A simpler early version with a lot less show-boating...
I'll confess I may have been living under a rock because I never heard of Jason Mraz although I did hear this song in the supermarket, oh, only about 5,427 times before I realized wait...this isn't James Blunt, this isn't Bobby McFerrin, this is somebody else (say wouldn't those two or three songs make a good mash-up hehe).
So I then looked it up and I can see the appeal. First, the Hootie and the Blowfish black and white thing -- it's rare that you find black and white people making music together unless they are in an old staged John Cougar Mellencamp video named Paper in Fire from MTV in the 1980s. Then, there's the sort of salt-'n-pepper thing where the blandness of white people's dippy Randy Newman James Taylor sort of goofy romantic lyrics are mixed with black people's Jamaican beat -- and that cool, sharp, brisk gesture that the drummer makes when he makes a downbeat on the djeme or silences the cymbal.
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