Musician John Mayer performs at the 2009 Z100 Jingle Ball at Madison Square
Garden in New York on Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
Singer/songwriter and guitarist John Mayer is opting for the single life as part of his New Years Resolution. Yesterday, the serial dater told talk show host Ellen Degeneres that he was taking himself off the market in exchange for a peaceful 2010. But just last month, Mayer told E! News that he was ready to settle down.
"Everybody wants to settle down," he said a month ago. "Like if my first relationship had gone right, I'd have been married by now. I'd have babies. I'd be like, I'm with my high school sweetheart."
Well, it seems as though the private pop start hasn't quite found what he's looking for so he's calling it quits for awhile.
"I'm a little freaked out about dating. So I'm just going to let time pass, and just do my thing," he said yesterday.
With the media's overwhelming obsession over his love life and his "funny track record", who could really blame him for choosing the single life for awhile? Besides, we all know that it's when you stop looking when you stumble upon that which you seek. He's making a wise choice.
If Jennifer Aniston is the celebrity spokesperson for single women everywhere as the "Lonely Girl", then John Mayer must be the new celebrity spokesperson for single men, representing himself as the hunky-dory "Lonely Guy". (And these two broke up because....?)
John Mayer's latest album seems to just scream "lonely guy", but with an edge of such awareness and acceptance that makes Mayer all the more attractive to the intelligent woman. In an album review posted on the LA Times blog, Randy Lewis wrote, "He's "Perfectly Lonely" in the song with that title, and he opens the collection with "Heartbreak Warfare," about the ways we hurt the ones we ostensibly love."
It's this type of emotional depth about John Mayer that the mainstream media fails to acknowledge about him. There's a sense of realness to him that can only be understood through the lyrics of his music coupled with his mellow guitar rifts. Sure, he might come off as an arrogant jerk in real life, but at least he can be honest and real about it (like the rationale behind his apparent obssession with Twitter).
"I have a good heart," he told Ellen. " I think I may have gotten lost a couple of times, but so does everybody. I'm just going to hunker down, 2010 is a peaceful year for me no matter what I do," he said.
We know you have a good heart, John. Just stop getting lost. (So much easier said, than done, right)?
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