#gothic glam

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Craig McDean for Vogue.

(via @kostasmurkudismoods IG)

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[scarmille]

heavy glam

via pinterest

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Set of Four Playmobil Medieval Vampires

This is just like Drawfee room full of vampires…

[agothgirlsdiary]

A vampire's rosary 🦇 🍷

[therickyhorrorpicturesh0w]

Have this sexy photo of me for my return back to tumblr after a long hiatus.

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[newestcool]

Ann Demeulemeester 1993 Newest Cool

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what kind of music was around in the 80s

The 80s contained three distinct types of music:

New Wave

Glam Metal

Gothic Rock

New Wave was the most popular type of music, using synthesizers and incorporating cues from the post-punk world. Groups like The Talking Heads, The Flock of Seagulls, and The Gary Numan all made music that sold like pop music, but also maintained the limited creative diversity and inoffensive lack of risk of pop music.

Glam Metal took the pioneering darkness and toughness of Heavy Metal pioneered by Black Sabbath, Motörhead and Iron Maiden, then replaced it with long hair, expensive jackets, and songs about partying. The most metal thing about glam metal bands were their logos, which were airbrushed to look like they were made of metal. Sadly, the addiction of many such musicians to very tight pants rendered them all incapable of having children, so this genre didn't last beyond the 80s.

Gothic Rock by contrast ignored all pretense of popularity and embraced the pretense of unpopularity. The best gothic rock was the least popular, which made it the most popular, which in turn made it suck. Thus no gothic rock band lasted more than two albums before switching genres, failing and breaking up, and then going back to their origins with a reunion tour. Such bands embraced the dark aesthetic of the gothic revival and wrote lyrics resembling poems by Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Gorey. They were also fond of skulls, bats, and taking black and white photos in graveyards. You can easily recognize real gothic rock by the tendency of its singers to sound like they have tonsillitis and, paradoxically given their usual diet, not enough coffee.

The 80s also contained the video for "Never Gonna Give You Up," which is well known online yet rarely recognized as the breakthrough video by Simon West, future director of Con-Air. That part's real btw.

[postpunkk]

DO YOU GUYS WANNA SEE MY COSTUME LATER TONIGHT BEFORE THE SHOW????!?!?!?!?

[angelbambisworld]

So goth I'm literally shoving bats directly into my anus as we speak