The sinister clown is a timeless trope of cinema and pulp horror and real life - from David Lynch to Rob Zombie, Álex de la Iglesia to Bobcat Goldthwait, and Stephen King to John Wayne Gacy. Taking the ever-loving piss out of all of this comes Brady Dowad and Steve M. Robertson with their short film hybrid music video, Clown Song, which manages to encapsulate twenty-something aimlessness, buried childhood memories, the circle of life, rage, revenge, purgatorial comeuppance, the consequences of becoming what you hate, and of course, the deep philosophy of the clown. With a catchy post-punk nasal power-ballad, seemingly plucked right out of 1999 (think Blink-182’s What’s My Age Again?) they sugar coat, or rather, add sprinkles to, a profoundly uncomfortable situation, reframing...
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