![]() ![]() “White people” he said, “give people the blues, they don’t get the blues”. The great comedian George Carlin (RIP) once said that white people have no business singing the blues. He almost looks as if he is thinking “Hell, even I don’t know how I got this good”. The peak of Mraz’s smug-fest comes at around six minutes when he removes said ‘twhat’ in a ‘not-at-all-contrived-hitting-a-high-note’ section that is neither technically impressive, nor aesthetically gratifying, yet Mraz is utterly convinced is both. It is as if he has just discovered that not only does he love the smell of his own farts, but that a pole has recently been taken and it has been decided that his farts are the most pleasant aroma ever produced and Chanel want to bottle them as a high end ‘eau de toilette’. Throughout the video he wears a sort of permanent expression of smug, self-satisfaction that is deeply infuriating. I knew just from hearing the song on the radio that he was the type of person who would champion the ‘ twhat’, and, from the evidence in this video, I was proved more right than I could have imagined. That’s probably the second most annoying thing about this song, Mraz himself. Surely no-one is arrogant enough to think an audience wants to hear four chords repeated monotonously for eight whole minutes. In the video below, which clocks in at over eight minutes long, Mraz must play each chord, in total, for no less than two whole minutes. ![]() So used is this four-chord-trick that it has become a short-hand (at least in my head) for ‘I haven’t really thought very hard about the song I am writing.’ That Mraz has opted to use this chord sequence for both verse and chorus further emphasises this point. Basically, without getting too technical, its C, G, Aminor, F – the most used chord sequence of all time, from Pachelbel’s Canon to ‘Basket Case’ by Green Day. Here is a not exhaustive list of the things that upset me (and this is an accurate word for how this song makes me feel) about the song.įirstly, the chord sequence utilised by Mraz. What Mraz has done, and it seems to be quite a common mistake by all accounts, is he has mistaken the concepts of ‘feel-good’, ‘easy-going’, ‘laid-back’, ‘Summer-y’, and ‘honest’ for ‘inane’, ‘repetitive’, ‘self-indulgent’, ‘smug’ and ‘shite’. ![]() It is meaningless (I can’t stress this point enough – I will continue to make this point!) it is valueless. It is clear from listening to (and actually watching the video for) this song that no thought or meaning has been given to the chords, arrangement, lyrics and delivery of this song. Every song must mean something – it is the only currency for measuring the value of music. It is what it is – a fairly innocuous, summer pop tune. I know that this is ‘just a pop song’ and many would moot that ‘meaning’ is not necessary (or crucial) in such an art form. Now, I know I’m at risk of sounding pretentious. There are probably more annoying songs, more clumsily written lyrics, songs that inspire outright hatred etc, but the thing that gets me about ‘I’m Yours’ is that it is, from start to finish, totally devoid of any meaning whatsoever. Having not heard the song before, I had to find a video on YouTube (see below) to confirm my initial reaction that this song would comfortably sit atop the pile of ‘worst songs I’ve ever heard.’ It did. The song in question is ‘I’m Yours’ by Jason Mraz. ![]() However, I have just heard a song on the radio so bad that I have been moved – physically moved – to write about it. I don’t really like writing negative things about shit music. ![]()
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