Joshua Tillman is an American singer-songwriter who performs under the stage name Father John Misty. He has been making solo recordings since 2004 and was previously a member of indie rock bands. Tillman uses various social media sites like Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook to connect with fans. He presents himself in an ironic yet honest way through amusing posts and quotes. Tillman has found success in appealing to multiple music genres and spreading his music through his online communities.

1. Father Jon Misty
aka
Josh Tillman

2. Joshua Tillman was born May 3,
1981, also known as J. Tillman. He is
an American folk singer-songwriter,
guitarist, drummer, and songwriter,
who has self-titled himself as: Father
John Misty.

3. • Josh Tillman has been maintaining a steady
output of solo recordings since 2004
• Tillman is a former member of a couple indie
rock bands: Saxon Shore and a personal
favourite, Fleet Foxes along with touring with
Pacific Northwest artists Damien Jurado, Jesse
Sykes, and David Bazan.

4. • ‘’Tillman was brought up as an Evangelical Christian
household. Tillman said he grew up in Rockville, Maryland,
the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He is the oldest of four
children: a younger brother named Zach Tillman and two
younger sisters. His father was an engineer at HewlettPackard.’’ (wikipedia)
• Tillman discovered he wanted to be a singer and songwriter
after years of aspiring to be a pastor mainly because it was
the only stage he knew. He states "I was actually a pretty
aimless kid, I didn’t really do anything: I never really
studied hard and all my parents were interested in was my
spiritual status. When I was younger my reality was heaven
and hell and angels and all this bullshit that doesn’t mean
anything in terms of becoming an actualised human being."

5. Tillman actively uses a variety of websites and social networking sites
such as tumblr, twitter, facebook, grooveshark, soundcloud, youtube, his own
network: http://www.fatherjohnmisty.net/ and within all of these sites
Tillman is very aware of the messages he wants to send to his audiences.

6. • Tillman manages to stay very personable and
ironic through being a honest online media user.
He choses to present himself and his persona in a
very true way, he writes into these sites as if he is
speaking straight from his humorous mind to a
creature of human-kind, for example, the titles
and quick interchanging quotes throughout his
Tillman's artist site are not that of which to be
considered professional, they are whatever he
wants them to be and his fans appreciate the
weirdness which allows him to be himself even in
a professional setting.

8. • Continued: A couple of these titles being: "I'M
COMING TO YOUR TOWN SO YOU CAN FILM ME ON
YOUR IPHONE!" "LOTS OF SEXY PICS!" "FJM CAN FLUB"
(Tillman's sarcastic response to the idea of a fan club
for a single person) and the quotes: about youtube "A
VERY USEFUL WEBSITE TO WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEOS
ON THE INTERNET, BUT I HAVE BEEN DISAPPOINTED IN
SOME OF THE VIDEOS THAT CLAIM TO FEATURE
FEMALE NUDITY" and "LOVE MOTHERFUCKERS." In
addition to this point, his music is extremely powerful,
corky, raw, technical and melodic, as is his online
presence.

9. • Josh Tillman has a variety of sites, that he connects into
every couple of weeks, to update his blogs and facebook
page with new photos, videos or announcements, Tillman
only does this mostly for his fans. His fans are the soul of
Father Jon Misty’s online community, because as he has
made apparent, the online community is not where he
feels at ease.
•
• Josh Tillman has certainly found his audience, and it is only
expanding. His versatility and personality/persona have
made him a very inspiring and popular artist. He promotes
himself through his online communities using humour and
honesty. He appeals to multiple genres of music, his music
spreads quicker than that of a very specific genre.

10. • Tillman writes songs about the world, he is so in
tune and aware of what is happening in the
present times, and he makes the effort to use his
music as his messenger. He posts and promotes
charities for good causes all around the world. He
also posts very blunt and true statements,
straight from his imaginative mind, which allows
those of us to connect with him, we get what he
is saying and we’ve been afraid to say it because
it would be considered weird or frowned upon.
Everything he posts is meaningful and brightens
the day.

12. • Josh Tillman does not have a physical space
where he personally sells anything, everything
is online and it is universally effective. He does
not care as much as someone with a business
mind set in music to promote himself and sell
his stuff, he’d rather affect his listeners in a
changing and positive way.

13. Lastly, Tillman posts and engages with his
online audience every so often, he promotes
not spending all of ones time surfing the web
instead of running around outside or writing
music. This is very effective because when his
fans chose to check up on his sites they can be
content in knowing there will probably be
something new and updated about their
favourite artist. Also, Tillman is constantly
creating, so his fans appreciate and love his
music so they play the waiting game.

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