When “Your Body Is a Wonderland” was released in 2002, it won John Meyer a Grammy and made him a bona fide rock star. The song has also inspired countless theories about who it was – all of which have now been cleared up once and for all.
“It was about my first girlfriend,” Mayer told “Call Her Daddy” podcast co-host Alex Cooper on Wednesday’s episode. “I was 21 when I wrote that song and I was nostalgic for 16.”
Cooper said he always thought the song, which spent 29 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at No. 18, was about a certain celebrity. Many fans must have thought the same, with some betting it was Mayer’s ex-girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt.
“No, this is one of those things where people just made up their minds,” Mayer told Cooper of the celebrity theories. “It gets stronger over the years. No, no, no, I never met a celebrity when I wrote that song.”
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In the past, Mayer has regularly graced the tabloids for a love life that has at various times included entertainers such as Katy Perry, Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston.
This week’s interview found that “womanizer” has become a term applied to the rock star. “That’s it,” Mayer told Cooper.
In 2010, he told Rolling Stone that his ideal woman had to have a “beautiful vagina” and told Playboy that Simpson was “sexual napalm.”
But in a 2017 article titled “John Meyer Knows He Was Wrong. He wants another chance,” Mayer told The New York Times that the “two-headed dragon” of those 2010 interviews caused him to reevaluate his behavior.
“Dating is no longer a coded activity for me,” she told Cooper this week, suggesting the change is related to her recent absence.
At a show in March, Mayer said on stage that she wanted people to stop telling her to settle down and start a family, according to Page Six. He added that he is “doing well” on his own and now sleeps “next to a row of pillows” – which “don’t upset me, hate me or knock me down”.
Watch the full “Call Her Daddy” interview on Spotify.
