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Young teenagers at raves?

I don't think you sound pompous at all. I felt the same way in high school! And to answer your statement, I wasn't in the "in crowd." Some of my friends went to raves every weekend but I just wasn't interested. I finally tried ecstasy first year of college - and yes I was 18. I didn't start raving until a few years after that. I was sooooo shocked at my first rave....not because of the young teens, but more like "Oh my GOOOOOOD how....why.....WHERE WAS I AND WHAT WAS I DOING IN HIGH SCHOOL..." After the initial shock wore off, I did wonder why there were 13 year-old girls running around in their lingerie. At one event, a young girl offered me speed balls with the most cracked out face I've ever seen. It just doesn't seem appropriate. IDK.

I think this is an interesting topic though! Had I read this in high school I probably would have posted something quite different.
 
Monkeybizness said:
This right here is what happens when kids are around. I believe all festivals should 18 ^.

A festival gone bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euMokfThlOw

Sad isn't it. This was a small electronic music festival in our city's downtown
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Man, i remember this bullshit. Fucking hated it. overcrowded as fuck. I was in the line to get in with my girl when those retarded kids jumped the gate and the police started to shut everything down. I'm 20 and my girlfriends 18 just so you know.

It was hectic and crazy, i remember pulling my girl behind the police line so the pigs woulden't mess with her. then as soon as i turn around the fuckin pig damn near smacked me in the face while i was trying to get the fuck out. it was a total nightmare, it was so hot kids were passing out in line from lack of water. i was smart enough not to touch any drugs that day. i just wanted music....well i lied. i smoked an L in line.

As for paid raves around sofla i really don't have a problem with underage kids at raves, i have plenty of under age friends (16-17) and they hold themselves pretty well. i wont lie, i like to rip my shirt off and ware light shorts to raves but i don't get all crazy about it. i just love blowing people up with my gloves and vix. lol
 
For you 305 guys, how do I find more rave type stuff like Autumn Music Festival? (prob not one like that anymore ever though after that riot). I'm sick of paying $40-50 bucks to see headliners at the south beach clubs, wanna go to some real rave stuff. Ultra is only once a year, I need more to do in between!
 
What I've noticed in this thread a handful of underage kids saying "I'm mature for my age etc etc", not to sound like a dick, but you're a very small minority. 1 mature 16 year old out of 100 doesn't make it any more right for young ass kids to be at raves.
I partied a lot in high school and had the idea that I wanted to try E some day. Tried it my first time when i was 17 and didnt go to my first rave til I was 18 (i'm 19 now) and like scuba said, back then I probably would've been like "EVERY BODY NEEDS TO GO!" but in reality, just wait a little bit.
It creates huge liabilities and problems for everyone else. The main stream raves in CA just got way more up tight because of a young girl not being able to take care of herself AND probably not having very responsible friends.
I find it more selfish of the kids here who try to argue that raves should be attended by all ages then people who argue that the age cap should be at 18 or higher. (I am a little biased since I'm 19 and due to the fact the age cap never effected me)
 
scubagirl200 said:
I don't think you sound pompous at all. I felt the same way in high school! And to answer your statement, I wasn't in the "in crowd." Some of my friends went to raves every weekend but I just wasn't interested. I finally tried ecstasy first year of college - and yes I was 18. I didn't start raving until a few years after that. I was sooooo shocked at my first rave....not because of the young teens, but more like "Oh my GOOOOOOD how....why.....WHERE WAS I AND WHAT WAS I DOING IN HIGH SCHOOL..." After the initial shock wore off, I did wonder why there were 13 year-old girls running around in their lingerie. At one event, a young girl offered me speed balls with the most cracked out face I've ever seen. It just doesn't seem appropriate. IDK.

I think this is an interesting topic though! Had I read this in high school I probably would have posted something quite different.
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You sound exactly like me! I had friends who went to raves in high school (~2000) but I just didn't. I always had a little interest, as in "If I were to do any drug, it'd probably be ecstacy" but... the opportunity just never presented itself until last year when I was 24. I kinda wish I could go back to my high school self and say JUST TRY IT GO GO GO! If only to experience the rave culture how it was back then.

My problem with all the kids at raves is mostly with myself. I'm a very empathetic motherly person as it is, and on E I get even more so. So to walk around, myself high as fuck, just looking at this young young little kids out of their minds high, or obviously in trouble, or gnawing on their cheek, babbling their head off, falling all over... it seriously breaks my heart. I keep going to raves then and now, and afterward remembering why I swore off them. I can't have a good time at them. Seeing kids like that brings me down and ruins my time.

The rave I went to last weekend, we actually left after an hour even though we were rolling soooo hard (luckily we had a hotel room all set up just 2 blocks away.) But as I was coming up I went to the girl's bathroom and just... there was one girl babbling so loud about the STUPIDEST shit, 3 girls that cut in front of me, oblivious to the line, another girl that looks like she rolled in mud, and everyone else just moon eyed zombified... I left the bathroom with a dead roll and wanting nothing but to be out of there. Bleh.

So maybe it's not the kids at the raves that's the problem. Maybe it's just that us adults need to find new places to roll. I think it's entirely possible to grow out and away from the rave seen, and I think that's what's happening here. If it's still a magical, wonderful place for you, stay and enjoy it. If all you can see is a sea of fucked up children... throw a house party or find a techno club or some 18+ events.
 
