This is the thread where if you say EVEN ONE nice thing about Jason Mraz, I will shank you with a rusty screwdriver! [UNBRIDLED HATE ONLY-I LEARNED MY MOD SKILLZ ON THE MEAN STREETS]

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holy fuck. I just watched the video for "Wordplay"

Alex in NYC, could you come and kick a little knowledge about how this this dude should be impaled on a flaming rhino horn and shot into a giant vat of Deep Woods Off?'

this dude is beyond bad. Don't even try to pull that contrarian, "Oh well he's really not THAT BAD, I actually like [XXX song]" bullshit either. This is strictly HATE.

Alright ILM, put Mraz's nutz on the dresser and bang them shits with a spiked bat.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Let's start with a picture.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I've never even fucking heard of him! Who the fuck is he?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

He is a... shit, now I can't gather any bile for Mr. Mraz. I'm too fascinated by the guy on the left.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Now I want to cut my own ears off.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

check the Starbucks music thread

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

He has a naturally excellent voice. *shanks you first* I'm afraid it's how he uses it that irks me. "Wordplay" is sickeningly egotistical. I think he's going for rap's personal glorification paradigm, but that doesn't work when you embrace all the fawning underage white girls as your fan base.

― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

He is a whore for GAP ads now. His favorite song is a Bob Marley song.

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Dear just-shanked Shane,
egotism is the least of his problems. His idea of "wordplay" is driving a car called Mrazda in his first video and calling his new album Mr. A-Z.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

He has a naturally excellent voice. *shanks you first*

little did you know I was wearing CHAIN MAIL!

*unceremoniously chops off shanecavanaugh's head*

"may the Lord have mercy on your soul."

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh oh oh, completely forgot: the word MRAZ' means SCUM in Russian (so probably Polish and Czech as well - I'm assuming he's one or the other)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

*holds shanecavanaughs head up for all to see*

"DISOBENIENCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. YOU WILL LEAVE THIS THREAD WITH YOUR SHIELD OR ON IT!"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

I saw fireworks from the freeway and behind closed eyes I cannot make them go away
Cause you were born on the fourth of july, freedom ring
now something on the surface it stings
that something on the surface it kind of makes me nervous who says that you deserve this
and what kind of god would serve this? We will cure this dirty old disease
if you've gots the poison I've gots the remedy

The remedy is the experience. It is a dangerous liaison
I say the comedy is that its serious. Which is a strange enough new play on words
I say the tragedy is how you're gonna spend the rest of your nights with the light on
So shine the light on all of your friends when it all amounts to nothing in the end.
I won't worry my life away.
I won't worry my life away.

I heard two men talking on the radio in a cross fire kind of new reality show
Uncovering the ways to plan the next big attack
they were counting down the days to stab the brother in the be right back after this
the unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe
dance with me, because if you've gots the poison, I've gots the remedy

When I fall in love I take my time
There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind
You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why

I won't worry my life away.
I won't worry my life away.
I won't and I won't and I won't...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

That's totally Larry "Baker" Wilcox's kid on the right.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Wow. That's quite a lyric. It's like he's trying to be an American Robbie Williams and wildly overshoots.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

His face is so punchable.

― Behold I will do a New Thing Chapel JESUS IS LORD (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

okay well he wrote "THE REMEDY" and had a mild hit with it and then he's so vapid that his effort for a second hit (today's pestilence, "THE WORDPLAY") is basically a song talking about how he's so fucking awesome because he wrote "THE REMEDY."

I've been known around the world
I've been a new sensation
But it doesn't really matter
In this ge-generation
The sophomore slump is an uphill battle
And someone says your caught upstream
'Cause they need a new song
Like a new religion
Music for the television
I can't do the long division
Someone do the math
For the record label puts me on the shelf up in the freezer
Got to find another way to live the life of leisure
So I drop my top,
Mix and I mingle
Is everybody ready for the single and it goes...

