Teen Gothic

Been SO long since I got a chance to bust out the dreadfalls!

just wanted to see if anyone else noticed this
feel free to correct me if im wrong throughout this post cuz I'm a baby bat lawl (also this isn't me calling anyone a poseur, its simply an observation!) also I've included links for examples of what I am talking about.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but modern "trad" goths that u see on social media are really actually dressed more like goths from the late 90's to early 00's. If you look up trad goth on tiktok and pinterest u see people in all black makeup and all black clothes that u would find in an early 2000s lip service mag. I don't hate this look at all, I love it actually! Though, I wonder where all the 80's magic of tradgoth disappeared for people. Maybe an elder goth can back me up on this but when I look at pictures of goths in the 80's they typically had a lot more color in their makeup, hair, and clothes than you would see if you looked up pictures of modern tradgoths. There's also a lot of sweaters, huge belts, huge earrings, and things that typically gear toward more general 80's fashion. Maybe I'm wrong and tradgoths did dress like that (because I'm a teenager so I was nowhere near the original scene haha), but this is my observation. And before anyone says "who cares", I'm not pressed or upset about it lol

My friends are putting on a goth night and want me to DJ it.

I'm really well-versed in darkwave, post-punk, gothic rock, and pretty much goth-adjacent genre you could think of, but I haven't attended that many goth night events and I haven't been submerged in the subculture itself for years.

I want to play a mix of traditional stuff with some coldwave and EBM thrown in (my mix so far has everything from Strawberry Switchblade and The Cure to Boy Harsher and Traitrs), but I also want to make sure I don't play anything tired or passe.

Just for context, I live in a mid-sized city and these events my friends have been putting on are the only thing of this nature we have out here but lots of people have been attending so we're expecting the bar and patio to be full.

Looking for general advice, whether it be songs I have to play/should avoid playing or just general goth night etiquette. If anyone wants to see the playlist I'll be pulling songs from, I can DM a link as well.

Any advice is appreciated, thanks!