Gen Z Club Life is Super Boring
Since yesterday a lot of posts have touched on Gen Zs Vs Millennials. I am a millennial myself and I do believe each generation gets to enjoy their youthful years differently. Hata sisi we used to look down on the older generations. And they used to call us the spoiled generation. Kwanza time yenye riddims were at peak, it was bad. The dance moves and dressing were so ratchet compared to what the older generations did and wore.
Now, one aspect that I do believe Millennials enjoyed more than Gen Z ni clubbing life. Gen Zs can't relate and will never relate. Nowadays, clubbing is just about sitting and drinking at your table - no dancing, no connecting with strangers, no picking girls etc.
We used to enter a club without girls and by the end of the day, una-chips funga mrembo. Guys would mostly come as a group of guys and girls would come as a group of girls. Connections would be made at the dance floor. Different girls wanakurombosea and in the process mnaanza kukatiana. Sometimes you end up together if it was your lucky night.
The good thing is, you'd rarely spend money on the girls while at the club. I remember being in a company-sponsored assignment pale Club Naiz, Mtwapa in 2016. Bagged myself a very beautiful coastal girl and spent the entire night with her in my hotel room while dead drunk. She didn't ask for a shilling from me, yet we had sex the whole day and I never bought even a beer for her. Ingekuwa ni 2026 she would drug me and steal everything she can carry. I would also have to pay for the sex sessions.
In contrast, nowadays, kila chali anaingia na dem yake. People spend the entire night sitting at their table just drinking and smoking shisha. Clubs are so squeezed, no room even to move. People at the next table have to excuse you when going to the washrooms.
Another thing I see today in the clubs, it's as if people are in a spending contest. Lots of classism. Djs are literally told to stop music for the bottle girls so that some wash wash guys wapelekewe Mattel yao. There is a certain Nigerian song (I hate Naija so I don't know the title or singer) that they play when bottles are being delivered. Kitambo we even used to pay entrance fee coz clubs made most of their money by serving as dance floors.
Na msifikirie clubs were substandard back in the day. They just had that "local feel." Imagine drinking in Nairobi CBD with total strangers and no one would drug you. And you still make it back home safely to your different neighbourhoods.