I have been wanting to write a post entitled ‘Friends Don’t Let Friends Wear White-Face’ for a while now, and by golly Last Grasp have taken that ship and sailed away in it! EDIT: Literally just found out the song itself was released about a month ago, but the video is indeed new.
For those of you who don’t know, there is an endless amount of people new to the goth subculture right now wearing white foundation (white-face) and claiming themselves to be ‘trad goth’. Of course nothing could be further from the truth since the majority of us back in the 80’s and 90’s didn’t look like members of Kiss. They will openly tell those who do goth make-up without ‘white-face’ that they aren’t ‘true goths’, that to be a ‘true goth’ you have to look just like them. They are also the same type of people who make endless posts to online goth groups asking if they look goth enough, and what they can do to look more goth. They want a bunch of boxes ticked rather than discover their style on their own, which is actually quite sad when you stop to think about it.
This song and video makes fun of all of this crap and encapsulates what is really going on in the goth subculture right now; it being taken over by trend whores who are just in it for the aesthetics. The lyrics are pretty genius:
“Are my patches on straight?
When you see me online i bet you masturbate
It’s so hard to be this great
I’ll hold up the line to the pearly gates
Why can’t you see?
Everyone’s a poser except for me
My most impeccable taste
On you is something that i would not like to waste”
Will this song and video upset those self described ‘trad goths’? I sure hope so because at this point they really, really need to be put in their place.