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Artist:

John Mayer (Rock)

Song:

Slow Dancing In A Burning Room

Album: 

Continuum

Year: 

2006

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John Mayer emerged in 2001 as the fresh young face for a new generation of earnest singer-songwriters. While Mayer's work is as confessional,...
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Shilpa | MEMORY FROM 2007

Fine, I Like Adult Contemporary. Sometimes.

LOCATION: 88 Bleecker, New York, NY

YEAR: 2007

TAGS: Jessica Simpson, bed, breakup, guilty pleasure

PUBLISHED: February 5, 2008

At some point it was cool to like John Mayer. And then it became tragically uncool to like him. And then he did some blues and it was a little bit embarrassing to like him, but sort of acceptable. And then he dated Jessica Simpson and blogged too much and then it became gross to like him.

The verdict is still out for me, but I do really enjoy listening to half this album when I am alone in my apartment and there is no indie cred to dispute. However, the track I enjoy most is this one, which I discovered during one of those times when you are both passively lying on your bed doing nothing and actively thinking about the weight of the world on your shoulders.

This song is the best elegy to a dying relationship. We've all been there and we all know what the descent feels, sounds and tastes like. And when he sings, "It's not a silly little moment. It's not the storm before the calm. This is the deep and dyin breath of this love we've been workin' on" you can almost forget that he may be referring to Jennifer Love Hewitt AND Jessica Simpson. Almost.

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David said: Could you imagine John standing outside of Jessica's condo with a boombox hoisted above his shoulders? What a great scene to remake in a video... nice memory... thanks for sharing! (2/5/2008)

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nynic99 said: Please check out perezhilton.com for recent pics of John wearing a Borat bathing suit on his new John and Friends cruise line... I'm just sayin. (2/5/2008)

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