Eli5: How did the term “Goth” go from Germanic tribes destroying Rome, to the music and fashion we know today?

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Eli5: How did the term “Goth” go from Germanic tribes destroying Rome, to the music and fashion we know today?

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Music critic John Stickney coined the term ‘gothic rock’ in 1967 when describing a Doors show. He wrote that the cavernous venue was ‘the perfect room to honour the Gothic rock of the Doors’. That name stuck with other new wave bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, and Bauhaus -who even dressed as vampires.