Post-Sea Punk or How to Get Dressed in the Morning

some thoughts on witch house/ghost pop/grave wave:
in honor of its predecessor shoegaze
for a while the genre was actually being called rapegaze
(before everyone realized this was a terrible idea)
and i think it speaks volumes
there's a strange doublevision of girlhood here
the girl is dead-eyed and vague, maybe already a ghost (hair bleached out, sallow faces)
so she is dangerous, suffused with revenge and strange magical powers because of trauma
(some sort of Madea)
but her voice is always thin and distant
just an echo of something more immediate
so she's nothing
or a wisp, a slip, and a hand disappearing round a corner

the trouble with the look
is that the candy-floss hair and spikes/leather/silk/tulle ensembles
are straight out of magazines
very high fashion and very expensive looking
and the erotic boredom is American Apparel all over
so any danger
is somehow mixed in with an infinitely purchasable "breeziness"
the rich girl's straightforward simplicity of good fabrics and shoes that last
very Chanel
so you know, it's very alive, in a yacht in St. Tropez kind of way
and witch house girls are dead

but here's the thing about fashion
you know, it's a man repeller?
apparently
you're not gonna fuck anyone
if you wear that studded headband and necklace of baby dolls that you've ripped the head off
and if you wear three layers of mesh
and shoes that would be still technically be flats if it weren't for the HUGE platforms at the bottom
and that friendly BDSM look 
so that's confusing

but also, these kids love dirty south rap
i suspect for no real sociological reasons
but because the droning, prayerful, psychedelic quality
(Weezy does not have to put down the Dextromethorphan)
IS BORING
like a perfect kind of boredom, a grown ups blowing spit bubbles
boredom
that feels transcendental - it feels great have nothing to do in the 21st century, it feels horrible to have nothing to do in the 21st century
so here's an erotic boredom that can be turned into purpose
with procreation I guess
if this were actually an AA ad
but these girls are ghosts
you can't fuck a ghost (unless you are one)
so you can't turn the boredom on its head
which all the symbols in the titles is really about
you know ≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈Ω≈ etc
make it hard to find on the internet
and no one will overturn your boredom

every time I listen to one of these albums I think about The Flu Season. "I've felt a lot. Many people have. Where I distinguish myself  is, I stand outside at night."

it feels important but it might just be the stupidest thing
dwelling in the cauldron of the internet
so sort of leftover from girls pretending to be super into horror movies to seem cool to boys
OR
the edge of danger
girls being celebrated for being sickly, perverse, out of control, unpredictable, murderous
is important or somehow new
a kind of self-drag that we've all been waiting for
OR
it's just a version of the Virgin Suicides girl
broken and unreachable
and not really a person
but a place for a boy to rest his heart

honestly, i don't know, i just want to wear some knuckle dusters

P.S. they're might be more to say on the subject of the spiritually empty use of occult symbols and devil things but i think it might just be trappings