John Mayer

John Mayer & Afi Aiming For Top 10 Debuts On Billboard 200 Albums Chart

... suggest Mayer’s new four-song EP, The Search for Everything - Wave One, could bow with around 40,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Jan. 26. Plus, AFI’s new AFI (The Blood Album) might start with perhaps 30,000 units. Ahead of both titles will be the resilient Starboy, by The Weeknd , which is likely to notch another week atop the list (with perhaps 55,000 to 60,000 units). If Starboy stays steady at No. 1, it will mark the fifth nonconsecutive week at the top for the album. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption , which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The top 10 of the new Feb. 11, 2017-dated Billboard 200 chart - where Mayer and AFI may debut - is scheduled to be revealed on Billboard’s websites on Sunday, Jan. 29. Mayer last visited the Billboard 200 in 2013 with the full-length studio effort Paradise Valley, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 144,000 copies sold in its first week (according to Nielsen ...

John Mayer Takes Plenty Of Heat On Comedy Central's 'roast Battle

... didn’t sign on to compete in Roast Battle, but that didn’t stop him from getting burned. The singer serves as a celebrity judge, alongside Sarah Silverman, on Comedy Central's diss-off tournament , Roast Battle II: War of the Words, airing Thursday through Sunday (10 ET/PT).  After Snoop Dogg, Anthony Jeselnik, Whitney Cummings and Ken Jeong pick winning comics in the first two episodes, Mayer and Silverman determine quarterfinalists Saturday, before Sunday’s live finale with Patton Oswalt, TJ Miller and Jason Sudeikis voting on a champion. The show, presented by "Roastmaster" Jeff Ross, works this way: Comics battle in pairs to fire jokes at each other. After a few funny insults are dished — with interruptions from guerrilla comedy trio The Wave — Ross and celebrity judges choose which battler advances. Roastmaster Jeff Ross opens the 'Roast Battle' show with the help of guerilla comedy group The Wave, at the left. (Photo: Comedy Central). "This is a safe haven for free speech,” Ross warned the crowd this week at a  taping of Saturday's episode. "Nothing is off limits.". And so vulgar one-liners were delivered, even to the guests seated at ...

Every John Mayer Single, Ranked

... like something he whipped up without any help from Queen B. 6. "Why Georgia". Mayer first showed off his falsetto abilities with his third and final ​Room for Squares​ single, foreshadowing what was to come on Heavier Things​ vocally as well as what was to come throughout the rest of his career musically. 5. "Who Says". Although this ​Battle Studies​ track has a guitar rhythm reminiscent of Continuum​'s "Stop This Train," it has melodical nuances that not only make it one of Mayer's standouts, but also one of his most boppable, without really having much of a hook. 4. "Gravity". Once dubbed by Mayer as "the most important song I've ever written," he sings about making sure you don't lose your way even when it feels like life is working against you. If the lyrics aren't enough to have an effect on you, the musingly slow tempo of "Gravity" and Mayer's heartfelt, soulful singing certainly should. 3. "Free Fallin'". This may not be a Mayer original, but it may as well be (it has nearly three times as many Spotify streams as ...

John Mayer, Discwoman, Brian Puspos And More

... in the likes of “Political Science,” “My Life Is Good,” “The World Isn’t Fair,” “Dayton, Ohio-1903” and “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country.” They can all be heard in this three-CD box set, which contains 55 stripped-down performances of his songs — just Newman’s droll voice and colorful piano accompaniment. — Randy Lewis. Caption Kristen Stewart on directing 'Come Swim'. Kristen Stewart enjoyed the free-form aspect of making her short film, "Come Swim" which is showing at the Sundance Film Festival. She doesn't see that as a directorial stepping-stone to full-length features. Caption Kristen Stewart on directing 'Come Swim'. Kristen Stewart enjoyed the free-form aspect of making her short film, "Come Swim" which is showing at the Sundance Film Festival. She doesn't see that as a ...

