BBC NEWS:John Mayer Passed Just Away Recently….
Fans are stunned by John Mayer’s performance of his 2009 hit song “Half of My Heart” at a recent event. Why? Perhaps because it was first published as a duet with his famous ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift, he has not performed it in front of an audience in a very long time.
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During his solo acoustic tour, the 45-year-old musician performed for his Detroit audience on Wednesday night (March 22) at Little Caesar’s Arena. Fans in the audience sang Swift’s accompanying vocals themselves, thus even though he was the lone performer on stage, he still had a duet partner or
Despite its financial success, Mayer has mostly removed “Half of My Heart” from his setlists, as numerous other pleasantly surprised concertgoers noted after the fact. It is no secret that the “Gravity” singer has not exactly been on good terms with his former co-singer in the ten and a half years since they dated, but this could just be because the song is fourteen years old.
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The two were initially connected when Mayer, who was 31 at the time, asked Swift, who was 19, to sing on “Half of My Heart” while he was still working on the song. Their romance seemed to end a few months later, but sparks flew between them when they performed the duet live at the Z100 Jingle Ball.
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