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There is no goth revival – the spooky subculture never died

Pop culture today is awash with goth influence, but it pains me a bit to think the youth want the style and not the soundtrack Liisa Ladouceur The Globe and Mail Published 33 seconds ago

Lacy shadows fall on a puppet during the Wave Gothic Festival in Leipzig, Germany, in June, 2019. Jens Meyer/The Associated Press

Liisa Ladouceur is the author of Encyclopedia Gothica and creator of the 40 Years of Goth Style video series .

There was a lot of black in the nightclub: Black clothes, black hair, black lipstick, black boots. It’s what I expect at a goth dance party – a night dedicated to the dark and heavy music that attracts people who are sometimes mistaken for wearing Halloween costumes year-round. What

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