Exes Taylor Swift and John Mayer reportedly closely avoided a recent run-in.
Swift, 36, was spotted leaving Paul McCartney’s Saturday, March 28, concert outside Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre, in keeping with photos published by TMZ on Sunday, March 29. The pop star walked out of the venue in a gaggle that also included Olivia Rodrigo.
In accordance with the outlet, Mayer, 48, was photographed leaving the Fonda Theatre just moments earlier without running into Swift.
Swift and Mayer were romantically linked from 2009 and 2010 after collaborating on his song “Half of My Heart,” despite a 13-year age gap. (Swift was 19 while Mayer was 32 after they were reportedly an item.)
Speculation ultimately swirled that the 2 called it quits when Swift included a breakup song called “Dear John” on her 2010 album, Speak Now.
“Dear John, I see all of it now that you just’re gone / Don’t you’re thinking that I used to be too young to be messed with?” Swift sings. “The girl within the dress, cried the entire way home / I should’ve known
Well, possibly it’s me / And my blind optimism in charge / Or possibly it’s you and your sick need/ To present love then take it away / And also you’ll add my name to your long list of traitors / Who don’t understand.”
While Swift famously doesn’t name her musical muses, Mayer called out the 14-time Grammy winner for her “low cost songwriting” in a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone.
“It made me feel terrible. It was a extremely lousy thing to do,” he told the outlet in June 2012 of Swift allegedly writing a song about him. “I never got an email. I never got a phone call. I used to be really caught off guard. … [That’s] abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, ‘Wait ’til he gets a load of this!’ That’s bulls***.”
John Mayer and Taylor Swift perform onstage during Z100’s Jingle Ball 2009 in Recent York City. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
Swift ultimately rerecorded “Dear John” for Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and urged her fans against resurfacing any bad blood with Mayer.
“As we lead as much as this album coming out, I’d love for that kindness and that gentleness to increase onto our Web activities,” Swift told fans during a June 2023 concert on her Eras Tour. “I’m putting this out now because I would like to own my music and I imagine that any artist who has the need to own their music should have the opportunity to.”
Taylor Swift knows there’s no higher song inspiration than relationships — and he or she’s seemingly written several tunes about her whirlwind romance with John Mayer. Sparks flew between the 2 after collaborating on Mayer’s 2009 single “Half of My Heart.” Nonetheless, their relationship sparked some controversy for his or her large age gap as Mayer was 32 and […]
She continued on the time, “I’m 33 years old. I don’t care about anything that happened to me after I was 19, except the songs I wrote. So, what I’m attempting to let you know is that I’m not putting this album out in order that you need to go and feel the necessity to defend me on the Web against someone you’re thinking that I may need written the song about 14 million years ago.”
Swift is now engaged to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, while Mayer was recently dating influencer Kat Stickler.