^^ Agreed. I love the occasional roll and I just started going to raves when I was 24 (late bloomer), but after my first 3 or 4 massives when the honeymoon stage wore off, I started to become more aware of the fact that something just isn't right here. Duh, it's all the kids running around...

It's terribly perturbing to see some 16 year old girl practically naked looking cracked out to all hell and dancing like she's a seasoned stripper. Same for the guys. I really wish that some of the promoters would host 21+ events, but I am glad that they recently decided to enforce 18+. We'll see if it feels any different this coming NYE, if not I'm going to say goodbye to the commercialized rave scene and keep my occasional partying to a small gathering with friends. It was fun while it lasted.
 
tom landers said:
What I've noticed in this thread a handful of underage kids saying "I'm mature for my age etc etc", not to sound like a dick, but you're a very small minority. 1 mature 16 year old out of 100 doesn't make it any more right for young ass kids to be at raves.
I partied a lot in high school and had the idea that I wanted to try E some day. Tried it my first time when i was 17 and didnt go to my first rave til I was 18 (i'm 19 now) and like scuba said, back then I probably would've been like "EVERY BODY NEEDS TO GO!" but in reality, just wait a little bit.
It creates huge liabilities and problems for everyone else. The main stream raves in CA just got way more up tight because of a young girl not being able to take care of herself AND probably not having very responsible friends.
I find it more selfish of the kids here who try to argue that raves should be attended by all ages then people who argue that the age cap should be at 18 or higher. (I am a little biased since I'm 19 and due to the fact the age cap never effected me)
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this ^^^^
 
I don't think I've ever seen anybody that fucked at raves haha.
I've seen my fair share of people who just couldn't handle it (first time swim took E, swim thought swim was going to die, but swim later found it was because swim was in STRONGLY anti-drug company, and really really trying to reject swims buzz)
Most of the people I've met on E are the nicest people I've ever met. So much love <3 haha.
 
^Welcome to Bluelight :) btw, we don't use SWIM here....it could just as easily mean "someone who IS me" anyway, lol.
 
To everyone posting, I agree with the fact that I don't like kids at raves. I'm 19, and try my hardest to go to the 19+ raves, but when it comes down to me playing a show, I don't have much of a choice because some extra money is always nice... However, nothing pisses me off more than when I'm in the middle of a set and I see this cracked out kids just running around screaming, causing trouble, acting like idiots, and ruining it for everyone else. Once I saw some kid (had to be about 15-16) just randomly start making out with a girl just cause, I don't even think he knew her because she freaked out and her boyfriend obviously got in the middle of it and what do you know, a perfectly good rave & set close to being ruined.

When I play my own shows, I choose to play 19+ just cause I like that crowd more, however if people hire me, I won't say no.
 
Yeah, some of the best shows are unfortunately 16+.

I hardly think it's fair to say "If you don't like 16+/All Ages raves, then don't go" when that's the case.

I always see cracked out younger kids. Always. Lately, it feels like the older people are a minority, and we're just hanging out in a room full of high school kids who's parents think they're painting toenails at Mary Jane's house.
 
Unbreakable said:
lots of jaded ravers ic aye
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yeh, this is abysmal.

C_Tripper said:
Theres dickheads and people that can't hold their substances at any age IMO.
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There are. My first event was when i was 11. I don't care who is at a rave. I love everyone all the same =D I would not be the person i am without raves. I simply can't say restrict it. I'll admit, though, that the parties i was going to in the later 90s were much smaller. Everyone knew everyone else, and it seemed far more "under control".
 
to be honest, when you become 18+ years old you kind of have to set raves aside and leave that scene.. its filled with young kids scantily clad and obnoxious.

at 18+ you should move into the club scene.. lots of people roll in clubs still, they have amazing light set ups, DAYGLOW events(glow paint).. you name it.. and the women are all 18+ years old and sexy as fuck. and the whole scene of people is way more mature
 
^ Clubs are seedy. At raves, I'm not as worried about people as I am at clubs. There are less creepy/sketcho guys trying to hit on me or trying to take me home 10 minutes after I've met them.
 
I feel like a total pedo @ raves and im only 20. The mix of girls under 17 being rolling and me rolling has put me in risky situations recently.

Part of me really misses that scene but even on MDMA I don't feel like I really "fit in" at most raves.
 
Thomas29 said:
Just let anybody and everybody rock out at a rave.
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too right man.
Listen to yourselves cynics.
Let people be.
if you don't like them, thats your burden of negativity.
lighten up bluelighters, cause the ones, claiming "maturity" and being "too old for it" and all these other repeated and redressed cliches that have existed in parties since the dawn of the rave era are just wallowing in their own over-inflated sense of jingoistic smug arrogance.
People at 20 years old posting about all the "young uns" bah.
Theres probably a hundred other negative judgmental idiots 10 years older than you thinking what a tit you are.
in fact, guarantee, in ten years time, you'll look back and realise what a tit you were.
lighten up people.
try to focus on the good in others, not pick holes in party goers just to try and over-compensate for your own inferiorities.
in the words of bill and ted......
be excellent to each other.
 
If you show up to an all ages event, the kiddies have more right to ask what the old perv is doing there than you have to ask why there are so many youngsters twacked out on drugs.

Im 30.
 
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