there is something about songs belonging to these genres and adjacent that make me feel like a tormented beautiful woman (which I am), but in a way that is artistically sexy
its a funky subgenre of gothic/dark wave music that’s like if elvira had a baby with a beach boy. recommended bands are 45 grave, vampire beach babes, twin temple and the coffinshakers.
I saw some news about pretty girls make graves touring again and started listening to them again and also rinsed a couple of tracks from the sounds too because they remind me of each other. I think that’s only because I heard of both bands through music in skate videos growing up.
I’m on the wrong side of 33 and i can tell you with utmost certainty that your 20s is the most chaotic time of your life and it’s amazing that anyone actually gets anything done during them. If you’re a type a planning type personality however I would recommend:
- if you’re the sort of person who cares about diet and fitness, establish those routines in your 20s
- live where you wanna live. Don’t live somewhere you hate because you think you’ll have more fun later cos you won’t
- get a job that makes reliable money that you can tolerate and go back to if your dreams fall through. It doesn’t have to be a dream job it just has to pay the rent and not make you sad
- don't smoke cigarettes
- use sunscreen
- be as cringe as you want. People expect it from you anyway. They won’t have as much patience in your 30s.
Walking into a formal celebration and taking in everyone looking and smelling good. The smell always stays with me the most—cologne, soap, hair product, cigarettes, leather, shoe polish. Everyone so clean and proud and a little bit shy. So special.