Teen Gothic

Also featuring Robert Smith of The Cure on guitars!

This is very specific, but – did anyone else get into Antonin Artaud because of Bauhaus? That's always been one of my top favorite Bauhaus songs, and in high school I got curious about who this Artaud guy was anyway, so I found a copy of The Theater and its Double and fell in love and read everything of his I could get my hands on. His sense of an excruciatingly intense world was exactly in line with where I was at (and one of those things I had a light bulb "always has been" moment about after getting diagnosed with autism in middle age – well of course everything feels like barbed wire!). Anyway, thank you Bauhaus for pointing me toward a writer I never would have heard of otherwise back then (pre internet normie suburban wasteland).

This is probably one of my favorite songs of all time. What’s your interpretation of it, though? Mine has been about a beautiful woman who lives for the glitz and glam, she enjoys the finer things in life. But, “ in the can”, so she must be rotting herself away. Living thin fast life and doing what needs to be done to please others, while deteriorating.

What do you think? Curious to hear others thoughts.

I was thinking about shows or movies that has goths as characters. And maybe it's just me but I really watch something like that. What are your thoughts about that, would you like to watch goths on movies or you think it's just cringe, and not feeling comfortable with that?

a charcoal drawing i did of the lady from selofan. i love their music so much. swipe for art vs artist.

I'm Indian. Have been in love with the subculture for years, been religiously listening to the music for as long as I can remember. But, in my vicinity, I absolutely don't know anyone with the same music taste T__T I listen to tons of other genres so I have friends with whom I can make conversations about music but, almost no goths, at least not that I know of. It sometimes gets very lonely since there's no presence of any community here. Irony is that the metropolitan cities in India have underground scenes for metal, hip-hop and other genres but, it's difficult to find people who actually listen to goth. Kolkata, the city I'm from, is internationally known for some of the most brutal underground death metal/black metal projects and those scenes here are thriving. But, absolutely nothing for goth. I see people posting about going to goth clubs and all that, and I wish I could experience that once. Some day, maybe!

Plus, dressing up gothic here is such a chore. I want to explore the fashion aspects of the subculture but, the constant fetishization has led me to stop dressing up like that completely. All I get is thirsty remarks from creepy men or get stared at publicly. The humid weather here isn't really conducive either. Are there any fellow Indian goths here?