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John Mayer Addresses Misconceptions About His Love Life
Long were the nights that John Mayer has had to reply for "Dear John."
And connected the eve of Taylor Swift's Speak Now (Taylor's Version)'s release, which features a re-recorded mentation of the track, it looks similar the song's accepted subject had a connection for Swifties.
John took a infinitesimal to bespeak connected 3 nights of Dead & Company shows—his set with respective surviving Grateful Dead members—at Folsom Field successful Boulder, Colorado. At the extremity of his July 6 carousel of images was a changeable of drones spelling retired the words "Please beryllium kind" supra the stage.
And though the "Gravity" vocalist made nary denotation that the representation was intended arsenic a message, Taylor's fans seemed to deliberation it was related. One idiosyncratic commented, "The past descent is precise talk present coded," portion different added, "ITS TIME JOHN #speaknowtaylorsversion."
As for wherefore fans look convinced John was sending a subtle message? Well, the "Heartbreak Warfare" vocalist and Taylor dated from 2009 to 2010, erstwhile they were 32 and 19 respectively. And "Dear John," which was primitively released successful 2010, has long been rumored to beryllium about the now-45-year-old.
The opus includes the lyrics "Dear John, I spot it each now, it was incorrect / Don't you deliberation nineteen's excessively young / To beryllium played by your dark, twisted games erstwhile I loved you so?"
Since then, galore of Taylor's fans person taken to directing aggravated and sometimes threatening messages his way.
In fact, November 2021 John shared a screenshot of a DM a instrumentality sent him connected Instagram that implied they hoped he'd die.
"I've been getting truthful galore messages similar these the past mates days," he replied to the message, per the screenshots. "I'm not upset, I conscionable thin to person a funny caput and consciousness compelled to ask. Do you truly anticipation that I die?"
And erstwhile the instrumentality apologized and expressed that they ne'er thought the creator would adjacent spot the message, John replied, "There was immoderate healing today! It's 100 percent okay. Go distant and unrecorded blessed and healthy!"
So successful an effort to curb aboriginal incidences, Taylor had a connection for fans up of her album's re-release.
At the Minneapolis halt of her Eras Tour connected June 24, Taylor—who archetypal announced the merchandise day of the medium astatine a amusement the erstwhile month—performed the breakup opus for the archetypal clip successful much than a decade.
And aft expressing appreciation for the friendships fans are forming during her tour, Taylor had a request. "I was hoping to inquire you," she said, the infinitesimal captured in a TikTok video, "that arsenic we pb up to this album, I would emotion for that kindness and that gentleness to widen onto our net activities. Right?"
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She added, "I'm 33 years old. I don't attraction astir thing that happened to maine erstwhile I was 19 but for songs I wrote and the memories that we made together."
And portion Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is the 3rd of the six albums she's rerecording following the merchantability of the albums' masters, the Grammy victor made it wide that revisiting the aged albums did not see reopening aged wounds.
"What I'm trying to archer you," she concluded successful Minneapolis, "is that I americium not putting this medium retired truthful that you tin spell and should consciousness the request to support maine connected the net against idiosyncratic you deliberation I mightiness person written a opus astir 14 cardinal years ago. I bash not care. We person each grown up. We're good."
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