Living In Rhythm

John Mayer says stupid shit from time to time. This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one. He's been doing it for years. Taken out of context, a lot of the things he says can be, and often are, absolutely ridiculous.

But you know what? At least he says what's on his mind. He'll never be one of those 'celebrities' you look at and wonder just who in the hell he is. We know who he is, because he tells us. Through his music, mostly, and sometimes through his interviews.

And maybe he goes to far, says the complete wrong thing and doesn't make his point as clearly as he could or should. But he tries. He ventures to explain things that no one else can or will. Even if he fails at that, isn't there something to say about him going for it? I think there is.

In recent years, it seems that the majority of people seem to think that freedom of speech is great!.....

Freedom of speech, but only if what you're saying doesn't piss anyone off. That sounds like a great policy to me! (That's sarcasm, by the way.)

There is, frankly, too much media in the world today. Absolutely too much. Probably about 400% too much. And about 95% of the excess is absolutely trash; garbage that no one should support. But they do, and then artists get asked for more frequent interviews, and they have to think of new things to say. They get asked about things that they have no business commenting on, just because the interviewers need to have something to ask, something to record on their little tape players and take back to their editors.

My point is that if you actually read the interview, an open-minded person can comprehend what he was going for, what point he was trying to make. He may not have done a stellar job of it, but he wasn't being malicious, racist, or anything else. He was just a guy giving his opinion when he was asked for it.

All this has nothing to do with me thinking that he can do no wrong. I've been accused of this before, and it's absolute bullshit.

I respect him because he doesn't have a problem saying 'This is who I am. Take it or leave it.' He doesn't pander to the masses, though he certainly has the masses he could pander to. At the end of the day, he says what he wants, makes the music that he wants, and he can do it because he's a brilliant musician. This isn't to say that gives him a free pass to just say whatever he wants to say and there won't be consequences, and I think he knows that too.

And he's a smart and gracious enough person to give genuine apologies when he knows he has to.

Can't really say that happens too often with celebrities these days, can you?

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