a covenant or compact made between persons, parties, states, etc., for the promotion or maintenance of common interests or for mutual assistance or service. 2. the aggregation of persons, parties, states, etc., associated in such a covenant or compact; confederacy. 3. an association of individuals having a common goal. 4. a group of athletic teams organized to promote mutual interests and to compete chiefly among themselves: a bowling league.
This disconnect causes a lot of cognitive dissonance. Coldplayâs ostensible genre, alternative rock, is intrinsically cool ânot cool in the high-school sense, but cool in the way that Lou Reed or Miles Davis was cool. Aloof.
Many goths listen to a variety of sub-genres with the word goth in the title, but there are also a lot of goths who listen to industrial music, electronic music, metal, and classical music. It's a wide-ranging and varied subculture, so do your research, if only out of respect for the past. Often, goth music refers to a particular style of rock music from the 80's, featuring a heavy use of synthesizers, jangly guitar, reverb, and monotone vocals.To describe music as gothic is to refer to the tone, attitude, and the lyrical content.