Comments on: “goth on the inside” http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/07/goth-on-the-inside/ ...reverberating Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:14:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Emily http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/07/goth-on-the-inside/#comment-12240 Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:54:12 +0000 http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/07/goth-on-the-inside/#comment-12240 Nader, I just think subculture is a fun thing to be part of. It doesn't form my real identity/"true" sense of who I am...cliques are just a fun and very human way to share and belong.. Nader, I just think subculture is a fun thing to be part of. It doesn’t form my real identity/”true” sense of who I am…cliques are just a fun and very human way to share and belong..

]]> by: Smerp! http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/07/goth-on-the-inside/#comment-12239 Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:25:12 +0000 http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/07/goth-on-the-inside/#comment-12239 As an aside: I am goth on the inside. But, I've always wanted to screenprint a black tee shirt with white letters, simply stating: "MORE FUCKING GOTH THAN THOU." Once created, I'd wear it to a goth night out. Black pants, black shoes. No makeup. No other outward gothyness. Sure, people would be offended (or make fun of me) but the thing about getting older is (a) they have no idea, (b) I'm getting older, so I care less and (c) really, they have no idea. (As for Evanescence: well, hey, I like them OK. But, it's more overwrought *angst* than *goth*. Better to pull out _Faith_ by the Cure to get the true sense of it.) As an aside:

I am goth on the inside. But, I’ve always wanted to screenprint a black tee shirt with white letters, simply stating:

“MORE FUCKING GOTH THAN THOU.”

Once created, I’d wear it to a goth night out. Black pants, black shoes. No makeup. No other outward gothyness.

Sure, people would be offended (or make fun of me) but the thing about getting older is (a) they have no idea, (b) I’m getting older, so I care less and (c) really, they have no idea.

(As for Evanescence: well, hey, I like them OK. But, it’s more overwrought *angst* than *goth*. Better to pull out _Faith_ by the Cure to get the true sense of it.)

]]> by: nader http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/07/goth-on-the-inside/#comment-12238 Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:28:11 +0000 http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/07/goth-on-the-inside/#comment-12238 Interesting to think about what happens when a subculture gets subsumed by the mainstream. When I was in high school I liked whatever music I enjoyed, which often was considered at the time modern rock prog rock, but later was subsumed in the uber-genre 'alternative'. When all of a sudden 'alternative' became 'pop' it didn't change what I liked at all. I never identified myself, or my tastes with any particular sub-culture per se, so I never felt what so many of my peers did when nin got MTV play. The masses are fickle, sooner or later almost anything can be absorbed into the mainstream, so why let that alter what you're about? It's that strange urge to be different and a non-conformist that I think, in the end, creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you define yourself by not being like others, then you are allowing their very interests to dictate how you define yourself - is that so different than the mtv weaned masses? Interesting to think about what happens when a subculture gets subsumed by the mainstream. When I was in high school I liked whatever music I enjoyed, which often was considered at the time modern rock prog rock, but later was subsumed in the uber-genre ‘alternative’.

When all of a sudden ‘alternative’ became ‘pop’ it didn’t change what I liked at all. I never identified myself, or my tastes with any particular sub-culture per se, so I never felt what so many of my peers did when nin got MTV play. The masses are fickle, sooner or later almost anything can be absorbed into the mainstream, so why let that alter what you’re about?

It’s that strange urge to be different and a non-conformist that I think, in the end, creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you define yourself by not being like others, then you are allowing their very interests to dictate how you define yourself - is that so different than the mtv weaned masses?

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