(chorus)
Ha La La La La
Now listen closer to the verse I lay
(Ha La La La La)
It's all about the wordplay
(Ha La La La Love)
The wonderful thing it does
Because, because, because
I am the wizard of ooh's and ah's and fa-la-la's
Yeah the Mister A-Z
They say I'm all about the wordplay

And it's time to get ill I got your remedy
For those who don't remember me
Well let me introduce you to my style
I try to keep a jumble
And the lyrics never mumble
When the music's makin' people tongue-tied
You want a new song
Like a new religion
Music for the television
I can't do the long division
Someone do the math
For the people write me off like I'm a one-hit wonder
Got to find another way to keep from goin' under
Pull out the stops,
Got your attention
I guess it's time again for me to mention
The wordplay

(chorus)

I built a bridge across the stream of consciousness
It always seems to be a flowin'
But I don't know which way my brain is goin'
Oh the ryhmin' and the timin'
Keeps the melodies inside me
And they're climbin'
'Til I'm running out of air
Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head
Are you listening to a single word I've said

Ha La La La La
Listen closer to the words I say
Ha La La La La
I'm stickin' to the wordplay
Ha La La La Love
The wonderful thing it does
Because, because, because
I am the wizard of ooh's and ah's and fa-la-la's
Yeah the Mister A-Z
They say I'm all about the wordplay

Ha La La La La
I'm all about the wordplay
Ha La La La La
I'm stickin' with the wordplay
Ha La La La Love
I love the wonderful thing it does
Because, because, because
The ooh's and ah's and fa-la-la's i'm back in love
For the Mister A-Z they say
It's all about the wordplay

― ath (ath), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

My name is Humpty, pronounced with a Umpty.
Yo ladies, oh how I like to hump thee.

― the mournful strains of zither (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Christ, I haven't even heard this guy yet and I want to kill him anyway.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

(I'm still recovering from accidentally hearing Josh Groban on some VH-1 concert special a few months ago. They should put warning labels on that stuff.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

COME HITHER

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Come Hitler?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

He's already posed nude with a guitar. My poor eyes have yet to recover. And I'm all for naked boys with guitars.

― Roz (Roz), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

I will take his white man frat jive over the date rapism of limp bizkit, the religious mumbo-jumbo of creed, or the various country songs about how great gw bush is.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Also he reminds me a lot of Isaac Brock

http://images.villagevoice.com/siren/2003/bands/modest.jpg

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I will take his white man frat jive over the date rapism of limp bizkit, the religious mumbo-jumbo of creed, or the various country songs about how great gw bush is.

YOU CHOSE.....POORLY

Polyphonic stabbed repeated with a five-string Ibanez bass, then flushed down the giant Limp Bizkit stage toilet.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

"I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me?"

where the hell is that from, i can't remember and its bugging me...

― pppp, Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

"SUMMER GIRLS" IS NOT A GOOD TEMPLATE TO USE MR. MORAZZZZZZZZZZZ

Also, bitching about Limp Bizkit or Creed in late 2005 is the stuff of bad time-travel movies.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

It's more like post-traumatic stress disorder.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/jason-mraz.jpg

― gear (gear), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v70/robkeller7/Jason%20Mraz/112_1283.jpg

― gear (gear), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sdmusicawards.com/winners2002/images/large/JasonMraz.jpg

― gear (gear), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Judging from the amount of headgear on display here (panama, trucker hat, ski hat), the guy must be seriously balding. Which makes me wonder about his Oscar Wilde aka Come-Hitler brunet shot.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

noooooo! I *liked* his music! And because English is not my native language, I could just enjoy it while completely disregarding the lyrics. Why bring it to my attention that the guy is a brat! *sobs*

― Eva (Gaia1981), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Jason Mraz got his showbiz start attending a Fame-type performing arts academy before heading west to work the same San Diego coffeehouse circuit that spawned guitar-strumming superstar Jewel.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

If you’re already into Jack Johnson and John Mayer, then you’re about add to Jason Mraz to your list. I don’t know what it is about singer/songwriters whose first names start with “J” that just put you in a mellow, happy-hearted mood.

I know that Johnson and Mayer have now been played out and you’re probably thinking, “Oh, please, not another young heartthrob pouring out his emotions in four-bar whiny phrases.” But Mraz brings new style and inventive rhythms to his musical genre. It’s almost like he’s rapping his melodies at times.

I have also heard a few live recordings of Mraz with just his guitar, which after the fact made this album sound a bit crowded and slightly overproduced.

Mraz’s allure comes from his songwriting and smooth voice. The added tracks and instrumentation just take away from the melodic simplicity and down to earth lyrics. His song writing is phenomenal, with catchy hooks and upbeat themes that leave you humming all day.

