Bowie on Goth [meme/quote]

Did Bowie actually say that? idk but I found that image on Bluesky so it's gotta be true, right?

141 points · 17 comments · view on lemmy.world

17 Comments

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 14 pts · 362d (6 replies)

I wanted to be a Goth but I learned in European history that I would have to be from 3rd century East Germany after migrating from Scandinavia. 😔

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 362d

Gotta lock down that inVisigoth "look", is all. Mysterious & ooky in the sheets, and ...just not appearing "in the streets". (so please, stop asking/calling/texting) 🫩🦇🤘🏼

Sergio@piefed.social · 3 pts · 362d (3 replies)

Or you could be part of the 12th-16th century architectural style ! You don't get to sack Rome, but you might get a "flying buttress" !

bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 361d (1 reply)

Except for absolute beauty, does the flying buttress give any structural advantages?

Sergio@piefed.social · 1 pts · 360d

I dunno. It's just really fun to say, tho...

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 361d

Can I just write like Byron instead?

troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 362d

You could have survive in Crimea for another millennium!

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 13 pts · 362d (2 replies)

If Bowie had gone goth, he’d be Gary Numan.

MattBlackAlien@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 362d (1 reply)

But then Gary Numan would have to be Andrew Eldritch - and since you can't get /more/ goth than Drew, where would /he/ go ? He'd have to come out the other side and be Jason Donovan.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 6 pts · 362d

Or Numan would have just ended up settling for being the BDSM one from Depeche Mode.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 362d

That's the most goth thing I've ever heard

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 362d (1 reply)

I loved that rumour, that Bowie was also lead singer of The Sisters of Mercy… sadly, it seems it has been lost in the dark corners of time.

Sergio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 362d

That sounds like an awesome rumor. Too bad there are not memes of it, that it might live forever.

mateofeo85@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 362d (1 reply)
[ removed ]
Sergio@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 362d

Yeah!

autonomous@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 362d

Wasn't it crazy 'ol Eldrich who started the goths not being goths thing? I would hardly count his opinions as law other artists have to follow.... Actually perhaps Bowie was poking fun of exactly that. 🤔

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 362d (1 reply)

The most stereotypically goth people I've ever met denied it and said they had no idea why people kept calling them goth. It was rather silly.

bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 361d

You are saying a big tiddy goth gf could be any big tiddy gf?