Taiwanese singer gets a gimmick or five…

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Iain Mew: A circus, with the blur of fast-moving acrobats, some synth-knife throwing, trapezing melodic shifts and yes, a clown in the directly big top-quoting music. Will Pan ends up as the ringmaster with style, but not the power to take command when someone decides to send all the circus acts on at once.
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David Sheffieck: Smashing together the most obvious musical cues from James Bond and travelling carnivals: unsurprisingly messy, yet surprisingly enjoyable.
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Alfred Soto: A strong No Strings Attached-era ‘N Sync influence: dig those circus keyboards and synth pops and whistles, dig the frenetic display of enthusiasm. Not much going on vocally though.
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Patrick St. Michel: Although nothing on “Clown” is nearly as interesting as knowing Will Pan bought Jay-Z’s shares of the Brooklyn Nets, it is a surprisingly buzzy track with some charming details that help it rise above pure buzzsaw, like that Barnum & Bailey piano line that zips by all goofy-like. It’s also at least a minute too long, and it lacks enough pratfalls to justify that runtime. 
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Anthony Easton: An R&B-cribbing single with perfect drum rolls, sad robot breakdowns and calliope music — but not too much calliope, because that just gets into horror territory. 
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Brad Shoup: Synthwubs like flattened farts, the execrable “Entrance of the Gladiators”: someone learned all the wrong lessons from “Toxic”. 
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Katherine St Asaph: Veers [________] close to the Austin Powers theme sung by 2001 Britney Spears. The blank does not stand for “dangerously.”
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Scott Mildenhall: Judging by the translation there’s a lot to parse here, as if the video wasn’t enough! “Clown” sounds like it should be accompanied by Pan dancing through a variety of scenes, stooping to the camera as he fingerclicks and ignores the massed detractors his lyrics taunt. In lieu of that, it’s good that it’s got visuals a song that at once sounds like “Gopher Mambo” and “The Rhythm Of Life” deserves.
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Crystal Leww: Critics are tracing this silliness back to G-Dragon, but in terms of Chinese-singing predecessors, the hip-hop cribbing might owe more to Jay Chou. Will Pan will never outgrow the sweetness of “Bu De Bu Ai” because, well, why should he? It’s a good look for him. This is ridiculous.
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