Being seven months and two weeks into my 21st year of life, I have taken "moderate" advantage of my new-found legal status. Over the past few months, I have become fully aware that at a bar and a club, the combination of music and the people can create an environment that either makes it hard to socialize, even though the whole point of going out is to socialize with new people! Last night, some friends of mine went out to celebrate Christmas break by going out to Ladies Night at a hometown bar. The crowd was quite diverse, including young and old people.
On a scale of one to ten on the bar band scale, I give them an eight. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the band. The Willie Nelson look-alikes (my friend disagreed and argued they were the type to channel more Guns and Roses) had a playlist that varied from classic rock to modern tunes.
The thing about bar bands is that regardless if the music is good or bad, it's loud. So regardless of who you are talking to, it's pretty hard to get a word in. I guess in a way, you are competing with four guys with instruments for one guy at the bar. (Did I just say competing for a guy at the bar? Eeks!) Which leads me to my story of bar music not helping my situation.
It's a simple tale of guy meets girl, they start talking, guy is interested in girl, girl thinks that guy is nice but is in no way interested.
Where is the music to help this situation? Conveniently enough, the bar is suddenly not as loud because the band has taken a break. If we had our conversation in the midst of the bar band, maybe things wouldn't have been as blatantly obviously bad. But, you never know. For now, I am thankful that I was saved by the lack of music.
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