John Mayer - Mayer: 'Give Kanye A Break'

JOHN MAYER has called on the media and public to move on past KANYE WEST's MTV Video Music Awards stage invasion - because the rapper has been punished enough.

The rocker has teamed up with Taylor Swift, the victim of West's onstage protest, on a new track, but he's not about to join those publicly hating the rap star.

He says, "Here’s how we work in America: We raise them and then we drop them... It went like this: 'That was messed up Kanye! You deserve a punishment.' Then, all of a sudden, the punishment got so severe, I was like, 'Time out!'

"If you just woke up now and you looked at the backlash on Kanye, you’d think that he actually firebombed the stage... It’s the MTV Video Music Awards. It’s not the G8 summit."

And Mayer tells U.S. news show Access Hollywood he's sure West feels terrible about protesting Swift's Best Female Video win: "I think he’s remorseful. I think this guy’s got to be reconsidering how he’s gonna act, and that’s fine. We learn from our little mistakes that happen in public."