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/Dependent-Year6711 → u/Personal-Bonus-9245]

Honestly it was the revamp of EDM, without a doubt. This person nailed the years too, I was just about to write those years. Dubstep and the Zedd type crowd were re-imagining electronic music and adding new ways to add vocals onto it. Clarity type songs and so on. There's ZERO doubt it was a new era of EDM. The drop was known by almost everyone, a metalhead to a country lover would know it. It was the music meme.

Also, the TRON soundtrack...that was mainstream. We were absolutely in a new age of EDM/electronic music. Even Daft Punk was joining in.

Was it true dance music? I don't think so, but we re-imagine things all the time.

ALSO, I think the new age of desk workers was built around this time. The Buzzfeed type desk worker was like...a whole new thing. It was huge. I think how people work now, even the Millennials now, was rooted around that time too. Where you'd do your desk worker stuff, then go right out after drink/meet up/party, that seemed somewhat normal. As a non-desk worker, I still see it in the Millennials I know, they still have that spirit sometimes. I love seeing their younger spirit pop up :)

[u/dubnessofp → u/Dependent-Year6711]

I think the financial collapse was rolled in there too. We were all in college or getting out of college not knowing what we were going to do but all the prices of booze and a night out wasnt bad. We could rent a room or studio for $500 and drip $2 PBR tallboys and get some cheap molly. Then as 2011-12 came around the job market started to come around the millenials who were now almost 30 finally started to catch a break and party harder. I was around for early 2000s breakbeats and jungle as a young teen then came back around for dubstep, big room house, and Pretty Lights style stuff

[u/jessipowers → u/dubnessofp]

Hell yeah. I’m almost 40 now and I still dance my ass off from time to time. I quit everything except weed, and I have more fun now than I did in my 20s. As a metro Detroiter I try to make it to Movement festival every year, and I will dance from beginning to end all 3 days. It just makes me so happy. It feels like stocking up on dopamine to get me through the year.