Wilco Lead 7th Inning Stretch at Wrigley

Keeping with their hometown tradition, Wilco lead the Cubs fans at Chicago's Wrigley Field in the singing of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." We use the term "singing" loosely though, as frontman Jeff Tweedy and the rest of the band pretty much just hold out their microphones to the stands and let the crowd do all the work. Maybe Wilco was tired from their Lollapalooza set the night before. Tweedy, in a "slimming" Cubs jersey with #3 on the back, does stick around for a half-inning interview in which he possibly destroys all his Chicago cred by admitting he's (gasp!) a St. Louis Cardinals fan. Check out the video above.

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Song Stories

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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