For the longest time, I had always written John Mayer off as just another young, heartthrob singer/songwriter suitably groomed for pop radio. It wasn't until I heard the whole album of "Room for Squares" that I changed my mind. With the exception of the too-catchy-to-hate "No Such Thing," pretty much his radio singles were the only songs I didn't like, meaning the boring and bland "Why Georgia" and the embarrassingly stupid, "Your Body is a Wonderland." The album didn't really pick up until after those songs were over, and I found that Mayer was capable of all sorts of different styles. "Neon," is a cool track with its funky guitar lick and shuffling beat, and "Great Indoors" is an alterna-rock ballad with great message, "If you're scared of the world outside, you should go explore." Mayer even takes on folky bluegrass with "3 x 5" and hip country-rock with "Love Song for No One." Perhaps the best song is "83," which is about Mayer's childhood in the year 1983. The bopping, 60'-Brit-pop-sounding chorus is what got me hooked on this song. Even his ballads, "Not Myself," and "St. Patrick's Day" sounded more worthy of the indie-rock singer/songwriter genre than of the pop genre, and "Back to You" sounded like a modernized James Taylor song. I guess the one thing I learned from this album is that you can't always judge an artist's music by what you hear on the radio.