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Gothic, Media, and Market: an explosive cocktail, part rave parties, part spectral
look. New urban dance steps move to The Spice Girls's lighthearted tunes, as well
as to The Cure, Dead Can Dance, The Cranberries, The Barrones, The Meridians.
Gloomy sounds, with a backdrop of Gothic imagery: trumpets, falcons, cemeteries.
In the video You are my Perfect Drug by Nine Inch Nails, L.A. costume
designer Terry King selected XVIII century horse riding jackets to match a
selection of funky Gothic-style skirts.
Fascinating as well as expanding, it is no longer an underground phenomenon,
nor a political one. Its subversive content is purely aesthetic; anarchy applied
to styles, history of costume and the idea of glamour. There is an ever widening
market for neo gothic, from Liberty in London to Fiorucci in Milan, where one can
buy purple, black lipsticks, or even vomit-green nail polish (manufactured by a
London cosmetic company called Hard Candy).Many are the Internet sites where people exchange gothically-inclined stories and poems; in http://www.gothic.com, one can access a sort of huge funereal party. In comics, in literature, in cinema , references to the millennium are totally mixed, to the point of creating apocalyptic millennium pulp. |
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