History YMMV / JimmyBuffett

* MisaimedFandom: His signature song, "Margaritaville", is a melancholy song about a loser who's drinking his life away in a tourist town on a beach somewhere. A woman was involved somehow, but at the end he acknowledges "it's my own damned fault" that things have ended up this way for him. Fans took the song as a party anthem, and Jimmy rolled with it.

** "The Captain and the Kid" even more so. Its a slow, quiet tribute to his grandfather, a former merchant ship's captain. And according to [[WordOfGod Buffett himself]], its this song that kept him from ever signing with a major label. He was auditioning in Memphis, and played "The Captain and the Kid", and the record executive told Buffett that he loved the song, but it was too much of a downer. Apparently the executive said, "Why do you have to have him die at the end?" To which Buffett responded, "Because he did", and walked out of the record company's studio, never looking back once.

--> ''So the story goes, he was dressed to kill, [[DrivenToSuicide when he jumped from the old mahogany mill...]]''

* MisaimedFandom: His signature song, "Margaritaville", is a melancholy song about a loser who's drinking his life away in a tourist town on a beach somewhere--a woman was involved somehow, but at the end he acknowledges "it's my own damned fault". Fans took the song as a party anthem, and Jimmy rolled with it.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The island on which "Volcano" was written, Montserrat, really was geographically and economically decimated by a series of volcanic eruptions in the 90s.

* EarWorm: Whether you like his songs or not, they will be stuck in your head for days.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: When you realize that the island on which "Volcano" was written, Montserrat, ''really was'' geographically and economically decimated by a series of volcanic eruptions in the 90s.

** "Trip Around the Sun" (duet with Music/MartinaMcBride) is also an unusually somber song about growing older.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Sone of the references at the end of "Volcano" are very [[TheSeventies 70s]]-- "Don't want to land on no Three Mile Island, don't want to see my skin aglow", "Don't want to land on no Ayatollah", etc. Not that the song is any less funny for it.
* WhatMightHaveBeen: Buffett wrote "Margaritaville" for Music/ElvisPresley, who died before he could record it.

* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: "Cheeseburger in Paradise" was inspired by Buffett being forced to eat only canned food and peanut butter due to a boating mishap in the Caribbean, but when eventually made it to landfall, he ordered a cheeseburger, and was very grateful to have eaten it. There's a small subset of parrotheads who think the song has a much deeper meaning than it actually does. To their credit, the line "I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise" fits in rather well with Buffett's whole persona of taking it easy on the islands. But there's some really off-the-wall theories as to what the song is about. All of these theories are inaccurate; Buffett has said multiple times that the song is about cheeseburgers.

* ArchivePanic: Doesn't help that he has, like, one well-known song

* SignatureSong: "Margaritaville"
* TearJerker: "He Went To Paris" is an unusually somber song for Buffett, about a man who moves to Europe to find himself and marries and has a son while there, only to lose his family in a war, which also left him disabled.

** "The Captain and the Kid" even more so. Its a slow, quiet tribute to his grandfather, a former merchant ship's captain. And according to [[WordOfGod Buffett himself]], its this song that kept him from ever signing with a major label. He was auditioning in Memphis, and played "The Captain and the Kid", and the record executive told Buffett that he loved the song, but it was too much of a downer. Apparently the executive said, "Why do you have to have him die at the end?" To which Buffett responded, "Because he did", and walked out of the record company's studio, never looking back once.

* TearJerker: "He Went To Paris" is an unusually somber song for Buffett, about a man who moves to Europe to find himself and marries and has a son while there, only to lose his family in a war, which also left him disabled.

* EarWorm: Whether you like his songs or not, they will be stuck in your heads for days

* SignatureSong: "Margaritaville"

* FanCommunityNicknames: The Parrotheads

* SequelDisplacement: His "debut" album ''A White Sport Coat And a Pink Crustacean'' was actually his third album (though his second album sat on the shelf for five years before being released to cash in on his newfound popularity).

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: When you realize that the island on which "Volcano" was written, Montserrat, was geographically and economically decimated by a series of volcanic eruptions in the 90s.