John Mayer wins Finest Rock Video at 2021 MTV VMAs



The '80s- styled clip for Last Train Residence vanquished video clipsvideos from the Foo Fighters, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Lenny Kravitz as well as Evanescence

John Mayer won the Best Rock Video honor at this past weekend break's MTV VMAs for his '80s- styled clip for Last Train Home.

The opening cut from his brand-new album, Sob Rock, Last Train House Home-- as is the case for the entire album-- flaunts a hefty '80s yacht-rock influence, specifically from Toto, and their session king guitarist tune , Steve Lukather.

The song's video -- which itself includes Toto percussionist Lenny Castro and previous Toto touring keyboardist Greg Phillinganes-- is equally as windy, and evocative the era, as the track itself.

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Based upon the usually cheeky treatment Mayer created for the video-- which he posted on Instagram upon getting the honoraward-- that's specifically what the guitar virtuoso wanted.

" I'm honored, andalsoand I'm way a lot more ecstatic than I'm acting," Mayer created of the honor on social networks.

" Everybody understands an excellent video begins with an excellent music video therapy, and also this-- seriously-- is the one I created and also submitted to information my exact creative plan wherefore would certainly come to be 2021 MTV VMAs Best Rock Video championwinner."

The video's popularity - it's gathered over 9 million sights on YouTube in the 3 months as well as alter considering that its premiere - is a sign of the quality of Last Train Home as a tune, which sticks out even when you peel off away the video's jokingly, rather meme-y exterior.

" The tunes, compositionally, needed to be solid by themselves, no matter how you played them," Mayer just recently informed Guitar World in response to a concern regarding the prevalence of '80s- design instrumentation and also manufacturing on Sob Rock.

" The songs don't rely upon the noises, which's actually important. Last Train Home works with a guitar and also a singing along with it does behind the lens of this concept that, just for one document, I want to go back to what I might've seemed like in that period. Yet it's still a song of mine."

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