John Mayer is blogging about his Live Earth appearance tomorrow and, as usual, making a lot of sense.
"I'm starting to feel the first ripples of what could become a revolution. I hope that for all the cynicism that's existed around this subject, we can all uncross our arms long enough to give this event a chance to impact the world in the way that I'm beginning to feel that it could. Now isn't the time to dissect the rights and wrongs. (If you're hoping Live Earth doesn't work, you have a lot of soul-searching to do.)"
He goes on a bit about cynics and the media (and cynics in the media) saying, "To the journalists who will lay in wait for the perfectly maligned moment of hypocrisy, you will probably find one if that's how you want to spend your time. Just use this as a measuring stick; give Live Earth's initiative at least as much benefit of the doubt as you've given to the iPhone, or a new Radiohead album."
That sounds fair enough. Of course, not everyone will be playing fair -- as the current ridiculous mini-controversy about the Live Earth website saying that tomorrow's concert is in New York instead of East Rutherford, N.J., shows. If they did a little digging, they would find that tomorrow's show is called Live Earth U.S.A., not Live Earth New York, but then that fact would ruin the story, now wouldn't it? Then they might have to talk about, you know, what the concerts were about.
Oh John Mayer, it's so hard not to be cynical. But you're right, we should all try.