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Sandy
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While Bob Dylan breaks the Billboard charts with Modern Times, John Mayer captures our times with his latest album – Continuum, which is cathartic of today’s adversities.
Continuum sounds confronting yet blissfully ignorant, like licking ice-cream on a really hot day. It possesses some James Brown’s funk and the pleasures of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing’.
Mayer puts most of us in our place with his first single from the album, ‘waiting on the world to change’. One of the verses goes, “It’s hard to be persistent when we’re standing at a distance, so we keep waiting”.
There is a reason to believe that Mayer’s vocal has improved on Continuum. Less upstaged by his Stevie Ray Vaughan-inspired guitar shredding, there are thicker traces of soulfulness in his voice.
Mayer hopes to move on from Grammy winning, teeny-bopper swooners such as ‘Your Body is a Wonderland’ and ‘Daughters’. He almost believed he could not make it until his breakthrough with ‘Waiting on the world to change’.
Another number, ‘Belief’ reinstates such enlightened pessimism in the pursuit of our dreams and world peace. The chorus goes, “we never gonna win the world, we never gonna stop the war…belief is what we’re fighting for”.
Mayer said, “I love what I was (Room for Squares), what I was becoming (Heavier Things), and what I now am (Continuum)”. Let us hope that ‘I don’t trust myself (with loving you)’ is not dedicated to Jessica Simpson.
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- Recommended Track: The Heart of Life.
I love the lyrics to this track, and the guitar solo. The message of the song would make your day. Whenever I listen to this song, I feel like it’s Spring, like I’m riding a bike with my hands free..
