6.23.13 - New Music - john mayer

Is it just me, or is this pretty weak? I am a big fan of Mayer, but this doesn’t live up to his previous body of work.

“Paper Doll” is the lead single off Mayer’s upcoming sixth album ‘Paradise Valley’, which hopefully will see the singer-songwriter returning to his pop-rock style and ditching the Americana/country thing he did on ‘Born and Raised’. Not that we didn’t love that CD, but…well…

While it is nice to have the sensitive John Mayer, this isn’t exactly what I had in mind. “Paper Doll” is dull, and the lyrics are pretty bad. To add insult to injury, the music video, which is literally just a woman prancersizing, sucks. Maybe it was funny for a second, but it goes dry pretty quickly.

I will hold out for the album or a second single before we say that this period in Mayer’s career may be a bust.