Music
Big Releases on April 14: John Mayer (The Search for Everything); Little Dragon (Season High)
Big Picture: After a long soul search, Mayer is back at doing what he does best: average, pleasant pop music featuring above-average guitar work. Approaching 40 — with folksy detours like Born and Raised, and Paradise Valley behind him — a wizened Mayer is back looking for the soft-rock hits that made him Top 40 famous. After his split with Katy Perry, Mayer’s songs also prove breakin’up is still hard to do. Case and point, Moving on and Getting Over and Never on the Day You Leave. Meanwhile, Little Dragon is an electronic-music band that grew faster than a scaly beast in Game of Thrones.
Forecast: Mayer wins another Grammy in the new category of Most Pretentious Album Title of the Year. His renewed career sparks albums titled: Everything Plus More, I’ve Got the Whole World in My Hands, Imagine My Imagination, and … Your Body is a Wonderland and I’m Exploring it to Find the Ultimate Truth of the Human Condition.