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steampoweredstrawberry · 10 months

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Was talking to someone about the genres of first and second-wave goth songs, and these are the genres I decided are most prevalent:

Songs about Dracula*

*Does not actually have to be about Dracula.

These are songs about some pre-existing gothic and/or horror media. See: Bela Lugosi is Dead by Bauhaus. Can be combined with other genres to be used as metaphor. Can also just be about the thing. You do you my spooky liege.

Songs about Monsters

It's exactly the same as Songs about Dracula except this time it's a legally distinct monster, babey!

Songs about Being Sad

The parent to the Emo "I Have Mental Illness" song. Usually flowery language to talk about one's struggles with depression (or other mental illness). Popularly combined with Songs about Dracula.

Songs about Hot Goth Girl

A cousin to the hair metal "Smoking Hot Chick I want to do Sex Things with" song. Hot Goth Girl is a Queen of the Eternal Darkness and she demands reverence and respect out of her songs. Goth Man will tell us how she is the Queen of the Eternal Darkness and how he follows her into damnation in flowery language. And also how he wants to do Sex Things with her.

Breakup with Hot Goth Girl

This is the Queen of Eternal Darkness in her villain era. Also sometimes Goth Man telling us he's low key curious about BDSM.

BDSM Song

This is the song where Goth Man tells us he's really into subbing for Hot Goth Girl. That's pretty much it. Works well with Breakup with Hot Goth Girl

Dealer's Choice

This is whatever you want. Want to talk to me about a train for seven minutes? Go for it. You have a dream about traveling through space and getting to see different planets? Awesome. You got some Bronte Sister fanfiction? Love to see it.

#other notable inclusions that I couldn’t fit into categories because it's less about what the song is about and more what it's made up of #but this is the era of the swirly Robert Smith guitar #not everyone was doing Swirly Robert Smith guitar but it became such a mainstay of the goth family tree that I've heard modern bands do it #It was also the Fat Bassline era #which I can't 100% say is Patricia Morrison's doing because I wasn't there #but I can say that Sisters of Mercy were better when she was on her Fat Bassline grind #Also notably there is Holy Choir in a lot of songs of this era and onward #not everyone was doing it but enough were #this post was brought to you by I was infodumping on someone about Nosferatu #and how you predictably get Hot Goth Girl and I'm Sad and Dracula songs out of them #and then there's a song about an epic space adventure to saturn and it's just one guy having his best day ever seeing planets and shit

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