Apropos of nothing at all

[missroserose]

The first time I heard Birthday by The Crüxshadows, it hit me like a sucker punch in the gut. It was sometime around February of this year (never a good month for me), my twenty-fifth birthday was coming up far faster than I wanted to admit and I was starting to despair of ever making it out of Juneau or having the opportunity to pursue my dreams. And, as occasionally happens, there were all of my fears and insecurities and worries about mortality and loss of youth and opportunity, set to an appropriately moody (but somehow insanely catchy) techno hook.

Hearing it again nearly a year later, it's less depressing but no less challenging. The path to getting where I want to be in life is still hard to see, but the first few steps have at least become clearer, and I no longer feel so trapped and desperate.

I'm also in a better position to appreciate the merits of the song itself; to be honest, if more goth music was like this I would listen to a lot more of it. I'd actually go so far as to say this song is everything goth music should be - intelligently written, introspective, melodic, dark and moody but not without hope. And featuring adorable girls in hot outfits playing electric violin.

Interestingly, the Wikipedia entry for The Crüxshadows doesn't even classify them as goth music. I'm not sure how they classify themselves, or if "goth" is just one of those classifications that's become so broad as to be meaningless, but their outfits (and the emotional timbre of this song, at least) certainly qualify them in my book.

Comments

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call this depressing, or even properly gothy... some evolution of techno / dance music, and for some reason the word "shamnic" is coming to mind.

I think it's Christmas morning and I'm just in too good of a mood. :D

[gracewanderer.livejournal.com]

That girl's ass jiggles like woah.

[one-bat.livejournal.com]

Thats awesome. I'll be passing that along to the organisers of the next goth/alt club here in a few weeks. I reckon it'll get a following here.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Cool. If I manage to visit Australia while still of clubbing age, I'll have to track you down to hook me up. :D

[one-bat.livejournal.com]

That should give you plenty of years then. :) Look forward to it. And with the exchange rate giving you $1.45 Australian per $US, it would be a cheap holiday for you.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

If only we could buy the plane tickets in Australian dollars rather than American. :D