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John Mayer says Taylor Swift’s ‘Dear John’ song ‘humiliated me’

John Mayer says that penning the song “Dear John” was a “lousy thing” for Taylor Swift to do, and that he felt “really humiliated” the first time he heard the song widely reported to be about him.

“It made me feel terrible,” Mayer says in an upcoming issue of Rolling Stone. “Because I didn’t deserve it. I’m pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.”

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Mayer, now 34, and Swift, now 22, were spotted dining together in Nashville in 2010, with sources telling the press that the two were definitely “more than just friends.” However, the pair reportedly split after several months. Soon after, Swift penned the song “Dear John,” which contained the lyrics, “Dear John. I see it all now it was wrong/ Don’t you think nineteen’s too young to be played with? / Your dark twisted games when I loved you so.”

Mayer said that the song felt like a personal attack. However, it seems like a strange complaint given that Mayer has just given two interviews in which he spoke candidly about his famous exes Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston. Mayer not only called Simpson “like crack cocaine to me … sexual napalm” but said of Aniston, “I wish I could be with her.” Mayer recently said that giving the highly personal interviews was “dumb” and confessed that the media backlash over them led to a two year period of soul-searching.

“I was really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I’d already been dressed down,” Mayer now tells Rolling Stone, speaking about Swift’s song. “I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you’ve ever been, someone kicked you even lower?”

Mayer says that he also felt Swift’s song was juvenile.

“I will say as a songwriter that I think it’s kind of cheap songwriting,” he says. “I know she’s the biggest thing in the world, and I’m not trying to sink anybody’s ship, but I think it’s abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, ‘Wait till he gets a load of this!’ That’s bullshit.”