Always hated articles like this, especially being a guy in the scene...
Even WORST, if you search around you would find similar articles about the whole downtown/hipster/scenester club scene. Back when alot of those clubs were popping up articles were talking about how "NY following the french", "Too many hipster spots", etc. Then they would just go on about how it was a bunch of broke hipsters thinking there cool blahblahblah.
As for the "high end" scene, yes its all a marketing/illusion just don't take it seriously and enjoy the beauty of...
- Being around lots of gorgeous women
- Being in good venues and at times hearing "amazing" djs for free
- Understanding how PR and "social scene" influences the whole world
- Networking with some successful people
- Living a fun lifestyle revolving around "high end" nightlife
Bottomline, being one of those who was apart of both scenes, it just seemed stupid to talk about all this. One minute there like bottle service killed everything and then they're like "hipsters dont pay for shit". Also, who are "they" to say what's good or bad?? Like I hear many nightlife staff say...
"You go open a club if you think you're better at it..."
I have seen indepth how this stuff works, to see how one club could be super packed on a rainy monday says alot about their social influence. Without these people there would be no social events going on. At the sametime, I've seen bars/clubs/parties close almost as fast as they opened because they don't have that level of influence.
These club owners are personal friends of many well known people. I've personally seen on a monday night, bday of an owner of a dj company. Usher, Lil Jon, & Jermaine Dupri was hanging out. (eventually decided to do a few songs for maybe 10-15mins) The venue was SLAMMED PACKED and it was the first time in months I ran into my pornstar friend. (She came out due to dj owner)
There is one weekly event, that now is starting to get slammed pack each week. How'd all these people know about this? Why are they all coming here than say some other spot down the road?
All in all, regardless what city it is, they're very good at segmentation, they know how to bring the right people together. For instance, being a black guy I rarely was attracted to black chicks UNTIL I went to these venues and saw the most gorgeous black women. EVEN, when it was high end hiphop nights with rappers/sports players, the women looked hotter than chicks in music videos. I've seen chicks with the most ridiculous body proportions white, black, asian,etc.
Overall, I never take any of these articles serious, its still better than some dive bar.
Even WORST, if you search around you would find similar articles about the whole downtown/hipster/scenester club scene. Back when alot of those clubs were popping up articles were talking about how "NY following the french", "Too many hipster spots", etc. Then they would just go on about how it was a bunch of broke hipsters thinking there cool blahblahblah.
As for the "high end" scene, yes its all a marketing/illusion just don't take it seriously and enjoy the beauty of...
- Being around lots of gorgeous women
- Being in good venues and at times hearing "amazing" djs for free
- Understanding how PR and "social scene" influences the whole world
- Networking with some successful people
- Living a fun lifestyle revolving around "high end" nightlife
Bottomline, being one of those who was apart of both scenes, it just seemed stupid to talk about all this. One minute there like bottle service killed everything and then they're like "hipsters dont pay for shit". Also, who are "they" to say what's good or bad?? Like I hear many nightlife staff say...
"You go open a club if you think you're better at it..."
I have seen indepth how this stuff works, to see how one club could be super packed on a rainy monday says alot about their social influence. Without these people there would be no social events going on. At the sametime, I've seen bars/clubs/parties close almost as fast as they opened because they don't have that level of influence.
These club owners are personal friends of many well known people. I've personally seen on a monday night, bday of an owner of a dj company. Usher, Lil Jon, & Jermaine Dupri was hanging out. (eventually decided to do a few songs for maybe 10-15mins) The venue was SLAMMED PACKED and it was the first time in months I ran into my pornstar friend. (She came out due to dj owner)
There is one weekly event, that now is starting to get slammed pack each week. How'd all these people know about this? Why are they all coming here than say some other spot down the road?
All in all, regardless what city it is, they're very good at segmentation, they know how to bring the right people together. For instance, being a black guy I rarely was attracted to black chicks UNTIL I went to these venues and saw the most gorgeous black women. EVEN, when it was high end hiphop nights with rappers/sports players, the women looked hotter than chicks in music videos. I've seen chicks with the most ridiculous body proportions white, black, asian,etc.
Overall, I never take any of these articles serious, its still better than some dive bar.