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Hobo Johnson (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Hobo Johnson and the Lovemakers are a musical group from Sacramento, California whose musical style is well, hard to pin down. Hobo Johnson's (real name Frank Lopes Jr.) confessional songwriting, strangely affecting physical presence, and slam poetry-influenced talk-rapping defines the band and its sound. He is backed by the Lovemakers, who all play analogue instruments.Their music consists of rambling, often sad or self-deprecating, confessional lyrics juxtaposed with humor and overlain on a sparse musical background. Hobo delivers the lines in a spoken-word style interspersed with SHOUTED PASSAGES and asides or conversational vignettes that blur the line between song, introduction and Studio Chatter. Listening to the songs is a bit like having a one-on-one conversation with an earnest and talkative but deeply unstable person.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Hobo Johnson began making music in 2015, but the band began to attract attention in 2018 when the backyard video they submitted for NPR Tiny Desk Concerts went viral. Since then they've signed to a major label and gone on a world tour. They have four albums: Hobo Johnsons '94 Corolla (2015) The Rise of Hobo Johnson (2016, re-released in 2017) The Fall of Hobo Johnson (2019) The Revenge of Hobo Johnson (2021) | |
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Character Name and the Noun Phrase: Hobo Johnson and the Lovemakers | |
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Fantastic Nuke | |
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Fantastic Nuke: In "You and the Cockroach", the cockroach civilization tries to develop a weapon equivalent to nukes, but they can't use a real one since cockroaches are immune to it. Instead, they create something implied to have the same effect, a missile tipped with a giant... shoe. | |
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Food Songs Are Funny | |
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Food Songs Are Funny: Food is frequently mentioned, and often serves as a source of humor or levity in the midst of serious songs. In "I Want to See the World", which starts off very silly and lighthearted, food is a big focus early on but gets completely excised as the song gets darker and more serious. | |
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Rock-Star Song | |
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Rock-Star Song: "Ode to Justin Bieber" is about Hobo's conflicted feelings about the success he's received as a musician. He feels a desire for fame and universal adulation that troubles him and expresses concern that fame will mess up his life and relationships, but also sees the material well-being of his family and friends as heavily dependent on his continued rise. Throughout the song he compares himself unfavorably to Justin Bieber both in the amount of fame he has and his ability to handle it well. | |
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Concept Video | |
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Concept Video: The video for "Song 9" has the Lovemakers hide out in an underground bunker to weather an Alien Invasion. After weeks in there they go insane and eventually emerge, where they're attacked by the aliens (who look like humans in creepy red and white masks and carry signs expressing their desire to kill all humans). | |
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Former Child Star | |
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Former Child Star: "Ode to Justin Bieber" discusses the psychological problems child stars face. | |
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I Banged Your Mom | |
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I Banged Your Mom: Subverted in "Sex and the City". The song, which is overall about sex and relationships, features a vignette where Hobo talks about how if he were hotter, he'd be at your mom's house... eating all the sandwichesnote GODDAMN I LOVE THOSE SANDWICHES. | |
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Call-and-Response Song | |
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Call-and-Response Song: A lot of songs (more so live than on albums) feature the band yelling out things in response to certain lines. Often crosses over with Audience Participation Song as well. For example, in "Sex in the City" | |
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Genre Roulette | |
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Genre Roulette: The band went on tour with a funky R&B singer and an emo band as openers, and have been known to perform covers of disco and pop songs, so going to a Hobo Johnson concert can lead to experiencing a roller coaster of musical genres. | |
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Glam Rap | |
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Glam Rap: Parodied in "Subaru Crosstrek XV". Hobo raps about buying a car, which normally in rap is associated with wealth and status, but the chorus draws attention to the fact that he can't afford the flashy cars usually mentioned in this sort of song, and the song is overall about Hobo's many personal screw-ups. The video parodies the "posing with expensive cars" by having the band pose next to, but never touch, an expensive sports car. | |
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Suddenly Shouting | |