John Mayer Makes His Musical Move

... “Love on the Weekend,” is a serotonin overflow of an ode—to his vintage tracks, that is. The song is both fun and laid-back, and here we are reminded of Mayer’s lyrical wit as he sings “we found a message in the bottle we were drinking.” Although its chorus has fallen into the trap of lazy repetition. It’s also not the first time we’re hearing Mayer show off his vocals in a ballad, but he sounds almost unidentifiable in “You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me.” With the lyrics and keys taking center stage, it’s a song that fits perfectly in the soundtrack of each cinephile’s newest favorite, “La La Land.” It is relaxed and wistful—and plunges one into nostalgia with its tone’s familiarity with Randy Newman classics. “These songs represent literally hundreds of hours of living inside of these little ...

I Know When To 'shut The Hell Up

... when he [Ross] asked me to do the semifinals, it made sense to me to do it. I don’t know anymore how to look at something as advantageous to my career or promotional. It’s just like, ‘My friend Jeff has this thing, I think I understand it enough to lend something to it.’ And so that’s how I’m able to sit there and not feel like ‘uh-oh.’”. As for the "uh-oh," Mayer himself was inevitably roasted with a couple of jabs about his famous love life, including, "John Mayer, you've had so many hits… Jessica Simpson, Katy Perry…" from Matthew Broussard, and seconds into the show, host Brian Moses taunts, "John Mayer, what are you doing here, don't you have to go sing to a pair of Ugg boots or something?" Referring to his hit touring band Dead & Company, a Grateful Dead revival with Mayer on the mic ...

John Mayer Is Back And Better Than Ever On New Album

... sharp percussion, making it flow well on the album. "Love On the Weekend," the third song, is, for the most part, forgetful. It's a pop song that tries too hard to be a folk song, something that doesn't work with Mayer's falsetto. While the song itself is not very good, it doesn't take away from the EP as a whole. Finally, Mayer closes the first set of songs from his new album with a moving ballad dedicated to lost love. "You're Gonna Live Forever In Me" is the cherry on top of this EP's sundae. The song is beautifully simple, using a combination of acoustic strings, piano and whistling to create a melody perfect for Mayer's moving lyrics and vocals. Mayer's final track builds a feeling of hope despite the misfortunes that Mayer sings about. It is his way of saying that no matter how bad things get, they will always get better — a message that people need to hear in a time when so many feel divided. Despite a slow third track, The Search For Everything — Wave One is worth listening to. Mayer, who intends to release more of the songs from the album in the coming months, provides listeners ...

John Mayer Details Origin, Inspiration Behind Four New Songs

... getaway, and most of my jealousy as a single man is about not being able to go to the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur or the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara.". The music that would accompany the song's key lyric took longer to come to him, and he initially wrote an entirely different tune of the same name. Last September, on the day after he'd played in the house band at the 2016 Emmy Awards, Mayer arrived at the studio, "slightly hungover," to record a guitar part for another track. "There was some really washy reverb on the guitar, and I started playing this line and I just went, 'Hey, press record,'" says the singer, who worked on the demos alone with his longtime engineer Chad Franscoviak. "I realized it was going to be the song I didn't have for the record yet, which was looking forward to something – discovering somebody, the beginning of the relationship. Because all these other songs were about being dropped off into the loneliness, and you can't mourn that long. "Writing 'Love On The Weekend' was the experience of all the best songs I've ever written, ...

His Top 5 Famous Girlfriends

... According to a first-hand account from non-other-than Andy Cohen , he couldn’t get Mayer to say a quick “hello” to Aniston, who was at the same bar as them. Mayer declined with a look that Cohen read as, “that would be a big mistake.”. Jessica Simpson (2006 – 2007). John Mayer and Jessica Simpson leave The 2007 Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala. (Getty). Mayer and Simpson dated from 2006 to 2007. In fact, they started dating only nine months after Simpson divorced her first husband, Nick Lachey. This was another on-and-off relationship for Mayer, but it did result in a low moment for him. In a 2010 interview with Playboy ( via The Huffington Post ), Mayer likened sex with Simpson to “crack cocaine.” He even called her “sexual napalm” that he wanted to “snort.” It was quite the interview, and he went on to apologize later. Unfortunately, Simpson still can’t forgive and forget. Simpson sat down with Oprah Winfrey for an interview the same year of the Playboy comments. When asked about what her ex had said, she replied, “I don’t want people to know how I am in bed,” according to the Daily Mail. Jennifer Love Hewitt, September 2002. (Getty). ...