Slate magazine has an article: "A Pirate Looks at 60 – Jimmy Buffett’s midlife crises".
By all accounts, Buffett lives the life he sings about. For his fans, most of whom aren’t multimillionaires with large pleasure craft, the experience is vicarious: The closest many will come to a Caribbean lagoon is a kiddie pool in the parking lot of a Jimmy Buffett concert. Yet Buffett’s songs are not so much about an escape to a place as a flight from time. His true theme is the Me Generation midlife crisis.
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