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Jason Mraz... one of my favorite music artists is back again in the music scene with his latest album entitled "Mr. A-Z" along with it's carrier single "Wordplay"(listen)... in the music video (watch) of this single, Mraz showed the funny side of his life... it was so darn good that you'll eventually find yourself laughing out loud especially before the video ends when blood squirts out of his shoulder... the lyrics of this song really described the personality of Jason... but who the heck is Jason Mraz? just read this biography, coming from the man himself:

As biographies go, I should tell you about where and how I was raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. I should tell you how I manifested my creative wild side while my parents were busy divorcing, working, and remarrying. I should explain the kinds of pop music I listened to, whether it was on the oldies stations or the same explosive jam stations that presented star-studded skate nights in my rural community rinks. It would be wise to mention a minor stint in musical theatre before picking up the guitar in those Big Apple college years, as well as discuss what eventually brought my C average up to an A when I found a voice to follow which eventually carried my heart and soul to the salty streets of San Diego. It’s a good story really, but it’s been told time and time again and I’m about tired of answering questions about the mischievous psychic in central park. It turns out he was really just a homeless guy asking for a dollar and I accidentally shook his hand and began an eternal trip down hallucination lane. Since then it seems I haven’t been able to come down from the cosmic absurdity that surrounds my song and chance. What’s most important to this bio is the understanding that at the end of the day, despite my whereabouts and disposition, I always did it my way.

Does a bio have to be only about the past? Couldn’t it reflect something more immediate and present? Could a bio be used to tell the future? Either way you look at it, it doesn’t change my appearance. I am who I am and you are who you are and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It’s everything in between us that seems to justify our accidental identities. Does that make sense?

In summary, a perfect bio would read. Jason Mraz is from space.

Jason Mraz on his latest album:

“MR. A-Z” is my pseudo-self-titled second album. It definitely sounds like a sequel to my first album, “WAITING FOR MY ROCKET TO COME,” only this time I used a slightly different octane of rocket fuel and had a greater amount of time to prepare its launch. Though I’ve collaborated with both my touring band and people whose influences have always affected my musical ear – such as my producer Steve Lillywhite – this album is all Mraz from beginning to end, from alpha to omega, from the frontal lobe to the reptilian membrane… from A to Z. Thus I’ve assigned it the nomenclature it naturally desired and deserved: “MR. A-Z.”

“MR. A-Z” is 365 days of Mraz in just under an hour. The album took exactly a year to make, from the day the first word was scripted in January 2004 to mastering in January 2005, giving the whole affair a true four-season feel. These 12 songs recognize the events of my last few years, in which I left the coffee houses where I was raised and was thrust into the theatre and arena circuit with the success of “Remedy.” I’m pretty sure this album will please audiences from both my caffeinated roots as well as those from my recently discovered Red Bull-and-beer-chugging jam band scene.

While the reality-based tongue-in-cheek wordsmith of “…ROCKET…” is back again, I also wanted this album to suggest that I was ready to reveal a little more about myself. The stories within these songs find your humble King of Denial having a go at my own placement in relationships lost and found again, in the ever-changing music business, as a geek and an artist and at times a controversially unpopular smoker just trying to breathe freely.

Let’s just say that, taken collectively, the songs on “MR. A-Z” represent a specific time in my life. After all, a recording is ultimately a record of an event that took place only once. Thus, “…ROCKET…” had a freshman’s perspective on life and love – admittedly, with a bit of an unabashed know-it-all mentality. On “MR. A-Z,” I’m posing as the more appropriate sophomore, unafraid to admit my mistakes, good-natured in my verbal attacks, yet still hanging on to enough of that sophomoric angle to avoid playing it safe. This is most certainly an album that I can happily put on my application as I approach my graduation…

Jason Mraz on his carrier single:

One of my goals was to allow my wisdom and perspective to resonate though a humorous persona that until now I’d only used in the live experience. A song like “Wordplay” is one of many born as a joke, meaning the writing exercise was full of laughs and great fun while it was being created. It is the first single and is meant to sound exactly as so. It’s a straight satire on what a first single should sound like. Once you get past the initial shock of the song’s pop velocity, you’ll find a soft center composed by a happy little boy making a masterful mockery of his own agenda, beating the average critic to the punch, if I do say so myself.

What i love about Jason Mraz is his own unique style of music. Because whenever you here his songs, you can always plainly tell that the person singing is really having fun singing it. His music style is explained in the lyrics of Wordplay:

I try to keep a jumble

And the lyrics never mumble

When the music's makin' people tongue-tied

View the complete lyrics of Wordplay

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