Club Owner Thinks Tinder Is Killing the Music Scene, May Just Own a Bad Club
LatestThere are many reasons a person might want to avoid a nightclub in Australia, but a bar owner in Melbourne named James Young has come up with a “new” one: Tinder.
From NME, here’s a club owner and a club promoter reporting live from the club about the kids no longer needing the club to find someone to go home with:
“This is how young people ‘pick up’ these days,” Young says his fellow promoter argued. “They’re not going out to clubs and pubs to pick up any more. They’re just picking up their phones. Tinder is killing off clubs and pubs all over Melbourne and Australia. And when they take their dates out for the first time, they try to impress them with some chic-dining experience, rather than a rowdy live-music experience.
Young’s promoter friend also told him that, unless owners and promoters can find a way to get people off their phones and onto the dance floors, the entire club scene will soon be a thing of the past. Well, they could play better music for one, but also, Young—who obviously has a stake in people showing up to guzzle overpriced Amaretto Sours—doesn’t take into account other reasons why young people may be choosing Tinder over going out.