Harry Styles' rainbow, sequinned, harlequin-style jumpsuit at the Grammys is part of a much bigger clowncore moment in pop. Here's why stars from Future to Dua Lipa to Doja Cat to Playboi Carti have been clowning it up lately 🤡
Proto-clown stage makeup in rock goes back to the late 1960s and early 1970s, when artists like Arthur Brown and Alice Cooper found that a little greasepaint went a long way. What’s new is the utilization of clown-inspired looks from so many musicians, across genres, simultaneously. The author, academic, and former circus clown David Carlyon describes musicians’ use of clown makeup as a tool for transgression.
Still, the presence of all these clowns in the musical zeitgeist cannot be explained by algorithmic attention-seeking alone. In the same era that led to widespread romantic notions of “villain eras” and “goblin modes,” the popularity of clowns in music may be an extension of our decision to embrace depravity. Feeling like a fool in love is a tale as old as time, but a global pandemic, war, economic disaster, and a climate catastrophe have made clowns out of all of us.
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