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Waiting on the World to Change
John Mayer
2006
I know at least one guy who's already put needles into his eyes for seeing this artist make the list. Alright, let's back up everyone. John Mayer is one of those cats that you just have to separate the artist from the art, ok? If you're my wife, you have to go one step further and separate the man as a whole from the man who is just oh-so-easy-on-the-eyes. What am I trying to say here? Here, let Nacho explain. Look, what I'm saying is that this is not a Top 100 Men You Would Like Your Daughter to Bring Home list. (It's certainly not that kind of list after what he said about his relationship with Jessica Simpson. Eeesh.)
And so it is that we now turn to the music itself. I have not always been a huge Mayer fan, but I took Tiffany to her first John Mayer concert in 2017 so she could lay eyes on her celebrity crush firsthand, and I gotta say, my whole view of him changed with that concert. Clearly is ridiculously talented on guitar. Can clearly sing. He is not just some eye candy, studio-concocted front of a musician. After attending that concert I started getting more into him, and I'm a full-on converted fan now. I think his third album, Continuum, may very well be one of the best albums of the '00s.
And so no better way to pick one song than to go with what has historically been my favorite John Mayer song. This was actually a tough choice as there are probably better John Mayer songs I could've put on this list (see some of those selections below). This is just a nice, breezy, 3-minute pop song that actually was pretty spot-on even during the salad days of 2006 ("And when you trust your television / What you get is what you got / 'Cause when they own the information, oh / They can bend it all they want").
Just remember though: John Mayer's music is great. John Mayer the guy....you can do better.
Other Songs Considered:
Wildfire, In the Blood, Belief, Gravity, Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, Emoji of a Wave, You're Gonna Live Forever in Me, Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967, Queen of California