“Dear John” is boldly about Swift’s relationship with Mayer. Though Swift (typically with a heap of sexism) has a fame for burning exes in her music, “Dear John” from 2010’s “Speak Now” is the one tune that really names an ex-boyfriend within the title. Swift’s anger and deep unhappiness is obvious from the lyrics. In the refrain she sings, “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.” She additionally accuses him of treating her like a chess piece in a recreation during which he “changed the rules every day.”
Swift wrote on her web site on the time in regards to the tune, “The song ‘Dear John’ is sort of like the last email you would ever send to someone that you used to be in a relationship with. Usually people write this venting last email to someone and they say everything that they want to say to that person, and then they usually don’t send it. I guess by putting this song on the album I am pushing send.”
Unsurprisingly, Mayer didn’t recognize the observe. He informed Rolling Stone in 2012, “It made me feel terrible. 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.” He stated Swift by no means reached out in regards to the tune, explaining, “I never got an e-mail. I never got a phone call. I was really caught off-guard, and 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?” When Rolling Stone requested in regards to the line “Don’t you think I was too young to be messed with?” he wouldn’t touch upon it. He additionally referred to as it, “Cheap songwriting.”
But in a manner, Swift predicted this response. In the tune she sings, “And you’ll add my name to your long list of traitors who don’t understand.” And when Swift was requested in regards to the tune — and Mayer’s response to it — in a 2012 interview with Glamour, she referred to as him “presumptuous” and stated she did not wish to know the small print of his feedback. “I know it wasn’t good, so I don’t want to know,” she defined. “I put a high priority on staying happy, and I know what I can’t handle.”
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