[LMB] AKICOTL: goth, emo and jrock

[DianaH]

So is the couple in The Amazing Race (Black and Pink, by golly) goth, or 
something else?

DianaH

Raye Johnsen wrote:
> --- Becca Price <becca_price at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I've just been informed (rather scornfully) that my
>> daughter
>> isn't goth, but that her personal style is more
>> accurately
>> called jrock. 
>>     
>
> Erk, erk, ERK!!
>
> First off, it isn't jrock.  Jrock is short for
> 'Japanese rock', and it comes in as many different
> flavours as the American kind.  Unless your daughter
> has Japanese music blaring from her stereo, she's not
> into Japanese rock.
>
> The only thing I can think of that might match that
> description is 'visual kei', which is a style that a
> subset of Japanese rock stars developed.  Probably the
> best Western analogues would be the British band
> 'Culture Club' from the early Eighties. 
>
>   
>> Another friend told me that she
>> sometimes comes
>> across as emo, but that friend had never heard of
>> jrock, and so
>> couldn't really comment. I suspect that, here in the
>> staid
>> midwest of the USA, the distinction passes
>> unnoticed, but it may
>> be something that means more on the west coast.
>>     
>
> There are many different shades of both emo and goth. 
> It's very hard for those on the outside to tell the
> difference, but there is a wealth of differences
> between them.
>
> 'Emo' comes from 'emotional' and is a style of music
> and clothing designed to evoke an emotional response. 
> I would as a general rule describe this as
> 'melancholy'.  Most emo musicians I know draw heavily
> on 1930s blues for inspiration.
>
> 'Goth' comes from 'gothic' and is more aesthetic than
> the emo style.  It is heavily rooted in
> late-Victorian, early-Edwardian fashions.  It has a
> reputation for necrophilia and depression, but this is
> mainly due to the preponderance of black, white and
> scarlet in its colour palette and the fact that the
> vampiric fashion/music/literature movement is a
> subgroup of Goth fashion/music/literature.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Raye
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