[Tam Li Hua]

Originally Posted by mindless1

Ok, well then I guess I've been a goth for a long time now. So why pretend I'm not, right? Why try to hide it?

Good question.

Though I tend to think you can enjoy the music without taking on all that the name Goth personifies, personally; I tend to think of a Goth as someone that not only likes the music, but also has a love for the darker, spoookier things in life: horror movies, 'dark' novels, a bedroom decorated in fake skeletons, bats, and spiders, a darker-colored, somewhat more elaborate wardrobe and make-up than the 'normal' person [or at least an appreciation for such things].

Indeed, it was the fashion and the 'dark' aspect which first drew me; I found out about the music only after I started researching what "Goth" actually meant.

I don't regret indulging myself in the Goth subculture, and am quite frankly relieved to at last have a one-word description to tell people what I am into. [though I know there are those who vastly disagree with that].