John Mayer was "humiliated" by Taylor Swift`s song
The guitarist was reportedly the inspiration behind his former lover`s track `Dear John` - which came out a few months after he was slammed for branding ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson "sexual napalm" - but he is upset about the record, saying it was a "lousy" thing to write.
He told Rolling Stone magazine: "I was really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I`d already been dressed down. I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you`ve ever been, someone kicked you even lower?
"It made me feel terrible. Because I didn`t deserve it. I`m pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do."
The song was included on Taylor`s multi-million selling `Speak Now` album, and features cutting lyrics, including: "Dear John, I see it all, now it was wrong / Don`t you think 19 is too young / to be played by your dark twisted games, when I loved you so?"
John had a brief relationship with Taylor before `Speak Now` came out, and shortly afterwards he took two years away from music to deal with some vocal problems.
The 34-year-old musician - who has also dated other beauties including Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston - also took aim at Taylor for writing the song and it being so obviously about their relationship.
He added: "I will say as a songwriter that I think it`s kind of cheap songwriting.
"I know she`s the biggest thing in the world, and I`m not trying to sink anybody`s ship, but I think it`s abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, `Wait till he gets a load of this!` That`s bull****t."
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