# The goth look does not age well - Pudgy old Robert Smith of the Cure shows why **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goth-look-does-not-age-well-pudgy-old-robert-smith-of-the-cure-shows-why/256435 "2004-07-23T00:28:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goth-look-does-not-age-well-pudgy-old-robert-smith-of-the-cure-shows-why/256435/21 "2004-07-25T06:01:17Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > He looks eerily like someone I’ve seen before. I can’t figure out who it is, though. > > Wait, I got it: Alice Cooper. Hey! You’d best not be dissin’ Alice! :dubious: Humph! (zoogirl stalks off grumbling something about the Cure not being fit to carry Alice’s mascara tubes.) ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goth-look-does-not-age-well-pudgy-old-robert-smith-of-the-cure-shows-why/256435/22 "2004-07-25T06:15:20Z")
> [@Shaolinrabbit](#): > > This is going to sound terrible, but am I the only one who thought these guys looked pretty dorky when they were _young_? No, you’re definitely not the only one. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goth-look-does-not-age-well-pudgy-old-robert-smith-of-the-cure-shows-why/256435/23 "2004-08-02T11:23:05Z")
> [@Bad News Baboon](#): > > … > I don’t think that being over 40 with ink black hair and eyeliner is bad (Snape, anyone?)… Ooh! I thought I was the only one! Snape, absolutely. Although Malfoy’s long white hair and haughty expression isn’t to bad, either. Oy, what’s a girl to do when the villains are so much more attractive then the cleanshaven shortcropped wouldn’t-do-mascara-in-a-100-years heroes? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goth-look-does-not-age-well-pudgy-old-robert-smith-of-the-cure-shows-why/256435/24 "2004-08-02T11:30:25Z")
Ugh. As another former 13-year-old with Robert Smith’s face all over my walls (circa _The Walk_ EP), I really wish that if he had to try to maintain one of his earlier looks, it would be the _Seventeen Seconds_ one. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goth-look-does-not-age-well-pudgy-old-robert-smith-of-the-cure-shows-why/256435/25 "2004-08-02T12:05:34Z")
> [@Fionn](#): > > I agree. I’ve seen recent pictures where Robert Smith weirdly resembles Elizabeth Taylor. **Fionn** , how could you have missed [this Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=265070)!?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![Higgon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@Higgon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Higgon)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goth-look-does-not-age-well-pudgy-old-robert-smith-of-the-cure-shows-why/256435/26 "2004-08-02T12:57:59Z")
Robert Smith looks like an extra from a Zombie film where although pale the zombie is initially intact but then gets poked with something and a big hole/tear is made in the face (usually there will be reddish gore behind the void). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goth-look-does-not-age-well-pudgy-old-robert-smith-of-the-cure-shows-why/256435.md?page=1)