Yesterday, most of us spent the day gagging over John Mayer’s Playboy interview. Douchebag Supreme really outdid himself as he discussed how Jessica Simpson was like “sexual napalm” and how Jennifer Aniston was stuck in a 1998 fame-bubble. Other “highlights” included Mayer’s insistence that he had a “hood pass” even though “my d-ck is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a f-ckin’ David Duke c-ck. I’m going to start dating separately from my d-ck.” He also dropped the n-word and the “f-g” word casually. Later in the day, he apologized on Twitter – but only for using the n-word, not for any of the other rancid stuff he said.

So, Mayer had a performance in Nashville last night, and of course, he couldn’t just keep his head down and take his lumps. Instead, he tried to apologize again, but just ended up sounding like an even bigger jackass, in my opinion. He spoke about trying to “slither out of what I see as constant persecution” and said that “in the quest to be clever, I forgot about the people I love and that love me.” F-cking douche.

His Twitter mea culpa behind him, John Mayer asked a crowd of actual people on Thursday to forgive him for those race-tinged, hyper-sexual and wholly inappropriate comments made in a newly published Playboy interview. The blues-rock singer teared up as he spoke to fans in Nashville about descending into a “wormhole of selfishness” with his “quest to be clever” in the media. He said he’s “done” acting foolish and just wants to “play my guitar.”

Mayer’s interview went awry in so many ways, including a casual use of the N-word, graphic thoughts on his sex life with ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson and perhaps most bizarrely, that his sexual member was a “white supremacist” and prevents him from having intimate relationships with black women.

At the concert Thursday night, Mayer said he had lost sight of what’s important to him: “the people that I love and the people that love me.”

“I went as I’ve begun to do, into a wormhole of selfishness and greed and arrogance,” he said, adding he’d begun “thinking that if I just continued to be witty and pull together the most fast phrases that I could, that I could be clever enough to buy myself another day without thinking that anybody had finally pinned me down and said, ‘you’re a creep.'”

Mayer said he “feels absolutely terrible” for hurting people with his comments. “It feels worse than any headline I thought I could get my way out of.”

He then changed the focus of his speech to his band, which includes many African-American musicians and singers, in an apparent attempt to defuse the scandal boiled up by his N-word use. His voice wavering with emotion, he said:

“I think it’s important to know that everybody on this stage is here not because they condone what I say in any given interview — and certainly not the interview that’s arisen today. They’re on this stage because they support myself as a possible future grown-up.”

“Maybe they see something that I haven’t looked at in a while. So maybe I need to take a break from trying to be clever and just spend a little time looking at what they see. Because they’ve done an unbelievable thing tonight just being on the stage tonight.”

Mayer then made it clear his intention going forward:

“I quit the media game. I’m out. I’m done,” he said. “I just want to play my guitar to whoever’s around.”

The “game” as he calls it is one he plays often, both on Twitter and in numerous interviews that tend to teeter on ridiculousness.

Just last week, the singer was quoted by the New York Post as saying, “When I get married that’s gonna be my vows, ‘Do you, John Mayer, take this woman to have and to hold, to wear her ass like headgear?’ Yes, I do — you’re the one whose ass I wanna wear like a hat for the rest of my life.”

In an interview with Rolling Stone in January, Mayer introduced his views on the kind of woman he’d settle down with. “You need to have them be able to go toe-to-toe with you intellectually. But don’t they also have to have a vagina you could pitch a tent on and just camp out on for, like, a weekend? The Joshua Tree of vaginas?”

[From PopEater]

Do you “forgive” him? Here’s the thing – I do think he’s genuinely sorry. Not for saying all of that bullsh-t, but he’s sorry that we didn’t “get” it. He’s sorry that he’s so “misunderstood”. He’s sorry that we’re not “smart enough” to acknowledge that we’re in the presence of a f-cking genius. But how long do you think he’s really going to “take a break from being clever”? I give it two weeks.

John Mayer performing in London on January 18, 2010. Credit: WENN.