The only Mayer I like is Oscar

[pinkleader]

If you somehow missed it, there was a bit of bruhaha the past couple of weeks over some stupid comments John Mayer made in an interview with Playboy.

Racialicious did/linked to some great articles on it and what it can be indicative of:

When Racefail Meets Playboy: The John Mayer Interview by Andrea (AJ) Plaid
John Mayer: The writer behind the

Comments

[msmcknittington]

Isn't he just a magnificent douche? Imagine how happy I was when I discovered that "Walk on the Ocean" was a cover of a Toad the Wet Sprocket song. Only song by Mayer I've ever liked, and it was written by someone else. Ha!

[pinkleader]

I got to see Toad the Wet Sprocket in concert back in high school (still have the t-shirt) and they were/are awesome. Mayer is a douche with an ego the size of Jupiter. No use for him.

[msmcknittington]

I was really kind of surprised by how big of a douche Mayer is, because I did not think it was possible for someone to be that epically douchey outside of fiction. I mean, come on! How does he even fit inside building with an ego that big?

It makes me kind of sad to realize that Mayer is makeout music for a lot of people my age. Ugh.

[sarahbellem]

He covered TTWS?

I don't know what's worse... That the bands that were huge when I was in high school are being covered by musicians now, or that they're being covered by douchey musicians in general. Am I really that old? What's with kids today, anyway?

[msmcknittington]

So, I was in first grade when TTWS released that song in 1991 . . .

[sarahbellem]

Ok, full disclosure: I was in 7th grade in 1991. I remember my friends went to Lollapallooza where Toad The Wet Sprocket played, along with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam and Nirvana. My friend came home with a TTWS t-shirt that she wore religiously throughout 8th grade. To church, even.

Of course, the only reason I thought TTWS was awesome was because I got the joke of their name. No one else knew it was derived from a Monty Python skit, but that's because no one else in my life at that time was as big a fucking nerd as I was am. Oh, and Blind Mellon was derived from a Cheech & Chong skit.

I am a fount of such useless trivia of the early 90s pop culture!

[msmcknittington]

You're so lucky to have TTWS as your junior high music. I have Hanson and the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears and stuff like that. There is a reason I paid pretty much no attention to pop music when I was in junior high and high school -- it all was terrible. Like, seriously terrible. For junior prom, my class chose "Unchained Melody" for our theme song, because there was no slow dance song from the past three years that anybody could remotely tolerate.

I was born ten years too late.

Early '90s music = love
Late '90s/early '00s music = crap

[sarahbellem]

Here's the ironic thing: I *hated* the music in the early 90s. HATEEED EEET. I had just gotten into New Wave when Grunge hit and every.single.radio.station started playing that and something they called "Alternative" but was about as radio friendly as you could get. I was PISSED. I started listening to Queen and Beatles and Pink Floyd out of sheer spite. Only in the last ten years did I realize that there were some good bands in the early 90s... Took me a long time to get around to appreciating them!

/ threadjack

[msmcknittington]

Mmm, I don't think I'm going to have that realization when it comes to Britney Spears.

[pinkleader]

I once spent a long car ride (DC to New Orleans) with a friend who played Britney Spears and Kid Rock's CDs back to back. I was very close to committing homicide.

[salviati]

I have a feeling I can guess who that was... :-D

And you people are really making me feel old! I graduated from high school/was a freshman in college in 1991! I saw TTWS my... junior? year - but only because they were opening for Dave Matthews Band. I converted a lot of my friends to DMB love at that show.

[pinkleader]

Very close to CD-icide at the least... :D

Randomly I was listening to the radio and got a little whiplash when they "transitioned" from Lady Gaga to DMB, but the DMB made me think of you.

[chargirlgenius]

Oh, we had Boys II Men and Marky Mark and the Funky bunch. It wasn’t all good stuff! Although, it does bother me that my high school music is now considered classic rock!

[pinkleader]

I rarely feel old being younger than many of my friends, but man, I was at least a freshman in high school in '91.

(Breathe deep...)

My high school music tastes were steeped in TTWS, U2, Pearl Jam, Chili Peppers, Tori Amos, etc. I was a big flannel shirt, big boot wearing grungy girl, only without being cool.

[melaniesuzanne]

Freshman? *sigh* I graduated in '91. I'm surrounded by youngsters!

[sarahbellem]

Kids these days!