John Mayer Loves Miley Cyrus' "Amazing" New Album: "This Is a Masterwork of Whack Genius"

"Gravity" singer gushed about the SNL host's new work

By Francesca Bacardi Oct 05, 2015 6:43 PMTags
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Miley Cyrus has a new No. 1 fan, and that's John Mayer.

The "Half of My Heart" singer took to Twitter Sunday to gush over Miley's "amazing" new album, Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz. He started his tweets by referencing some of the lyrics from the song "Lighter."

"'We never get to see ourselves sleeping peacefully next to the ones that we love,'" he tweeted, adding, "I'm totally transfixed by this Miley Cyrus album."

He continued to fanboy about her new work, which she performed during her hosting gig on Saturday Night Live this weekend. The 37-year-old performer was in awe of Miley's new sound and inspired lyrics, which seemed to have stemmed from a place that she didn't know she had, according to Mayer anyway.

"This is why I love music," he continued. "You can be one artist one year and the next discover some crazy light inside yourself and shine it everywhere."

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He didn't stop there. In a series of tweets the "Your Body Is a Wonderland" crooner described how magical the new album, which is available for free, sounds. "This Miley album is amazing. You can't try to make something like this. You just tap the vein and don't question a single instinct," Mayer wrote.

"'Self control/ is /not something I'm working on' sung heroically and melodically," he added. "Come. On."

The song he referenced in that tweet was "Slab of Butter (Scorpion)."

He finished his positive rant with an acknowledgment that he had probably gone on too long but summed up what he truly felt about Dead Petz. "Okay. I'll stop tweeting about it now. Comes down to this: This is a masterwork of whack genius. #whackgenius," he wrote.

Miley caught wind of his fandom and replied to one of his tweets, writing, "@JohnMayer dude f--k yeah!!!!"

So when can we expect a collaboration?

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