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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fjm_94.jpg]]
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3	Joshua Michael Tillman, aka. J. Tillman aka Father John Misty (born May 3,1981) is an American IndieRock singer-songwriter, musician and record producer.
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5	Beginning his musical career in 2004, Josh Tillman released seven albums over the years under his own name, (albeit just the initial), to little success. In 2008, he also began drumming for the FolkRock band Music/FleetFoxes, writing his own songs on the side.
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7	Then, in 2010, Tillman decided he'd had enough. So he escaped his old life to L.A. and reinvented himself. A drug-induced realization occurred to him while sitting naked in a tree: he should just be himself. "The sarcastic, overcompensating asshole." This persona, the one that came to be called Father John Misty, is the one he released his 2012 album, Fear Fun, under.
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9	His songs are known for just that: witty, seethingly sarcastic, darkly humorous lyrics, most often accompanied by grand, orchestral, swinging arrangements.
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12	!! Discography:
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14	* ''Fear Fun'' (2012)
15	* ''I Love You, Honeybear'' (2015)
16	* ''Pure Comedy'' (2017)
17	* ''God's Favorite Customer'' (2018)
18	* ''Chloë and the Next 20th Century'' (2022)
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21	!! '''''I'm writing a trope page, because that's never been done before:'''''
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23	* AlbumTitleDrop: The first track of ''Chloë and the Next 20th Century'' is titled "Chloë," and the final track is titled "The Next 20th Century."
24	* AntiLoveSong: Most of Father John Misty's love songs are actually played straight, as they often concern his wife, although they still tend to drip with sarcasm as usual. "The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment" is an example of this though, apparently about a pretentious, insufferable woman he had some sort of relationship with... While hinting that he's not much better in that regard himself. The final lines say it best:
25	--> ''I obliged later on''
26	--> ''When you begged me to choke ya''
27	* BecomingTheMask: "Leaving LA"
28	-->''So why is it I'm so distraught\
29	That what I'm selling is getting bought?\
30	At some point you just can't control\
31	What people use your fake name for''
32	* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Pure Comedy'' compared to the first two records. It's more brooding and deals with Tillman's dissatisfactions with the state of entertainment, culture, the environment and the world in general in [[TheNewTens the New 10s.]] It does have a SurprisinglyHappyEnding, still.
33	* EpicRocking:
34	** ''Pure Comedy'' features four songs clocking over six minutes, uncommon in his other work. They are the TitleTrack (6:25), "So, I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain" (9:58), "In Twenty Years Or So" (6:27), and his longest song "Leaving LA", at ''13 minutes and 12 seconds.''
35	** ''Chloë and the Next 20th Century'' [[LongestSongGoesLast closes]] with "[[TitleTrack The Next 20th Century]]". (6:56)
36	* HeavyMeta: "Leaving LA" describes itself as a "10-verse chorus-less diatribe" and predicts that it will make his fans abandon him.
37	* LaughTrack: "Bored in the USA" uses this for BlackHumour.
38	* ListSong: "Holy Shit" is a rather sweet example: it's pretty much a list of everything wrong with the world, with the reminder that none of that really matters when you're with the one you love.
39	--> ''And maybe love is just an institution, based on resource scarcity''
40	--> ''But what I fail to see is what that's got to do with you and me''
41	* ShoutOut: "Mr. Tillman" name-checks Music/JasonIsbell.
42	* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: ''Pure Comedy'' ends on "In Twenty Years or So," after over an hour of Misty lamenting the state of mankind in 2017. It's a song about accepting your insignificance in the grand scheme of things and focusing on the good things in our measly human lives. In his case, it's Emma, his wife. Even instrumentally, the album ends on a single, gentle prayer bell.
43	--> ''But I look at you''
44	--> ''As our second drinks arrive''
45	--> ''The piano player's playing'' [[Music/TalkingHeads This Must Be the Place]]
46	--> ''And it's a miracle to be alive''

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