The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan

**The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan** (usually styled as **The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan**) is one of Matt Farley prolific "novelty" acts. The songs primarily focus on musicians. This artist has released 17 albums, making it one of Farley's most prolific acts after Papa Razzi and the Photogs and Moes Haven.

This artist debuted in June 2008 with the album *I Love Bob Dylan!*, which consists solely of songs about Bob Dylan, one of Farley's favorite artists. The subsequent albums turn to tributes to all kinds of musicians on each album, never focusing only on one artist.

Some of the Jokerfan's songs parody the titles of popular songs, for example, "Quit Playing Games With My Heart, Doctor" on *People Who Like These Songs Are Correct* (2013), echos "Quit Playing Games (with My Heart)" a huge 1990s hit by the Backstreet Boys. But it should be noted the song titles aren't identical to the hits referenced and aren't intended to fool listeners -- they seem to be intended to get a listener to stumble across the song and say "what in the world is this?"

The early 2014 album *Intensely Personal Songs* is a complete departure from the Jokerfan's normal territory and finds him sharing his deep observations on himself and life in general, and features far more guitar playing than typical for Farley. Though defying a clear categorization, many fans argue this album should be included on the list of No Jokes albums.

On this artist's most recent album, *I Quite Enjoy Making Good Songs* (2016), the names of musical artists in the song titles are reversed. This seems to be due to a Spotify rule change prohibiting musical artists from being in song names. This seems to be a questionable rule, as it does not prevent Spotify from filling up with terrible covers of every popular song, and artists generally don't write songs with their own names in them. But this rule has apparently caused the Jokerfan to have lost his passion for releasing albums.

As of July 2019, the most popular track on Spotify from this artist is "What Did the Fox Say? (Was He Talking About Me?)" on *People Who Like These Songs Are Correct* (2013).

The Jokerfan has many Passionate and Objective fans, such as the creator of the the passionate & objective jokerfan is amazing tumblr (2013 posts).

## See also

* The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan: You Are Awesome, *Branding Is Blather* blog (October 4, 2010)
* the passionate & objective jokerfan is amazing tumblr (active until about 2013, before Farley was widely known)
* moternmania tumblr, reviewed the first four albums from this artist in 2015

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