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Why The Gothic Keeps Gaslighting Us

Imaginary Worlds

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The Gothic Revival in Music

Lila Taylor says this gothic revival is happening in music too. When she listens to the musician Emlamar, she hears a modern version of what Billie Holiday was doing with strange fruit. Lila thinks his music is like a combination of opera and death metal because he can go from these very low vocal registers to very high ones. There's a lot that is both gothic and goth about his work that I really, really admire.

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