Teen Gothic

For me, most of the goth bands / artists I listen to come from, in order from most to least:

1. UK
2. Germany
3. Japan
4. United States
5. Spain

OK I won't lie, I had no idea this was a music based culture till 2 months ago, but now that I'm listening to the music, now I'm noticing when I dress up (even in highschool) people would call me goth, what if I dressed like this and never listened to the music like I did in high-school, would that be an insult to the goth culture, do u think there should be an education system of goth culture vs stereotyping cuse u wear all black and spiked collars?

Maybe it's a stupid question but I had a sudden realization this morning…was it a term first used to describe Christian Death that just stuck around? I know they were some of the first to make this music and are considered the godfathers of DR. Maybe it's obvious and I'm just dense.

(I hope this doesn't go against the rules, if it does please let me know and I'll delete it right away. Or if anyone knows the right place to ask this also let me know.)

Ive been getting into goth music recently, but im not here to just vaguely ask 'beginner recs' I want to ask if any of you can reccomend me either artists or songs that, kinda are like First last and Always (especially black planet) by the Sisters, or Psychocult by The Merry thoughts. (Think low violet or the song by the same name as the album) I found those on a comment section in this subreddit and ive tried looking on my own but im not good at searching lol. Thank you everyone so very much for your valuable time!