Kodama wrote:Machinesworking wrote:mike@TrackTeam Audio wrote:
for me i think its a waste of creativity to spend time sorting out costumes. Just an opinion though.
I agree, though honestly my own band will probably have that sort of gap in it, me and the drummer worried about the sound, getting the songs right, and the singer worried about what outfit to wear.
Granted it's a little easier to take given she's a female and we're male etc. but some folks, goth/industrial people especially, care about the 'look', and we are pretty much goth/industrial....
Industrial was famously formed around political, anti-war, and animal rights themes.
Love the music and I really like the gothee girl look(meow!), but the vapid culture clique swirling around the 'community' makes me constantly gag.
Plus, I don't like dead things & am wayyy too lazy to play dress up....
Agreed, also I'm getting to the age were I look even more stupid trying to be something I'm not. I'm a fucking redneck nerd, and I look funny dressing any differently. Black is as far as I'll take it.
Industrial started as an offshoot of DADA, Krautrock, and Cage/Stockhausen. Originally the message was to have no filter, zero. Sing write lyrics about anything at all, torture, love, sex, violence, serial killers, fetishes, machines, toys, having an awful day etc. Honestly the only early Industrial song I can think of that had a political message was The Mussolini Headkick, by Cabaret Voltaire. The first rule was to break all taboos and then break the taboos by being normal etc. this in itself is a political message really.
Later on groups came in that had political messages and anti vivisectionist messages. Then came the dance music aspect..... and we have a 'scene' that values the german square jaw manly men look and clothing more than any artistic merit. In a way, the SS gear that early groups wore in abject horror at the fascist state, and to remind people of the connection to modern politics has been substituted with little germanic looking fucks running around fetishizing genocide. Still, some of it is fun, and the women are pretty hot, unless they fall into the gothopotami category. I know some cool chicks that are overwieght and goth, but it's rare man, it's rare.
I agree about punks, tend to hang with metalheads and punks more than goths and rivets, but that can change over time.