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How about a little pop music with your morning coffee?

This summer you can wake up to the sweet sounds of Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Justin Bieber and other hot pop acts, as they’ve been tapped to headline the Today Show’s summer concert series.

Beginning on may 14 with legendary rocker Sting, the series will bring only the most in-demand musical stars to the Rockefeller Plaza in new York City.

Bieber, who’s riding high on the Billboard charts with his latest album, My World 2.0, will perform on June 4. Aguilera will gets fans in the mood for the release of her album, Bionic, with a performance on June 8. And Lady GaGa, who will be in the middle of the second North American leg of her Monster Ball tour, will perform on July 9.

Other performers confirmed include Maroon 5 (July 2), John Mayer (July 23), and Katy Perry (August 27).

Find out how you can attend these early morning concerts and see the rest of the lineup here.

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John Mayer took a moment onstage last night (February 25) at his sold-out Madison Square Garden show to thank fans in the wake of controversial Playboy comments.

“I hate to come off like an a–hole ever, and thank you guys for believing that I am not an a–hole,” he told the crowd. “Never, ever in my entire life did I ever think that it would be a good idea to be an a–hole. But you know what? There’s plenty of a–holes who think the same thing, so I have to thank you.”

John added he’s ready for a fresh start: “It’s a clean me now, people, clean me.”

Needless to say, his many fangurls instantly errupted into applause and cheers.

For once, John Mayer let his music do most of the talking on Sunday night (February 14) as he performed in concert at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada.

Between sets, the disgraced adult contemporary crooner wisely kept his trap shut after getting himself in a huge self-inflicted PR mess during a recent Playboy interview which included some highly inane, derogatory comments.

After greeting the crowd, the adult contemporary crooner began what would be an ongoing discussion on Valentine’s Day. He later showed a Valentine’s Day card a terminally ill youngster named Isaac gave him and recalled the conversation he had with the young boy, a conversation revolving around if John needs to burp sometimes when he’s singing.

Meanwhile, execs at an adult entertainment company have reportedly contacted John to offer him a job as a writer after he professed his love of pornography during his controversial Playboy interview.

He told the gentlemen’s mag: “Pornography? It’s a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora’s box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed. When I watch porn, if it’s not hot enough, I’ll make up backstories in my mind. My biggest dream is to write pornography.”

That dream appears to be coming true as Vivid Entertainment boss Steven Hirsch has written to Mr. Mayer to offer the star his “dream” job.

The letter, obtained by TMZ, reads, “We actively pursue working with highly creative people and you obviously fit that mold. We believe your incredible talent and passion, which have touched so many, can translate into a highly erotic adult film. I think that together we can create a highly unique breakthrough film that will appeal to your millions of fans. Please call me at your convenience so we can discuss our working together.”

Some say that calling his penis a white supremacist in an interview is the worst thing that John Mayer has ever done.

But is it? After all, that would be to discount every song that John Mayer has ever written. and his annoying girl’s voice. and his stupid hair. and his face. and all of his relationships. and everything else that he has done, is doing or will ever do until the end of time. But using a Playboy interview to spout racially-insensitive remarks was sort of stupid, we’ll admit.

And John Mayer is sorry. John Mayer is so sorry that he interrupted a concert to a) explain what a juddering bellend he is and b) promise not to be so awful in the future. and then he carried on playing one of his own songs, which suggests that he hasn’t quite got the hang of the second part yet.

John Mayer doesn’t deserve all of the negative attention he’s been getting over the last couple of days. all he ever wanted to do was just play a bunch of insufferably girly songs on his guitar while feigning vulnerability by gazing wistfully into the middle-distance, and now everyone hates him.

Why? how was he to know that sleeping with as many celebrities as possible and then graphically describing their sexual abilities, while interjecting with a number of racially-unsettling asides, during an interview with a magazine that old men with dirty fingernails traditionally use as a masturbatory aid would dent his image? oh, being a celebrity is so hard.

