﻿“You love who you love” until the relationship is a reason to see a therapist. Katy Perry and John
Mayer dated for about three years and even made a song together! However, they had a bit of a rocky
relationship. After breaking up and getting back together many times, the singers officially ended
their romance. Why didn’t they work out? It was a typical episode of American Idol,
or so Katy Perry thought. At this stage of the competition, judges chose songs for the
contestants to sing, and it was Noah Thompson’s turn. Katy chose his song, but fellow judge Luke
Bryan caused some mischief to get a reaction out of his colleague. That’s when Noah began
singing ‘Heartbreak Warfare,’ by John Mayer. Perry’s reaction was instant confusion mixed
with slight embarrassment. But being the icon she is, the singer played
it off with some humor and offered a tip that Thompson could use in the future.
“I feel like maybe you should Wikipedia me,” the ‘Roar’ singer quipped during the episode. She was
also confused about the song choice — “I picked John Denver!” the singer said.
Poor Noah was caught in a prank he was seemingly unaware of. The contestant thought he did a lousy
job because of Katy’s commotion over the song. However, she assured him, “It’s a great song.
You did great, but I can’t talk anymore.” At this point, Luke admitted it was his idea
to change the song. The ‘Prism’ singer hid under the table. “Who’s going to pay for my
extra hour of therapy?” she joked. It's been like a decade since Perry
and Mayer went their separate ways, but much like the ‘California Girls’ singer,
the memories of the two are still fresh in our minds. It feels like it was just yesterday that
we thought the singers would stay in love forever and become a legendary musical couple. Sadly,
their romance was short-lived and kind of messy… John has a celebrity dating history from Jessica
Simpson to Jennifer Aniston. It’s worth mentioning that the songwriter was also speculated to be
one of the reasons for the feud between Katy and Taylor Swift, both of whom he’s dated.
John Mayer, man… He’s just a womanizer, and his influence has resulted in some of the greatest
music hits we know. The guitarist also seems to have a preference for dating much younger
women, and has this habit of emotionally scarring the younger women he was with.
Point in case — Taylor Swift’s ‘Dear John’, which is a six-and-a-half minute song highlighting
all Mayer’s red flags from when they were together. “All the girls that you've run
dry/ Have tired, lifeless eyes,” Swift sang. Perhaps this is why, even almost ten years later,
Katy got the ick when she heard someone singing her ex-boyfriend’s song. Instead of guessing,
we’ve decided to revisit their romance! Interestingly, the singers met three years
before they even started dating. In 2009, the pair reportedly exchanged flirty tweets and texts
before officially meeting at a Jay-Z concert at Madison Square Garden just a few weeks later.
According to an anonymous source, the two decided to go to GoldBar
in New York afterward and just "clicked.” "They were so flirty and all over each other
that night at the bar. They really liked each other," the insider said at the time. However, the
guitarist lost his chance to woo the ‘Dark Horse’ singer. At the MTV Video Music Awards the next
day, Katy’s now ex-husband Russell Brand was the show’s host — he swooped in and got the girl.
Perry and Mayer would only reconnect after the brunette finalized her
divorce from Brand in 2012. By August that year, the singers
were rumored to be dating. However, they had already called it quits by the month's end!
A week later, the then-couple was back on and was spotted getting cozy in the VIP
section of the FYF Fest in Los Angeles. When asked about his relationship with the
songstress, John told Rolling Stone magazine not once but thrice that he was happy.
"I'm quite happy," he said, adding: "I'm happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very
happy in all aspects of my life." However, the happiness didn’t seem to
last. Three months later, Katy & John broke up for the second time… and then
got back together again… It was a pattern they infamously repeated a few more times.
One of the things that united the former couple was their shared passion for music.
The brunette said as much when she appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show in December 2013.
“He understands what I do because he does the same thing, and so after a long day,
if it's been tough, I don't really have to go into it," she said of Mayer, adding, "He
just gets it, you know?" Perry was a very supportive partner,
having looked after her former flame when he was healing from an injury.
