John Mayer has apparently realized that Twitter apologies probably aren’t going to cut it this time around. After quotes from his interview in the March issue of Playboy surfaced yesterday—where he describes Jessica Simpson as “sexual napalm” and drops the N bomb when discussing his African-American fanbase—the 32-year-old rocker apologized last night on stage at Nashville’s Sommet Center.
“In the quest to be clever I completely forgot about the people that I love and the people that love me,” Mayer said during a five-minute apology in which he teared up at certain points. Watch Mayer attempt to pull the foot out of his mouth below.
The singer admitted that he’s fallen “into a whirlpool of selfishness and greenness and arrogance, and thinking that if I would just continue to be speedy and witty and pull together as many fast words and phrases as I could, that I could be clever enough to buy myself another day without thinking that anybody would finally pin me down and say, ‘you’re a creep’.”
And given that several members of his band are African-American, Mayer no doubt felt the need to publicly make ammends for his eyebrow-raising Playboy comments—like this one: “Someone asked me the other day, ‘What does it feel like now to have a hood pass? And by the way, it’s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a n***** pass.”
“I think it’s important that you know that everybody on this stage is here playing with me not because they condone what I say in any given interview, and certainly not in the interview that’s made the rounds today,” Mayer continued in Nashville. “They’re on this stage because they support myself as a possible future grown up. And maybe they see something that I haven’t looked at in awhile.”
He wrapped up by saying, “I quit. I quit the soundbite game. I quite the media game. I’m out. I’m done. I just want to play my guitar to whoever’s around.”
Well, that’s Playboy taken care of. Now if we could just get him to apologize for grossing the masses out with his Rolling Stone interview last month…
OMG!!! I was so shocked when I heard what John Mayer using the “N” word. I buy all of his music and DVD concerts. My husband brought tickets to his concert in Louisville, on March 13th for Christmas for the whole family. I have a daughter who loves music and adores John Mayer, she is fifteen years old. OMG!!! what do I tell her about the guy she adores and sings his music all the time through the house and in the car. I think he is the person influenced her the most to take up guitar lessons, she loves that guy. Oh by the way, I fell to mention the most important part “I'm African American”.
jhon mayer showed his true,these ppl done their work and after work they make apologize his true http://usspost.com/john-mayer-playboy-interview…
I'm sure that we've all said things that we wish that we could take back. Based on my research of John Mayer as one who oftentimes speaks with out thinking, I hope that he is sincerely remorseful for words so insensitive. I was surprised that he would give such a candid “Playboy” interview without regard to his predominantl black yband. What was he thinking? Maybe he wasn't, I don't know. It will be interesting to see if the backlash increases or not when the March issue of “Playboy” hits the newstand. It's sure to be a big seller.
As a person of color , I have some of Mayer's music in my library because I like his voice, his style. But I have second thoughts now about future purchases of his music even though he is very talented. I would not support the Klan, so why would I support one who has such an outlook on women, on people of color?
Just like Kanye West, John Mayer has a lot of soul searching to do. There are many who strive to be in their shoes. People who have “made it” have a moral responsibility to those who support them. To whom much is given, much is expected and definitely not what we have witnessed thus far.
Remember, there is power in numbers, dollars or the lack thereof. You will know it when supporters no longer support.
MediaCurves.com conducted a series of national media studies to obtain Americans’ ratings of celebrity apologies in 2009 and 2010. Results found that that John Mayer’s apology for his statements in an interview with Playboy was rated the lowest in regard to perceived sincerity levels. Also, the majority of viewers (88%) thought it was inappropriate to use the “N” word during Mayer’s interview with Playboy
More in depth results can be seen at: http://www.mediacurves.com/Apologies/J7742-John…
Thanks,
Ben