14 DAY TRIAL // Two years ago, after their brief romance went sour, Taylor Swift had her revenge on ex John Mayer by penning a scorching ballad exposing him as a heartbreaker, “Dear John.” In a new interview, Mayer calls it a cheap shot, adding that Swift humiliated him.
Taylor has quite a reputation for pouring her heartbreak into her music, so perhaps Mayer should have expected such a reaction from her when they broke up.
Nevertheless, he was surprised by it, he says in a new interview cited by Us Magazine. Not only that, but he was offended that she would do the dirty laundry in public, without as much as a heads-up.
“It made me feel terrible. Because I didn't deserve it,” Mayer says of “Dear John” and how it accused him of playing wicked games with an innocent 19-year-old and breaking her heart in the process.
“It was a really lousy thing to do,” he adds. What's worse, she never informed him in any way of her intentions – or, one may assume, of how she felt about the whole breakup thing.
“I never got an email. I never got a phone call. I was really caught off-guard,” John explains.
As if that wasn't enough, the song that humiliated him so publicly wasn't even that good, the musician goes on to say, as cited by the same media outlet.
“['Dear John' is] cheap songwriting. It's abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, 'Wait til he gets a load of this!' That's bull[expletive],” he vents.
It also came at the worst possible time for him, when he was at his lowest, so it felt like a kick to the groin when he was already down.
“It really humiliated me at a time when I'd already been dressed down. I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you've ever been, someone kicked you even lower?” Mayer asks.
So far, Taylor hasn't responded to all this but, knowing her, she probably will have one or two things to say.
Check out her version of what happened by listening to “Dear John.”
