Malcolm Mclaren Imagines

Goth Vs Punk

I sat on the sofa watching the tv the music playing from the speaker watching the top of the pops and their musical performance tonight, while I had little Elis in my arms in her PJs sucking on her bottle of milk.

"Malcolm?" I spoke up

"Ummm?" He hummed as he sat up at his deck clacking away on his typewriter

"Can I ask you something?"

he reached the end of his sentence and ran a hand through his hair before turning on his chair to face me "Yes pet?" he sighed leaning his arm on the chair and his hand on his face

"What's the difference between goth and punk?" I asked

Ohhhh Christ the look that I received.

You'd think I'd just slapped his sainted mother.

"I was just curious"

"How long of an explanation do you want?"

"How long can you give me?"

"Ohh I can give you an explanation back to the rise of paganism in Western society but I have a feeling you don't want that far"

"Uhh no thank you, Malcolm, you have till Elis finishes her bottle then I have to get this little nugget to bed"

"Okay so, Goth as a fashion, music and style movement primarily takes influence from the Victorian and their romanticising of darker more morbid concepts, things like graveyard walks, death portraits, and other more macabre things."

"Humanities goth era"

"Pretty much,"

"Why?"

"In Victorian times you had a lot of advancements in the sense of connectivity and publishing, both of which made people far more aware than ever before, that the world has always been horrible, murder, madness and such but you can argue the Victorians where the first fully aware of just how bad it was before that we had wars, politics, or just plain work to have to do so people didn't think about it yes death was rampant and everyone knew that but people couldn't pick up a paper and read just how bad it really was, people went from being aware of the hundred people in their area to the whole country and even the world and that's a lot more death and horror with your toast. Plus there was a massive spike in death given cities became huge industrial powerhouses and permanently fucked up the world which we are still recovering from. People became more aware of death and thus became more morbid as a side effect." He explained "And modern goth is a continuation of the moody, poetic dark romanticism." He explained "It's the wear all black, pretend you're a vampire, sits in a graveyard and frown mentality. it's the world is awful and I have to sit in it." He explained "But Punk, Punk comes from the natural human spark of rebellion, it's the world is awful and I'm gonna fucking do something about it, it's the fuck everything because the world is awful, the utter rebellion against everything and doing stuff just because you want to but mostly to disturb the establishment. I wanna spray paint my jacket but that's not normal, punk says fuck it I wanna do it. I wanna die my hair neon green, ohhh some old torie wouldn't like that so you fuck them and do it anyway. It's fighting! Violence! anger!"

"Against who?"

"Against everyone! and everything! It's pure uncontrolled rage."

"So in short terms, goth is the world is awful but what can you do Let lean into the madness and darkness of the world, Verses Punk which is the world is awful so fuck everyone and everything I'm gonna fight it"

"Exactly my pet"

"What am I?"

"Ohh you're a goth"

"Am I?"