John Mayer Won't Let a Boner Affect his Career

So, its lookin' like this. John Mayer is desperately trying to prove to his fanbase that he isn't proud of his affliction for being attracted to gorgeous, stupid women. Wait, what? John, you are a man. You have a penis. We understand.

John Mayer interviewed with Access Hollywood and went on a rant about how he feared dating the tuna queen herself, Jessica Simpson, would be a problem for his career.

Nancy: “How do you react when you've been so much in the public eye, because of this relationship, whether it happened or not, so in a way, it's not bad publicity…”

John: “There's nothing about it at all that I wake up in the morning and go to bed at night and say to myself, "Hmm, it's kind of got a shiny edge to it." There's nothing about it that's interesting to me or fascinating with me. I wanna get where I wanna get because I got better on the guitar.”

Nancy: “Was it so bent? That you never even dated Jessica?”

John: “I want to acknowledge that there's two separate things happening. There's the home life that I defend as a guy who’s just here to play music, and you don't see me on red carpets like this...and like that.”

Nancy: “You don't even go to red carpets.”

John: “Don't go to red carpets. So it’s very odd for me and I just basically -- it’s very uncomfortable for me.”
“... There are real crises in the world; there are people who are fighting to keep their house warm and I'm not going to sit here and bite my nails because someone says that I might possibly have gone a date with a beautiful blond girl. I'm not going to sit here beating myself up over the head with it. But what is challenging to me is that I have a contract with my audience in a way, that I exist-- I'm their guy who's just here to play music, you know, and that has never changed. That has certainly not changed in the last 2 weeks and I'm here to play music, you know?”

Nancy: “Do you feel like it takes away from the music?”

John: “Absolutely.”

Nancy: “But there are the people that would go, now they're more fascinated with you and they may go out and get your album because they're fascinated with your relationship.”

John: “In my mind, that's cheating.”

We don't give two shits about who you are dating when it comes to your music, why? We'll tell you why. Either your music good or it sucks. It's pretty black and white. You don't fall into a gray area just because you are bangin' a hot blonde. If anything, maybe men will start listening to your music more! You know, since now they know you aren't gay they can justify it.

Honestly John, you have a complex. You need to stop worrying about convincing people who you are and what your music is. Let them figure it out for themselves. If they don't like it, then you're out a few mil. But hey, you got to bang the hot blonde chick. Toss up? Perhaps.

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