Comments on: Why Loud Music in Bars Increases Alcohol Consumption

By: dokma

dokma — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:40:23 +0000

The music is loud because it increases touching between people. The average looser guy is dead afraid to touch girls, and we all know how much they crave it. So when the music goes up the distance required for conversation goes down and voila! you get touching going on. This attracts more women and that in turn attracts more men. So finally women attach loud music with touch and you get a subconscious response in girls that pulls them to loud venues.

Another reason loud music is beneficial is that embarrassment of a failed approach is much easier to bear in a loud venue because no one has heard the actual atrocity that took place between the guy and a girl. There are also other elements to it but you can find that in any PUA literature that is afloat around.

By: alice hive

alice hive — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:39:24 +0000

I don't like loud music but I don't like alkohol either. It's all stupid self-destruction to me.

By: phantomsmask

phantomsmask — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:04:00 +0000

Then, I've been too old for many years. I'm 29 and I hate loud music always have and most likely always will. I hate clubs due to that reason. So, I go to places where it's not as loud, and once it gets loud I'm out of there. So, for me loud music is not anything to get me to drink more. Besides Most places don't have music I enjoy anyway, since I hate Hiphop and Rap.

By: DJ

DJ — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:53:00 +0000

as a Dj my motto is. If the music is too loud your too old.

By: leesh

leesh — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:58:00 +0000

I liked this article because it was true and it appealed to the senses of all readers, although we not be particularly be experiencing some of the examples/ cases given such as alcoholism, we all as people can relate.

By: Gessa

Gessa — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:02:00 +0000

I was wondering why the hell the music was so loud at this one bar in San Diego. People probably gravitate to noise because they think it means a good time.

By: thesmothete

thesmothete — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:04:00 +0000

Unethical Study

This study would probably not have been funded in the US. The use of involuntary human subjects -- particularly when you are manipulating their environment to their detriment -- is not an ethical scientific practice.

By: Mat

Mat — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:12:00 +0000

I hate having to shout a joke to the next person mere inches away. My little circle of friends tend to gravitate towards louder bars and this is mainly because the women in the group prefer bigger and louder places. Some outlets have outdoor tables where I usually end up when the band starts. Eventually, the other men in the group also end up there and we have a jolly good time until the women get upset because they've been abandoned. Can any amount of research unravel this phenomenon?

By: Rosanna Tarsiero

Rosanna Tarsiero — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:11:00 +0000

Probably they drink more because alcohol is a CNS depressant... it helps them put up with the noise. It's the same reason one drinks faster at parties, to get to a point in which all the buzzing sounds "away" and a lot less disturbing.

By: jesuschriss

jesuschriss — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:06:00 +0000

i'd like to point out a few things here.
first, that people drink differently in different areas of the world. for example, people drink lots more in Louisiana than in the Washington.
second, only two samples? i wish you would have done more observing here.
and finally, you should have commented more about the possibilities of why, perhaps even have done a survey. for the article comes off making it appear that loud noise makes people drink more. the article offer a few explanations, but dismisses them as non-testable altogether, and so continues on without analysis. but isn't that the important part of the entire experiment? after all, it is not loud music that makes people drink more (that would be ridiculous), but the effects of having the music so damn loud. please elaborate for me.