clubs as a means of escape

All throughout class today I was so frustrated with everyone's critiques of the music videos we watched. They were club scenes and about drinking and things like that. People kept saying they felt like the videos and the lifestyle was geared towards lower intelligence teenagers and basically saying only ignorant people would buy the message being sold. I personally am a considerably intelligent person in my own opinion, a gpa of 3.9 and in the honors college. I also work two jobs in conjunction with going to school full time and paying all my own bills. I am in no way a lazy delusional teenager that sees the club as an ideal. It is an escape. I love going to the club and when the lady in the front said that thing about everyone that walked into her bar became stupid as soon as they walked in...it's because the club is an escape from responsiblity! I go because it's fun and I can be stupid and I can be silly and crazy and not worry about the pressures of day to day responsiblity. I don't go because I am irresponsible or ignorant or of lower intelligence, I go because I work hard and I am responsible and on the weekends I like to have fun and relieve some stress. Yes, the videos are an exaggeration of the activities at the clubs and yes there is the issue of woman's subjegation, but everyone repeating the idea that the videos were geared towards people of lower intelligence really got to me and I appreciate the professor trying to downplay that idea towards the end of class