I thought the 'indie wars' column was fundamentally but unsurprisingly wrong, in that it regards the whole business as an essentially dualist affair, Light v dark, Good v Evil, the eternal struggle, blah blah.
There's a lot of reasons why I could pick it apart, but on a personal level, I could never really be involved because, as goths, we (my circle, such as it was) weren't even allowed to *have* a side, no matter how interested we might also be in our indie (or indeed, our pop). And those lovely fey indie boys weren't so sweet and inoffensive when they were slobbering down your cleavage in a club, then taking the piss out of your hair. Anyone who's seen 'Career Girls' might know where I'm coming from - Mike Leigh's apparent caricatures were more accurate than one might expect!
Nostalgia is mostly bollocks. Things are better now. People don't care so much about their pointless aesthetic puritanism. This started sorting itself out on the goth scene at the start of the '90s and it was a breath of fresh air. Thankfully, it seems to be the way things are going everywhere, so we should celebrate it, instead of writing *another* article about how x type of 4 REAL music has, maybe, sold out.
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Date: 2007-07-13 04:02 pm (UTC)There's a lot of reasons why I could pick it apart, but on a personal level, I could never really be involved because, as goths, we (my circle, such as it was) weren't even allowed to *have* a side, no matter how interested we might also be in our indie (or indeed, our pop). And those lovely fey indie boys weren't so sweet and inoffensive when they were slobbering down your cleavage in a club, then taking the piss out of your hair. Anyone who's seen 'Career Girls' might know where I'm coming from - Mike Leigh's apparent caricatures were more accurate than one might expect!
Nostalgia is mostly bollocks. Things are better now. People don't care so much about their pointless aesthetic puritanism. This started sorting itself out on the goth scene at the start of the '90s and it was a breath of fresh air. Thankfully, it seems to be the way things are going everywhere, so we should celebrate it, instead of writing *another* article about how x type of 4 REAL music has, maybe, sold out.