Teen Gothic

Hey there I was wondering if anyone was around the eastern side of the state. I know typically things are bustling out west. I was wondering about the top corner where CT / RI / MA

If anyone was into the scene or into making music of the genre / neighboring genre that'd be cool.

I'm just generally looking for friends and people to talk to in the scene, since I've been talking to maybe limited people the past couple of years and friends are in short supply.

As I just said in a comment:

Gotta laugh at this ridiculous quote, though:

Also, these things go in cycles, but it's noticeable that we're getting a lot of respect and love from, particularly, the metal community at the moment, so our currency is strong. It seems to be cool to like The Sisters at the moment.

Metal. Because TSoM is a renowned metal band. He's how old, and he still has a grudge against the goth subculture? I wonder why he's butthurt. Did a gorgeous goth lady piss in his cereal the morning after a one-night stand? I'm amused and annoyed. Show your fans some goddamned appreciation, because without us, you're nobody.

Any thoughts? I'm a Sisters fan, but his stubborn pettiness knocks his respectability down several notches.

Oh the drama was real. Especially in the southwest states and Latin America.

I remember the emo kids getting their asses kicked by the metalheads on the daily, especially at concerts, where there was an emo/screamo band and metal band playing.

I recently watched that episode of South Park where the goth kids are frustrated at being mistaken for emos..

Like we were arch enemies or something.

I think they got it wrong there. I always thought emos and goths kinda lived in the same social bubble.

The emos ensured a huge backlash though that I don’t ever remember going through in the goth scene.

In Latin America, emos were literally being murdered in the streets. And in most of the southern, southwest states in the US, emos were scene as pussies and… damn it was like what’s going on these days with the trans backlash almost. Not nearly as publicized though.

Ramble over.

I hope this doesn’t count as inflammatory, I just genuinely need advice. I have a small friend group that I’ve developed this year. We kind of connected because we all dress edgy. My issues started at the beginning of the year when one of said friends would constantly refer to the both of us as “big tiddy goth girls”. At first I thought she was a goth and just wasn’t icked out by that phrase like me. I gently asked her about her music taste and it is pretty much exclusively like house rave wave and rap. I have no problem with either of those genres, and I’ll enjoy a song or two from time to time, but it did bug me her using the label without knowing the history or meaning of it. Especially because you could just google “Goth” and it would tell you it was a music based subculture. She is my friend so I didn’t bring it up but it erred me. The rest of the group(except one girl who listens to goth music but doesn’t dress the part or consider it her scene) says similar things, about us being “bad goth bitches” and when they’ll dress up they’ll be like, “I look so goth right now”. We were at a bar and I outright said, “sometimes the way you use the word goth confuses me” after some other “goth baddy” comment, and they got very mad at me. They said that, “the normies are going to call us goth so that is what we are! It’s basically just an umbrella term for edgy” to which I said, “it’s a music based subculture. Someone in jeans and a polo listening to goth music, is more goth than someone dressed in a trad goth uniform who doesn’t listen to the music.” One of them said, “well I’m going to call myself goth”. That was the end of the conversation but it keeps bugging me. It’s not that I care about keeping them out of the subculture, the more the merrier because more goth music enjoyers means more albums, shows, and bands for our community. It’s just that I feel like just using goth to mean “edgy” waters down the actual meaning and misses the point of the subculture

I'd like to ask you – is Molchat Doma considered a goth band? I'm a babybat myself so I don't feel like I can fully judge yet. I'm still curious though.

Hope this question is allowed to ask, please let me know. I'm wondering if there is a subreddit or even another website or platform similar to this one to talk all things goth but a bit more casual and less needing to talk about ONLY goth stuff if makes sense? Like we can chat about our days and lives and interests we have that arent necessarily goth but it is still a community for goths, and still a place to share goth music and fashion and stuff. I'd love a place like that if anybody could recommend one

What I mean by this question is. I noticed a lot of Goths and Punks I have known for a while have a love for things like Jazz and Blues music from let's say for example 20s-60s. Posters of Jazz Singers. Black and White Movies. Just retro and oldies stuff in general. I mean I like older things as well (Mainly from the 80s-2000s) But what do you all think? Why is this such a thing within these communities?

Hi I live in the San Gabriel Valley area of SoCal and I cannot seem to find a decent music store that sells Goth music. I've been to Amazon, and while there's a few good ones here and there, it's kind of limited and I'm looking for more.

Ay recommendations? Tips?