Teen Gothic

Good day all. I have been struggling to find a way to break the goth scene. I've been posting snippets and people enjoy my music. But my page listeners and streams stay the same. I've only released one song which could be the problem but I've got a bunch more work on the way that I've teased. Any advice?

Without trying to fellate them too much, First and Last and Always was my goth gateway and I still feel like it's in my top 5 of all time of any genre of music. Marian alone kinda left the rest of the goth rock genre falling short of what I'm looking to find in it. The atmosphere of this album is so damn good. It's just the right amount of gloom and catchiness.

All this being said, why is it that every time I find a SOM clone it feels so shallow or they just poorly imitate Eldritch? Even though I've found an appreciation for them, I remember finding Merciful Nuns a few years ago and being severally disappointed just because I went in expecting FaLaA.

Have y'all ever found a clone that was worth checking out? Maybe my head is too far up this band's ass that my expectations cannot be met

This song is everything I love about goth music

It’s like they only care about how you two would look as a couple, which really doesn’t matter. I’ve been running into this with both men and women. I’m a trans guy, but a lot of girls only want to be with me because they dress in pink and are very girly, and they’re like “we’d look so different and cute omg!” and the men are honestly the same.

None of these people are even into the music, they just like the aesthetic of having a partner who’s goth because it makes them look “cooler”, or something? I think it falls into the same vein of those guys who only want goth girls for fetish purposes.

I personally turn these people down, some of them are way more persistent than i like them to be though. I’m gay, but the women who like me are always SUPER persistent about it, even after i make it clear i’m not interested. I feel like many of us would like partners who are into the same music and have the same interests, (which many non-goth people would also like as well). People still tend to forget we’re real people and not like a lion in a cage for everyone to gawk at.

I do think this is pretty common, i just wanted to have a discussion about it, see if this is common with everyone else from different places.