Nowadays, yeah, it just means anyone who dresses “dark” regardless of what kind of music they like or scene they hang out in. Which I think is cool, wtf, the music is still there if people want to listen to it: !gothindustrial@lemmy.world
the Goths that challenged Rome
I think the joke relies on “goth” as in “gothic fiction”
The name of the genre is derived from the Renaissance-era use of the word “gothic”, as a pejorative term meaning medieval and barbaric, which itself originated from Gothic architecture and in turn the Goths.
So there’s only really a tenuous link to medieval history, let alone goth in the musical or aesthetic sense. The joke would make a lot more sense if the kid was into the Society of Creative Anachronism and Historical European Martial Arts, but I suspect not enough people know about those.
A purist would say that it’s focused on a specific set of post-punk music acts and the people inspired by them.
Nowadays, yeah, it just means anyone who dresses “dark” regardless of what kind of music they like or scene they hang out in. Which I think is cool, wtf, the music is still there if people want to listen to it: !gothindustrial@lemmy.world
I think the joke relies on “goth” as in “gothic fiction”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
So there’s only really a tenuous link to medieval history, let alone goth in the musical or aesthetic sense. The joke would make a lot more sense if the kid was into the Society of Creative Anachronism and Historical European Martial Arts, but I suspect not enough people know about those.