Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/22/spanish-pop-goth-performance-f.html
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I never knew he was such a cheerful dancer.
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It doesn’t sound very goth. But I approve of what’s going on on the stage generally. If it were a Eurovision entry I’d vote for it.
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Could just be a dream.
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It sounds like new wave pop. But just cause you’re saying your boyfriend’s a zombie don’t make it goth.
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Yeah, I was gonna say: Ain’t nothin’ goth about that. Except maybe her Siouxsie-lite stylings, but even that’s borderline, as it’s overlapping with hair metal fashions here.
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You have to admit that was some awesome hair.
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Definitely the best part of this.
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I know right? She doesn’t even sound particularly unhappy about it.
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Well the video is of her other band Dinarama as noted in the post.
Though I am not sure how this is Goth either…
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Just because you shaved your eyebrows off and have a smokey eye don’t mean your band’s goth.
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“in high-waisted jeans” will now be appended to my fortune cookie prognostication.
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Yeah it’s weird to hear Alaska y Dinarama referred to as goth, sure, Alaska was always very flamboyant though I think the black is atypical, I’m not an expert but I think it has to do with how Spain filtered some of the aesthetics from popular movements like glam and goth, after all this is the country that gave us Locomia.
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@TobinL They never referred to themselves as goth as far as I’m aware although they were influenced by the aesthetics, most of the time Alaska looked more like Boy George.
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The other band Alaska is in Fangoria is described as electro-pop goth. Which you know still is like how? I posted a Fangoria video above.
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Yeah, they were totally not goth. Alaska was aesthetically goth (and still is) but her music was new wave or glam rock. Dark themes but with funny and upbeat lyrics.
PD: She was part of “La Bola de Cristal” a Spanish childrens TV show that took the idea of Sesame Street and added WHAT IF THAT BUT PUNK AND ANTICAPITALIST?
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I guess its redundant to point out that Freddy Krueger is NOT A ZOMBIE.
So I´ll just wax nostalgic and point out that back when this video was made, the actual rights-holders of the actual Nightmare on Elm Street had already turned Freddy into a corny joke all by themselves:
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I concur that is some fantastic hair. She looks a bit like Death from Sandman, and I always thought Death was hot
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