John Mayer - Sob Rock (2021) [Official Digital Download]

John Mayer explained how a driving creative force behind his new album, Sob Rock, was a desire to make a record that was equivalent to “shitposting” on the internet, in a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1.

Recalling how he was told at the start of his career that his music was “not what’s hot,” Mayer said, “What I would love other people to understand is that there is no more reason to have to adhere to any given idea of cool. Especially post-pandemic, which for the first time in anyone’s lives stopped the clock on the hyper modern day trade of culture.”

For Mayer, that freedom prompted him to approach his new music in a way that was more provocative, that might get him in trouble, or at least have someone tell him, “This is shit.” He continued: “I made a record, that to me at the time, only in a way to coax something out of me that I wouldn’t have normally done — shitpost a record. It’s called Sob Rock because it’s a shitpost. But more importantly it’s what I thought was a shitpost, and this gets down to where artists sit in front of you and play you what they think is their garbage. And you go, ‘That’s the best thing I ever heard you play.’ It makes a mockery of their interpretation of the experience. Which is just enough to break out of the mold and make something unique.”

TRACKLIST

1. John Mayer - Last Train Home
2. John Mayer - Shouldn't Matter but It Does
3. John Mayer - New Light
4. John Mayer - Why You No Love Me
5. John Mayer - Wild Blue
6. John Mayer - Shot in the Dark
7. John Mayer - I Guess I Just Feel Like
8. John Mayer - Til the Right One Comes
9. John Mayer - Carry Me Away
10. John Mayer - All I Want Is to Be With You



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