Kind of jumping on a soapbox, but goths don't really exist anymore. Goth was an outgrowth of DIY punk, darker moodier punks that didn't focus on politics. Siouxsie Sioux is the best example; she, like all the other first-wave "goths" and "goth bands," reject the label, even though nobody contributed to the goth look more than Siouxsie did. The first "true" goths were what came right after after this music and style had become "a thing." The earlier "goth" (what we sometimes call "goth", anyway) music was much more diverse, thoughtful, interesting, and experimental than whatever calls itself "goth" today. Using my waifu Siouxsie again, her songs lyrically ranged all over the place:
criticism of Middle-eastern savagery, the treatment of women, particularly in the
pornography industry,
Shostakovitch being oppressed by the Soviets, most famously
a song about what happened at Pompeii, and even
a song about quack remedies. (But she was never really all that political and even stated such). Nowadays? It's fucking EBM, parodies of B-horror movies, and women in long black dresses trying to recreate the famous "Ophelia" painting. If you talk to a goth they will listen to all the same kinds of bands and don't deviate from what you'd expect because they're truly about image over anything else.
Modern goth is all paint-by-numbers, with a very limited set of paints. They're all about image and perception. "
Get Out of My House" by Kate Bush is a song you'd think goths would love, based on their aesthetic, but nope, Kate Bush doesn't give them that goth street cred. Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash are more goth than modern goths are today.
Best to just avoid modern "goths." Goths girls are either fat and mentally ill or just plain mentally ill, they're attention whores looking to give off an image and they have no creativity, not in themselves or in general.
The modern world in general is like this. I don't know where the creativity went.
