“I’m 33 years old. I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19, except the songs I wrote and the memories we made,” Swift said before playing “Dear John” for the first time in 11 years. “So, what I’m trying to tell you is that I’m not putting this album out so that you should go and feel the need to defend me on the Internet against someone you think I might have written the song about 14 million years ago.
” While she obviously never said the words “Leave John Mayer alone” or “Please stop bullying John Mayer so he’ll stop bugging me,” the song “Dear John” is infamously rumored to be about him, since it came out after they dated for a few months when he was 32 and she was 19. Also maybe because it has the name “John” in the title.on May 5, fans seem eager to drag Mayer’s ass back through the mud, especially since “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”—a 3 a.m.