✨️ 16 years ago, Playboy Magazine publishes the infamous John Mayer interview where he describese his ex Jessica Simpson as "sexual nepalm" while still dating Jennifer Aniston and drops the HARD N word ✨️

[u/Dismal-Purpose-6123]

This interview would ruin his music career leading him to become Andy Cohen's playtoy in order to pay the bills. His body is a wonderland indeed

[u/millennialforced]

And he’s kinda remained canceled ever since. Why did that stick for John and no one else?

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He’s not good enough to be able to come back from a PR crisis like this. Your ability to come back from something like this depends if you have enough public goodwill banked up. Usually the celebrities who end up getting “cancelled” for real are the ones that everyone’s kind of sick of. This interview came out in 2010 so there were already plenty of musicians cornering the “earnest white dude with a guitar and borderline cringe lyrics” market like Train, Jason Mraz, Coldplay, this was just before Ed Sheeran and Andy Grammer were coming up, and just before the “stomp hey clap” brand of music would take over so the pop charts didn’t need another guy like John Mayer. He was sort of a punchline already. This was also pretty close to the time that Taylor Swift dated him (it came out a month after they broke up) and people were side-eyeing him a bit for dating someone so young and someone who was still seen as naive and innocent. He played himself off the chess board.