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Suddenly Shouting: Many songs, especially in choruses, will suddenly transition from soft, conversationally-delivered lines to screaming. The chorus to "Peach Scone" goes: | |
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Just Friends | |
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Just Friends: "Peach Scone" describes being in love with someone who's in a relationship, while continuing to be a supportive friend to her and restraining yourself from making a move. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In "Happiness", Hobo wishes his ex happiness without him even though he still loves her, as he thinks he was a cause of a lot of her problems and thinks she'll be successful having left him. | |
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Car Song | |
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Car Song: "Subaru Crosstrek XV" sings the praises of the titular car, which is apparently pretty reliable and has suspension as soft as cute little baby's neck (but don't tow with it even though it comes with a hitch, you'll ruin the transmission). | |
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All Love Is Unrequited | |
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All Love Is Unrequited: Unrequited love, and relationships with people who are taken occur frequently as themes for songs. "Peach Scone" and "Mover Awayer" are pretty much all about loving someone who's not interested. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: Hobo often intersperses rambling, conversational vignettes that are delivered very rapidly in the middle of bits with more song structure, giving the impression of someone who can't stop talking. | |
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Compensating for Something | |
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Compensating for Something: In "You and the Cockroach", the president ultimately nukes the world because he "has a tiny dick". Discussed in "Subaru Crosstrek XV" where Hobo justifies not getting a fancy car by imagining himself and his future family: | |
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"I Want" Song | |
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"I Want" Song: "I Want A Dog" is about Hobo wrangling with desires and aspirations. He starts off with the simple wish for a dog, then gradually the desires become more and more grandiose and impossible ("I want nothing but the best, better than anyone has ever had yet"), then reigns himself back in and tries to convince himself to aim lower ("No, Frank, you just want a dog, all you want is a dog"). | |
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Capitalism Is Bad | |
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Capitalism Is Bad: "All in My Head" criticizes social brainwashing and commercialism: | |
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I Am the Band | |
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I Am the Band: Hobo Johnson really blurs the lines between "solo artist with a backing band" and "band with a very prominent frontman", as some of the awkward writing on this page can attest to. The Lovemakers show up in nearly all music videos and promotional material but the feel and lyrical themes of the band are intensely personal and pretty all about Hobo Johnson. The group can be seen as blending the way rappers and rock bands present themselves in the same way they blend those styles musically. | |
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The Bard on Board | |
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The Bard on Board: In "Romeo and Juliet", Hobo imagines Romeo and Juliet living in modern times and sharing his experiences, substituting drinking and drugs for poison. Given Romeo's history with Rosalind, Hobo suspects that Rome and Juliet will get divorced. The whole story is a lens for Hobo's own fears about all his relationships failing like his parents' did. | |
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Bathos | |
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Bathos: The songs frequently juxtapose very sad lines with mundane ones, lending humor to both. From "Subaru Crosstrek XV": | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: A hallmark of Hobo's sound is sudden shifts from ebullient happiness to funny asides to moments of profound sadness. In his delivery, he'll often go from sounding like he's about to cry to like he's bursting with happiness, and the lyrics vary in wildly in tone from line to line. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
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Trademark Favorite Food: Hobo frequently mentions his love of sandwiches. They even came out with official Hobo Johnson merch adorned with sandwich images. | |
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Break-Up Song | |
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Break-Up Song: "Happiness" is about Hobo's girlfriend leaving him due to his comments about her career, while he regrets his actions and wishes her success. Most of The Fall of Hobo Johnson deals with the fallout of this breakup in one way or another. | |
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Parody Product Placement | |
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Parody Product Placement: The video for "Subaru Crosstrek XV" ends with a spoken bit done in the style of a car commercial, discussing the features of the all new Subaru Crosstrek XV, with a disclaimer at the bottom indicating that they were not paid by Subaru to deliver the message. | |
