{"id":454,"date":"2022-05-01T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/higinbothamlitmixtapes\/?page_id=454"},"modified":"2022-05-03T14:16:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:16:24","slug":"woo-cashin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/higinbothamlitmixtapes\/woo-cashin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Feste\u2019s Mixtape: I\u2019m playing a liminal role and spiraling into bitterness&#8221; (Cashin Woo)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"454\" class=\"elementor elementor-454\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3a9f775 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3a9f775\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ff7180d\" data-id=\"ff7180d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff8d6a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ff8d6a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Feste&amp;apos;s Mixtape: I&amp;apos;m playing a liminal role and spiraling into bitterness\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/1CDw8Ri0i0tG0pcQjtIwQX?si=86843308aa5b401a&utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-52694d2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"52694d2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7ad60be\" data-id=\"7ad60be\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a8eff10 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a8eff10\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>1. 911\/Mr. Lonely, a two part song by Tyler, captures the loneliness and the fabricated relationships that Feste experiences through the play. When Tyler sings \u201c911, call me some time\u201d , he suggests that his phone number is similar to 911 because he only picks up for emergencies, further implying that people only call him to ask him for things rather than to genuinely talk to him and check up on him. This is analogous to Feste because he is only called upon for his role as a fool. Even Tyler\u2019s later references to his riches not meaning anything without someone to share it with him is comparable to Feste being dissatisfied with his role as a fool, and his implied leave of absence before the play even starts. Moreover, Feste\u2019s role as a loud, witty comedian eventually turning him bitter and him not being able to do anything about it corresponds to Tyler singing \u201cThey say the loudest in the room is weak\u2026I say the loudest in the room is probably the loneliest one in the room.\u201d Finally, the gloomy mood of the song is similar to Feste\u2019s spiraling to bitterness and him being left alone at the end.<\/p>\n<p>2. Heard &#8217;em say by Kanye depicts Feste\u2019s battle between job insecurity and identity crisis. When Olivia asks where he has been and Feste gets his job back, there is an implication that due to his liminal role and identity crisis he simply did not care (at the time) if Olivia replaced him permanently. When Kanye asserts that \u201cthis is in the name of love like Robert say\u201d, he utilizes a pun referencing R. Kelly\u2019s&nbsp;<span style=\"text-indent: 0em;text-align: inherit\">song but also referencing \u201crobbers\u201d and how they steal to support themselves and their families (\u201cin the name of love\u201d). Not only is this phrase characteristic of Feste\u2019s wittiness and wordplay, but also Feste\u2019s \u201ctricking\u201d Olivia into believing she is a fool in order to get his job back. Moreover, he exclaims when he sees Olivia for the first time after coming back \u201cWit, an\u2019t be thy will, put me into good fooling!\u201d in hopes of keeping his job. Similarly, Kanye\u2019s melancholy tone throughout the song and chorus of \u201cI heard \u2018em say, Nothing\u2019s ever promised tomorrow today\u201d describes his belief that there are no guarantees in life and is analogous to Feste\u2019s job insecurities as shown by Feste\u2019s attempts to keep his job and his silence when Malvolio comments on his loss of wit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3.