John Mayer Quits Twitter to Focus on Recording

John Mayer — who has entertained 3.7 million followers with barrages of Tweets like, "I just woke up from a dream about drinking water. When you get to live your dreams, your actual dreams are boring as shit" — unceremoniously deleted his Twitter account yesterday. A rep for Mayer tells Rolling Stone that Mayer quit the service because "a return to the studio is planned," presumably to record a follow-up his 2009 album Battle Studies.

Mayer isn't leaving social networking entirely. In fact, he now seems focused on Tumblr. Last week, he took to his account there to explain the new habit: “I had 3.3 million Twitter followers back in April when I announced that I'd be predominantly posting on Tumblr ... Five months later I have just passed 50,000 followers, a fraction of my Twitter base ... I will leave the opining up to you, but I think I made the right move. I now have an even larger Tumblr addiction but it's sort of like a book addiction, or a gambling addiction where you always walk away with the casino's money ... it’s one of those things you do all the time but isn't all that bad for you.”

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Song Stories

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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