Okay, John Mayer. We get it- you like girls, and you want to sleep with them!
The Grammy winner, 34, admitted on Tuesday’s episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon that he unsuccessfully tried to pick up a woman by performing a page from a book on her kindle, the racy bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey.
Jimmy Fallon cracked up and laughing, asked “And she died on the spot? She’s now dead?”
“She fell to the ground . . .laughing,” Mayer admitted sheepishly.
Good! I’m glad some ladies don’t fall for all of Mayer’s corny lines! Hilarious!
John Mayer stopped by Ellen Degeneres, in an interview that will air today. The singer opens up about why he took a break from the spotlight for the last two years and why he still can’t sing…
John Mayer on taking break for the last two years…
John: It was a really good time. I had to go home for a minute. The plan that originally gets you out high school and your hometown, in front of people. That plan was over. I had done it. I just sort of lost my head for alittle while. I remember one time was I was a kid, I went swimming and I closed my eyes and I kept swimming and swimming and came up out of the water and I was way passed the buoys and the life guards were blowing me in.…I kind of lost touch and I didn’t want to ask for directions. I did a couple of some dumb interviews and it kind of woke me up.
Ellen: Is that what it is? The interviews? Because you got a lot of attention for the Playboy interview and I don’t know what else but is that when you kind if went, oh, you were not proud of that..
John: Oh yeah, I don’t even remember having a Rolling Stone cover. It was a very strange time and it sort of rocketed me into adulthood. It was a violent crash into being an adult. For a couple of years it was just figuring it all out and I ‘m glad I actually stayed out of the spotlight. Because I think back then I would of said, give me two weeks or like let me get out and do “Ellen” and let me explain myself. It was like no, idiot. Go away be 33 and 34 instead of 28 for the 4th year…
John Mayer on his voice….
John: I can’t sing so I’m writing.
Ellen: You sound fine so what’s wrong with you?
John:…it’s a thing in my throat. It’s not a health concern what so ever but it has taken me out of signing. Tried to beat it the first time and couldn’t. What they actually do is they cut this thing out of your throat and then they inject your vocal cords with botox which freezes your vocal cords so that this thing can heal with out smacking up against the other side. I just need more botox next time. So I got to do it all over again get more botox which kind of paralyzes for vocal cord for longer. I’m very happy to be a writer, really lucky to be a write.
Although John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston broke up almost three years ago, John’s still got Jen on the brain…
the 34-year-old singer who is a notorious celeb-dater (his exes include Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Love Hewitt) wrote his single “Shadow Days” off his new album, Born and Raised, with Aniston, 43, in mind.
The song goes: “You find yourself alone. . . I found myself in pieces/ On my hotel floor/Hard times help me see/I’m a good man with a good heart/Had a tough time, got a rough start/And I finally learned to let it go.”
People in Mayer’s camp said that John was a flawed dude, but ultimately loved Jen. They were wrong for each other, but that Mayer has done a lot of “self-reflection” over the past couple years. After they called it quits in 2009, Mayer seems to be done dating celebs. A source says, “He’s looking for a nice, non famous girl he can relate to. . . He loved [Jen and Jessica] both but it really affected him emotionally and it wasn’t worth it.”
John Mayer has been forced to cancel his new tour again, after his throat granuloma grew back for a second time. Here’s a letter he posted to his fans on his Tumblr page.
“I have no idea how to introduce this post, so I’m skipping the first paragraph.
During rehearsal on Tuesday, it came to mind that I should see my throat doctor because something didn’t feel/sound right. I went in for a visit on Wednesday and a scope of my vocal cords revealed that the granuloma has grown back where it had mostly healed. This is bad news. Because of this, I have no choice but to take an indefinite break from live performing. Though there will be a day when all of this will be behind me, it will sideline me for a longer period of time than I care to have you count down.
I want to explain this a bit more in depth than I have in the past, because I know there’s some confusion as to what this condition is; a granuloma forms and continues to snowball because it’s in a spot where the vocal cords hit together and there’s no way to really give it a chance to heal without a good stretch of time and some pretty intensive treatment. In short, it’s one giant pain in the ass.
Okay, so here’s the plan… Born and Raised will be released as scheduled, but because I don’t make a very good anything-other-than-a-musician, I’m going to begin writing the next album very soon. I feel really vibrant as a writer at the moment and there’s no reason not to begin the next album project in the time I would have been touring. Somewhere in all of this is another surgery and a very long chemically-imposed period of silence, so I hope you’ll understand that I have to really pick that date carefully.
I’m pretty emotionally burnt out at the moment, but please know how hard I tried to resolve this and how disappointed I am that I can’t perform this record yet. I’m completely bummed, especially for all of you who started making plans to see a show. Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing. I love this band you were going to hear, I love the guys and girls I work with, and the only thing that stops me from devolving into a puddle of tears is knowing that it’s a long life, and the greatest gift in the world is being able to create music no matter what the circumstances. So these are the new circumstances, and I’ll find a way to make it mean something. That’s all you can ever do.
John”
That’s really scary! Hopefully he can get this under control once and for all!
John Mayer has just released a 60-second preview of his new single, “Shadow Days”, which will be on his new album, ‘Born and Raised’.
The singer previewed the clip yesterday on his Tumblr page, saying “Been looking forward to a post like this since October 14, 2010, the first day I started writing this group of songs… Enjoy.”
At the end of 2011, Mayer suffered from granuloma, which is a throat condition. Like Adele’s affliction, he was forced to cancel concert appearances and postponed his new album. “This is a temporary setback, though I’m not sure how long or short a period of time it will be,” Mayer wrote on his Tumblr. “I’ve got the best doctors in the country looking after me and I will be singing and touring again as soon as I get the all clear.”
The new song sounds very country, doesn’t it? His new album, ‘Born and Raised’ will be released sometime later this year. It’ll be his first album since 2009′s ‘Battle Studios’.
Posted Friday, February 17th, 2012 at 7:07am
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