A person belonging to the gothic subculture.
Generally, goths value their own image or making a certain statement over being a productive member of society. Unable to see past their desire to reject a follow-the-heard-mentality, they will often dress in a way that may prevent them from landing job interviews, or being invited to certain social gatherings which may prove to be real door openers in terms of making a productive life for themselves.
Many, but not all goths will ironically speak poorly of those who conform to societal demands, while simultaneously conforming to the subculture of their choice.
Many goths lack any sort of fashion sense, in the traditional form. This is noted by the clothes they wear, often featuring the neutral color black, which can be easy to work into any outfit without running into different colors and their inability to match.
Due to the same logic that drives them to dress in a way which denies them a life of money and professionalism, goths can sometimes be found getting tattoos which may be hard to cover up.
Goths are generally teenagers and young adults who don't quite understand the way the world works, in terms of the economy, personal wealth and social hierarchies and how they influence one another. They often feel they have all the answers to life (see "Irremovable tattoos preventing future success").
Grandma: "How is Gina doing?"
Mother: "Not very good. She's made the decision to not follow the herd and to let it be known. I get that living outside of societal norms can be a very rewarding experience for certain people, but she's young, she might change her mind in the future. Despite that, she's making decisions now that may close doors later on in life."
Grandma: "You mean like a goth?"
Mother: "Yes, like a goth."
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A vampiric term for some one who rejects commercialism. They are neither christian nor satanic. They crave power and are powerful, egoistic, usually quiet. They don't show off. They are susceptible to getting angry at fads and don't agree with marketed membership.
He doesn't watch TV he might be GOTH.
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the original goths of the 1700's took their look out of gothic novels, which focused on the darker side of human nature and were heavily infused with romance. femme fatales and vampires are the grandparents of modern goth. dark eyes, lips and hair are mixed with dark, usually black clothing, and plenty of romantic floaty, ruffly skirts and sleeves. today's goth is purely fake and way too focused on death.
real goths wear all black and maybe some deep red
they are not obsessed with death and suicide
they see the real flaws in life
they are big romatics
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A type of architecture,
A type of calligraphy,
Also some blokes that invaded Rome.
So to all the little ppl that think your "Goth" please grow up, you obviously dont know shit.
Goth is not you, or your little friends, or anyone else you know.
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It's not about the just clothing.
It's also not just about the music.
Non-Goth: You listen to Bullet For My Valentine. How can you be goth?
Goth: Simple. It's not about the just clothing or the music.
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Many definitions have been given that are accurate, but the meaning of the word 'Goth' is changing. For example in relation to 'Gothic' music, a lot of metal bands are now surfacing that are gothic-fusion or gothic inspired, and conform to some stereotypes of goth, but also do many different things in regards to sound or appearance.
Draconian is a gothic-doom metal band. They sound slow, and their riffs and soud is very dissonant and sorrowful.
Trail of tears is an operatic-gothic metal band, that are similar to bands like Nightwish, except they make use of Blast beats and screaming male vocals. Also the sorrowful riffs become present.
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Conforming to non-conformism...
Yeah, sure.
Despite what may have been said about goths, they do not "conform to the non-conformist" lifestyle. Those people are the preps, townies, emos, and the like. These people (the conformists) take the original nature of gothic culture and package it into things like metallica who, despite what some fans might like to believe, were sellouts from the very beginning; taking dirty, hard, and soulful music and predigesting it for consumption by the masses.
The pseudo-noir culture, based off gothic culture, is lecherous and destructive to the goth image; trying to scare people by combining cultism, mob tactics, goth, and emo lifestyles into one big fake dark smudge.
The darkly dressed man sitting in the corner and drawing, reading, or wrapped up in deep thought is probably a goth.
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