Sounds Like Someone Needs to Get Real!

Here’s someone that seriously needs to get real and deal. Taylor Swift apparently dated– and got played – by none other than John Mayer himself. Of her new album, she said, “Speak Now is the next chapter in my story, and I’m naming names.” One song that has been all over the media is titled “Dear John”, which is rumored to be about her short-lived romance with Johnny.

Entertainment Weekly wrote:
Another track, “Dear John,” which has yet to hit iTunes, is also making headlines. Writing for Our Country, the Y! Music Country Blog, EW contributor Chris Willman is confident that the track confirms her rumored relationship and breakup with John Mayer. He points to the first chorus: ‘Dear John/I see it all now that you’re gone/Don’t you think I was too young/To be messed with/The girl in the dress/Cried the whole way home/I should’ve known.” And a second version of the chorus that includes the lines: “It was wrong/Don’t you think nineteen’s too young/To be played/By your dark, twisted games/When I loved you so.” He also notes these lyrics: “My mother accused me of losing my mind/But I swore I was fine…” and “You’ll add my name to your long list of traitors who don’t understand/And I’ll look back in regret I ignored what they said/’Run as fast as you can’.” Just reading those, you understand why Willman claims we’ll be cheering when Swift sings, “I’m shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town.” It’s nice to see someone turn the tables on Mr. Overshare, isn’t it? Who else can’t wait to hear that track? (Willman says it’s six and a half minutes long.)

Ugh. Sigh. Huff. Ok. Putting aside the fact that I LOVE LOOOOOVE me some John Mayer, I just can’t have sympathy for Taylor Swift. This girl is ridiculous. John Mayer is a very WELL known player in LA. She can try to point a finger at John and blame him for playing her, but hello! She dated a known player. Clearly from her song lyrics many people warned her about John too. So I just don’t see how she can blame him. If you hop in bed with a known player, don’t you think you’ll get played? Did Taylor think she’d be The One, and break him of his bad habits? Ha! Did she think she was special? Did she fall victim to his charming ways? Maybe…but that doesn’t make this John’s fault; regardless of her age. If she can write a song in retrospect five minutes after the breakup and have all this insight to what she wish she would have done…she knew all along that it would end this way, and would have known what she should have done in the moment. But his charisma got to her. I’d fall victim to his ways too, but I’d know going into the “relationship” that I’d get played in the end, and I’m sure that’s just something I’d have to live with, if it meant I got to be with Johnny!

I think Taylor should have kept her sad little song to herself and just sported some really rad shirts that said things like, oh I don’t know “I Played John Mayer” with a picture of an Ipod. Or maybe “Team Aniston”. Take the high road, puppy. That’s all I’m saying! Anything to sell an album, eh?