Why Framing Britney Spears Almost Made John Mayer Cry

Publish date: 2024-05-04

Of course, when we think of early aughts celebrity royalty, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears come to mind, but so does John Mayer. However, our favorite blondes were maligned as unstable party girls and endured public trauma, while Mayer was idolized as a player and made it out "okay," as he told Andy Cohen, despite his share of missteps and public backlash. Mayer chalked it up to unfair gender-based mistreatment.

"I have a very strong feeling that a lot of these things that happen to female performers is endemic to being female," the "New Light" singer said via SiriusXM radio on Feb. 22, 2021. "Why do so many men emerge going, 'Learned my lesson. Yes, I got dinked in the head, but I'm back, baby,'" he added, comparing the female and male entertainer experience.

"I watched it with such grace for someone who got much more maligned by the inhuman experiment of fame than I did," Mayer continued. "And I go, 'Why did I get through that? Why did I find my way through that obstacle course? What was afforded to me stylistically?' The stylistic difference of being an outlaw. If you're a man, you're an outlaw. If you're a woman, you're kind of crazy. And when I watched that through that lens, my heart just ached the whole time."

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