Margaritaville, by Jimmy Buffett.
Every time I do a really dumb song, I think to myself, that is the dumbest song I will do for this project, but then, I do one even dumber.
Growing up in Miami in the 1980s, Jimmy Buffett was unavoidable.
This song and Cheeseburger in Paradise were the gateway drugs to watching a whole Bayfront Amphitheater show on PBS or whatever. The same songs over and over again on the radio, in every restaurant, and naturally 12x as much in the Keys.
In my teenage years, I found out about Why Don’t We Get Drunk And Screw and adopted it as a countercultural anthem ok not really but still I was a pubescent boy and I liked it.
Jimmy Buffett. Sigh.
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Messed around and eventually kinda played the right guitar riff in the solo, kinda?
Resisted the urge to add steel drums.
Barely.