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Originally Posted by LadyMarshmallow
Goths are fans of Goth Rock. People who enjoy listening to Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Angels of Liberty. People who like Goth music. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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That is all there is to it, literally? You just happen to enjoy some tunes by a couple of different bands?
Then why, pray tell,do you make such a big, whiny fuss about it? My niece enjoys
Itsy Bitsy Spider, but she doesn't declare to the world that she
is a spider.
She hasn't cobbled together an entire so-called subculture requiring special clothes and all sorts of made up words to designate some picayune difference between one group of people listening to music that sounds suspiciously like the music preferred by some other group of people wearing nearly identical clothes.
How desperate are you to fashion some sense of identity? Do you feel so alienated from the mainstream world because you know that you have nothing to offer it? Is that why you let a
band become the locus of your personality?
Perhaps I should gather a few like-minded individuals into forming a sub-culture based on the music of John Philip Sousa. We could define ourselves by his songs and wear clothes appropriate to his tunes. We could call ourselves Sousas and we would look very, very silly.
Very.
Sousically Yours,
Handmaiden