Taylor Swift Tells Fans Not To ‘Defend’ Her Against Ex John Mayer: Watch

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Taylor Swift asked the Swifties not to travel for John Mayer during her Minneapolis concert. The 33-year-old made the petition arsenic she prepared to sing “Dear John” for the archetypal clip in eleven years connected June 24. “I’m 33 years old. I don’t attraction astir thing that happened to maine erstwhile I was 19 but the songs I wrote,” she said to screaming fans connected Sunday, June 25, prefacing the connection with an inquire to support “kindness and gentleness” successful caput astir “internet activities.”

Taylor Swift connected the merchandise of ‘Speak Now’ TV earlier performing ‘Dear John’:

“I’m 33 years old, I don’t attraction astir thing that happened to maine erstwhile I was 19… I’m not putting this medium retired truthful you tin spell connected the net and support maine against idiosyncratic you deliberation I wrote a song… pic.twitter.com/cFQbKQk8vD

— Pop Base (@PopBase) June 25, 2023

“I’m not putting this medium retired truthful you should consciousness the request to support maine connected the net against idiosyncratic you deliberation I mightiness person written a opus about,” she past said, not straight naming Mayer, 45 — but it was beauteous wide who the connection was astir erstwhile she sang the astonishment opus during her Eras Tour stop. 

The scathing break-up opus is acceptable to beryllium included connected the upcoming merchandise of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), which was primitively released connected October 25, 2010 (the caller mentation drops connected July 7). The songwriting dense medium includes songs “Mean,” “Sparks Fly,” and the unforgettable six infinitesimal and 43 2nd way “Dear John” — 1 of the precise fewer times Taylor has named an ex successful a song. The way was inspired by the exes short-lived narration that occurred erstwhile she was 19 and helium was 32. They began dating successful 2009 erstwhile they collaborated connected his way “Half Of My Heart” disconnected Battle Studies.

John Mayer and Taylor Swift are seen performing successful 2009. ( Amanda Schwab/Starpix/Shutterstock)

“Dear John” is simply a less-than-favorable instrumentality connected the relationship, wherever a young Taylor calls him retired for being “played” by his “dark twisted games.” She sings, “Dear John, I spot it all, present it was incorrect / Don’t you deliberation 19 is excessively young / To beryllium played by your acheronian twisted games, erstwhile I loved you so? / I should’ve known.”

Taylor past played the ballad successful Auckland, New Zealand backmost successful March 2012 during the Speak Now World Tour.

Taylor Swift wears a Versace bodysuit during her ‘Eras Tour’. (SARAH YENESEL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

At the time, John didn’t look thrilled with the way — calling it “cheap songwriting” successful an interrogation with Rolling Stone. “I cognize she’s the biggest happening successful the world, and I’m not trying to descend anybody’s ship, but I deliberation it’s abusing your endowment to hitch your hands unneurotic and go, ‘Wait till helium gets a load of this!’ That’s bull—-,” helium said astatine the time. “It was a truly lousy happening to do…I ne'er got an email. I ne'er got a telephone call. I was truly caught disconnected guard,” John added.

He aboriginal seemed to reply to the way connected “Paper Doll” which lyrics similar “You’re similar 22 girls successful 1 / And nary of them cognize what they’re moving from” — a notation to her Red track “22.”

By 2021, however, John seemed to beryllium astatine bid with the song. “Sometimes, I anticipation it’s astir me. Sometimes, it’s a truly bully song,” he said to Andy Cohen mostly astir break-up tracks that could beryllium astir him — including Taylor’s evident one. “I don’t deliberation it’s a soiled admission. Sometimes, a opus is truthful good, I go, ‘Man, I anticipation that’s astir me.’ … I’ll cheque everyone’s euphony out. I’m a fan.”

The July 7 re-release of Speak Now features a present 33-year-old Taylor connected the screen successful a tulle purple dress, a grown-up instrumentality of the archetypal formal she wore for the medium art.

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