Music Banter - View Single Post - John mayer

Bloozcrooz · 01-04-2013, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Pop fans, for them image, theartrical performance on stage and off stage antics of their favorite performer is almost inseparable as to why they like their music. Sometimes image, attitude, talent, reputataion & consistancy in making good music (and even personality & person life) is all part and parcel how people view musicians and artist, and why they like them or even don't like them. It's something people do, whether it's done in forming a positive or negative opinion of peformer. What they do outside of playing and recording music (of course) has nothing to do with what it sounds like. But it's people's general veiw point incorperates all kind of things. Someone might like Lady Gaga for her fashion choices, and that has nothing to do with what her songs sounds like. I don't know how anyone would think fashion makes music sound better. So the same with John Mayer, [true] what he does outside of playing, doesn't make a difference with if he makes good music or not. But it doesn't improve the overall opinion of him either.

I didn't like what I heard from John Mayer when I first heard him, my opinion hasn't changed. Finding about weird **** he says hasn't changed it either. I agree with you that any jerk face can be talented. But tbh I don't see John Mayer as talented judging from what I heard. If enough people insist he is, well then I would have to say he has a reputation of being talented.

Well thats the beauty of being able to have your own opinion. I've also talked to people who didn't like SRV and said he played the same riff over and over and over. I use to not be crazy about John Mayer when he first came out but after hearing his take on some blues songs I came around. But thats just me and ultimately has no bearing on the fact of whether or not anyone else will like him. I will venture to say however that if he wasn't such a womanizing kind of "out there" and outspoken prick (not my opinion of him but seems to be the growing concensus) his fan base and popular opinion of him by the majority would drasticly change. I think sometimes whether some realise it or not they let a persons personality and characteristics heavily influence what they think of their talent or capabilitys. If he was a yes'mam no'mam respectful humble guy who spent most all of his time doing charity work for starving kids and adopted every abandoned and abused animal he could (or like most at least pretended to care when cameras are around cause its a tax write off anyway) his music would only be comparable to that of the Beattles and some of the best Blues artists of all time.