Mayer damaged his vocal cords earlier that year and had to go on vocal rest following
throat surgery. His former girlfriend acted as his interpreter for ten months!
He publicly thanked Katy for her understanding at one of his concerts, telling the audience,
"She would order for me...and she would tell people, 'it's nice to meet you, he says'...
she was so patient as to continue to get to know me and love me." The guitarist then dedicated his
song "A Face to Call Home" to his then-lover. Music connected them romantically as well.
Katy revealed that she and John liked to make out to Drake's ‘Hold On, We're Going Home.’
“It sounds a little bit like kind of old vibey Lionel Richie or The Weeknd. It's sexy as hell,"
the singer said during her stint as a radio host for iTunes. "And I listen to it with my boyfriend,
so I would suggest listening to it with whoever you wanna make out with,” she added.
Mayer reportedly cheered his then-girlfriend on at her iconic Super Bowl XLIX halftime show.
He, reportedly, referred to himself as "the first gentleman of Katy Perry," praising the pop
singer in the spotlight. That was his nickname, while Mayer's nickname for Perry was "Prism."
If you're a Katy Perry fan, you know her 2013 album was called, ‘Prism.’ It featured a few songs
that she and John co-wrote together. Some have even speculated that songs like ‘Legendary Lovers’
and ‘Walking On Air’ are also about Mayer. Writing songs together wasn’t enough for this
former couple. In August 2013, the former pair recorded a duet titled 'Who You Love.' The song
is a soft pop ballad about falling in love. "I've been such a fan, I think he's so incredibly
talented, a genius songwriter," Katy said about their song collaboration
at the time. "To be a part of anything he was doing was just natural," she added.
Even though their song will live forever on YouTube and Apple Music, the on-again, off-again
couple officially called off their romance in July 2015 — after almost three years of dating.
At the time, neither Perry nor Mayer gave a statement about the split,
and sources didn't offer many details either. In the past, however, it was speculated that
Perry’s busy work schedule and the seven-year age gap put some strains on the relationship.
It wasn’t the steepest in John’s history, but seven years still can be a bit much.
People magazine reported that when the two were dating, Katy still liked to party, and
an insider said her then-boyfriend "just wanted to get away from all the parties and go home."
The ‘Dark Horse’ singer once called Mayer a “tortured soul.”
She even confessed, "I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds," referring to
both John and her former husband, Russell. It looks like Taylor Swift wasn’t the only
one with some bad memories. It's clear the guitarist has a bad rep with his ex-lovers.
In June 2017, Katy released her album Witness. Fans assumed many of the songs
contained lyrics about John. One of the songs is called 'Save As Draft.'
In the song, the pop star goes on about a former love and how she contemplated getting
back in touch with him. "I write it/ Erase it/ Repeat it/ But what good will it do to
reopen the wound?/ So I take a deep breath, and I save as draft,” Perry sang. Fans feel the lyrics
could be about John because he is an active Twitter user and has used the phrase 'save as
draft' many times before on the app. In the meantime, The Dead & Company
musician admitted that he wrote the song ‘Still Feel Like Your Man’ about Perry.
“Who else would I be thinking about?” he told The New York Times. “It’s a testament to the fact that
I have not dated a lot of people in the last five, six years. That was my only relationship. So it’s
like, give me this, people,” the musician added. Perry began dating her current husband,
Orlando Bloom, shortly after Mayer, and, except for a brief break in 2017,
they've been together ever since. They got engaged on Valentine's Day 2019 and welcomed a daughter,
Daisy Dove Bloom, the following year. John, for his part, has waited before trying to
find love again. The singer was reportedly linked to 23-year-old actress, Kiernan Shipka, however
some tabloids claim the two are just friends who like to sometimes share a meal together.
Other than that, we’ve just heard rumors about flings,
like the brief moment the singer was flirting with comedian Larry David’s daughter, Carrie.
Not all relationships last, but we wouldn’t be who we are today without meeting some special
people along the way. Katy Perry may joke about needing therapy when thinking
about John Mayer but the song they made together came from a place of pure love.
Their love burned bright while it lasted, and in the long run, helped them grow as artists.