Kinda lengthy...sorry! :D

COMMENTARY

By Eric Olsen
Updated: 10:02 a.m. ET April 28, 2004Following a spirited launch by Sheryl Crow last week, the “Today” show post-dawn concert series continues this Friday with John Mayer, the triply talented, hugely popular jazzy pop-rock singer, songwriter and guitarist. But — and I speak as a concerned husband and father — don’t let Mayer’s gentle romanticism, clean-cut “perfect boyfriend” façade and deeply expressive facial contortions fool you America — he has COME FOR YOUR WOMEN, and his scheme has wildly succeeded in sending the heart of many a young woman aflutter.

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Women, I know Mayer’s type: avoiding the full frontal alpha male confrontation of testosterone and estrogen, Mayer and those of his ilk lull and beguile you. They don’t ram through the front door guns blazing, they slip in through a side entrance using understanding, self-deprecating humor, intelligence and sensitivity: “your body is a wonderland” indeed!

Mayer’s plot thickens
John Mayer has fellow travelers in quiet seduction, singer/songwriters like Damien Rice and David Gray, and even enablers. Despite the fact that Mayer had already performed in the spotlight of the televised Grammy Awards in early 2003, won a Grammy in the same show (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for “Your Body Is a Wonderland”), and sold 3.5 million copies of his debut album “Room For Squares,” when guest host Jack Black introduced him as the musical performer on the season opener of “Saturday Night Live” last October, Black mispronounced his last name as “Meyer,” clearly manipulating the protective instincts of vulnerable females from coast to coast!


I reluctantly admit, however, that Mayer, 26, has much to offer besides pouty lips and bedroom eyes scanning his sold-out shows for dewy female bounty. After growing up in Connecticut and briefly attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Mayer and his guitar settled in Atlanta in the late '90s, where he steadily played the clubs, wrote songs and developed an enthusiastic following for his cool Dave Matthews-meets-Michael Franks voice, elegant, propulsive guitar accompaniment, and sophisticated melodies, all very well demonstrated in his self-released '99 EP “Inside Wants Out.”

Mayer appeared triumphantly at the South by Southwest Music Festival in early 2000 and was signed to Columbia, which released “Room For Squares” in 2001. On the strength of enduring singles “No Such Thing,” the dangerously appealing “Your Body Is a Wonderland,” and almost nonstop touring, Mayer tapped into both the adult alternative market that made Norah Jones a superstar, and enraptured girls of all ages.

Mayer further solidified his grip with “Heavier Things,” a Billboard No. 1-charting album released last September, blessed with two more winning singles, “Clarity” and “Bigger Than My Body.” Millions more will be exposed to Mayer’s charms Friday morning — don’t say you weren’t warned.

pouty lips and bedroom eyes....that is gonna be my new siggy!

don't say you weren't warned...

LMAO!! it's so the truth! :lol:

enraptured girls of all ages.....tell me something we ALL didn't know already!! :rolleyes:

No one warned me! :lol:

No one told me that upon a few listens of his album he'd take over not only my cd player and iPod but my heart and my thoughts. That his words would become the ones I always wanted to say and never could express. That his music would be a place I could go and lose myself whenever I needed to.

I'm glad no one warned me. :P

I am feeling terribly mushy today, ha.

i wasn't warned either. but hey, i'm glad too. :P

Mee three.... :P

the today show is on nbc, right? cause when i look on my digital cable thing, it just says 'today', instead of 'today show'. :P

yes, it's on NBC. and it is referred to as just TODAY in a lot of things....

ha. gotcha ;)

i've never watched it before, so i'm new to this thing. do the musical guests just sing, or do they get to do an interview or something as well?

they do talk to them onstage, it's not a formal interview or anything by any means...

Too late now!

*sigh*

:D