How John Mayer Feels About Listening to Katy Perry Music Now

That November, he admitted to his pal Andy on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that he tuned in for the four-day YouTube live-stream she hosted to promote her fifth album, Witness. “Yeah, I checked in with it,” John said. “It’s definitely odd to watch your ex-girlfriend asleep.”

But he has no qualms about letting her know when he’s thinking of her. “The way I see things now, I call it ‘stand in the middle of the boat,’ John explained. “If someone says, ‘I don’t watch that,’ it’s like, ‘Yes, you do.’ You know? It’s like, if you want to text someone…I texted Katy happy birthday. It was four in the morning. It was like a post-midnight, haven’t-gone-to-sleep-yet, it’s-technically-your-birthday send. Because how weird is it to be like, ‘I want to say happy birthday now, but I’m going to wait until tomorrow afternoon? Be a person, man!”