Teen Gothic

i understand that they aren’t too popular but they definitely deserve more recognition, they some of my favourite deathrock songs ever made and i’ve just never seen any discussion about them past a singular reddit comment where someone recommended them to a deadchovsky fan

Question is in the title. Synthpop and other adjacent genres are fine with me 🙂

Im not sure if this is the right subreddit for this but my dad got me a siouxsie and the banshees shirt for my birthday and it has siouxsie sioux in the middle with the star of david. Im not jewish and i am not educated on any of this but i am worried its distasteful or something for me to wear it considering im not jewish. I want to make sure before i wear it.

Are there some songs about missing your loved one? Exept Lovesong by the cure, I know the cure. I mean more underground stuff

My fav songs are Attica, Malarone and decoherence.

First and Last and Always has to be one of my favorite albums out there, but I always wondered about the symbol in the middle. Does it have a meaning or origin, or does it just exist for the sake of filling in space?

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I'll start this this off as this is a bit of a rant, I was just scrolling through instagram reels and that tiktok artist TX2 came up where he's fetishizing goth women. Naturally like the other people in the comments I also comment about not wanting to be fetishized for being goth and liking goth music. You wouldn't fetishize a woman for liking pop music.

Naturally this did upset people who fetishize goth women and during the argument I kept saying "I just don't wanna be fetishized for liking a genre of music." One of the men who was very defensive told me "You know it has nothing to do with the music." Along with "There is a fashion aspect to goth culture." Now I'm a firm believer that you don't have to dress gothic to be goth. This can be due to environment reasons, stimulation reasons, truly whatever reasons people have for just nothing being able to or wanting to dress gothic. I think as long as you listen to the music and respect the community and it's history then you yourself are goth. I think the fashion aspect is the least important to being goth. It's one of the fun parts for me as I feel good whenever I dress up even though I'm one of the people who gets over stimulated quickly I do love the look, but I only dress that way like 10% of the time.

It feels very frustrating when a non goth person who simply finds goths attractive and fetishizes them tries to tell me what is and isn't goth and then say that I'm disrespecting goths by….not wanting them to be fetishized and recognized as people who deserve to be respected?? I just wanted to kinda get that off my chest about how sometimes it just feels frustrating being goth in a world that treats goth women as an accessory. But I personally feel those same people would 100% call trad goths unattractive cause I've seen that happen online before where it's I want a goth girl but not to goth. Sorry if this rant was long and pointless just frustrating from the lack of people that actually care or know about the goth culture but try to speak on it.

 So my hometown (Athens) is home to the lead singer of Vision video, aka Goth dad on TikTok, or just Dusty Gannon. Athens’ local newspaper is called Flagpole, and each year they do a thing called “Flagpole Favorites” where people vote for their favorite business via Flagpole (ex: best Italian restaurant of the year). If a business wins they get the title of Flagpole’s favorite restaurant/business of some sort. They also get a plaque to hang in said business. Last year, in 2022, Dusty Gannon was sorta the face of that years Flagpole Favorites. The photo i attached shows the ad for Flagpole Favorites from last year. My Parents own a business and they got a Flagpole Favorite Runner up. So in their window hangs a picture of Goth dad drinking Boba!