NEWSJohn Mayer Was "Humiliated" by Taylor Swift's 'Dear John' Song
June 6 2012, Published 1:23 p.m. ET
A few short weeks after John Mayer told Ellen DeGeneres that he took a break from the spotlight due to a few explosive interviews about his famous exes, he sits down with Rolling Stone to gripe about Taylor Swift.
Oh, John, we missed you.
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Taylor and John briefly dated in late 2009, and let's just say the relationship didn't end well. In response, Taylor wrote a tell-all song, "Dear John," about the musician, and it wasn't exactly flattering.
"It made me feel terrible," he told the magazine, "because I didn't deserve it. I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do."
Taylor accuses John of having a "sick need to take love away" making her "cry all the way home" after asking, "Don't you think I was too young to be messed with?"
"I was really caught off guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I'd already been dressed down," he said. "I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you've ever been, someone kicked you even lower?"
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He also told the music magazine that from a fellow singer/songwriter he thought it was "cheap songwriting."
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"I think it's abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, 'Wait till he gets a load of this!' " he said. "That's bulls***."
On a brighter note, John's new album, Born and Raised, debuted at No. 1 in six countries and has remained No. 1 on iTunes in 30 territories worldwide.
Now let's just hope he dates ladies his own age from now on.
