Taylor Swift appears to ask fans to leave John Mayer alone as she performs song for first time in 11 years

 Taylor Swift appears to ask fans to leave John Mayer alone as she performs song for first time in 11 years

Taylor Swift performed a live version of her 2010 song “Dear John” for the first time in 11 years.

The song is widely believed to be about the singer-songwriter’s relationship with musician John Mayer.

Swift and Mayer reportedly dated between December 2009 and February 2010, when he was 31 years old and she was 19.

At Saturday night’s (24 June) concert at the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Swift played the song, and spoke about its forthcoming re-release on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). Swift is currently in the midst of re-recording much of her back catalogue, amid a rights dispute with music producer Scooter Braun.

In video of her introducing the song, Swift can be heard telling fans: “I’m 33 years old. I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19... I’m not putting this album out so you can go on the internet and defend me against someone you think I wrote a song about 14 million years ago.”