A new album calls for some newfound interactivity on the web.
That’s what John Mayer has on his official website http://www.johnmayer.com. A Flash page that requires those who bother (like myself) to print out (or simply take a photo of it with your cell phone) the Battle Studies icon, show it to your webcam and some pretty interesting Flash interaction takes place (or as the website has it, it is an augmented reality).
(Strangely, the Flash wasn’t able to finish loading in Firefox but it works fine in IE.)
I never knew one can do such interactivity with Flash. And what I truly want to say is John Mayer’s new album is finally coming out. The single “Who Says” is available for viewing on YouTube and it does seem like Mr Mayer’s stripping down his music more and more (imo).
Lucky fans in countries where you can purchase songs off iTunes, you can now pre-order the album. Hey Apple, when are you going to include Singapore on the list of countries able to purchase songs off iTunes? *scowl*
Will just have to wait for the physical CD to hit the local stores.
Some of us, We’re hardly ever here
The rest of us, we’re born to disappear
How do I stop myself from
Being just a number
How will I hold my head
To keep from going under
Down to the wire
I wanted water but
I’ll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes
To take me even higher
Then I’ll come through
Like I do
When the world keeps
Testing me, testing me,testing me
How did they find me here
What do they want from me
All of these vultures hiding
Right outside my door
I hear them whisperin
They’re tryin to ride it out
They’ve never gone this long
Without a kill before
Down to the wire
I wanted water but
I’ll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes
To take me even higher
Then I’ll come through
Like I do
When the world keeps
Testing me, testing me, testing me
Wheels up
I got to leave this evening
I can’t seem to shake these vultures
Off of my trail
Power is made, by power being taken
so I keep on running
to protect my situation
Down to the wire
I wanted water but
I’ll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes
To take me even higher
Then I’ll come through
Like I do
When the world keeps
Testing me, testing me
Whatcha gonna do about it
Whatcha gonna do about it
Whatcha gonna do about it
Don’t give up give up
Don’t give up give up give up
Don’t give up give up
Don’t give up give up give up
This concert version, taken from Where The Light Is DVD, rocks the hell out of me. The whole band (Steve Jordan! Pino Palladino!) is so groovy and the band members so in sync with one another. My hair stands everytime I see this.
