the fact that I like this band PROBABLY explains why I wish Twilight was good

[intertribal]

I feel like I need to give a shout-out to Lacuna Coil and my favorite album of theirs, Karmacode.  Lacuna Coil is sort of a gothic rock Italian band with two lead vocalists, male and female.  The first song I ever heard by Lacuna Coil was their cover of "Enjoy the Silence," which at the time I thought was pretty theatrical but still fun.  So I downloaded a couple albums, Comalies and Karmacode.  Comalies has some good stuff too - "Heaven's A Lie" and "Angel's Punishment," which believe it or not is not an Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill song - but I prefer Karmacode's overall vibe.  It's a later album, and I think it's a bit more complex musically and a bit more diverse in terms of influences.  They're tending toward the sort of "Arabia Goth" that Arcana currently pwns, which is fine with me.

As much as I like Arcana, though (they make excellent background music for writing purposes), a very deep place in my heart responds much more to Lacuna Coil.  For sure this is where that twelve-year-old on a quixotic quest for romance in DBZ lives.  She's silly, but she's a part of me, y'know.  I love that Lacuna Coil is theatrical and "dark."  I love that they make me feel open-hearted and weirdly weepy.  I love that they sort of seem to belong in Hot Topic.  I think the feeling that I get listening to, say, "Without Fear" or "Devoted" is the feeling I want to, like, evoke in The Novel, for example.  Does it fit conceptually, does it fit the setting or the plot?  Not really.  Ahahaha, how Twilight-ish do those song titles sound?  Following is the video for "Within Me."

I think this goes along with my recent worry/wonder if what I'm really writing is Twilight-esque - and by that I don't mean inspired by Twilight, because the plot was conceived before I heard of Twilight.  I mean treading similar paths.  I'd change nothing, mind you - it is what it is, and I believe in it - but I just kind of wonder if there aren't superficial similarities.  They're probably too superficial for me to worry about, but sometimes the whole humans-and-fabulous-monsters thing pops out at me. 

I should also add that this entire entry makes me fail as a "goth" according to various scales (I'm already on thin ice for not liking The Crow or Tim Burton!), but whatever. 

Comments

[wendigomountain.livejournal.com]

Nadia, have you ever listened to any This Ascension? I first heard them about ten years back. Here's a clip from youtube. A cover of Mysterium. In rockin' Latin! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zLx7Qwyfhs

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful!

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

I had not! Thanks for the link, very cool. I'll have to seek out some more.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That 'Within Me" is nice! And I know what you mean about theatrical and "dark" and making you feel open-hearted and weirdly weepy--like some of Nightwish's songs. (You're either rolling your eyes now to hear I listen to NIghtwish, and wishing I wasn't mentioning that band in the same breath as Lacuna Coil--or else maybe you like some Nightwish too. Why is music so tricky this way?) Speaking of Silent Hill songs, I heard that "Clock" (link is to YouTube) by Milla Jovovich was used (or going to be used? I heard from seyeh, who's a huge Silent Hill fan) in one.

Don't you love an LJ comment that's more parenthetical than not?

Superficial similarities with Twilight are NO PROBLEM. I tell you, anything you write is going to be informed by more depth of feeling, more caring about humanity and individual people, and more full of passion, love, and hate, than ANYthing found between the covers of a Twilight novel.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

LOL! I can't say I'm really a fan of Nightwish, but I totally get that they're in the same family as Lacuna Coil (which is most often compared to Evanescence, so what can I say?). I know Nightwish mostly from final fantasy AMVs that my college roommate used to watch. I own most of the Silent Hill albums, btw, and I can't say I'm pleased that Akira Yamaoka's left the project. "Clock" is a curious song. It's a little too chirpy for me and I can't quite imagine it being used in SH, but yet it's a dedication to Anne Frank??

Yes, I do.

Haha, thanks.