♪ i waited till i saw the sun ♪ >> people wanted escapism at the time because there was a lot to escape. so we were listening to norah jones and jack johnson. ♪ da, da, da, da, da ♪ ♪ la, da, da, da, da, da ♪ and coldplay. ♪ >> when "yellow" came out, a lot of the hipster alternative kids were like, i love this, and i was one of them. ♪ your skin ♪ ♪ oh yeah it's beautiful ♪ ♪ turn eyes to something beautiful ♪ >> it felt great. it's like, here's radiohead and u2 put together in a pop-friendly package that's catchy rock music. ♪ i want to run through the halls of my high school ♪ ♪ i want to scream at the top of my lungs ♪ >> john mayer was this virtuosic guitar player that wrote these