Wednesday, June 6, 2012

John Mayer, the dandy who found the self


I look back to January 18, 2010, the day I dropped by the room Hammersmith Apollo London to see John Mayer live. I remember being there in the middle, witnessing the phenomenal live tour "Battle Studies", and think that there was something he failed at that boy. It was not his talent, no. Nor vocal and instrumental ability (never gonna mess with him in this way!). Mayer's problem was, until well into 2010, the communicative desire that led him to talk and talk and talk and in turn destroy, destroy and destroy the credibility of a figure with often surprising and insulting outbursts, along that satirical comments made to the media.
Mayer Storytellers explaining the personality conflict that has haunted him for years.
Fortunately all those childish things already in the past. Mayer understood the problem and took action on the matter. ¿Step? The most extreme of the silences. If we remember that memory (short) period in which the author of "Continuum" or "Room For Squares" left social networks. The intention was clear: protect yourself against this desire that led him to act out everything that was going through her mind. After getting unhooked from that bad habit Mayer began to carve out a new personality, fostered mainly in search of their roots. The clearest evidence of this transformation we appreciate both its appearance close to that of a scruffy but stylish Johnny Depp, as the sound of melody. That was sweetened pop blues given way to a delicious folk perfect to be enjoyed in long voyages automobile.
Many artists get inexorably separating personal life from the musical. Mayer, however, is not of these. If something affects the way he is, so does his music. That's why in "Room For Squares" surfaced pop, while "Continuum" Mayer enjoyed a more precise, classical and at the feet of the master Clapton. With "Born And Raised" John has finally found that mature and controlled release he craved in his past.
No more noise, the cheap talk and childish. But blues and pop melodies electrical fundamental. This John Mayer goes through an acoustic guitar, a dandy outfit to Central and silence, I must say, tastes heavenly. Now we just need to see that happen in the next 600 days. Will they shake the foundations of the personality of Mayer or Connecticut but the return to show off his Fender without fear of losing her left labia?. Time will tell.

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