While Hollywood Gossip Bloggers are all a buzz about Taylor Swift’s new album, “Speak Now” – and more specifically, a song titled “Dear John” rumored to be about her fling with talented singer, songwriter, guitarist & playboy John Mayer–
This “Mommy Blogger” is here to confess to you that I, Complicated Mama have also dated John Mayer-
-Or at least self absorbed assholes like him.
And lets be real ladies- so have you.
He was intellectual, funny, maybe-not-GQ-material– but he had charisma, he had charm…
He had ASSHOLE written all over his face– … But who had time to see that?
He gave us butterflies!
We didn’t care about his past reputation cause dammit, with us it was going to be different! We were going to tame him. After all- how could he break our hearts? We were the “take home to Mom type” …he totally saw that… right? – Right?
And then one day, we woke up from our pipe dream and found we were wrong. Dead wrong.
We were heartbroken.
We listened to every sad song on the radio thinking it was written for us. We wasted days we will never get back and shed more tears that we care to ever admit over John Mayer that guy.
Fast forward a few days (maybe weeks) later. This time we turn on the radio to hear those bad-ass-F-U songs (Cue: Alanis’ “You Oughtta Know”) and when we heard them, we thought: ‘that’s right- your loss buddy.’… And from then on in, any time we had even the slightest temptation to look back and feel that heartbreak again– we’d blast Alanis (or whatever happy F-U song gave you that sense of empowerment- “I don’t need him!”).
Now think about how kick-ass-enjoyable that whole experience would have been if you could have actually written a song about him. Imagine that song being burned on to thousands of CDs, being not only broadcast on the radio- but discussed on television- with his colleagues (*snicker*) and that everyone who ever heard that song would know EXACTLY who that song was about.
Uh… hello, ultimate closure!
Taylor Swift is a frick’n hero.
I’ve blogged before about my love -hate feelings for John Mayer. He is crazy talented, musically he is among my favorites – but sorry, J-man you had it coming. First Jennifer Aniston then Taylor Swift? What are you on some kind of cliche’ fantasy check list?
Hot cougar, check.
School girl, check.
{{shivers}} His dating history gives me the creeps.
So while Billy Bush, Harvey Levin and the ladies on The View all analyze and debate if Taylor was right or wrong to put it all out there….
I imagine in my head a little something like this going on somewhere in Hollywood at this very moment….
And it makes me smile.
Cheers ladies!
