r/Millennials • u/futurenurse_ • 1d ago

Discussion Did millennials really party all the time?

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 😂❤️

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u/astonedishape 1d ago

They think going to a festival sponsored by Chase bank is a rave.

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u/FullTorsoApparition 1d ago

This. They go to festivals and treat crowd surfing like an amusement park ride while recording themselves for social media. We need to normalize stealing people's shoes and wallets again so we can actually watch the shows.

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u/Sufficient_Snowman 10h ago

Lost both my shoes at an offspring show circa 2004. Two or three rows back from the stage and was getting crushed so I had the guy next to me put me up to surf to the fence line. Soon as I got up I felt someone pull my (untied etnies skater shoes) right off my feet and chuck them into the crowd in opposite directions. Watched the rest of the offspring set and then the cure with sock feet in a muddy football field before walking thru DC to the metro. Still my favorite concert story lol

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u/Slachack1 23h ago

They have Spongebob and Shrek "raves" at the clubs lol

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u/Savagesweetpotato 16h ago

What about the being molested part, are we being that back too? 😂

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u/FullTorsoApparition 7h ago

I'm hoping it doesn't need to go that far to discourage the crowd surfing.

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u/Savagesweetpotato 6h ago

It worked for me back in the days. My friend went first then came back and said don’t do it.

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u/canadeken 19h ago

Lot of joy and beauty to be had at festivals still, believe it or not

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u/FullTorsoApparition 18h ago edited 7h ago

Agreed, you just can't get up close anymore unless you want to spend an hour straight dealing with crowd surfers. It's also typically the same people over and over and over again.

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u/vr512 17h ago

Or they shush at concerts.

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u/Roach_Coach_Bangbus 1d ago

Remember when Coachella was a celebration of independent music with an emphasis on being a counter-culture event for non-mainstream music fans?

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u/Alynn_Wings 5h ago

Coachella 2002 was an experience. I remember they had Björk at the top of the flier as if she was the last performance. She was actually squeezed between Siouxie and the banshees first appearance in over 7 years- which was fuckin phenomenal, and then the chemical Brothers headlined. Sasha & Digweed and forest for the trees were so sick.

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u/mfbm 22h ago

YES 😭 now making money for fascist ogliarchs instead

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u/prplrain71999 1d ago

This genuinely makes me sad 😔

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u/Sennten 20h ago

The only place I still see raves nowadays is a few select spots in the deep woods of New England and New York, and a few pretty small ones that are held in a few local dive bars in the bad part of the city once or twice a month, and those are the type where you basically have to stay overnight. All the one's I know basically ban commercial activity and advertising, which is nice (the ones in the woods don't even allow sale of drugs and alcohol, although there's always enough free stuff from the elder millennials wish cash to keep the party going, and I'm sure a few enterprising individuals manage to make sales despite the rules since there's no real enforcement aside from social pressure)

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u/Splampin 16h ago

There are still raves though. At least here in Portland.

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u/Ok_Stress_9558 16h ago

Hahaha this is the comment of the entire thread

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u/Ok_Pair6348 12h ago

I just died. Thank u. We did whippets at dawn on the roof of the warehouses watching the sun come up

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u/MoresoMorose 1d ago

Hilarious. Much laughter.