Add John Mayer to the growing list of celebrities who have been emotionally affected by Britney Spears’ personal and professional misfortunes, as seen in a new documentary.
In a chat with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s “Radio Andy” this week, Mayer revealed that he “almost cried five times” while watching “Framing Britney Spears”. Like Spears, the “Your Body Is a Wonderland” singer rose to fame in the early 2000s. He told Cohen that he was impressed by how different his experience with stardom was in comparison.
“Going through this and getting out on the other side is OK to have infinite grace for those who struggle with it,” said Mayer. “I did well. … I have a very strong feeling that part of it is because I am a man. And I have a very strong feeling that many of these things that happen to women are endemic to women. “
Listen to an excerpt from John Mayer’s “Radio Andy” interview below.
Produced by The New York Times, “Framing Britney Spears” examines Spears’ early years as a teenage pop idol, as well as court-ordered tutelage that continues to limit her authority over her financial affairs. The film is also a controversial retrospective of celebrity media culture during the late 1990s and early 2000s, especially with regard to women. In one scene, a journalist asks a Spears teenager about her breasts in a television interview. Later, she is pressured about her virginity, also on camera.
Therefore, Mayer said that he watched the documentary “with great grace to [Spears], who was much more defamed by the inhuman experiment of fame than me. “
“If you’re a man, you’re an outlaw,” he said, pointing to the ways in which the media shapes the public’s perception of artists. “If you’re a woman, you’re a little crazy. And when I saw it through those lenses, my heart ached all the time. “
Of course, the love life of the seven Grammy winner has generated a fair amount of public scrutiny over the years. In his interview for “Radio Andy”, he told some anecdotes about his high-level relationships with Jessica Simpson, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry, and said he didn’t care if his ex-girlfriends found artistic inspiration in their time together.
Hear what John Mayer has to say about his famous ex-boyfriends below.
“Sometimes a song is so good, I say, ‘Dude, I hope it’s about me’,” he said, noting that over time, relationships “go into this category of legacy, where they are no longer irritating your nerves or making you upset. “
In another part of the interview, Mayer said he hopes to embrace life as a family man soon, adding that he is eager to leave his single life behind sooner or later.
“One thing remains, which is wife and children,” he said. “I have reached a point in my life where, with these things, I am not completely tired, but my hands are a little on my knees and I think, ‘OK, I definitely explored the life of what can be done for me for me. ‘So I don’t feel late, because I would never like to have a wife and children while I am still investigating what is there to be explored by me. “
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