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Originally posted by The Demeter
Now lets say that 10 years from now, Britiney Spears starts dressing grunge, still does the same crappy pop music, but dresses grunges and adopts the attitude. Would you say that A) The new "Grunge music" is a diluted, commercialized, pathetic attempt at a retro revival that is an insult to the actual roots of grunge, or B) A totally different, new, thing that borrowed a bit.
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i'd say C) she's trying to look grundge but she's still singing 'lowest common demominator pop'
i think that you can look a thing or you can be a thing ..
to look a thing, you just adapt the dress code.
to be a thing you embrace everything that goes with it .. music, clubs, attitude ..
whatever goth was - its a long time ago and it has become something completely different and identifiable by the music style, the fashion, the attitude ... the lifestyle.
the only real influence is all things dark and depressing.
You know you're a goth when :
1) you and your friends feel the need to dress up in your goth clothes and take pictures in the cemetary.
2) it's 99 degrees out and you're in 4 layers of black garments
3) you think it would be cool to be a vampire.
4) every night in your favorite club would be a halloween party anywhere else
5) you take photos of yourself made to look like you're dead in the bathtub
any combination of the above will qualify ..
seriously - there may have been another type of goth before - but this is undeniably what it has become now ..