Taylor Swift Songs About John Mayer

“Expensive John” is boldly about Swift’s relationship with Mayer. Although Swift (typically with a heap of sexism) has a status for burning exes in her music, “Expensive John” from 2010’s “Converse Now” is the one music that truly names an ex-boyfriend within the title. Swift’s anger and deep unhappiness is evident from the lyrics. Within the refrain she sings, “Expensive John, I see all of it now that you just’re gone / Do not you assume I used to be too younger to be messed with? / The woman within the gown, cried the entire method house, I ought to’ve identified.” She additionally accuses him of treating her like a chess piece in a recreation wherein he “modified the principles day-after-day.”

Swift wrote on her web site on the time concerning the music, “The music ‘Expensive John’ is kind of just like the final e mail you’d ever ship to somebody that you just was in a relationship with. Often individuals write this venting final e mail to somebody they usually say all the pieces that they need to say to that individual, after which they often do not ship it. I suppose by placing this music on the album I’m pushing ship.”

Unsurprisingly, Mayer didn’t admire the monitor. He informed Rolling Stone in 2012, “It made me really feel horrible. As a result of I did not deserve it. I am fairly good at taking accountability now, and I by no means did something to deserve that. It was a extremely awful factor for her to do.” He mentioned Swift by no means reached out concerning the music, explaining, “I by no means received an e-mail. I by no means received a cellphone name. I used to be actually caught off-guard, and it actually humiliated me at a time once I’d already been dressed down. I imply, how would you are feeling if, on the lowest you’ve got ever been, somebody kicked you even decrease?” When Rolling Stone requested concerning the line “Do not you assume I used to be too younger to be messed with?” he wouldn’t touch upon it. He additionally known as it, “Low-cost songwriting.”

However in a method, Swift predicted this response. Within the music she sings, “And you may add my identify to your lengthy listing of traitors who do not perceive.” And when Swift was requested concerning the music — and Mayer’s response to it — in a 2012 interview with Glamour, she known as him “presumptuous” and mentioned she did not need to know the small print of his feedback. “I do know it wasn’t good, so I do not need to know,” she defined. “I put a excessive precedence on staying joyful, and I do know what I am unable to deal with.”