Teen Gothic

Hi lol. This is just a random post but I find this to be kind of funny.

I love gothic things soo much. Literature, art, music fashion, architecture, are just a few things that I like. I love to paint gothic things. I painted a portrait of Siouxsie Sioux using water colors. And last year when I graduated middle school, my dad bought me tickets for him and I to go see The Cure. It was so much fun! For my birthday he also bought me their greatest hits album on vinyl. But something interesting is that I don’t really dress gothic. Occasionally, I will. But for the most part I don’t. I don’t think even some of my friends know that I listen to goth music 😂. I just find it funny

So this is something I’ve been perplexed about for awhile, so Ik the subculture was founded on music and that, but I feel like there’s not much emphasis on gothic literature all that much, at least not anymore.

My uncle said literature was just as important as the music in the 90’s, but it feels like we’ve all kind of forgotten about it these days. I mean, I got into the subculture from gothic literature, and it’s been around for WAY longer than the music, so why don’t we ever talk about it?

Surely being goth has SOMETHING to do do with influence of gothic horror stories? Listening to the music is fine, but it’s literally the bare minimum of how to be goth, and of this rich subculture full of mixes and mingling of so many different influences (seeing as how the music is so widespread in genres) and doesn’t the literature capture that too?

just a random pic a friend took of me on a random winter night

Please list the most obscure or underground gothic rock band you know of (whether you enjoy their music or not). Perhaps even suggest your own music if you have made some! 😄

I don’t know if anybody else does this, but sometimes when the usual gothic rock bands from the US and the UK isn’t doing it for me, I’ll look up gothic bands from other countries. Mexico, Japan, France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Germany to name a few. In fact I’m currently trying to familiarize myself with the gothic bands of Mexico. I love trying to find new bands and artists in the genre that I haven’t heard of.

Can I please get reccomendations for cheesy and dramatic gothic rock specifically? I know that's kinda specific but I really like cheesier music sort of like Nosferatu band. Not a diss btw.

like….not from hate to love or love to hate….both at the same time yk

I feel so proud to show my team's outfit's for our FIFTH FASHION SHOW in India, in a country with no goth scene IRL, it's so hard to be yourself and express yourself, but my aim with these shows is to atleast youngsters know Indian goth fashion exist and they can be Goth and Indian!

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I’ve always thought of U2 in the early 80s as a gothic band but for some reason whenever someone talks about gothic bands from that era, U2 is never mentioned. Yeah they became just a regular rock band after the 80s but back when they were starting they had lots of eerie, dark songs which to me, fitted in to what bands were classed as gothic back then (An Cat Dubh, 11 O’Clock Tick Tock, The Ocean, Another Time Another Place, Drowning Man etc.). I think it’s that people just know for the popular hits and don’t know about their early stuff. So what do you think?