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I haven't had the chance to listen to all of Mayer's new album, but I'll be doing that soon. I just picked a couple random tracks from the CD, and I like this one. It's really groovy, and that always hooks me into a song. It's kind of a different sound for Mayer, blending country-rock and sort of Americana folk music, drawing from influences like Bob Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. Mayer defeinitely makes the sound work for his voice and style, though. The entire album, Born and Raised, is said to carry this new sound all the way through.
"Something like Olivia" is about a crush of John Mayer's. He has admitted to having a crush on actress, Olivia Wilde. It's a form of unrequited love, I guess. Though the actress split from her husband in early 2011, Mayer writes the song as if she's still attached. We can assume he wrote the song before the breakup, writing "she is taken" into the lyrics. So, now, it seems like he might get his chance.
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