This week Fiona Apple unveiled a 23-word album title, Justin Bieber‘s mom decided to write a memoir, and Katy Perry appeared on “Raising Hope“ as an ugly prison guard (with a mustache). Whoa, that was a mouthful. So, it’s that time of the week again, to catch up on the last seven days of music news…
Turns out that while John Mayer, if his interviews are to be taken at face value, is an amazing guitarist and a complete douchebag, his throat actually has a heart of gold and has decided to do us all a favor—according to Rolling Stone, Mayer has been diagnosed with a granuloma, “a serious throat condition that has forced him to cancel all plans to sing in the near future.” So thanks, John Mayer’s throat, for a taking a hit for all of us music listeners.
We get where Taylor Swift is coming from. She’s young, she’s got emotions and the only way to help her heal is by writing songs. That diary of her has been bursting with the angst that simply needs to be expressed in an easy going pop country melody – or two albums worth. Forgive us if we thought the young singer-songwriter lived in a fairytale (it’s only been her motif since she was 16), but apparently she’s not done pointing fingers. All the Taylor/Miley/Selena super-fans (aka all you tweens) better start gossiping because she left Joe Jonas off easy compared to what she’s done to John Mayer on her new album, Speak Now.
Stevie Ray Vaughn fans across the world are taking time today to remember their fallen idol, the Grammy-winning guitarist/ singer whose music was steeped in the blues. Vaughn died 20 years ago Thursday in a helicopter crash in East Troy, Wisconsin while flying to a gig in Chicago. Fans have been Twittering tributes for the past 24 hours, and even superfans who are better known for sticking their feet in their mouths are offering up moving tributes, according to OnTheRedCarpet:
Hey, gang, guess what? Entertainment Weekly reports that since Toyota decided that faulty accelerators and brakes weren’t thinning out the ever-growing human population quickly enough, they’ve decided to up the ante by joining forces with the Today Show to create “Toyota Concert Series on TODAY” (clever title, no?). How does it work? Well, they’ve simply teamed with the Today Show to devise what may be the single-worse series of concert lineups this side of… well, I can’t really think of anything off-hand… Wait, did Hitler throw concerts? That would probably be worse.
It appears that John Mayer’s consistent foot-in-mouth disease may have evolved into a pure snake-eating-its-own-tail tableau, literally consuming the soundbite generator out of existence. Or at least, if the Fates are good, off of Twitter. That’s right, he might be laying low from the Twitter universe for a while after his infamous interview that gave a whole new meaning to the term TMI.
If you’re an avid Twitter user, you have may have noticed John Mayer‘s name as one of the trending topics today. Mayer, a musician who has been notorious for being some sort of womanizer and having dated celebrities such as Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston, has been a favorite subject for the tabloids over the past year or so. Although his latest album, Battle Studies, shot up to #1 because of his vehement argument on how his music should speak more than his personal life the media tries to cling on to, it seems that Mayer has created the most recent controversy all by himself, if not on purpose as well.
All John Mayer wants to do is prove that he’s a musician, and with his latest album, Battle Studies, he’s also on his way to becoming a certifiable chart topper. Billboard reported, that close industry sources suspect that the singer-songwriter could sell up to 300,000 copies of Battle Studies come Sunday.
John Mayer‘s latest album, Battle Studies, was officially released today and he’s hoping for one thing to come out of it: He wants the world to know that he is a musician above all things said about him in some silly tabloids.
John Mayer first broke onto the scene with is album, Room For Squares, which featured fan favorites such as “No Such Thing” and “Your Body Is A Wonderland.” He followed up with two more successful albums, Heavier Things and Continuum. However, his albums weren’t the only factors that put him in the spotlight leading up to today’s release.
