Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I mahi a Mayer me LaBruyere puta noa i Georgia me nga kawanatanga tata. Ano hoki, i te mea ko tana mahi i uru tahi me te maakete puoro ipurangi e tipu haere ana i taua wa, i whai hua a Mayer mai i te whai i te ipurangi. I tae mai a Mayer ki te aro o Gregg Latterman i Aware Records na roto i tetahi hoa o Mayer, he roia, nana i tuku tana EP ki Aware. Whai muri i tana whakauru i a ia ki nga konohete o Aware Festival me ana waiata i runga i nga kohinga Aware, i te timatanga o te tau 2001, i tukuna e Aware te pukaemi a Mayer mo te ipurangi anake, Room for Squares. I tenei wa, i whakaotihia e Aware tetahi kirimana me Columbia Records i hoatu ki a Columbia te kowhiringa tuatahi ki te haina i nga kaitoi Aware. I te marama o Hepetema, i whakahoutia e Columbia a Room for Squares. Hei waahanga o te waitohu nui "debut", i whakahoutia te mahi toi a te pukaemi, a ka taapirihia te ara "3x5". Ko te re-whakaputaina ngā putanga taiwhanga reworked o nga waiata e wha tuatahi i roto i te hiahia Out. Na roto i te mutunga o 2002, Room for Squares i hua maha hiti irirangi, tae atu "No taua mea", "Ko tou tinana he Wonderland", a te mutunga, "He aha Georgia". I whakawhiwhia ano hoki ki te whakamoemiti whanui, ana ka whakataurite a Mayer ki a Dave Matthews. I te tau 2003, i wini a Mayer i te Grammy mo te Whakaaturanga Pop Pop Pai rawa atu mo "Your Body Is a Wonderland". I roto i tana kōrero whakaaetanga, ka kī ia, "He tino tere, he tino tere, ā, e oati ana ahau ka hopu atu ahau". I korero ano ia i a ia ano he tekau ma ono ona tau, he korero i pohehehia e te tini ki te kii he tekau ma ono ona tau i taua wa.I te Hui-tanguru 2003, i tukuna e Mayer he CD me te DVD o te konohete i Birmingham, Alabama i tapaina ko Any Given Thursday, i uru atu ai nga waiata kaore ano kia tuhia, penei i te "Man on the Side", "Something's Missing", me te Covered in Rain". I runga i te hokohoko, i eke te pukaemi ki te tau 17 i runga i te papa 200 Billboard. Ko tana whakaputanga DVD i whakawhiwhia ki te whakamoemiti, ahakoa he rite tonu te whakamoemiti, me nga kaitautoko i wehewehea i waenga i tana ahua whakapakoko-pop, me (i taua wa) te kaha o te kita. I patai a Erik Crawford o AllMusic, "Ko [Mayer] te toa kita tino nui i whakaahuatia i a ia e purei ana i te taupoki o Stevie Ray Vaughan's...  Pātai: he aha te taitara i hoatu ki ngā rīpene
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