So what can John Mayer do to repair his image? He can’t follow Mel Gibson and go to rehab because, as he said on his own Twitter page ‘they don’t make rehab centers for being an a-hole’. He can’t apologise to the community leaders of those who he offended because it’d take an impractically long time, given that he’d have to apologise to black community leaders, female community leaders, black female community leaders, whoever the leader of Jessica Simpson‘s community is and to the leader of the community of disgruntled masturbating old men.

Instead, John Mayer has chosen to apologise to his fans. and that’s what he tearfully did during a recent concert in Nashville. Look, there’s video of it and everything…

Now, admittedly the thought of sitting through a seven-minute video of an unbearably smug man holding up his own concert to offer apologise for being a berk in front of a crowd of largely moronic females whose only real response is to scream every time he says the word ‘guitar’ might not appeal to you. Luckily, People has excerpts:

Wringing his hands on stage, the troubled guitarist told his audience at the Sommet Center that he fell into “a wormhole of selfishness, greediness and arrogance” and “in the quest to be clever, forgot about the people who love me and that I love.”

What’s more, John Mayer has also claimed that he was about to quit ‘the media game’ as a result of his Playboy interview. which is wonderful news, so long as he realises that albums and music videos and concerts are technically a type of media too. Once that’s clear we might be ready to forgive him.

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Looks like John Mayer is the new Kanye West.

The disgraced adult contemporary crooner has hit up Twitter to apologize for a Playboy interview in which he uses the N-word.

He tweets: “Using the ‘N word’ in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. And it’s such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there’s no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged. And while I’m using today for looking at myself under harsh light, I think it’s time to stop trying to be so raw in interviews. It started as an attempt to not let the waves of criticism get to me, but it’s gotten out of hand and I’ve created somewhat of a monster. I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. I don’t have the stomach for it. Again, because I don’t want anyone to think I’m equivocating: I should have never said the word and I will never say it again.”

As for whether a stint in rehab is in store? “They don’t make rehab centers for being an a-hole,” he says.

John’s revolting use of the N-word came when he was asked about having a “hood pass.” He explained: “Someone asked me the other day, ‘What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?’ And by the way, it’s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a n****r pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a hood pass if you really have a hood pass? But I said, I can’t really have a hood pass. I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’”

The always candid John Mayer offers up his thoughts about women in the March issue of Playboy magazine.

Of former flame Jessica Simpson, whom he dated in 2006, he says: “Sexually, it was crazy. … It was like napalm. Sexual napalm.”

As for whether he still loves Jennifer Aniston, John replies, “Yes, always. I’ll always be sorry that it didn’t last. In some ways I wish I could be with her.”

Regarding those rumours that the two broke up because he was using Twitter too much? “That wasn’t it, but that was a big difference,” John says. “he brunt of her success came before TMZ and Twitter. I think she’s still hoping it goes back to 1998. She saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction.”

When the topic turns to black women, Mr. Mayer says, “I always thought Holly Robinson Peete was gorgeous. Every white dude loved Hilary from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. And Kerry Washington. She’s superhot … ”

John Mayer is an unapologic womanizer — but his latest conquest may garner his a girlizer title.

While other reports suggest they’re dating, according to In Touch John and Grammy golden girl Taylor Swift hooked up when they were both in Nashville last month.

A source says they were getting rather cozy in the recording studio after meeting up several times. “She was sitting on John’s lap, her arms were around him, and she was talking in his ear,” says insider. “They were acting like teenagers.”

In Touch has the rest of the dish:

That night, John, 32, and Taylor, 20, dined at the restaurant Cabana and were joined by friends afterward. The couple left alone and went back to The Hermitage Hotel, where they arrived in the loading dock to avoid being spotted and were escorted to John’s suite, the source claims. Both of their reps deny the story. But the source claims, “Taylor spent the night and enjoyed mid-morning room service before leaving his suite the next day.”

Though the source says that Taylor “adores” John, it seems the womanizer is up to his old ways, involving yet another starlet in boosting his career. When asked by a friend how his night with Taylor went, John laughed, and boasted, “How do you think it went?”

Only time will tell whether hooking up with music’s sleaziest lothario will affect Taylor’s reign as America’s current sweetheart.