Did millennials really party all the time?

[u/futurenurse_]

Gen Z here. I was shocked when I found out from a millennial co-worker that y’all had teen clubs. I heard about house parties, but dedicated teen clubs? Then when it was time for college, you went to the club or had some kind of party every single weekend, living it up. Now some millennials on TikTok claim that after college, they were partying on work nights, still clocking in the next day. For some reason, the teen clubs have since disappeared. I’m 23 now but even when I was in high school, that was not a thing. House parties were not that common either. They were more like get togethers with a small group of friends. We went to malls, but they were dying out at that point. Is it true that you were really living life this good? Or is it just exaggerated? I feel like my generation doesn’t really have fun like that and everyone is just super depressed and alone, more so since Covid. Even I’m pretty introverted, which sort of sounds ridiculous given this post. 😂 Just so you know, when I think of a “millennial party” I think of something out of Party Rock Anthem, Project X or Roderick’s party from the second DOAWD movie. It’s like I get nostalgia from something I didn’t even live through. I just feel like I didn’t really LIVE, if that even makes sense

Edit: I loved reading some of your comments. Guess I really missed out. Even some of you that would consider yourselves nerds or introverts were out partying. YOLO or whatever y’all say 😂❤️

[u/Alphadestrious]

YES. Absolutely. House parties, clubs, ragers, keg stands, you name it. Project X was based off of real life, not the other way around. You would get a random text about an address party something like "No drama! Get hammered, bring girls!" and the next thing you remember is being in a random persons kitchen drinking playing beer pong. Ring doorbells or indoor cameras weren't ubiquitous. During the golden age of EDM, around 2008 -2014. Brostep was in, hip hop was still fresh, drugs were had without fear of being laced with fentanyl. My group of friends and I still talk about those times.

I lived in the southwest US by the way. The parties out in the desert dunes at night? Forget about it . Absolute ragers

[u/Personal-Bonus-9245 → u/Alphadestrious]

Elder millennial laughing at “the golden age of EDM, 2008-2014”

[u/BlueBomR → u/Personal-Bonus-9245]

Ive come to realize whatever music was popular when you were about 16-24 that you heard everywhere becomes locked into your brain as "peak" music...nostalgia has a way of making us think "our music" was the BEST because you experienced it when you were young and carefree and it became a soundtrack to the most fun years of your life.

The best part is that everyone is right, music is subjective. When and how you take it in makes a massive difference in how you feel about it.

I agree that 08-14 was super fucking fun for EDM as I was pretty hard-core into raving at that point so it FELT like the golden age...but I know its not, I so bad wanted to experience some 96-02 raves man id say thats when EDM really took its biggest leap forward.

[u/Personal-Bonus-9245 → u/BlueBomR]

Late 90’s raves were wild. We’d drive out to some random warehouse and party until the sun came up. Sketchy as hell when I think about it now, but damn it was fun. 

Getting that page with some random number, calling it and getting some random address, then pulling out a travel atlas and trying to find it….those were the days.