Jason Mraz is touring with Raining Jane, who also performs on his new song ‘Love Someone,’ off his upcoming album Yes! The ‘Lucky’ singer tweeted recently, “I am very pleased and very proud to announce that my new album ‘YES!’ will be released on July 15." ‘Yes!’ will be Mraz’s fifth studio album.
Jason Mraz will be revealing a new song every Monday until the album drops!
Jason Mraz teamed up with his friends in the all-female folk group, Raining Jane, and who convinced him to try a little tenderness on his new album and go acoustic, according to Radio.com.
“Sonically, my backing band on this album are four incredible women,” Mraz told Radio.com about working with Raining Jane. “Their approach to music and their voices definitely bring a tenderness and sentiment to this record that some of my records don’t have.”
“The themes on the album are very much the same themes I’ve written about: optimism, hope, love, joy, healing, faith, acceptance, gratitude,” Mraz explained. “This is a conscious decision because I always feel a song should be an affirmation of some kind. It should get you through the present moment and into a more loving or realized future.”
“Love Someone”, his lead single off of “Yes!” was written with Raining Jane while walking down a dirt road in Virginia with a small herd of goats.
“We all grabbed an instrument and we’re walking down the road just making things up,” Mraz said. “That’s really what songwriting is. It’s taking risks and making things up and seeing what sticks. It was an observation of how wonderful love is. When you give it away it comes back to you immediately. It really is what gives us life.”
“I always had this idea that love was this really strong thing and I needed to find exactly what it was. Sometimes I thought I had it and then I’d actually end up screwing someone over and realize, ‘Oh, that’s not it,’” Mraz said.
The ‘I’m Yours’ singer recently broke off his engagement to singer Tristan Prettyman in 2011. “Music for me has always been my first love. It’s always been a way for me to shut down the rest of the world, shut down the mental chatter and really connect with one voice. I think I’ve just wanted others to have that same experience where they would lose that mental chatter and they just feel loved.”
If you haven’t already, you can pre-order Yes! now on iTunes.
