I feel like they're conflating "rave" with "clubbing." Friday, Saturday club attendance has been dropping across the world, and many electronic music focused c

I feel like they're conflating "rave" with "clubbing." Friday, Saturday club attendance has been dropping across the world, and many electronic music focused club venues have shut down (at least in Australia and the UK). My word association of "rave" is "festival" though. Festivals feel like they're still booming, or at least not in dramatic decline. From a small personal sampling: Coachella, Portola, Outside Lands, Proper, Lightning in a Bottle, festivals are still going strong. For some (Coachella, Lightning in a Bottle) attendance felt like it dropped 2023 -> 2024, but perhaps 10-20%, and this is likely economically correlated (inflation, etc). Late 2024- festivals (Portola, Proper) were packed.