Will.i.am Debuts Obama Song "It's A New Day"

As promised, Will.i.am debuted his new Barack Obama anthem "It's A New Day" on Oprah. In the video above, Will sings "I woke up this morning, feeling brand new. The dreams that I've been dreaming, finally came true" over a montage of footage from last week's victory speech. The video isn't as celebrity-heavy as Will's previous outings "Yes We Can" and "We Are The Ones," but "It's A New Day" still features cameos by Fergie, Quincy Jones, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, the lead singer from That Thing You Do and the wheelchair guy from Oz. The clip also briefly shows Will's appearance as a hologram on CNN. "It was a beautiful thing," Will told Oprah about last week's election night celebration in Chicago's Grant Park. "I think of my grandma. I think of all the people who paved the way for that moment."

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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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