He's not searching for a miracle.
My day will come, I gave too much, I sold my soul, I'm waiting for my pay in full, My only one, your dying love I've seen enough
- Oliver Tree, "Hurt"
Oliver Tree Nickell (born June 29, 1993) is a bizarre Alternative Hip Hop musician and professional scooter rider.
Debuting in 2017 with his viral hit song "When I'm Down", he has reached acclaim for his unique vocals and productions, as well as being a genuinely funny man. Even Thom Yorke approved of him.
And yes, he is aware of the fact he looks like Vector.
Tropes Oliver Tree and his music/music videos have:
- Absurdly-Long Limousine: The music video for "Cash Machine" starts off with one. As does the video for "Bounce".
- Album Title Drop: On "Cowboys Don't Cry" off of "Cowboy Tears":Just an outlaw who only had one friend
I wonder if I'll ever see her face again
Dark clouds hanging over, they follow where I've been
My cowboy tears are still blowing in the wind - Alliterative Title: Some song titles, such as "Mircale Man" and "Balloon Boy".
- Briefcase Full of Money: Close. There's a suitcase full of money featured in the video for "Suitcase Full Of Money".
- Cool Shades: Sports these in practically all of his music videos
- Cloudcuckoolander: He rivals Björk in terms of weirdness.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Has a song simply called "Fuck".
- Death by Ambulance: What happens to him at the end of the "Miracle Man" video.
- Funny Background Event: A TV in the background of the "Life Goes On" video directed by Cole Bennett can be seen playing the original "Life Goes On" video.
- Kayfabe Music: The scooter riding windbreaker-clad persona is actually a character named Turbo, which dates back to his days of making videos on Vine. Whenever he is invited for an interview, there is a near one hundred percent chance that Oliver will be trolling the interviewer in character. While Turbo is the most popular and iconic, he is not the only persona of Oliver's; there are others such as Cowboy Tree and Comrade Tree.
- Likes Older Women: Portrayed as such in the video for "Swing & A Miss".
- Location Song: "Welcome to LA".
- Major Injury Underreaction: Gets in a car crash in the video for "Miracle Man" and simply walks it off.
- Mean Character, Nice Actor: Turbo is known for being an arrogant asshole as a shtick to his character and can often seem to be rude in interviews and other publicity stunts, but those who have met Tree in real life say he's actually very nice and humble.
- Me's a Crowd: The music video for "Life Goes On" is set at a party comprised entirely of him.
- Mouth Full of Smokes: He's seen doing so in the new video for "Life Goes On".
- Ocular Gushers: Has these in the videos for both "Swing & A Miss" and "Voices", the latter of which being a collaboration between him and KSI.
- Off with His Head!:
- Gets his head shot off during the music video for "Hurt". From a tank, no less!
- The head of a pillow shaped like Oliver gets chainsawed off in the "Fuck" video.
- The Oner: The "Official Unofficial" music video for "Bury Me Alive" is mostly one, barring a few small cuts at the end.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Absolutely inverted. Even out of character, Oliver is an extremely silly individual, as evidenced by his video with Cody Ko where the two look at TikToks of women getting the "ick" from men. Though he's noticeably much more down-to-earth than his arrogant persona would have you believe.Oliver: He's wearing shorts!
- Piano Drop: Manages to snappily avoid one in the video for "Miracle Man."
- Product Displacement: In some music videos, the Montbell logo on Oliver's iconic windbreaker is digitally removed. This would later be avoided with Oliver starting to wear a merch replica with his name in place of the Montbell logo.
- Surreal Music Video: Most of his videos are these:
- The video for "Hurt", begins with Oliver in a body bag, being put into an ambulance (while he's singing). Then, we see him emerge from a coffin, get his head blown off by a tank, and several hummingbirds fly out from his neck. It ends with him crucified to a giant scooter, rolling down the street, before he hits a rock and lands on a car seen at the start of the video.
- Title by Year: "1993".
- Trademark Favorite Food: Oliver loves Flamin' Hot Cheetos. He bathes in them and stuffs his luggage full of them, and they even appear in the comic book Oliver Tree vs. Little Ricky as Treetos, the only food he seems to need.
- Your Makeup Is Running: Parodied at the end of the video for "Cowboys Don't Cry", since Oliver isn't even wearing makeup.
