While the metadata tags it as Pop , Room for Squares is a Trojan horse. It is pop structurally (hooks, choruses, 3:45 runtimes), but sonically it is Blue-Eyed Soul and Folk-Jazz .
There are two types of people in this world: Those who dismiss John Mayer as fluffy adult contemporary, and those who have listened to Room for Squares on a good pair of headphones. John Mayer - Room For Squares -2001 Pop- -Flac ...
Unlike the brick-walled pop of 2015-2020, Room for Squares breathes. You can hear the room ambience on the acoustic guitars. You can feel the separation between the fretless bass and the snare drum. When you download or stream this album in , you are restoring the original master intended for CD, free from the psychoacoustic trickery of lossy compression. While the metadata tags it as Pop ,