Tokyo Dark Castle Event

[Anonymous]

That's what Haruhiko says too... lol

I'm not good at describing music styles so I can only point at bands. However, in this case especially, goth is very diverse, and you can't really pinpoint the sound (some people try to say this is goth and this isn't, but really, it's all a matter of interpretation).

Just take the classics: Christian Death, The Sisters of Mercy, The Fields of the Nephilim, The Cure, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Siouxsie... they are really nothing alike. The only thing they have in common is that they have dark lyrics (but not in the sense of how Mana's lyrics are dark) and an overall gloomy sound. And of course, there's the image.

Moi dix Mois' Perish is their only song close to old school goth. Lucifer Luscious Violenue is very similar to The Cure's and Cocteau Twins' sound. Velvet Eden is also extremely trad goth sounding (especially Dada's vocals). But then again you have things like Dead Can Dance or Tindersticks or Nick Cave or a ton of other bands that are just completely different and yet have something in common that puts them under the 'goth' label... Kind of like how not all VK bands sound alike but they're all VK and when you see VK you know it. Make sense?

 

[faith]

But VK's VK because of the way they look and their audience orientation...so is goth an aesthetic genre too?

 

[Emirufish]

And um...what did Hachiya say, exactly. I was kinda the only foreign people there who spoke Japanese, so it was maybe true? Well, anyway, I probably did confuse him. I'm sorry...

He said "I think I met Candy at Dark Castle." Candy being a girl who kinda sorta not really looks like you who we've both breifly met before. And then he said "She said that you[me] showed her purikura of me and that's how she knew who I was." However, the confusing thing is that Candy wouldn't need to see purikura to recognise Hachiya since we've all met in person so it was probably like "WTF" since he thought you were her... ><;; Don't worry though! I've un-confused him...I think!

 

[Anonymous]

But VK's VK because of the way they look and their audience orientation...so is goth an aesthetic genre too?

No, I wouldn't say that at all (though the aesthetics would be important to a goth by default... cause that's how they are). There's plenty of bands called goth who wear jeans and t-shirts (and many who 'dress goth' but you would not call goth)*. It's more to do with the mentality. There's definitely something there that goes past aesthetics and music. It's because of this that the music sounds this way and the aesthetics are how they are rather than the other way around. But overall defining goth is a headache if you ask me and a bit pointless... If you just want to know what it sounds like, take some of the classics and have a listen and you might begin to recognise it from there.


*although, of course, then you get the people who say if you don't dress it you are not it -___-... I don't think any two goths have ever agreed on what goth is