How John Mayer Feels About His Song with Ex Katy Perry _ E! News

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00:00 She got that way of singing down

00:02 and met the challenge of that song.

00:05 It was so much fun.

00:05 John Mayer is opening up about his 2013 duet

00:09 with Katy Perry.

00:11 During the October 2nd episode of

00:13 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,

00:16 the Gravity singer is asked to name

00:18 his least favorite album.

00:20 And while John picks Paradise Valley,

00:22 Andy applauds the track Who You Love.

00:25 ♪ That you love ♪

00:27 ♪ Who you love ♪

00:28 ♪ Who you love ♪

00:30 There's a song off Paradise Valley

00:32 that is in Andy's Kiki Lounge that I love,

00:34 which is your duet with Katy Perry.

00:36 Yeah, isn't that great?

00:37 So good. I'm glad we did that.

00:38 So pretty.

00:38 I'm glad we did that.

00:39 It's such a vibe.

00:41 Likening it to early sob rock prototype stuff,

00:44 the 45-year-old then shares where his head was.

00:47 It was just at the point where I was saying,

00:49 why can't I make music from a different era?

00:52 If I love a style of music and I wanna make it

00:55 like a genre, why can't I make music

00:57 that I was pretending was from a different era?

00:59 And that was sort of like a prototype to sob rock.

01:02 It was sort of like an FM light radio thing

01:05 and sob rock's a little more realized.

01:07 As for Katy's performance, John sings Nothing But Praise.

01:11 ♪ 'Cause you never wanna let that feeling go ♪

01:16 I listen to that every once in a while

01:19 and I go, I like this, I like this.

01:21 I like the way that she sounds on that song.

01:23 I feel like it's a really,

01:24 she got that way of singing down

01:27 and met the challenge of that song.

01:29 It was so much fun.

01:30 John and Katy first sparked romance rumors in 2012

01:34 following her divorce from Russell Brandt.

01:36 The artists continued to have an on-again,

01:38 off-again relationship,

01:40 but they ultimately parted ways in 2015.

01:43 In fact, John previously hinted that his 2017 song,

01:47 "Still Feel Like Your Man" is a nod to their split.

01:51 ♪ 'Cause I still feel like your man ♪

01:54 He told the New York Times that year,

01:56 "Who else would I be thinking about?

01:57 "And by the way, it's a testament to the fact

02:00 "that I have not dated a lot of people

02:02 "in the last five, six years.

02:04 "That was my only relationship.

02:05 "So it's like, give me this, people."

02:08 These days, Katy is engaged to Orlando Bloom,

02:11 with whom she shares three-year-old daughter, Daisy Dove.

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