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Singer John Mayer ignited a media storm with a no-holds barred
Playboy interview in which he described former girlfriend Jessica
Simpson as "sexual napalm" and confessed an aversion to sleeping
with black women.
Mayer, 32, the bluesy writer of hits like Gravity and Your Body is
a Wonderland, also spoke of his passion for pornography and abiding
love for ex-girlfriend Jennifer Aniston, describing her as "the
most communicative, sweetest, kindest person".
But it was the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter's comments about
black women, widely perceived as racist, that set the Internet
alight and fast became one of the top three most popular topics on
Twitter.
By Thursday, Mayer was forced to apologise in a message of his own
to his three million Twitter followers, saying he did not have the
stomach for being "a shock jock."
Despite being dubbed a womaniser in the media for relationships
with Hollywood stars like Simpson, Aniston and Jennifer Love
Hewitt, Mayer told Playboy that he was not open to having sex with
black women, describing his penis as "sort of like a white
supremacist".
The singer, who has worked with rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z, also
used a slur against African Americans that is widely perceived as
racist.
"I am sorry that I used the ('N') word. And it's such a shame that
I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact
opposite spirit of the word itself," Mayer said in a Twitter
posting.
"It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualise using it
because I realise that there's no intellectualising a word that is
so emotionally charged," he added, saying he would never say the
word again.
Mayer, who is currently on a US and Canadian tour to promote his
latest album Battle Studies, said he thought it was time "to stop
trying to be so raw in interviews."
In the expletive-filled interview for Playboy's March edition, some
of which reportedly took place as Mayer downed malt whisky, the
singer sought to refute the media image of him as a womaniser and
"douche bag".
"I've been trying to prove to people I'm not a douche bag by not
dating, by keeping my name out of Us Weekly," he said.
Yet he described his brief 2006 relationship with Simpson as an
addiction. "That girl was like crack cocaine to me...Sexually, it
was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm,"
he said. He also said said his "biggest dream is to write
pornography".
The March issue of Playboy hits newsstands on February 12, and the
interview can be read now on the magazine's
website.
