DESCRIPTION:
This song is from Steven Welp's sixth CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) album "CIRCLE OF SIXTH", first released January 10, 2014 (album original release date March 5, 2013). This is one of many of Steven's songs with multiple layers of meaning. "Big DaDa" refers to "Big Daddy", as a "sugar daddy" whom a "ne'er do well", a bum, meaning they who mis-manage metadata and use exclusively to their selfish benefit, who is totally dependent on and milks for all the cash it can get; and "Big Brother", as in the Orwellian 1984 "information, surveillance, military, oligarchic, thought control" complex we face today, thanks to computers and "Big Data", or as I have punned, "Big DaDa". The "DaDa" also recalls the reactionist Dadaist art and literature movement of the 1920's which faced a similar financial, political and military environment. "DaDa", as the Dadaist movement, may have found its name related to Romanian artists involved, in whose language "Da" means "Yes". Thus "Da, Da" meaning "Yes, Yes" as the artist movement decided to take creative action and revolt against the sociopolitical status quo, to make revolution. And, finally, concerning the origins of the word "dada", it may have also meant "hobbyhorse". So "hobby horse" was used both as a transitional allusion of they who mis-use metadata as "going nowhere"; like children who are self-absorbed, as in Freudian Infantilism; as well as an historical segue, around the time of Dadaism, to link the Berlin Wall to the Nazi's "SS" which morphed into the East German Police State's "Stasi". Today, of course, these "secret police" have been compared to the NSA. Metadata, as a storage medium, is no different that Gutenberg's printing press, in that it is just a tool. And tools can be used either for good or for evil, to empower life or to kill, to set free or to enslave. It is not just the tool, not only how it appears to be used, but the user's intent, how the tool and its use is transparently used and managed for the good of all. All words and music copyright © 2014 by Steven Welp. Executive Producer, Steven Welp. CD design by Steven Welp. Art: "Pyramid of Capitalist System, ca. 1911, artist unknown. Steven Welp Production/Publishing Company. All rights reserved.