The talented, beautiful, open-minded John Mayer has just about gone too far - In his interview with Playboy magazine, the artist used the "n word" which costed him his credibility with many disappointed fans. At his recent concert in Tennessee, John sincerely apologized to the crowd, and to the world, for his words and the discomfort it may have caused.. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INgaBsxDFng&feature=player_embedded)
BUT, that's not all he did. John went straight to his Twitter page to continually express his apologies for his ignorance. His tweets state: "Using the 'N word' in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. And it's such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there's no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged."
Personally, I don't think that John could have approached this situation in any other way - his fans were the ones to read his Playboy interview, and they are the same people who are following him on Twitter. In essence, thank God for social networking.. for it allows one to reach out to a large group of people, with ease. The situation that John got himself in is only one that he can pull himself out of, and that is for sure.. But, social media is here to work in John's favor, by allowing him to express just how sorry he truly is to his 3,067,471 followers.
Don't worry John, Twitter will just put it on your tab.
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haha i cant believe what im readying right now. i never thought he would do something like that. thanx for the info and the laugh!!!!
ReplyDeleteI believe it...lets just put it this way...there's five million bad things I could say about John Mayer, but in the end he's just not that smart.
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