There is always a moment, when standing in a crowd, in which the press of bodies turns diffuse, oddly amorphous; the individual obscured by this mass of flesh.
I really enjoyed your LARB review!!! Especially how you pulled together all these club-culture-y books and albums into a timeline.
It does feel like, in the past 5 years, basically every big-city millennial and zoomer started going to Nowadays and gossiping about DJs…there is some intense draw to the particular crowd experience of the dance floor, and the particular immersion/escapism that's not possible elsewhere
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! It's interesting to me to observe how popular that kind of club experience in certain cities has become post-pandemic while also fundamentally shifting—I've never been very deep in the scene, though I have friends who are, but I tried going out to Nowadays in early 2023 having not been since pre-pandemic, and it felt more self-conscious. A lot of that feeling is probably due to me aging, and being in one's thirties versus one's twenties, but I do think it felt freer and more loose in 2017.
I really enjoyed your LARB review!!! Especially how you pulled together all these club-culture-y books and albums into a timeline.
It does feel like, in the past 5 years, basically every big-city millennial and zoomer started going to Nowadays and gossiping about DJs…there is some intense draw to the particular crowd experience of the dance floor, and the particular immersion/escapism that's not possible elsewhere
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! It's interesting to me to observe how popular that kind of club experience in certain cities has become post-pandemic while also fundamentally shifting—I've never been very deep in the scene, though I have friends who are, but I tried going out to Nowadays in early 2023 having not been since pre-pandemic, and it felt more self-conscious. A lot of that feeling is probably due to me aging, and being in one's thirties versus one's twenties, but I do think it felt freer and more loose in 2017.
“Tourism is the most benign form of exile.” is a banger
thanks, maybe someday someone will accept the story! lol