She never said her name, but Taylor Swift asked fans not to attack her ex-boyfriend John Mayer when she released her own version of the album. speak Now– featuring the song “Dear John” – next month.
“I am 33 years old. I don’t care what happened to me when I was 19,” he said at a concert in Minneapolis on Saturday night.
“I’m not releasing this album in case you feel the need to defend me online against someone you think might have written a song 14 billion years ago.”
Swift was 19 when she briefly dated Mayer, who is 12 years older than her, and fans have long been convinced this scorching song is about her and their breakup.
“Don’t you think I’m too young?” she is singing. “You should have known.”
By seemingly confirming that the request for “courtesy” and the tune were about Mayer, he broke an 11-year drought and played “Dear John” for the Minneapolis crowd.
Mayer slammed Swift for the song and said: rolling rock he said ten years ago that he “didn’t deserve it”.
“I’m pretty good at taking responsibility now and I haven’t done anything to deserve it,” he said. “It was a really awful thing to do.”
The Swifties were slow to forgive Mayer. They took action last year when Taylor was featured as a guest on the Call Her Daddy podcast hosted by fan Alex Cooper.
When Cooper asked Mayer about his “fuckboy” reputation, he avoided mentioning Grammy-winning Swift.
“That’s the part I played on the big TV show I didn’t write, but that’s okay. Maybe I have a finger in this or something,” he said.
Swift releases its own version speak Now As part of an effort to regain control of his music, beginning with Scooter Braun’s acquisition of his former record label and masters of their original albums.