Teen Gothic

Moonspell will go goth now?

To clarify, I think this footage was recorded when the band played in what is normally the EBM/industrial room of Sanctuary, which is why there are so many cybergoths.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N1nLJJHoDik&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD

I'm very familiar with 80s goth music but more mixed/current versions of goth music confuse the crap out of me lol. So I'm curious what Goths feel about this video.

I remember a music video sometime in the 2010s, possibly even a little before that. It featured a female lead singer, and three male musicians. It was more low-key, gothic, and ethereal, shot in the snow, with everyone wearing black. I don't remember if it was actually filmed outside or in a studio. The main thing I remember about it is how intense the keyboardist was compared to how laid-back everyone else was.

I can't remember the name of the band, or anything else, but I think the girl was wearing a faux fur coat and matching hat.

If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please let me know! Google and Youtube are not helpful.

Thanks!

Edit: It isn't The Cure or anybwell-known band, I don't think. I could be wrong.

New release from this London based band. They only have 3 songs at the moment but they all have been hits for me!

Take this down if it doesn’t fit.

But what I found the most interesting was how many people with this Facebook group, utterly detest goth music to such a degree. They hate it. Hate its founders. And can’t understand why anyone would listen or form a community around it.

However, they are the type of people who will say that to be goth is not to listen to the music. They all say that it is a mindset, a style, an aesthetic, a historical group, spooky, scary, all of that, but refuse to ever say that the music means anything, and that’s why rhetoric which dismisses goth music as the key to the goth subculture is so harmful.

Goth music is quite literally the one thing which keeps these assholes out on the sidelines because they hate it, aesthetics and fashion does not! Nazi’s and conservatives are like those parasites which infect weak insects, control their bodies and lead them to their colony to continue the infection. The swatskia, totenkoph, skinheads, are just a few examples of Nazi’s co-opting and taking ahold of aesthetics to force their ideology.

They will use aesthetics to draw in the masses under a guise of the dark innocence and the they use it as a way to promote their ideology. Regardless of how you feel about goth and it’s relation to music, I think it’s quite obvious how decentralizing the music to replace it with a “mindset” or those who “feel goth”, just leaves more room for those who “feel goth”, but are also bigots. That’s what I gathered.

I read someone’s comment, and please take credit for it, but they said it isn’t gatekeeping we need, it’s standards and I must agree. That community hates goth and all it stands for, no room for them at all!

Tell me what you think!

Is it just me, or is this track fire?