Mraz’ striking resemblance to Mayer is no surprise, considering that John Alagia, who also worked with Mayer and the Dave Matthews Band, produces this album.

But this singer/songwriter isn’t from Hawaii, home of Johnson, or Connecticut, Mayer’s grass roots. He’s from the South, growing up in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Just goes to show that there are adolescent musicians in emotional turmoil all over the U.S.

Mraz moved out west to California in ’99, where he settled and spread his music to an eager San Diego audience. However, before moving to Southern California, Mraz took a shot at the New York music scene, studying musical drama. Once in San Diego, he got his start at a local coffee shop called Java Joe’s, where many other musicians have gotten a leg up to stardom.

There is not a song on the album that I dislike and this rarely happens to me. Currently, Mraz only has one single out on the radio, “The Remedy,” but each song has something special and unique to offer, and the album has a good mix of ballads and faster, upbeat songs.

Mraz says that he had originally wanted to make an album that would include the listener, but after listening to the album himself, he realized that it was all about him. So came about the album cover: a picture of Mraz with a rooster to represent the “cocky” nature of the record!

Overall, this album is definitely worth buying if you’re a fan of the singer/songwriter genre. But, if you don’t care to hear the melodic, emotional tales of a traveling young musician, perhaps you should go with the new Deftones album instead.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

It’s almost like he’s rapping

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Jason Mraz looks vaguely like a young Paul McCartney, that's pretty neat I think.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 27 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

i love jason mraz. i don't care if you hate me for saying this, whatever. i just think that you shouldn't judge a person based on their style of music or if they act like a dork in public. and by the way, his last name does not mean "scum" in czech, it means "frost." i'm czechoslovakian, and it's so exciting to see a czech on the stage. i didn't really like his music before, but i think he's a really great singer and a great guitarist. once again, you can hate me, but please, don't judge.

― Hillary, Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

We don't hate you. We hate Mraz.
(by the way, oops, Mraz="moroz", I get it. My bad).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

We don't hate you. We hate Mraz.

That said, we are terribly tired and bored with people so insecure in their tastes and sense of self-worth that they post responses like yours, Hilary. So on that level you have been judged.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

that would probably be where the mistake was made. however, i just don't why you hate him? i'm listening to his new CD right now. i just bought it today. it's really good. it's really diverse

― Hillary, Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

first off, you spelled my name wrong. if you ever address me again, positively or negatively, don't associate me with that slutty poser, hilary duff or another asshole i used to call a friend. second, i don't care if you're tired or bored with people who like jason mraz. you need to learn how to accept other people who are different than you. or at least not post vulgar messages about them. it's extremely childlish and frankly, no one worthwhile wants to hear you/see your whining. third, do now tell me that i am insecure. i am not insecure in the least bit. however, i believe you are, or you wouldn't be acting like tough shit to seem better. putting someone down like you are doesn't make you any smarter or whatever the hell you're trying to be. don't give me your crap.

― Hillary, Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

You're not insecure but you're worried about being associated with Ms. Duff on the basis of a misspelling. Clarity is mine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

it's just that i get comments all the time and are called "hilary duff" sometimes. it's quite annoying. and it's not as much her as it is someone that i used to be friends with, and that's how she spells her name. i apologize for seeming shallow, it's a natural response for me to be irked by it.

― Hillary, Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

People misspell my name all the time too and I admit I am irked by it in turn, so I apologize for the missing 'l' the first time around.

That said, here's something to keep in mind -- you're surprised why people couldn't like Mr. Mraz because you like it. Well, sorry, but that's personal taste for you. Nobody's going to apologize for that, nobody's going to feel like they have to answer to you for that, just the same way that nobody here figured anyone who is a fan was going to change their mind based on the posts here. If you like him, great -- but as I'm sure you noticed when you read this thread and its subject line, a lot of people don't. Just because you do doesn't mean we're going to change our minds. A lot of people hate stuff I love, a lot of people love stuff I hate, etc., and on this board I've had my moments of venting.

