Teen Gothic

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Has anyone had experience in the goth scenes on both sides of the Atlantic? I'm curious to hear how they differ – or if they don't. My theory is that the internet has made them more similar, but that they had more divergence before the internet made it easier to bridge the ocean gap.

I'd also be curious to hear perspectives from other parts of the world. I guess I find it interesting hearing how a subculture can develop differently through geography and wider culture.

I used to sort all my music by genre on Spotify, but ever since I got into goth music, my singular “goth” playlist has ballooned into hundreds of songs without much organization.

So my question is, do you organize your goth playlists by bands? Albums? Subgenre? What your favorite goth songs are at the moment vs what is overplayed that you can’t bear to delete off?

I recently found out that I love goth music. I mostly listen to Corpus delicti, twin tribes, Bragolin, Linea Aspera, Bauhaus.

I had a tendency to dress in black clothes (I know that dressing in black does not makes an outfit gothic) since I was a child.

I do not feel like I should label myself as goth. I am sayingthis bc there is an high probability that after a few months of listening constantly to goth music I will be tired of this tyle of music and I do not want to consider myself goth and then after half an year I won't even listen to this genre.

It happened to me that I listened to a genre for a few months like a crazy amount of time and then, on one day I just stopped listeningto that type of music.

And for some reason I feel unease when I see these gothic outfits that a lot of goth people wear.

So is it ok to just listen to this type of music whitout labeling myself as goth ? And maybe incorporating some ideas from goth outfits into my own style ?

For some reason people around my age ( 19-20 yo ) either call others posers if people just want to listen to goth music whitout other implications posers, or they just sexualize this subculture.

Am I a poser if I listen to goth music without labeling myself as goth ?