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Daddy​-​O

by Sweeney

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Daddy-O 03:17
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Hey sir Old man Where’d you go? Come Be my favourite Daddy-o Daddy-o! Grey-sealed Stealthy Private album Open it up for me I wanted to be younger older stable I wanted to be leaner tone-deaf bigger I wanted to be useless careless top-vers I wanted to be someone else here worthy I wanted to be younger older stable I wanted to be leaner tone-deaf bigger I wanted to be useless careless top-vers I wanted to be someone else here Worthy of you
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Daddy-O (Extended Version) 06:37
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I wanted to be younger older stable I wanted to be leaner tone-deaf bigger I wanted to be useless careless top-vers I wanted to be someone else here worthy I wanted to be younger older stable I wanted to be leaner tone-deaf bigger I wanted to be useless careless top-vers I wanted to be someone else here Worthy of you Hey sir Old man Where’d you go? Come Be my favourite Daddy-o Daddy-o! Grey-sealed Stealthy Private album Open it up for me I wanted to be younger older stable I wanted to be leaner tone-deaf bigger I wanted to be useless careless top-vers I wanted to be someone else here worthy I wanted to be younger older stable I wanted to be leaner tone-deaf bigger I wanted to be useless careless top-vers I wanted to be someone else here Worthy of you

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Daddy-O, the new single from Sweeney, opens with private chat between two gay male dating profile types: a man in his 30s addresses a much older man, probably in his late 50s (the archetype of the gay "daddy").

"Hey sir, old man, where’d you go?"

The younger man summons: "Come, be my favourite Daddy-o, Daddy-o!"

The conversation, inevitably, will lead nowhere. The normal system of exchange in the queer dating world breaks: dead-ends.

This song dances to the beat of a darker 80s drum-machine laden disco-world. A time when danger was in the blood. A moment when everything seemed possible, but the algorithm was yet to curse the land.

Daddy-O is left to wander the empty field, searching for that companion, singing: "I wanted to be younger older stable leaner tone-deaf bigger useless careless top-vers ... someone else here ...worthy of you."

You might find him, at 3am, stumbling from the club, his hips and knees no longer what they used to be, still no answers.

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released December 1, 2023

From the upcoming AGEISM collection
Written, performed and produced by Jason Sweeney
Recorded on stolen Kaurna Country (South Australia), 2023
Cover star: Jarrod Takle
Image: Brin Schoellkopf

'AGEISM' is supported by the Government of South Australia through Arts South Australia.

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