All of a sudden my Aunt Kyle was there on the dance floor and saw my sister and I who were children at this point. I still remember walking in and feeling the energy, the vibe, the music, and it was so cool. The boys were like, we're going to this place called Bar One, which is now this place in LA called Bootsy Bellows. And it was after a New Kids on the Block concert and my mom's friend Adora took myself, her daughter, and then my sister Nikki backstage after the show. Paris Hilton: The first time I went into a real nightclub was when I was 14, maybe 13. NYLON caught up with Hilton and Naté to talk about their first and favorite club experiences, (including Hilton's long-running Foam and Diamonds party in Ibiza), her upcoming album, and more.Ĭan you tell me about your first nightclub experiences or early club experiences? Or the bartender who, along with Sade, slung drinks at Danceteria, the Chelsea club where the Beastie Boys were bussers, Keith Haring painted the walls, and where Madonna first performed. History of the World’s Greatest Nightclubs is a love letter written by those who were there, and Naté interviews people like the club-going downstairs neighbor of Alton Miller and George Baker, the founders of techno who opened The Music Institute in Detroit, a short-lived, Black-owned club that was the birthplace of the genre. She had just gotten out of the Troubled Teen Industry, where she experienced mental and physical abuse, and heard Naté’s song “Free.” The song, she says in the first episode of the podcast, filled her with “an unimaginable amount of hope.” It became her anthem Hilton has gone on to be the most highly-paid female DJ in the world, and the song still brings her to tears when she plays it in her sets. In the late ’90s, she was at a club in New York. In fact, it was one of Naté’s songs that gave Paris this feeling. For Hilton, the club is where she’s always felt most at home. The club isn’t about getting drunk or doing drugs the club, for many, is a life-saving, necessary force, a place to let go, a place to give yourself over to something bigger. But at the heart of partying is a self-expression, an urge to be free. In the last few years, there’s been somewhat of a cultural reckoning around the villainization of young, beautiful women who wanted to simply live their lives. HIlton became famous, or infamous, in the mid-2000s for partying. “I feel like I am who I am because of the clubs,” Hilton tells NYLON. Now, on The History of the World’s Greatest Nightclubs, the new podcast from Hilton’s media company 11:11 and iHeartPodcasts, she and DJ, musician, and nightlife legend Ultra Naté are helping to tell the stories of the clubs that changed nightlife forever. But for most of her life, at the center of her big heart, she’s been a club kid. Paris Hilton is so many things: a chef, a DJ, an author, a fashion icon, a mother.
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