John Mayer’s Got a Hood Pass?
John Mayer is suffering from a serious case of foot in mouth disease.
After seeing a barrage of “calling him out of his name” remarks on Twitter yesterday, I soon found out that a Q & A had been published on Playboy.com that made him look all kinds of foolish, ignorant and possibly even high on some strange exotic drug.
If you want to read it you can go here, but for the high level version he: 1.) compared his “maleness”…um down there to the Klan, 2.) claimed he had a “hood pass” 3.) dropped the N-word as if the I-don’t-know-where-he-got-the-pass gave him entitlement to say what he wants no matter how insulting or demeaning and 4.) spoke pretty graphically about his sex life but since it is a gentleman’s magazine I’ll let that slide.
Anyway.
24 hours later, I find out via Twitter again that he issued an onstage apology, claiming that in his attempt to be “clever” he insulted the people that he loved and loved him back, and therefore would no longer be doing any interviews.
Now even though I think the reporter may set him up for the fall, I think JM is genuinely sorry for his comments, but more for the sake of it’s not what you say as it is how you say it. Of course he’s going to apologize because he has a diverse fan base and he doesn’t want to lose that; because what’s he going to do if he can’t play guitar? Public speaking? HA!
While John has the right to his own thoughts and opinions, I’m really not all that shocked by his comments. I’m of the mindset that at some point in time, people will show and/or tell you what they’re really about and when they do so we should believe them. He had to save face, for the sake of his career, nothing more nothing less.
Here’s the video apology. for what it’s worth.
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