&nbsp;<span style=\"text-indent: 0em;text-align: inherit\">We don\u2019t care by Kanye encapsulates Feste\u2019s roles and decisions throughout his life and the play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The entire song is about not caring what anybody thinks in order to \u201cget by\u201d, a direct connection to Feste\u2019s participation in his job\u2014his and others\u2019 amusement\u2014 in order to get by and his indifference in the outcome of his actions (like his tricking Malvolio). Moreover, In the opening of the song, Kanye sings, \u201cDrug dealin\u2019 just to get by, stack your money till it get sky high\u201d; this is analogous to Feste\u2019s role as a fool and despite his omniscience, his inability to express truths to fulfill his duty of serving Olivia and ultimately keep his job. Finally, Feste states \u201ccucullus non facit monachum\u201d, or in other words, I may dress as a fool but I am not one, which is similar to Kanye\u2019s twisted reverence of the hustlers and even drug dealers in his childhood neighborhood; while society may judge Kanye and those figures for dealing, Kanye asserts that they will never understand as they were the \u201conly adult man that I knew wasn\u2019t broke, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4. Is there anybody here? by the Dear Hunter highlights the loneliness and bitterness that may result from Feste\u2019s liminal role as the fool. The Dear Hunter cries out for an explanation of his loneliness, saying, \u201cWho can tell me where I am? Or at least where I have been? Because I fear I\u2019m lost, and I cannot be found again.\u201d Similar to Feste\u2019s inability to change his identity and his potential loss of identity, the Dear Hunter longs for an answer as to what they truly are and have been. Not only does Feste\u2019s liminal role of never belonging to a group and not being particularly affected by outcomes despite his constant instigation of events, but his limitations in expressing his true self in order to remain a servant of Olivia\u2019s leads to him losing genuine emotions.<\/p>\n<p>5. The song itself\u2014the tone, hurried rhythm and voice\u2014comes off as extremely fast, anxious, and paranoid, which is relevant to Feste\u2019s constant need to come up with jokes in order to keep his job. Moreover, Kanye pours disdain into his voice as he describes a cousin who stole his laptop with sensitive material as a \u201cdirty motherf*cker\u201d, similar to Feste\u2019s grudge against Malvolio when Malvolio doubts his wit and Feste has no reply. Moreover, Kanye describes his lavish lifestyle and his desire to partake in entertainment throughout the song, which directly correlates to Feste\u2019s role and the very definition of him being a fool. Directly after his verse describing his desire, Kanye says that fans doubted him rapping again \u201cbut the writer\u2019s block is over\u201d, similar to Feste relentlessly finding amusement and creating ways to torment Malvolio.<\/p>\n<p>6. Everything I am by Kanye represents Feste\u2019s role because Feste himself is one who obtains a magnitude of information, and yet isn\u2019t allowed to convey any of his knowledge to anybody else without risk of losing his job or his societal role as a fool. For instance, the fact that he has an idea of who Viola is. Kanye describes his similar role as a societal outcast and asserts in his song that \u201cEverything I\u2019m not made me everything I am.\u201d Furthermore, he describes how he\u2019ll \u201cnever be picture-perfect Beyonce, be as black as Al B or light as Chauncey\u201d, similar to Feste\u2019s liminal ground as neither a lowly servant nor an upperclassman, and these characteristics make him who he is\u2014a servant of Olivia, the fool. Moreover, Kanye talks about how many killings Chicago had in the past year, and the fact that no other people seem to realize or want to state\u2014that killing is some \u201cwack shit\u201d unless people are rapping about it, similar to Feste\u2019s omniscience throughout the play and his twisting various situations into humor.<\/p>\n<p>7. Heavy by Linkin Park represents Feste\u2019s role as a fool because of Feste\u2019s unique role in the play of being a Fool. As a Fool, Feste\u2019s entire role is to amuse his masters with his wit and humor; moreover, he is granted freedoms and privileges that others aren\u2019t. Yet, he is constrained in many aspects: for instance, while he is able to get close to almost all of the characters, he is subservient to people of higher status like Olivia, and above servants like Malvolio. It\u2019s even implied that Feste leaves and comes back at the beginning of the play because he needed a break from his liminal role, directly expressed by the verse \u201cI keep dragging around what\u2019s bringing me down, if I\u2019d just let go I\u2019d be set free.\u201d Feste \u201cdragging around\u201d his state of liminality turns him into a bitter person, as shown by his mannerisms and even Shakespeare\u2019s decision to have Feste alone at the end of the play.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. 911\/Mr. Lonely, a two part song by Tyler, captures the loneliness and the fabricated relationships that Feste experiences through the play. 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