Jason Mraz Fansite

“Wordplay” is the first single released in 2005 by Jason Mraz from his album Mr. A-Z. It was his second song to hit the Billboard Hot 100 (topping at number 81), and was the most successful single to come off Mr. A-Z.

And boy, does it have a strange video. The whole thing is set in a field, and the band’s playing its instruments in the grass; however, with them is a guitar-playing wizard. But apparently their guitar playing is too much for a passing old man, who starts to throw stones at Mraz. Not long after a long lineup of peasants arrives and they all start to lob stones at Mraz.

But he plays on, undaunted, occasionally getting knocked over by the oncoming stones, still smiling and rhyming all the while, the peasants soon joined by punk rockers, all still hurling their stones. By the end Mraz is bloodied and horribly injured, covered in wounds, a little spout of blood coming out one shoulder.

Yet he doesn’t seem to care, and by the end it’s revealed that he’s also the wizard as well.

… interesting take. It’s a funny video, at any rate, if a little bizarre, and the lyrics are extremely catchy.