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Fight Fur Your Right to Party | |
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Fight Fur Your Right to Party: Derek wears a dog suit for much of the video of "Typical Story", perhaps representing the "dog who wanted to run away." | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Romeo and Juliet" references The Front Bottoms' "Twin Sized Mattress" with a line about Hobo's own twin-sided mattress ruining his relationships. "I Want A Dog" references The Blind Side (with Sandra Bullock) as example of a movie that leaves you "amazed but also touched inside". "I Want A Dog" ends with a guitar riff closely based off of the one at the end of "No Surprises" by Radiohead. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: One way or another, Hobo's personal failures and flaws are the subject of every song. Particularly notable are "Sex and the City", which juxtaposes an idealized sexual situation with the awkward reality of actually sleeping with Hobo (his room smells like socks), and "Happiness", where he criticizes himself for destroying his own relationship. | |
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Aborted Declaration of Love | |
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Aborted Declaration of Love: In "Peach Scone" Hobo describes being out for coffee with someone he likes who's in a relationship and tries to stop himself from confessing to her: | |
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Serial Romeo | |
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Serial Romeo: "Romeo and Juliet" discusses the trope namer's tendency to fall in love easily both by using it as a metaphor for Hobo's own string of failed relationships, and by suggesting that if the two characters survived the play, they would have gotten divorced. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
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The End of the World as We Know It: "You and the Cockroach" is about how humanity destroys itself in a nuclear war, giving rise to a new civilization of intelligent cockroaches. | |
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Rockers Smash Guitars | |
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Rockers Smash Guitars: Jordan smashes a guitar in the video for "Song 9", though the context is a bit different as it's an acoustic guitar rather than electric and it's a sign that he and everyone else are going insane. | |
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Performance Video | |
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Performance Video: Most of the band's music videos were simply videos of them performing in a backyard, presumably to no audience (the "Live from Oak Park" series) posted to Youtube. The Fall of Hobo Johnson featured higher concept and production value videos, but Hobo has expressed an interest in a return to the more DIY feel of earlier videos. At some point they started releasing "official live" versions to complement all the music videos. | |
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History Repeats | |
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History Repeats: In "You and the Cockroach", humanity evolves, invents religion, invents government, and finally destroys itself in a nuclear war as conflict accelerates over time. The cockroaches survive nuclear war, start to evolve, and the whole thing repeats all over again. | |
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Weight Woe | |
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Weight Woe: "Sex and the City" touches upon this: Many songs also touch on Hobo's own insecurities about his weight. | |
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The X of Y | |
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The X of Y: All of their major studio albums have a title in the form of "The X of Hobo Johnson" | |
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Surreal Music Video | |
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Surreal Music Video: The video for "Typical Story" is about a wild party with lots of unsettling things going on: people's faces being distorted by puffs of air, creepy bikini babes with the heads of orcs circling around, and shots at the end of people whose faces obviously don't match their bodies (Hobo's face is superimposed on a twitching, shirtless bodybuilder's torso). | |
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Torch Song | |
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Torch Song: "Mover Awayer" is about Hobo still being in love with, and fondly reminiscing about, a girlfriend who left him. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: Both "Mover Awayer" and "Moonlight" deal with the topic of Hobo's breakup. "Moonlight", which comes later on the album, takes the main hook of "Mover Awayer" ("You made my Mondays feel like Fridays/You made my Ruby Tuesday's taste like Benihana's") and mixes it with a faster, more dissonant instrumental background that makes it feel more frantic and sad as opposed to sweet and sentimental. Overall, "Mover Awayer" has a more wistful take on the subject while "Moonlight" is saturated with despair and depression. | |
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Fourth Wall Greeting | |
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Fourth Wall Greeting: The submission of "Peach Scone" for the NPR Tiny Desk Contest begins with "What up, Bob?" note Bob Boilen, who hosts the Tiny Desk Concerts and continues with | |
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