Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Goth

You don't see too many goths around today. They generally still hang around in groups as they are outcasts. They try to be different by dressing in black and wearing huge ugly black shows but in reality because they hang around together they all look the same so they are not being different at all.
I would say goths and emo's are sort of merging at present. Theres more mixtures of emo/goth/grunge.

-The date of origin is usually placed in 1979 when Bauhaus released the song "Bela Lugosi's Dead." The band originally intended the song to be tongue-in-cheek; however, many young fans latched onto this mysterious, eerie sound as inspiration for the budding gothic subculture. The first generation of the gothic movement emerged mostly in the UK in the late seventies and early eighties as a splinter from the punk movement. Punk music was breathing its last breath as this gloomy, introspective mutation gained momentum. Bands like The Damned, Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees characterize the first generation. These bands were called Gothic later on, but most did not consider themselves Gothic at the time. There is a great deal of uncertainty about who coined the term "gothic" and how it got attached to this dark music. The British music press seems to be most responsible for making the label stick.

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