Boney M Daddy Cool Mp3 20
Marién Hadges
Indeed, what about "Daddy Cool"? What is his place in the Symbolic Order? What is the particular "daddy issue" that this improbable musical concoction articulates, a song that ritually and quite literally intones the name of the father and asserts the Law while nonetheless impelling listeners toward the dissolution of self in dance-floor jouissance?
What are the relations of desire that structure the subject under the sign of the phallus? Are we oedipalized by this seductive father figure? Can he release our flows or simply canalize them? What, after all, is so "cool" about this big Other, Daddy Cool, such that he can make us "crazy like a fool" about him? And is this patriarchally induced insanity in fact the first step toward a deterritorialization sufficient to decenter and trouble, if not entirely undermine, Daddy's rei(g)n?
The fact the speaking voice of the father turns out to be an imposter may seem to be yet another example in support of Slavoj Žižek's famous dictum that the "big Other does not exist." But this supplementation does not have the effect of reinforcing the symbolic efficiency of Daddy Cool. It does not allow us to behave "as if," to both reject phallic authority and yet behave as if its strictures are binding. Nor does it turn "Daddy Cool" into a target for cynical complaint. The "cool" of Daddy Cool is not a matter of ironic distanciation; instead it is more the "cool" of McLuhan's cool media, which require a more immersive and constructive engagement. Listeners must account for the obvious aporia in the figure of the father, and this inherent implausibility makes him compelling, such that Boney M.'s September 1976 appearance on Musikladen was both necessary and sufficient to propel the song to international prominence in the socius. On that appearance, Farrell fulfills the role of Farian/daddy manqué, triumphing by failing to convince that he is the voice of the Other while dissolving the site of the speaking father, and thus phallologocentrism itself, in a ceaseless series of fluid contortions of the body, a visible unraveling and an unraveling of the visible, the decoded flows seeming to twist and warp his body as they wash over him. We are called to witness the presence of an entirely different libidinal economy.
I'm really digging the bass tone on the song Daddy Cool by Boney M, it is... "cool", haha? How can I recreate it? Is it a "J" or "P" bass? Do I need an amp (if so, what amp?) or straight to the audio interface? Maybe some light overdrive? Any info would be appreciated, thanks!