If you love something passionately, it should be easy to see that in turn something can be hated passionately as well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

People misspell my name all the time too

Nedd? Kned? Qned (with a silent Q)?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 11 September 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

http://pdc.csusb.edu/DellSteven.jpg

― President Busch (dr g), Sunday, 11 September 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Is he any relation to jazz bassist George Mraz? 'Cause that wouldn't be so bad. Or maybe I'm just thinking of Josh Haden.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 11 September 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

don't associate me with that slutty poser, hilary duff

I have yet to see young Hilary engage in the type of sluttishery that contemporaries like Lohan, Lavigne, Hilton, the Olsons, the Simpsons, etc have engaged in. I demand a retraction on behalf of Ms. Duff.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 11 September 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

however, i just don't why you hate him?

i never him. hilary-ous

― amon (eman), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

does he ever close his mouth?

http://www.campushook.com/img/2/206323.original.jpg

― amon (eman), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

sorry *i just don't know why you hate him* and i don't care if you demand a retraction. you can shove your retraction up your ass. it's not going to happen buddy.

― Hillary, Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

ned, i realize this and you're completely right. i don't want people to start likeing jason mraz or his music. i simply would like to know why they don't. all i've gotten from this page has been that people don't like him. most people hate what i love. i just like to hear others' points of view. and i guess it might be partly because i'm czech so i'm slightly defensive of anyone czech =)

― Hillary, Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

i think its so cool that hilary duff is posting to this thread. shows shes down to earht and hsit.

― amon (eman), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

good point: I guess he stared at Teeny's butt in his video
bad point: everything else

plus I'm Slovak

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

The important thing: "I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me?" is a line from "Bus Ride" which is on the new Quasimoto album.

― disco violence (disco violence), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

I listen to "Wordplay," where runty lameoid Jason Mraz raps about what an awesome rapper and rhymer he is, and the only comparison I can come up with is Martin Prince from the Simpsons shouting "I am the wondrous wizard of Latin! I am a dervish of declension and a conjurer of conjugation, with a million hit points and maximum charisma!"

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 11 September 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

Dear Hillary,

Might I draw your attention to the fact that this quote, from above:

"i don't care if you're tired or bored with people who like jason mraz. you need to learn how to accept other people who are different than you. or at least not post vulgar messages about them. it's extremely childlish and frankly, no one worthwhile wants to hear you/see your whining."

And this zinger of compassion, from the "Musicians who have indisputably smoked crack" thread on the same day:

"anyone who raps. you'd have to be on something to want to do that crap. it's not even music in my opinion.
-- Hillary (ashton219...), September 11th, 2005."

don't quite, oh, how should I put it kindly...MAKE A LICK OF FUCKING SENSE SROM THE SAME PERSON.

How many l's are in the name "Ignorant Pig-Fucker"?

On the topic of MRAZ, I will say that I enjoyed the video in which he is having rocks thrown at him by people. It's better with the sound off. Other than that, he looks and sounds like a castrato trying to pass a kidney stone.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Sunday, 11 September 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Everytime I see this fucker shake his lop-sided baseball-capped haed and say, "Bob Marley, 'One Love'" I want to maim him.

― PB, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

....on that one GAP ad.

― PB, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Hillllllary sounds like she's 15-16 years old, give her a break.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/800/14845/1126819454/oasc04.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/TheVoice/la-avalon-jamiroquai-campaign/jasonmraz728x90.jpg

― gear (gear), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Is Hillary related to Marissa at all?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

"How many l's are in the name "Ignorant Pig-Fucker"?"

god i thought i was mean and clever. time to take it up a notch, the bar has been set.

― JD from CDepot, Thursday, 15 September 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

In that banner ad, Mraz looks like he's getting a very subpar blowjob.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 15 September 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

or about to give one

― gear (gear), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

He's advising his bassist to "Take it easy, buddy. Any more teeth and you're out of the band."

― js (honestengine), Friday, 16 September 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

take it easy buddies?? oh holy fucking hell.

― huell howser (chaki), Friday, 16 September 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

the guy with the jew fro rules.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 16 September 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

why the hate for mraz? listening to (the admittedly terribly titled) Mr A-Z now, and it's...alright, y'know. I've enjoyed his gigs in the past. why the hate?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

I've never even fucking heard of him! Who the fuck is he?
-- Pashmina (vietgrov...) (webmail), August 27th, 2005. (Pashmina)

Seconded.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

I heard "Remedy" yesterday in a fast-casual restaurant and realized that mid/late-2000s Mraz is my least favorite music bar none.

― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 16 July 2015 15:02 (ten years ago)

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