Hyped
It was with much glee that I purchased tickets to the John Mayer/ Sheryl Crow concert this morning (hard at work, or hardly working? You may ask...) While I consider myself a fan of Sheryl Crows', I only own her first album. It is my younger sister that is the hard core Sheryl fan.Lucky for her I bought her a ticket, since the concert is only 2 days before her 21st birthday.In the case of Mr Mayer, however, I am devout. I am soooooo excited about seeing him live, it is bordering ree diculous. All the people I know who have attended his shows say that he is amazing, and all the interviews I have seen him in indicate to me that he is as charismatic as I believe him to be. His appearances on the Dave Chappelle show let us know he is a funny, funny man. His lyrics are poetic, and guitarmanship (is that a word? it is now.) is truly awe inspiring.
Here is my concern. I think he is starting to believe his own hype. And we all know how that could end.
What could provoke such a though from a loyal fan?
The new song he has posted on his myspace page, actually. Titled 'Waiting for the world to change' it is the most trite piece of anti war garbage I've ever had the misfortune to hear. Here is the thing though-I'm just assuming it's anti war, because it's clearly anti something, but that something never gets named. it's the equivalent to turning a Neal Young song into the muzak you'd hear in an elevator. My disappointment knows no bounds. When he posted the lyrics, and I thought they were kind of weak, but thought, heeeeey, this is John we're talking about here. When he puts music to it, it'll probably sound great. So much for that thought.
It literally is a 'poor me' song. From the likes of John Mayer? I thought he was better than that. If Continuum is full of it, then I'll consider it the end of my crush. If people buy it by the millions and rave about how amazing it is, I will consider him the new pop king, and when Britney finally divorces KFed, they can get married and have lots of trite american babies.
He better not dissapoint me. Right now, I need a man in my life who won't drop the ball.
posted by This love gets easier the more it's sung to @ 8:56 PM
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