicone sister. I hear Tara Reid is available...

By URALLPUSBRAINS

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QUESTION: What's the difference between a black chick and a bowling ball?
ANSWER: You could eat a bowling ball..if you had to.

By Ali

Good musician, great songwriter, shallow, empty man...............

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