Most lucrative song ever (1 Viewer)

[Tapxe]

Nibblin on sponge cake
Watchin the sun bake
All of those tourists covered with oil
Strummin my six-string
On my front porch swing
Smell those shrimp they're beginnin to boil

Welcome to

 

[Bleu Raeder]

Jimmy Buffet FTW!

 

[You]

A simple song about doing nothing but getting drunk. Like most of Buffet's songs, it's the attitude more than anything else. The beach. Casual. Laid Back. Drinking. It works.

The guy fell into a horse shoe factory and got one lodged in his A**

 

[TheDeparted]

A simple song about doing nothing but getting drunk. Like most of Buffet's songs, it's the attitude more than anything else. The beach. Casual. Laid Back. Drinking. It works.

I think it's about more than that. The most brilliant art is that which can be interpreted in any way you want so that it reaches a wider audience and keeps people talking about it, but still tells a story.

Margaritaville has some happy vibe in the bright instrumentation, but to me is overall a very bittersweet, melancholy tune.

People can ignore the part about the failed relationship leading this man into his self-medicated depression and his slow realization of what went wrong and use it as their flagship "let's get drunk" song because he talks about being wasted on margaritas, but I would not call it a simple song.


And it's a song I love.

 

[FLIPPY]

A simple song about doing nothing but getting drunk. Like most of Buffet's songs, it's the attitude more than anything else. The beach. Casual. Laid Back. Drinking. It works.

The guy fell into a horse shoe factory and got one lodged in his A**

He didn't really fall into anything, the guy worked his *** off.....

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

He didn't really fall into anything, the guy worked his *** off.....

well sure - a horsehoe is not going to go up in there on its own

 

[You]

The horseshoe comment was tongue and cheek. He's certainly got talent but musically, he isn't very complex. And maybe that's the secret.

I've seen him several times in concert and actually met him once.

Terrible singing voice at least in my most recent experience. Almost like he was just mailing it in. Talk singing.

That said, he is talented and like Denzien said, it's art and translates differently to different people. The guy certainly captures a vibe that others can't or didn't. Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown band are clearly influenced by what Jimmy Buffet laid down first.

I guess what's most amazing to me is to see the success come to a guy that simply put; Makes it look easy.
And it's probably been real hard.

 

[El Caliente]

Side note, Paul McCartney and John Lennon's trustees are rich. 5 songs in the top 10 between the 2 of them.

 

[JimEverett]

Too bad Jimmy Buffet ripped of Cocnut Pete. He wrote this almost 8 years before Buffet's Margaritaville

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[Bleu Raeder]

It's a song about lost love.

 

[Zack Lee]

It's a song about lost love.

its about losing things that are important to you. Like shakers of salt. Perhaps love.