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->Open up your mind and see like me
->Open up your plans and, damn, you're free
->Look into your heart and you'll find
->Love, love love love...
-->-- '''Jason Mraz''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5h40h6uFk I'm Yours]]''

Jason Thomas Mraz (born June 23, 1977) is an American singer/songwriter who hailed originally from Mechanicsville, Virginia. After a brief stint in his youth at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, he wound his way to San Diego, California, where he played the coffee houses and focused on his songwriting. Influenced somewhat by the music of his youth (Music/StevieWonder, Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/ArethaFranklin), Mraz's style is a blend of folk, pop, rock, reggae and hip-hop. He currently is a raw foodist (with occasional lapses) who owns an avocado farm in California. He also likes cats.

Mraz's major hits include "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)", "Geek in the Pink", "I'm Yours", "I Won't Give Up", and "Have It All."

!!Discography:

* ''Waiting For My Rocket To Come'' (2002)
* ''Mr. A-Z'' (2005)
* ''We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things.'' (2008)
* ''Love Is A Four Letter Word'' (2012)
* ''Yes!'' (2014)
* ''Know.'' (2018)
* ''Look for the Good'' (2020)
* ''Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride'' (2023)

!!Tropes for the artist include:

* AlbumTitleDrop:
** "I'm just a curbside prophet with my hand in my pocket, and I'm ''waiting for my rocket to come''."
** "Yeah the ''Mister A to Z'', they say I'm all about the wordplay."
* AntiLoveSong: "Please Don't Tell Her." Jason himself even describes the song as one, verbatim.
* AudienceParticipationSong: Mraz, like most artists, played the local venues first, which were more intimate and had the most capacity for musician-artist conversation. Nowadays he uses this trope with "Dynamo of Volition", among others.
* AutoErotica: In “Long Drive”
---> You and the road have a generous shoulder
---> We could pull over and say we took the long way
* BitingTheHandHumor: "Too Much Food" is a thinly-veiled rant at Elektra's A & R department.
---> Stop telling me the way that I gotta play!\\
Putting too much food on my plate.
* CallBack: In "Wordplay":
---> When it's time to get ill I got your '''remedy''',
---> For those who [[OneHitWonder don't remember me]],
---> Well let me introduce you to my style.
* CoverVersion: ''Yes!'' includes a cover of [[Music/BoyzIIMen Boyz II Men's]] "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday." Some other Mraz covers include "Summer Breeze" by Seals & Croft (for ''[[Series.{{Everwood}} Everwood]]''), "I Melt With You" by Modern English (for ''Film/FiftyFirstDates''), and [[Film/TheMuppetMovie "Rainbow Connection."]]
* DigitalPiracyIsOkay: In spades. Mraz generally supports bootlegs (and often prefers people experience his music live than studio), felt honored when people "couldn't wait until ''We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things'' was officially available that they downloaded the songs beforehand", and allows high-tech recording equipment (audio only) at his concerts. Fans making cell-phone videos are also a common sight at his shows.
* FakeOutFadeOut: Done to glorious effect at the end of "Song for a Friend".
* FollowYourHeart: See page quote.
* TheFourChordsOfPop: "I'm Yours."
* GenreRoulette: ''Mr. A-Z''.
* HiddenTrack: At the end of ''Four Letter Word'', "I'm Coming Over" plays after 20-ish seconds of silence.
* {{Improv}}: He improvises often in concert, and occasionally during recording, which resulted in the song "The Dynamo of Volition."
* IncrediblyLongNote: In "Plane":
---> You keep me high-iiiiiiiiigh....
* IntercourseWithYou: "Butterfly", "Tonight, Not Again"
** "Clockwatching" seems to get right to it as well.
* JustFriends: The subject of "If It Kills Me".
* LastSecondWordSwap: He likes this trope ''a lot''. To date:
** Geek In The Pink: "Well I can save you from unoriginal dum-dums/ who wouldn't care if you come.../plete them or not."
** Butterfly: "Bend your back and ask those hips if I can touch/ cause they're the perfect jumping off point/ gettin closer to your butt/erfly."
*** Perhaps, but perhaps not. "Butterfly" is also slang for a certain part of the female anatomy, possibly making this example an UnusualEuphemism instead.
* LyricalColdOpen: "You and I Both", "The Freedom Song", "Look for the Good", and "The Dynamo of Volition" are examples.
* MotorMouth: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "Wordplay".
* MySisterIsOffLimits: From "Dynamo of Volition":
---> My best friends are hittin' on my sister,
---> Gotta tell em that they still wish-a,
---> Cause she already got herself a mista
---> And besides, that's gross, don't wanna diss her.
%%* ObsessionSong: Probably "Coyotes".
* OlderThanTheyLook: Referenced in "What We Want":
---> I'm older than I look I see
---> The man staring at my ID...
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Mraz is as Caucasian as they come, but takes a lot of cues from Black music.
* RagingStiffie: Implied in "Butterfly."
-->"''You make my slacks a little tight\\
You may unfasten them if you like\\
That's if you crash and spend the night.''"
* RealMenWearPink: See "Geek in the Pink":
---> I don't care what you may think about me
---> You'll get by without me if you want
---> Don't judge me by the color, confuse it for another
---> You might regret what you let slip away
---> Like the geek in the pink
* {{Scatting}}: Very often. Most notably in "I'm Yours".
* ShoutOut
** The last stanza of "Dynamo of Violation" changes "You're the best definition of good intentions" to [[Film/TheKarateKid "You're the best! Around!"]]
** "The Remedy" name-drops ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons''.
%% SingerSongwriter
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Far on the idealistic side.
* SesameStreetCred: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrqF7yD10Bo "Outdoors"]] (2009)
* SillyLoveSongs: ''Know.'' is a collection of feel-good love songs, which Mraz has stated were mostly written for his wife.
* StudioChatter: "Coyotes" ends with Mraz telling one of the kids in the chorus that he's "a little too close to the mic".
* TakeThatCritics: "Wordplay", in spades.
* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Love Is A Four Letter Word''. Technically.
* UncommonTime: "5/6", the title of which indicates the time signature of the song's verse... sort of. ("6" can never be the denominator of a time signature; it's alternating 5/8 and 6/8.)
* WordSaladLyrics: Mraz uses this trope often — particularly in his earlier works — but in none so much as the mostly ad-libbed "The Dynamo of Volition."
---> With a tiger spot on my back
---> Living life of a cat
---> I just wanna relax here and write another rap tune
---> Driving off on your blind man's bike
---> You can say just what you like
---> Or nothing can stop you
** {{Lampshaded}} with "Wordplay," which makes fun of the use of nonsense syllable refrains.
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