Hee! Oh, yes. I used to keep in time with it; I'm old now, so I half-time it. That way I don't suffer tachycardia and DIE.

:: wanders off to Youtube, encounters This Corrosion for the first time::

You know, I'm actually starting to feel really quite wistful, between Jilli's book and the various tunes that are apparently goth anthems. There is an alternative universe where, aged seventeen, I didn't end up on a Rotary Exchange year on SaltSpring Island, BC, where the social groups were: Hippies, Stoners, Preppy kids, Drama kids. (Which, even then, was wildly different from the social groups at Hogwarts my all girl, hockey-playing, uniform-wearing British High School [I had my head in a book and was fairly oblivious, frankly, but in retrospect I think they'd boil down to: horse-riding girls, shagging-around-in-nightclub girls, and I definitely wasn't either of those, so I just stuck to reading my SFF and wishing shyly that there were some venue other than the privacy of my room in which my small collection of vaguely antiquated clothes and clunky, fantastical jewellery might be appropriate.)

In some Alternative Universe I ended up on a Rotary Exchange year somewhere with goth kids and realised that there WAS actually a group with an aesthetic I could really, really get behind. And the whole shape of my life would have been different.

I think it's a little late in the day to go adopting goth wholesale without it feeling false - I'm too much my own flavour at this point, and not prepared to give up the ruby slippers. (Although I think perhaps I need to investigate steampunk.)

...omg, though! As I typed this, my dream just broke - and I just realised that last night I had a dream about being decked out in something fabulous, and all black, complete with hat, and having an awesome blonde bob which was slightly incongruous, and dancing swoopily. Huh.

eyes subconscious thoughtfully.

ETA. Oops. Wrong thread.

The interesting thing about THIS CORROSION is that I know people who never in a million years would think of themselves as goth (not out of any animosity - they just aren't), but love the song and will dance to it as soon as it comes on.

The interesting thing about THIS CORROSION is that I know people who never in a million years would think of themselves as goth (not out of any animosity - they just aren't), but love the song and will dance to it as soon as it comes on.

I would submit that this is due to the intersection of early goth and the '80's. Radio in the '80's blurs a bunch of the boundaries.

(nods)

Many of my highschool classmates liked the video for "This Corrosion" because it was cool.

But none of them could remotely ever be called goth.

That's my lonely, thankless torch to carry. (handstapleforehead)

The interesting thing about THIS CORROSION is that I know people who never in a million years would think of themselves as goth (not out of any animosity - they just aren't), but love the song and will dance to it as soon as it comes on.

Oddly, it's the favorite song of Billy Bean, General Manager of the Oakland A's. He has expressed the ambition to one day "build a team as good as "This Corrsion."

Oddly, it's the favorite song of Billy Bean, General Manager of the Oakland A's. He has expressed the ambition to one day "build a team as good as "This Corrsion."

That...concerns me, greatly. What does that MEAN?

That's my lonely, thankless torch to carry. (handstapleforehead)

Am I going to have to dig out the pliers to get your hand off of your forehead again? Sheesh.

Well, to be fair, THIS CORROSION is at least partly the responsibility of Jim Steinman. Is Meat Loaf goth? Rocky Horror connections aside.