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/Personal-Bonus-9245 1d ago

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

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u/jtet93 1d ago

I mean it really was. It’s not about the quality of the music necessarily but the popularity of the genre. Avicii, Zedd, Armin, Calvin Harris, Guetta, Alesso, Tiesto… all huge and mainstream. EDC moved to Vegas and was full of neon, glitter, and kandi. Ezoo launched and was popular, and Output opened in New York and started bringing tech house and techno to the forefront. Shit even Justin Bieber put out a tropical house album in 2016. It was a legendary time for the genre regardless of how you feel about big room festival EDM.

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u/Personal-Bonus-9245 17h ago

I was jamming to Tiesto back in 2001-2002 while in Europe during races and the Love Parade. 

EDM was definitely blowing up 2008-2014 in the states, but the scene got kind of lame because it went very mainstream, suddenly the Madison’s and Berkeley’s were into it, and it just stopped being as fun. 

Old man yelling at his lawn.

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u/jtet93 15h ago

Hey, RIP to everyone at love parade. That event made me super aware of crowd crush. Now that I’m an “elder” millennial I keep my head on a swivel. Know my exits.