Cosmopolitan Goths Date Friday, April 26, 2024 - 08:27 PM PST Topic News This is a translation of a full page article in Spain's "Cosmopolitan" Magazine this month about Goths. It's titled "Sinisters" because that's what Goths were called here in the 80's, but I'll translate that as "Goths" "SINISTERS They were born in the 80's in the big cities of Europe and north America as an answer to earlier movements such as the hippie. For Goths, life is sadness and chaos. They dress in mourning and have a cult to the death. Their idol is Marilyn Manson. And amongst their fetish writers who feed this tragic and tetric sense of life there are Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Allan Poe, Baudelaire, Ann Rice... Mauricio Delgado, 17. Javier Zapatero, 19, Goths, students. "We dress in black because we are mourning. And we are sad because life is shit, it's too hard" says Javier. "I was attracted by the gruesome aestethics... people move away when they see us in the streets. The other day some kids came to touch us and see if we were real, and then they started crying...(laughs) There are also people who laugh at our appearance and insult us" confesses Mauricio. "As a matter of fact we are way more sincere than all other people: we play as we are, not like hippies who are all day as if everything is happiness and everything is very beautiful. What's that? That's hypocrisy, and we are against hypocrisy, that's why we also loathe the Church and their members, they are all a bunch of falses" comments Javier. "Well, we can't dress like this at work because we would be fired" clarifies Mauricio, full of common sense. "I work so I can pay for these clothes, the face makeup, the chains, the rings... to work I have to go dressed normal" he adds. But both claim that being a Goth is not a fashion but a philosophy of life, and that they will be Goths forever, they say. (***) In Spain Goths were not known by the majority of the public until this year's TV boom started by Lord Goth. We have been receiving a load of neonates who are as Goth as I am a hippie, lots of people with a deep inferiority complex who wish to feel different and special, who need to feel they are part of a group and who have chosen the group with the most external signs possible. So far we have been lucky and public appearances have been by more or less intelligent people who did not play into the showmaster's games, and we managed to stay with a reputation for shy, intellectual people who want to be left alone above all else. Lately people on the TV shows have been far from acceptable as they are new wave Goths rather than “cultural icons”. And now this! I know these guys personally, they have not read anything beyond Anne Rice (not even Stoker), thought the House of Usher had to do with Cthulhu and can’t even write Baudelaire properly. Not that any of these is needed to be a Goth, of course, but “real” Goths certainly don’t mess around saying they have read what they have not We are infuriated. Miguel and Pedro, owners of 666 (nightclub), even posted several “Wanted” posters with the photos from the interview for “Idiocy Beyond All Hope and Marilyn Manson Worship” (pity I didn’t see them). Shade, there is another twist in the plot... This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=297